Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,397

Here is wherever things basal connected Monday, December 22:

Fighting

• A Russian onslaught connected Ukraine’s Kharkiv portion killed a 49-year-old antheral and a 42-year-old woman, according to Governor Oleh Syniehubov. The killings took spot successful the colony of Izyum.
• Russian attacks besides killed 1 idiosyncratic successful Ukraine’s Donetsk region, and 1 idiosyncratic successful the southeastern Zaporizhia region, section officials reported.
• Russian forces person shelled the Zaporizhia portion astir 5,000 times implicit the past week, wounding 60 radical and damaging hundreds of buildings, according to Governor Ivan Fedorov.
• Overall, Russian forces person launched astir 1,300 drones, astir 1,200 guided aerial bombs, and 9 missiles towards Ukraine implicit the past week, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
• Ukraine’s ombudsman, Dmytro Lubinets, accused Russian forces of “illegally” detaining astir 50 residents of the colony of Hrabovske successful the Sumy portion and “forcibly deporting” them to Russian territory.
• The Kyiv Independent, citing Ukrainian authorities, reported that wreckage from a Ukrainian drone onslaught connected Russia damaged a pipeline successful the Krasnodar Krai region.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its forces changeable down 29 Ukrainian drones successful the past 24-hour period.
• The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed that Russian forces changeable down 252 drones implicit the Russian-occupied Donbas region, utilizing the “Donbas Dome physics warfare system” implicit the past week, the TASS quality bureau reported.

Politics and diplomacy

• US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met with a Ukrainian delegation, led by elder authoritative Rustem Umerov and European officials, arsenic the US continued to big talks successful Miami, Florida, connected a prospective bid woody for Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine for a 3rd time connected Sunday.
• Witkoff said successful a station connected X precocious connected Sunday that the talks with the Ukrainians and Europeans had been “productive and constructive” and focused connected a “shared strategical attack betwixt Ukraine, the United States and Europe”.
• In a 2nd station astir 2 hours later, Witkoff said that the US had besides had “productive and constructive meetings” with Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev implicit the past 2 days.
• “Russia remains afloat committed to achieving bid successful Ukraine [and] highly values the efforts and enactment of the United States to resoluteness the Ukrainian struggle and re-establish planetary security,” Witkoff said.
• Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s apical overseas argumentation aide, Yury Ushakov, said that changes made by European countries and Ukraine to the US’s proposals for an extremity to Russia’s warfare did not amended prospects for peace.
• “I americium definite that the proposals that the Europeans and Ukrainians person made oregon are trying to marque decidedly bash not amended the papers and bash not amended the anticipation of achieving semipermanent peace,” Ushakov was quoted arsenic saying by Russian quality agencies.
• Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said the Russian president was acceptable to speech with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, aft the second said Europe should scope retired to Moscow to extremity the war.
• Macron’s bureau welcomed the Russian statement, saying: “It is invited that the Kremlin has publically agreed to this approach. We volition determine successful the coming days connected the champion mode to proceed.”
• India’s Ministry of External Affairs said that “202 Indian nationals are believed to person been recruited into the Russian equipped forces” during Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine. It said Russian authorities had reported that 26 had been killed and 7 were missing.
• Sweden’s customs work said connected Sunday that Swedish authorities boarded a Russian freighter that anchored successful Swedish waters connected Friday aft processing motor problems, to inspect the cargo. The owners of the vessel, the Adler, are connected the European Union’s sanctions list, Martin Hoglund, spokesperson astatine the customs authority, said.
• “Shortly aft 0100 past nighttime [00:00 GMT] we boarded the vessel with enactment from the Swedish Coast Guard and the constabulary work successful bid to marque a customs inspection,” Hoglund said. “The inspection is inactive ongoing.”