Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,382

Here’s wherever things basal connected Sunday, December 7:

Fighting

• Russian forces launched a “large-scale” onslaught connected the cardinal Ukrainian metropolis of Kremenchuk overnight connected Sunday, the Kyiv Independent reported, citing section officials. The grade of the harm was not instantly clear, it said.
• A large-scale Russian drone and rocket attack damaged powerfulness facilities successful 8 Ukrainian regions, causing blackouts and forcing atomic powerfulness plants to chopped powerfulness output, officials and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said.
• The Ukrainian subject said Russia had launched 653 drones and 51 missiles connected Ukraine successful the overnight attack, adding that its forces downed 585 drones and 30 missiles.
• Power and vigor procreation facilities successful the Chernihiv, Zaporizhia, Lviv, and Dnipropetrovsk regions were targeted successful the attack, portion larboard facilities successful the Black Sea metropolis of Odesa were besides damaged, according to the Ukrainian government.
• The Ukrainian authorities railway company, Ukrzaliznytsia, a railway hub adjacent the capital, Kyiv, was besides hit, with harm caused to the depot and railway carriages. The were nary reports connected casualties from the onslaught successful the municipality of Fastiv.
• The IAEA said Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia atomic powerfulness plant, which is nether Russian control, temporarily mislaid each off-site powerfulness overnight owed to the wide subject activities. It said the works reconnected to a 330 kilowatt powerfulness enactment aft a fractional hr outage, but that a 750 kilowatt enactment is inactive disconnected.
• The Russian Ministry of Defence confirmed the onslaught connected Saturday, saying its forces launched a “massive strike” successful effect to what it called Ukrainian assaults connected civilian targets successful Russia. The ministry said the onslaught utilized high-precision, long-range air- and ground-based weapons, including Kinzhal hypersonic missiles and long-range drones.
• The ministry besides said its aerial defences had changeable down 116 Ukrainian drones implicit Russian territory overnight into Saturday.
• Poland besides announced scrambling jets owed to the Russian attacks connected Ukraine connected Saturday, but the Operational Command of the Armed Forces said determination were nary airspace violations.
• Ukraine’s military, meanwhile, said that its forces had deed the Russian Ryazan lipid refinery, arsenic good arsenic a shell-casing manufacturing works located successful Alchevsk, successful the Russian-occupied Luhansk region.
• Ukraine’s subject besides denied Russian claims that it had encircled the embattled towns of Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad successful the Donetsk region, according to the Kyiv Independent. The subject said that its defence units were expanding logistics routes and maintaining power implicit cardinal positions successful the area.

Firefighters extinguish a occurrence astatine a tract of a Russian aerial onslaught successful the Volyn portion [State Emergency Service of Ukraine via AFP]

Chornobyl

• A protective shield astatine Ukraine’s Chornobyl atomic plant, built to incorporate radioactive worldly from the 1986 disaster, tin nary longer execute its main information relation owed to drone damage, the IAEA said aft a onslaught that Kyiv blamed connected Moscow.

Politics and diplomacy

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said helium had a agelong and “substantive” telephone telephone with United States President Donald Trump’s peculiar envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, connected the propulsion to extremity Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine.
• “Ukraine is determined to support moving successful bully religion with the American broadside to genuinely execute peace. We agreed connected the adjacent steps and formats for talks with the United States,” Zelenskyy wrote connected X.
• The telephone followed talks betwixt Witkoff, Kushner and Ukraine’s negotiator, Rustem Umerov, successful the US metropolis of Miami. Ukraine’s envoy to the US, Olha Stefanishyna, told the Axios quality website that “the main challenging issues interest territorial matters and information guarantees”.
• Zelenskyy is acceptable to conscionable British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz successful London connected Monday, according to media reports.
• French President Emmanuel Macron said helium would besides question to London for Monday’s gathering to sermon the concern successful Ukraine and the ongoing negotiations with Russia nether US mediation.

• Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced dispatching a concern delegation to Russia successful the coming days successful mentation for the extremity of the Ukraine war. Orban addressed the concern during a rally successful the cardinal metropolis of Kecskemet, up of legislative elections successful the spring.