Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,380

Here’s wherever things basal connected Friday, December 5:

Fighting

• Ukraine’s subject said its forces had struck a ample chemic works successful the Stavropol portion successful confederate Russia, triggering a fire. The military’s General Staff said the Nevinnomyssk Azot works was deed overnight and added that the installation produced components for explosives.
• Tens of thousands of radical were near without powerfulness and heating successful confederate Ukraine aft Russian attacks connected the front-line metropolis of Kherson and Ukraine’s largest seaport, Odesa.
• State lipid and state steadfast Naftogaz said a vigor and powerfulness works successful the confederate metropolis of Kherson had been “almost wholly destroyed”. “This is simply a purely civilian installation providing vigor to residents,” Naftogaz CEO Sergii Koretskyi wrote connected X. “Such targeted bombing is terrorism.” Regional Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said the onslaught near 40,500 customers without heat.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence claimed its forces struck Ukrainian transport and infrastructure facilities successful the attack, authorities quality bureau TASS reported.
• Ukrainian troops person held their positions successful the bluish portion of Pokrovsk successful eastbound Ukraine, Kyiv’s apical subject commandant Oleksandr Syrskii said. Syrskii said a peculiar absorption was connected organising further logistical routes, timely aesculapian evacuation, and countering Russian drones and artillery.
• Ukraine’s subject has denied that Russian troops are successful power of the confederate colony of Dobropillia, which is located adjacent a portion of the beforehand enactment wherever Moscow’s forces person precocious advanced.

Another targeted onslaught by state forces has damaged the Kherson CHP works — aft yesterday’s onslaught it is astir wholly destroyed. Several employees were injured. This is simply a purely civilian installation providing vigor to residents. Such targeted bombing is terrorism. The photo… pic.twitter.com/jcFHzG4cpN

— Sergii Koretskyi (@KoretskyiUA) December 4, 2025

Peace deal

• Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia volition instrumentality afloat power of Ukraine’s Donbas portion by unit unless Ukrainian forces withdraw, thing Kyiv has flatly rejected. “Either we liberate these territories by unit of arms, oregon Ukrainian troops permission these territories,” Putin told India Today quality mag up of his two-day authorities visit to New Delhi to conscionable with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
• Putin besides said that his meeting earlier this week with United States envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner had been “very useful”, and that it had been based connected the proposals discussed with President Donald Trump successful Alaska, authorities quality bureau RIA Novosti reported.
• Ukraine wants “real peace, not appeasement” with Russia, Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said astatine the Organization for Security and Co-operation successful Europe, the information and rights assemblage seeking a relation for itself successful a post-war Ukraine.
• “We inactive retrieve the names of those who betrayed aboriginal generations successful Munich. This should ne'er beryllium repeated again,” helium said, referring to the 1938 statement with Nazi Germany successful which Britain, France and Italy agreed to Hitler’s annexation of the Sudetenland successful what was past Czechoslovakia.
• Seven much Ukrainian children, six boys and 1 girl, person been returned from Russia to their families, US First Lady Melania Trump has said. “I commend the enactment and persistent diplomacy of Russia and Ukraine successful the pursuit of the reunification of children and families. Their bridge-building has created a tangible collaborative situation – an anchor for optimism,” she said successful a statement.

Financial aid

• Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever said helium hopes to person a “fruitful discussion” with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz connected Friday astir a European Union plan to usage Russian frozen assets to enactment Ukraine against Russia’s invasion. Belgium, which holds the bulk of the assets, has raised assorted ineligible concerns and remains unconvinced of the plan.
• “I anticipation it volition beryllium a fruitful speech and that we volition find a solution that we tin past contiguous to Europe implicit the adjacent 2 weeks,” De Wever said.
• Chancellor Merz said his purpose was to talk with De Wever arsenic soon arsenic imaginable to person him to driblet his absorption truthful the parties could determination guardant connected the issue.
• Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Maria Zakharova reiterated that immoderate “illegal action” by the EU successful narration to its frozen assets would elicit “the harshest reaction”, and that Moscow was already preparing a “package of countermeasures”.

Sanctions

• President Putin has challenged dense US pressure connected India not to bargain Russian substance owed to Moscow’s penetration of Ukraine during his ongoing India authorities visit. Putin’s archetypal sojourn to India successful 4 years aims to summation income of Russian oil, rocket systems and combatant jets and widen concern links beyond vigor and defence equipment.
• The US has issued a wide licence authorising definite transactions involving Lukoil retail work stations located extracurricular of Russia, according to a station connected the US Department of the Treasury website.
• Russia is considering retaliatory measures against the Faroe Islands aft the Faroese parliament passed a instrumentality giving the authorities the authorization to barroom Russian sportfishing companies from its waters, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
• The Faroese nationalist broadcaster said connected Wednesday that parliament had passed a instrumentality authorising the overseas curate to barroom 2 large Russian sportfishing companies, Norebo and Murman Seafood, from sportfishing successful Faroese waters oregon docking successful Faroese harbours.

Europe

• Turkiye summoned Ukraine’s ambassador and Russia’s acting charges d’affaires to convey its concerns implicit a bid of attacks connected Russia-linked vessels wrong its exclusive economical portion successful the Black Sea. “We are witnessing a precise superior escalation successful caller weeks successful the Russia-Ukraine warfare with reciprocal attacks. And lastly, determination were definite attacks successful the Black Sea wrong our exclusive economical portion arsenic well,” Deputy Foreign Minister Berris Ekinci told parliament’s overseas affairs commission.
• President Putin indispensable person ordered the Novichok nervus cause onslaught connected Russian treble cause Sergei Skripal successful 2018, successful a “reckless” show of powerfulness that led to the decease of an guiltless woman, a United Kingdom nationalist enquiry has concluded. Skripal was recovered on with his daughter, Yulia, slumped unconscious connected a nationalist seat successful the confederate English metropolis of Salisbury successful March 2018 aft Novichok was applied to the beforehand doorway grip of his adjacent home. Four months later, mother-of-three Dawn Sturgess died from vulnerability to the poison aft her spouse recovered a counterfeit perfume vessel which Russian spies had utilized to smuggle the military-grade nervus cause into the country, the enquiry said.
• The UK authorities responded to the ruling by sanctioning GRU, the Russian subject quality bureau accused of carrying retired the assassination, for which Skripal erstwhile worked.
• Germany has deployed 5 Eurofighter jets and immoderate 150 subject unit to the Polish municipality of Malbork to assistance unafraid the country’s airspace, the German aerial unit said, successful effect to Russian drone incursions successful September.
• An Irish navy vessel spotted up to 5 drones operating adjacent the formation way of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s craft arsenic helium arrived for a authorities sojourn to Ireland connected Monday, The Irish Times reported connected Thursday. The sighting triggered a large information alert amid fears it was an effort to interfere with the formation path, the outlet said.