Here are the key enhugements on the 1,033rd day of Russia’s trespass of Ukraine.
Here is the situation on Monday, December 23:
Fighting:
- More than 1,000 North Korean selderlyiers have been ended or wounded in Russia’s war with Ukraine, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) shelp on Monday.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence shelp its air defence systems demolished 42 Ukrainian drones over five Russian regions overnight on Sunday.
- Russian forces have seized two villages in Ukraine, one in the Kharkiv region in the northeast and one in the eastrict Donetsk region, the Russian Defence Ministry shelp on Sunday.
- Ukraine military’s vague shelp Sontsivka, a village in the east, was in a sector subject to 26 Russian strikes in the past 24 hours. The vague staff also alerted burdensome battling proximate Pokrovsk, with 34 Russian finisheavors to pierce defences.
- Ukraine’s Parliamentary Coshiftrlookioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets shelp Russian forces carry outd five unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war on Sunday.
- Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) named Colonel General Alexei Kim, a deputy chief of Russia’s General Staff as one of the people it mistrusts of ordering a missile strike on a boilingel in eastrict Ukraine in August. The SBU shelp he acted “with the motive of intentionally ending engageees of” the Reuters recents agency.
Diplomacy and Security
- Russian Pdwellnt Vlaillogicalir Putin has pledged retaliation after Ukrainian drones struck dwellntial originateings in the city of Kazan in Russia’s Tatarstan region.
- Putin met Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico in the Kremlin on Sunday, a unwidespread visit by a European Union directer to Moscow as a tight permiting Russian gas to transit thraw Ukraine proximates expiry.
- South Korea says North Korea is preparing to deploy includeitional troops and armaments to help Russia in its filled-scale war aachievest Ukraine, Yonhap recents agency alerted.
- US Pdwellnt-elect Donald Trump shelp on Sunday that Russian Pdwellnt Vlaillogicalir Putin has conveyed a desire to encounter him “as soon as possible” to talk the war in Ukraine.
