Between 1:15 a.m. and 1:45 a.m. UTC on December 23, 2025, the monitor Telegram channel reported two Russian missile carriers deployed to the Black Sea with total ammunition of up to 16 Kalibr cruise missiles, while єРадар clarified seven strategic aircraft in the air: five Tu-95MS and two Tu-160s. єРадар specified the five Tu-95MS consisted of three from the Far East and two from Olenya airfield, with two Tu-160s from the Far East, and noted expectations of additional flights from Engels Airport, according to the channel's air raid alert update. These developments follow detections of Shahed drones over Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolayiv, and Kherson regions reported by Ukrainian Telegram channels including єРадар between 11:47 p.m. UTC on December 22 and 1:15 a.m. UTC on December 23, as well as earlier tracking of Tu-160 and Tu-95MS bombers by Nikolaevsky Vanyok and Стратегічна авіація рф channels.
