Between 11:47 p.m. UTC on December 22 and 1:15 a.m. UTC on December 23, Ukrainian Telegram channels including єРадар reported six Shahed drones over Dnipropetrovsk region, 20 over Mykolayiv region, and 10 over Kherson region, while Trukha Kyiv noted about 25 UAVs flying from Chernihiv Oblast toward Kyiv. Dnipro Alerts channel specified one UAV near Pavlohrad and Sinelnikovo, with a couple flying around Dnipro from the south heading west, and another creeping south near Kupka on the Poltava-Kharkiv border. Новости Николаева channel reported 10 Shaheds in Bereznehuvate from Kherson, eight on Ochakiv, two on Nechayan, and one on Mykolaiv. Nikolaevsky Vanyok and Стратегічна авіація рф channels tracked one Tu-160 and four Tu-95MS bombers in the air, with three Tu-95MS and two Tu-160s over Novosibirsk, expected to reach launch lines near Volgograd by 4:00 a.m. UTC. These detections build on Trukha Dnipro's earlier report between 11:16 p.m. and 11:46 p.m. UTC of 12 UAVs over Pavlohrad heading south, amid єРадар's prior warnings of potential large-scale Russian missile and drone strikes after 11:00 p.m. UTC.
