Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff logged 158 combat engagements on Dec. 14, with the Pokrovsk direction accounting for 47 assaults and the Kostyantynivka sector seeing 24.
- Kyiv said its forces hit Russia’s Afipsky oil refinery and the Uryupinsk oil depot, and struck command, electronic warfare and air‑defense assets on occupied territory in Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Crimea.
- Odesa region absorbed mass overnight drone strikes that damaged energy, transport, industrial and civilian facilities, as authorities reported partial stabilization and continued emergency work.
- Energy operators reported electricity restored to roughly 100,000 Odesa-area customers and heat to more than 260,000, while 763 resilience hubs operated and water deliveries were organized where needed.
- Dnipropetrovsk region came under rockets and FPV drones, damaging civilian sites, and rail operator Ukrzaliznytsia used reserve locomotives after de-energization caused multi-hour train delays.