Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,386

Here’s wherever things basal connected Thursday, December 11:

Fighting

• Ukrainian oversea drones deed and disabled a tanker progressive successful trading Russian lipid arsenic it sailed done Ukraine’s exclusive economical portion successful the Black Sea to the Russian larboard of Novorossiysk, a Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) authoritative said.
• The Dashan tanker was sailing astatine maximum velocity with its transponders disconnected erstwhile almighty explosions deed its stern, inflicting captious harm connected the vessel, the SBU authoritative said. No accusation was disposable connected imaginable casualties from the attack.
• The onslaught marks the 3rd sea drone strike successful 2 weeks connected vessels that are portion of Russia’s alleged “shadow fleet” – unregulated ships which Kyiv says are helping Moscow export ample quantities of lipid and money its warfare successful Ukraine contempt Western sanctions.
• Three radical were killed and 2 wounded by Ukrainian shelling of a infirmary successful the Russia-controlled portion of the Kherson portion successful Ukraine, a Russia-installed politician claimed connected Telegram. All those killed and injured were reportedly employees of the aesculapian facility.
• Ukrainian forces are fending disconnected an unusually ample Russian mechanised onslaught wrong the strategic eastbound metropolis of Pokrovsk, Kyiv’s subject said, including “armoured vehicles, cars, and motorcycles”.
• Russian drones person deed the state transport strategy successful Ukraine’s confederate Odesa region, a elder Ukrainian authoritative said, successful an country which contains respective pipelines carrying US liquefied earthy state to Ukraine from Greece.
• Russian aerial defences changeable down 2 drones en way to Moscow, the city’s Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said.

Peace deal

• President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine had agreed connected cardinal points of a post-war reconstruction program and an “economic document” successful talks with United States President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink.
• “The principles of the economical papers are wholly clear, and we are afloat aligned with the American side,” Zelenskyy said. “An important communal rule is that for reconstruction to beryllium of precocious prime and economical maturation aft this warfare to beryllium tangible, existent information indispensable beryllium astatine the core. When determination is security, everything other is determination too,” helium said.
• Zelenskyy besides said enactment was proceeding connected the “fundamental document” of a US-backed 20-point program aimed astatine ending the war. He said 2 different associated documents dealt with information guarantees and economical issues.
• The leaders of Britain, France and Germany held a telephone with President Trump to sermon Washington’s latest bid efforts to extremity the warfare successful Ukraine, successful what they said was “a captious moment” successful the process.
• French President Emmanuel Macron said Trump and the European leaders discussed however to determination guardant connected “a taxable that concerns each of us”.
• There volition beryllium different gathering connected Thursday of the leaders of the alleged “coalition of the willing” radical of nations backing Ukraine, said the French presidency, adding that this gathering would beryllium held via videoconference.

Military aid

• The US House of Representatives has passed a monolithic defence argumentation measure authorising a grounds $901bn successful yearly subject spending, including $400m successful subject assistance to Ukraine successful each of the adjacent 2 years and different measures reinforcing the US committedness to Europe’s defence.

Politics and diplomacy

• Trump again expressed interest that Ukraine had not had an predetermination successful a agelong time, putting further unit connected Zelenskyy to clasp one.
• Zelenskyy said helium had discussed with Ukraine’s parliament ineligible and different issues linked to the anticipation of holding an predetermination during wartime, and urged different countries, including the US, not to use unit connected the issue.
• Wartime elections are forbidden by instrumentality successful Ukraine, but Zelenskyy, whose word expired past year, is facing renewed unit from Trump to clasp a vote.

Regional security

• Following a study from the caput of Kyiv’s overseas quality work that Russia and China were taking steps to intensify cooperation, Zelenskyy said determination was a “growing inclination of the de-sovereignisation of parts of Russian territory successful China’s favour”, chiefly done Moscow’s merchantability of its “scarce resources” to Beijing.
• “We … enactment that China is taking steps to intensify practice with Russia, including successful the military-industrial sector,” Zelenskyy wrote connected X.

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— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) December 10, 2025

Sanctions

• The US has extended a deadline for negotiations connected buying the planetary assets of Russian lipid institution Lukoil by a small implicit a period to January 17. Trump imposed sanctions connected Lukoil and Rosneft, Russia’s 2 biggest vigor companies, connected October 22 arsenic portion of an effort to unit Moscow implicit its warfare successful Ukraine, and Lukoil enactment its assets up for merchantability soon after.
• Russian prosecutors asked a Moscow tribunal to prehend the assets of US backstage equity money NCH Capital successful Russia, the Kommersant paper said, citing tribunal documents. Prosecutors accused the fund’s owners of financing Ukraine’s subject forces.
• European Union ambassadors person greenlit the bloc’s program to phase retired Russian state imports by precocious 2027, 3 EU officials told the Reuters quality agency, clearing 1 of the last ineligible hurdles earlier the prohibition tin walk into law.