Fighters of the 3rd Assault Battalion, 225th Separate Assault Regiment, supported by the 20th Army Corps, liberated five villages in Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk Region after a more than 100-day operation, according to a post by NOELreports on X shared during the 29-minute reporting window from 2:45 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. UTC on December 25, 2025. The Ukrainian forces held their positions and advanced continuously throughout the operation, as stated in the NOELreports update posted at https://x.com/NOELreports/status/2004190891074806141. All participants in the liberation have been nominated for state awards, per the same source.
