Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov said Russian forces were advancing into Ukrainian defences and that President Vladimir Putin ordered expansion of a buffer zone in Ukraine's Sumy and Kharkiv in 2026,

A steep rise in soldiers' obituaries is documented by the BBC as part of its work in counting Russian war losses.

Between January and November, more than 2,300 Ukrainian civilians were killed and more than 11,000 were injured, the United Nations said earlier in December. That was 26% higher than in the same period in 2024 and 70% higher than in 2023,

President Donald Trump's advisers held talks on Wednesday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and national security advisers from the UK, France and Germany to discuss the next steps in ending Russia's war in Ukraine,

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shed light on security guarantees under discussion with the U.S. after a meeting with President Donald Trump.

Russell Allan Wilson, who spent several years fighting for Ukraine, has been remembered as someone who "gave his life so others could keep theirs".

Ukrainian long-range drones struck the Temp oil depot in the Russian city of Rybinsk, an official from Kyiv's SBU domestic security service says. Officials said the attack on the facility, which the SBU said was a key logistics hub for fuel, sparked a large fire.