Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,383

Here’s wherever things basal connected Monday, December 8:

Fighting

• Russian attacks connected Ukraine’s Kharkiv portion killed astatine slightest 4 people, including a 70-year-old woman, connected Sunday, according to Ukrainian constabulary and the Kharkiv Regional Prosecutor’s Office. At slightest 10 others were besides injured.
• Russian forces besides deed the Pechenihy reservoir dam successful Kharkiv during the attack, with the Ukrainian subject saying it was acceptable for the installation to beryllium “critically damaged”. The reservoir supplies h2o to the metropolis of Kharkiv, which is Ukraine’s second-largest metropolis.
• Russian attacks besides killed 2 others successful Ukraine connected Sunday, 1 successful the metropolis of Sloviansk successful the Donetsk portion and different successful the Chernihiv region, according to determination governors.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russian forces launched much than 650 drones and 51 missiles overnight into Sunday, causing injuries and destroying infrastructure crossed Ukraine, with vigor being the “main target”.
• In the cardinal metropolis of Kremenchuk, the attacks caused wide powerfulness and h2o outages, according to Mayor Vitaliy Maletsky. He described the battle arsenic a “massive combined strike” and said metropolis workers were moving to reconstruct services.
• The Russian Ministry of Defence said its forces person seized the Ukrainian villages of Kucherivka successful the Kharkiv portion and Rivne adjacent Pokrovsk successful the Donetsk region.
• The ministry besides said that its forces changeable down 172 Ukrainian drones and 4 Neptune long-range guided missiles successful a 24-hour period.

Politics and diplomacy

• Zelenskyy said connected Sunday that his speech with United States representatives Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner connected a bid program for Ukraine had been “constructive, though not easy”. “The American representatives cognize the basal Ukrainian positions,” Zelenskyy added.
• Keith Kellogg, US President Donald Trump’s outgoing envoy for Ukraine, told the Reagan National Defense Forum successful California that a woody to extremity the warfare successful Ukraine was “really, truly close”, and that negotiations were continuing implicit Russia’s request for Ukraine’s Donbas portion and the aboriginal of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia atomic powerfulness plant. “The past 10 metres” is ever the hardest, said Kellogg, who is owed to measurement down successful January.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin’s apical overseas argumentation aide, Yury Ushakov, said that “territorial problems” were discussed astatine talks successful Moscow betwixt US and Russian officials past week, and that Washington would person to “make serious, I would say, extremist changes to their papers” connected Ukraine.
• Zelenskyy is owed to conscionable the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz for talks successful London connected Monday.
• Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told authorities tv newsman Pavel Zarubin connected Sunday that Trump’s caller nationalist information strategy largely aligned with Russia’s positions. “The adjustments that we spot correspond successful galore ways to our vision,” Peskov said of the caller US strategy.
• He besides said it was encouraging that the caller strategy pledged to extremity “the perception, and preventing the reality, of the NATO subject confederation arsenic a perpetually expanding alliance”.

• Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni spoke with Zelenskyy connected the telephone and denounced what she called a caller question of “indiscriminate” Russian attacks connected Ukraine. She besides pledged to supply Italian generators to Ukraine successful the coming weeks.