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Archive: December 2025
18 articles
Two reports from 31 December 2025
Posted: | Opinion
A look back at a sanctions licence for a Serbian refinery and a deadly drone strike in occupied Kherson Oblast, both reported on the final day of the year.
Two Russo-Ukrainian war stories from 31 December 2025
Posted: | Security
A look back at a US sanctions licence for a Serbian refinery and a deadly drone strike in occupied Kherson Oblast.
What happened on 31 December 2025 on the war's margins?
Posted: | Security
A retrospective on a US sanctions licence for a Serbian refinery and a deadly strike reported in occupied Kherson Oblast.
What did 31 December 2025 show about the war's reach?
Posted: | Opinion
Two reports from 31 December 2025 point to a conflict that extends from occupied Kherson Oblast to a refinery in Serbia.
Kyiv heating cuts and Baltic intercept, late December 2025
Posted: | Security
A look back at security reports from the final days of December 2025, from strikes on Kyiv to a Polish air force escort over the Baltic.
What did 27 December 2025 reveal about Kyiv's winter?
Posted: | Opinion
A look back at a Russian strike on Kyiv's heating and a reported death that was later shown to be staged.
What the security picture showed on 26 December 2025
Posted: | Security
A look back at the reports in the days before 26 December 2025, from a withdrawal in Donetsk Oblast to a car bombing in Moscow.
What did 25 December 2025 show about the war's edges?
Posted: | Opinion
A look back at a day when the Baltic, Crimea and the Donetsk front each carried a piece of the Russo-Ukrainian war.
What the 22 December 2025 strikes and bombing showed
Posted: | Opinion
A look back at a day of a car bombing in Moscow and Ukrainian airstrikes on targets across Russia.
Why the EU chose a loan over frozen assets
Posted: | Economy
A retrospective on the 19 December 2025 decision to lend Ukraine €90 billion from the EU budget rather than draw on frozen Russian central bank funds.
Why the EU chose a loan over frozen assets
Posted: | Security
A retrospective on the 19 December 2025 decision to fund Ukraine from the EU's own budget rather than from immobilised Russian central bank money.
Balloons and bombs: two security signals in December
Posted: | Security
A look back at two security developments reported in the days before 15 December 2025, one on Ukraine's northern border and one in Lithuania.
What Belarus's prisoner release meant on 13 December 2025
Posted: | Opinion
A look back at the release of 123 political prisoners in Belarus, and at the war reporting that ran alongside it.
What did 11 December 2025 show about regional security?
Posted: | Security
A retrospective on a guided bomb strike in Sumy Oblast and Lithuania's emergency declaration two days earlier.
Balloons and pipelines: two regional signals
Posted: | Opinion
A look back at two developments in Ukraine's neighbourhood reported between 8 and 10 December 2025, one over Lithuanian airspace and one over Russian gas transit.
Kyiv's political shake-up and Transnistria's vote
Posted: | Politics
A look back at the developments in the days before 3 December 2025, from the resignation of a senior presidential aide to a parliamentary vote in Transnistria.
What did Transnistria's vote on 30 November decide?
Posted: | Politics
A look back at the parliamentary election held in the unrecognised republic, as covered on 2 December 2025.
What Russia's Pokrovsk claim meant on 2 December 2025
Posted: | Security
A look back at the security picture in Ukraine as reports of a Russian capture claim and deadly missile strikes accumulated.