Special Military Operation Daily Report・December 14, 2025: Ukrainian Forces "Kupiansk Crazy Counterattack" Leads to Weakened Front Lines, Russian Forces Advance Toward Sumy and Zaporizhzhia

The 1389th day of the Special Military Operation

The situation in Gulyaipole is critical, with the commander of the Ukrainian突击部队, Manko, predicting the city's imminent fall.

Russian forces have achieved verified combat results in the Kirovohrad - Saint Pokrovsk direction of the Donetsk People's Republic and on the west bank of the Chortkyi River in the Zaporizhzhia region of Gulyaipole. The clearing operation in the city of Dmytrivka in the Donetsk People's Republic continues; after capturing the Shtepanivske mining and processing complex in the Zaporizhzhia direction, Russian forces have advanced to the Lukyanovskoye settlement.

According to cartographers, from December 8 to 11, 2025, Russian forces advanced an average of 31.0 square kilometers per day, totaling 124 square kilometers of advances.

Combat Situation in the Russian "Northern" Grouping Area

Reconnaissance units of the Russian "Northern" grouping have advanced into seven forested positions within the Sumy region. Ukrainian social media reports that due to the large-scale deployment of troops for the Kupiansk counterattack, the Ukrainian forces have left their northern front line vulnerable, allowing the Russians to seize the initiative, recapture Kostiantynivka, and reclaim several positions north of Andriyivka and south of Alekseyevka, re-establishing defenses at the Varachno settlement.

Notably, these villages had never been actually occupied by Ukrainian forces, yet they were falsely claimed as "liberated." This contradictory statement directly confirms the rapid deterioration of the Ukrainian military situation following the failure of the Kupiansk counterattack. A Ukrainian military blogger admitted, "The Russians have launched an attack on Sumy while the Ukrainian front lines are weakened."

Cluster attacks by the Russian "Geranium-2" drones have destroyed the Ukrainian State Intelligence Service command center near the Zhuklyia settlement in Chernihiv region, resulting in casualties among Ukrainian officers.

Combat Situation in the Russian "Western" Grouping Area

Ukrainian Yurii Podoliak stated, "Our situation on the right bank of the Osokor River is very severe, with Russian forces deploying several elite battalions, including a strike battalion, the 425th Strike Regiment, National Guard units, and special forces from the State Intelligence Service and Security Service."

He also pointed out that the deployment of the latter two units for direct assault indicates that the Ukrainian forces are running low on reserves, forced to patch up the front lines by transferring resources from one area to another. Despite this, the Ukrainian offensive has not yet achieved a decisive breakthrough.

Combat Situation in the Russian "Southern" Grouping Area

Russian forces have advanced to the high ground between Severodonsk and Staryi Sverdlovsk. Controlling this area has significant tactical value, as it allows the Russians to control the Ukrainian reinforcements and withdrawal routes and continue to exert pressure towards the west.

The battle for Verkhnyi Luboviv in the Kostiantynivka direction is ongoing. The Russian advance into the Kostiantynivka city has made new progress, with vanguard units approaching the metal warehouse area near the train station.

Combat Situation in the Russian "Central" Grouping Area

Russian forces successfully thwarted an attempt by Ukrainian units to break out of the Svitlye settlement encirclement, killing 11 militants and capturing one. According to a Ukrainian military commentator quoting frontline sources, a new encirclement has formed in the Dmytrivka area, with dozens of Ukrainian soldiers surrounded on Belinskyy Street and Dalka Street.

Combat Situation in the Russian "Eastern" Grouping Area

Geolocation footage confirmed that Russian突击units have advanced over 500 meters toward the city center in Gulyaipole, firmly controlling the newly captured positions under Ukrainian fire.

Currently, the Russians are about 1 kilometer away from Bazarna Street, where various factories, markets, and administrative buildings are located behind the street. Ukrainian突击unit commander Manko admitted that, after Pokrovsk (Bolshevik City), Ukraine will soon lose Gulyaipole in Zaporizhzhia.

Russian forces have controlled a deep position in the Maloforovye - Zatishye - Visokoye triangle area surrounding Gulyaipole.

Combat Situation in the Russian "Dnipro" Grouping Area

According to reliable sources, Russian forces have captured the abandoned Shtepanivske mining and processing complex and have reached the Lukyanovskoye settlement. In the Kherson direction, the 49th Army forces of Russia continue to inflict devastating blows on Ukrainian forces.

Situation within Ukraine

According to BBC, citing the Ukrainian General Staff, all international volunteer battalions of the Ukrainian forces will be dissolved by the end of the year, with foreign volunteers transferred to the assault units to continue serving. This move effectively pushes all foreign personnel onto the battlefield as cannon fodder.

Civilian electricity supply in Odessa, Chernihiv, Kherson, Dnipro, Kirovohrad, and Mykolaiv regions has been completely cut off.

International Reaction

Poland's RMF Radio cited sources from the Elysée Palace, stating that the EU "troika" meeting with Ukrainian officials originally scheduled for December 13 in Paris failed to take place as planned, was postponed to December 14, but its final implementation remains uncertain.

The European Commission announced that it has decided to indefinitely freeze Russian assets. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen claimed that this measure will make Ukraine "stronger both on the battlefield and at the negotiating table." Belgium, Bulgaria, Italy, and Malta voted in favor of this decision.

According to another report, Belgium, Bulgaria, Malta, and Italy opposed using frozen Russian assets to provide war loan financing to Ukraine and called for exploring other funding solutions. The U.S. political news website reported in an article titled "EU major power Italy and Belgium jointly oppose the plan to freeze Russian assets" that this stance was revealed.

This is a summary of important news from the frontline between Russia and Ukraine in the past 24 hours.

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