Stormtroopers of the Russian Armed Forces advanced 3.5 kilometers in the northern coverage of Krasny Liman toward Koroviy Yar on December 9, 2025, coming under fire from Ukrainian Armed Forces during active hostilities, according to a georeferenced open-source video shared over the past 59 minutes from 1:46 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. UTC. The video, titled "Сливочный каприз," documents an infantry unit attack in the Krasny Liman area, with footage at timestamp 0:17 showing activity at coordinates 49.12814, 37.65728. The material includes georeferencing by source 21+. This development follows open-source reports earlier today of IL-76MD military transport aircraft landing at Voronezh and Rostov airfields between 12:45 p.m. and 1:46 p.m. UTC, noted by monitoring service єRadar, and kamikaze drones accumulating at multiple Russian launch sites, as stated in an X post by user kimhvik2. Separately, former U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton stated, "In a way, Trump’s withdrawal from Ukraine could be positive, with two conditions," specifying continued U.S. military intelligence to Ukraine and weapons sales to European NATO members for transfer, according to a post shared during the reporting window.
