Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,384

Here’s wherever things basal connected Tuesday, December 9:

Fighting

• Russian forces killed 4 radical successful attacks connected Ukraine’s Donetsk, and wounded 12 others successful the Sumy region, according to Ukrainian officials. The metropolis of Sumy was without powerfulness precocious connected Monday aft Russian forces launched much than a twelve drones successful the span of fractional an hour.
• Earlier connected Monday, Sumy determination authorities said Russia had launched 130 attacks connected the portion successful 1 day.
• The decease toll from Russian attacks connected Ukraine’s Kharkiv connected Sunday roseate to five, officials said, aft a 2nd idiosyncratic died successful the Staryi Saltiv settlement.
• Ukrainian forces launched drone attacks connected Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia, knocking retired powerfulness to astir 12,000 people, according to Moscow-installed authoritative Yevhen Balitsky. He said precocious connected Monday that immoderate 8,000 radical remained without electricity.
• Ukrainian monitoring tract DeepState reported Russian gains adjacent the embattled municipality of Pokrovsk successful the Donetsk region, saying Russian troops person seized Lysivka, Sukhyi Yar, Hnativka, Rih and Novopavlivka, and precocious successful the towns of Siversk and Myrnohrad.
• In Russia, respective regions successful the confederate and occidental parts of the state issued warnings astir imaginable drone attacks aboriginal connected Tuesday, portion airports successful Vladikavkaz, Grozny, Magas and Mozdok suspended operations implicit information concerns.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence claimed that Moscow troops had seized the Ukrainian villages of Novodanilovka successful the Zaporizhia portion and Chervone successful the Donetsk region, according to the TASS quality agency.
• The ministry besides said Russian forces changeable down 171 Ukrainian drones successful a day, TASS reported.

Politics and diplomacy

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with the leaders of France, Germany and the United Kingdom successful London to enactment up enactment for Kyiv arsenic negotiations proceed moving connected a United States connection to extremity the war.
• Zelenskyy said the leaders made “small progress” and that Ukraine volition stock a revised bid program with the US connected Tuesday.
• He told reporters the revised program comprised 20 points and reiterated that Kyiv had nary ineligible oregon motivation close to springiness up onshore to Russia successful immoderate bid deal.
• UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer convened a telephone with Zelenskyy and different European leaders aft the gathering successful London. “The leaders each agreed that present is simply a captious infinitesimal and that we indispensable proceed to ramp up enactment to Ukraine and economical unit connected [Russian President Vladimir] Putin to bring an extremity to this barbaric war,” Starmer’s bureau said.
• Zelenskyy aboriginal flew to Brussels, wherever helium met European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Antonio Costa.
• The Ukrainian person said his gathering with the 2 European Union instauration chiefs, arsenic good arsenic NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, was “good and productive” and that “we are acting successful a coordinated and constructive manner”.
• The 2 EU leaders said Ukraine’s indispensable beryllium respected and Ukraine’s information indispensable beryllium guaranteed, successful the agelong term, arsenic a archetypal enactment of defence” for the European bloc.
• Zelenskyy is owed to question to Italy afterwards.
• Earlier, helium confirmed reports that unidentified drones had been spotted adjacent his level during his formation to Ireland past week. “There volition beryllium an investigation… There were drones, indeed,” helium told reporters.
• Leaders from Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Sweden urged the EU to determination rapidly with a stalled connection to usage frozen Russian assets to supply funds for Ukraine.
• Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov says a gathering betwixt Putin and US President Donald Trump is not expected earlier the New Year, Russian authorities quality bureau TASS reported.
• A tribunal successful Russian-controlled Donetsk successful Ukraine sentenced 3 Russian soldiers to 12 years successful situation for torturing and sidesplitting Russell Bentley, a 63-year-old US nationalist who had volunteered to combat for Russia against Kyiv.
• Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said that Turkiye has agreed to warrant the travel of Russian state to his country. He made the comments successful a associated quality league with Turkish person Recep Erdogan successful Istanbul.

• German Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Johann Wadephul, who is visiting Beijing, said helium pressed Chinese officials to usage their power connected Russia to assistance extremity the warfare successful Ukraine. “If determination is 1 state successful the satellite that has a beardown power connected Russia, it is China,” Wadephul told a quality conference.

Military aid

• Zelenskyy said that Kyiv is abbreviated of astir $800m for the US weapons it had planned to bargain this twelvemonth with backing from its European allies.
• The Netherlands said it volition earmark different 700 cardinal euros ($815m) to supply Ukraine with subject enactment successful the archetypal 4th of 2026. The Dutch authorities had earlier pledged 3.5 cardinal euros ($4bn) successful enactment for adjacent year, but a ample portion of that wealth has already been spent this year.
• The UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office announced a 17 cardinal British lb ($19.78m) concern successful greenish vigor innovation projects successful Ukraine.

Legal proceedings

• The International Court of Justice (ICJ) recovered that counterclaims submitted by Russia are admissible successful Ukraine’s lawsuit against Russia’s invasion. The lawsuit was brought nether the Genocide Convention.