These are the key developments from day 1,402 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Here is where things stand on Saturday, December 27:

The Armed Forces of Ukraine will have obtained 3 million FPV drones by the end of 2025, which is almost two and a half times more than in the previous year. Source: Ukraine's Defence Minister Denys Shmyhal Quote: "The role of unmanned systems on the battlefield is growing,

Representatives of the combatants are currently engaged in U.S.-sponsored shuttle diplomacy that the White House hopes will secure an end to Europe’s largest conflict since World War II and a war that U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to end within 24 hours of his return to the Oval Office.

Fighters of the 425th Separate Assault Regiment Skelia of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are conducting clearing operations against Russian invaders in the town of Huliaipole, Zaporizhzhia region.

The General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces is negotiating the transfer of the soon to be retired MiG-29s, with Ukraine providing in return drone and

The Ukrainians have converted an E38-generation 7-series from a five-passenger sedan into a multi-rocket weapon.

In the area of the town of Siversk, Russian invading forces, having a significant advantage in manpower and equipment, continue their offensive operations. In order to preserve the lives of personnel and the combat effectiveness of units,

The Russian invading army has completed its occupation of the city of 10,000 inhabitants, which had held out for three and a half years. The eastern flank of the last conurbation in the Donbas that is still under Ukrainian control now seems exposed.

Russia has ordered a winter troop surge to break the stalemate in Ukraine, but Ukrainian drone attacks on logistics and resupply channels will undermine this offensive.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces transformed this E38 BMW into what is essentially the ultimate fighting machine.

Sir Keir Starmer has led tributes to a member of the British armed forces who has been killed in Ukraine. The prime minister expressed his “deepest sympathy and condolences” for the services member, who died as he watched the testing of a new defensive capability, according to the Ministry of Defence.

The unmanned systems forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces have struck several Russian targets in temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories. Among the destroyed sites were a command post and the location of GRU (Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation) special forces,