AFU shoot down enemy Su-25 aircraft and Mi-8 helicopter, hit Russian military positions

The Ukrainian Armed Forces' General Staff reported this. 

“During the day, Ukrainian aviation launched 15 strikes on the Russian forces' military positions and 3 strikes on their air defense positions. At the same time, our defenders shot down an enemy Su-25 aircraft and a Mi-8 helicopter,” the message says.

In addition, units of missile troops and artillery of Ukraine's Armed Forces inflicted fire damage on the Russian occupying forces' concentration of manpower and military equipment. 

The General Staff said that Russian officials are trying to prevent the mass departure of men abroad before the next wave of mobilization, which is expected this January. The possibility of a complete ban on crossing the state border for men of conscription age is not excluded.

In addition, according to the General Staff, in the temporarily occupied part of the Luhansk region, banking institutions require Russian passports to issue payment cards. This is done for the purpose of compulsory passporting of the population.

• In the morning it was reported that Russia lost 810 soldiers, a helicopter and a warplane in a day. In total, 109,720 Russian soldiers, 3,041 tanks, 1,844 drones, 284 aircraft and 271 helicopters were destroyed during the full-scale war in Ukraine.