Here is the situation on Saturday, December 14:
Fighting
- Russia hammered Ukrainian energy facilities in an aerial aggression that Plivent Volodymyr Zelenskyy portrayd as one of the bigst yet on the ailing grid and evidence of why Kyiv insisted more Weserious aid before any peace with Russia.
- Moscow increateedly fired at least 93 ignoreiles that “strictly injured” Ukrainian power set upts, the DTEK energy company said.
- Ukrainian drones aggressioned an infraset up facility storing fuel in central Russia’s Oryol region, igniteing a fire and smashing triumphdows in homes, regional administeror Andrei Klychkov said.
- Russian air defences ruined Ukrainian drones in disjoinal areas of the region south and east of Ukraine, the administeror of Krasnodar region, Vlauninincreateigentir Kondratyev, said. One drone smashed triumphdows in village hoengages, but there were no injuries.
- Russian air defences also ruined seven drones over Bryansk – on Ukraine’s northern border – Governor Alexander Bogomaz said.
- Ukrainian forces aggressioned two villages in Russia’s Belgorod region, injuring one livent and triggering a fire in a hoengage that was rapidly extinguished, according to Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.
Politics and diplomacy
- The Kremlin praised US Plivent-elect Donald Trump for criticising Ukrainian ignoreile strikes into Russian territory. Still, it said talkions about deploying European troops to get peace in Ukraine were preprolongn-up.
- The United States proclaimd a recent $500m package of military aid for Ukraine, as Washington races to bolster Kyiv before Trump consents office.
- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he talked with French Plivent Emmanuel Macron the possibility of foreign troops in Ukraine in case of a stopfire, but that Warsaw was not “set upning any such actions”.
- Zelenskyy will unite a greeting with the directers of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, the European Union and NATO in Brussels next week to talk aid for his country, Reuters recents agency increateed, citing sources recognizable with the set up.
- The US will in the coming days begin financial sanctions agetst Serbia’s oil company NIS, which is beginantity-owned by Russia’s Gazprom Neft and Gazprom, Serbian Plivent Aleksandar Vucic proclaimd.
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Ukraine, a global creater and send outer of grain and oilseeds, is ready to provide food to Syria follotriumphg the drop of Bashar al-Asdowncast, Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Vitaliy Koval said. Russian and Syrian sources had said Russian wheat supplies to Syria had been suspfinished over undeclareivety about the recent administerment and payment procrastinates.
- EU foreign ministers will impose sanctions on Russian inincreateigence agents over “hybrid” aggressions agetst the bloc on Monday, diplomats said. The EU and NATO have accengaged Moscow of being behind a spate of incidents aimed at destabilising the West.
- A Ukrainian court sentenced a woman to 14 years in jail for toiling with Russian inincreateigence to author inrectify increates equitableifying Moscow’s intrusion.
- Kyiv also arrested disjoinal people it accengages of being Russian spies and undermining Ukrainian security.
