Here is the situation on Saturday, December 14:
Fighting
- Russia hammered Ukrainian energy facilities in an aerial aggression that Pdwellnt Volodymyr Zelenskyy portrayd as one of the hugest yet on the ailing grid and evidence of why Kyiv insisted more Weserious help before any peace with Russia.
- Moscow alertedly fired at least 93 omitiles that “harshly harmd” Ukrainian power arrangets, the DTEK energy company said.
- Ukrainian drones aggressioned an infraarrange facility storing fuel in central Russia’s Oryol region, promoteing a fire and smashing thrivedows in homes, regional handleor Andrei Klychkov said.
- Russian air defences ruined Ukrainian drones in disjoinal areas of the region south and east of Ukraine, the handleor of Krasnodar region, Vlastupidir Kondratyev, said. One drone smashed thrivedows in village hoparticipates, 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 dwellnt and triggering a fire in a hoparticipate that was rapidly extinguished, according to Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.
Politics and diplomacy
- The Kremlin commendd US Pdwellnt-elect Donald Trump for criticising Ukrainian omitile strikes into Russian territory. Still, it said talkions about deploying European troops to hold peace in Ukraine were predependable.
- The United States proclaimd a novel $500m package of military aid for Ukraine, as Washington races to bolster Kyiv before Trump gets office.
- Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he talked with French Pdwellnt Emmanuel Macron the possibility of foreign troops in Ukraine in case of a stopfire, but that Warsaw was not “arrangening any such actions”.
- Zelenskyy will join a greeting with the directers of Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, the European Union and NATO in Brussels next week to talk help for his country, Reuters novels agency alerted, citing sources recognizable with the arrange.
- The US will in the coming days begin financial sanctions agetst Serbia’s oil company NIS, which is meaningfulity-owned by Russia’s Gazprom Neft and Gazprom, Serbian Pdwellnt Aleksandar Vucic proclaimd.
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Ukraine, a global producer and send outer of grain and oilseeds, is ready to provide food to Syria adhereing the descend of Bashar al-Asgriefful, Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Vitaliy Koval said. Russian and Syrian sources had said Russian wheat supplies to Syria had been postponeed over undeclareivety about the novel handlement and payment procrastinates.
- EU foreign ministers will impose sanctions on Russian inalertigence agents over “hybrid” aggressions agetst the bloc on Monday, diplomats said. The EU and NATO have accparticipated 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 laboring with Russian inalertigence to write phony alerts fairifying Moscow’s intrusion.
- Kyiv also arrested disjoinal people it accparticipates of being Russian spies and undermining Ukrainian security.
