Between 2:15 a.m. and 2:45 a.m. UTC on December 23, 2025, the єРадар Telegram channel reported more than 60 Russian BpLA drones over Sumy, Poltava, and Chernihiv oblasts moving toward Cherkasy and Kyiv regions, as the Николаевский Ванёк channel warned of impending strikes on energy and railway infrastructure in Rivne, Zhytomyr, Ternopil, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Volyn, Cherkasy, and Kyiv regions around 6 a.m. UTC. Николаевский Vanyok stated the targets include some new sites and previously hit ones, with the main impact expected around 6 a.m. UTC plus or minus 1.5 hours, noting not a super many missiles but harder defenses due to unspecified factors, and urged charging devices and safety precautions on trains in affected areas. єРадар's update follows its prior reports in the preceding 30 minutes of three Tu-95MS bombers departing Engels airfield, totaling eight Tu-95MS and two Tu-160s aloft, alongside two Russian missile carriers in the Black Sea carrying up to 16 Kalibr missiles as confirmed by monitor channels. These developments build on earlier detections between 1:15 a.m. and 2:15 a.m. UTC of additional strategic aircraft launches and Shahed drone groups over Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolayiv, and Kherson regions, according to Ukrainian Telegram monitors including єРадар.
