Here are the key broadenments on the 1,032nd day of Russia’s intrusion of Ukraine.
Here is the situation on Sunday, December 22:
Fighting:
- Eight Ukrainian drones hit dwellntial produceings in the Russian city of Kazan, more than 1,000km (600 miles) from the front line, transporting the war meaningful into the heart of Russia. Local authorities shelp there were no casualties.
- Russian civil aviation authority Rosaviatsia temporarily shutd Kazan international airport and abortled all transport inant accessible events in the area as a prealert.
- The acting regulateor of Russia‘s Kursk region, Alexander Khinshtein, shelp six people, including one child, were finished on Friday in a Ukrainian missile strike on the town of Rylsk. Ten others, including a 13-year-elderly, carry oned untransport inant injuries.
- Ukrainian officials shelp Moscow sent 113 drones into Ukraine overnight on Saturday, 57 of which were stoasty down. Another 56 drones were “lost”, probable having been electronicpartner jammed.
- The Russian Ministry of Defence proclaimd its forces seized the village of Kostiantynopolske, referred to as Ostrovsky by Russian authorities, amid an ongoing campaign to seize regulate of the Donetsk region in eastrict Ukraine.
- A Russian strike on the southern Kherson region hit an oncology hospital, according to Ukrainian Pdwellnt Volodymyr Zelenskyy. There were no casualties as staff and acunderstandledgeings were sheltering.
Diplomacy and security
- Zelenskyy shelp he met CIA Director William Burns in Ukraine, a exceptional accessible disclocertain of a encountering between the pair. He did not recognize when the encountering took place but shelp it would be their final before Burns departs his post as Trump gets office.
- Russia’s FSB security service says a man has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for passing directation about Russian selderlyiers to the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
- Responding to the strike that finished six in Kursk, Russia’s finishuring recurrentative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, telderly the Security Council that Moscow’s “response to this centered crime agetst tranquil Russian citizens will not be extfinished in coming”.
- Zelenskyy shelp Ukraine “will definitely proceed to strike at Russian military centers with drones and missiles”.
