Russia's Tu-95MS strategic bombers departed Engels airfield and redeployed to Olenya airfield after equipping with cruise missiles, radar monitoring channel єРадар reported during the 29-minute reporting window from 12:45:26 PM to 1:15:17 PM UTC on December 26. In Vinnytsia Oblast, єРадар detected a drone heading to Khmelnyk from the north amid air alerts, while Ukraine's Air Force of the Armed Forces reported an unmanned aerial vehicle in northern Vinnytsia on course to the Hopper settlement, both shared within the same period. Crimea monitoring channel Крымский ветер reported a drone flying over the settlement of Kirovskoe in temporarily occupied Crimea during this window. Separately, ABC News chief foreign correspondent Nick Schifrin reported that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday, as confirmed to him by a Ukrainian official in a post on X during the reporting period.
