Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,387

Here’s wherever things basal connected Friday, December 12:

Fighting

• Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked the Russian service aft its forces reportedly took power of the municipality of Siversk successful eastbound Ukraine. Ukraine’s subject responded, saying it remained successful power of the town.
• News agencies were incapable to verify the battlefield claims astir Siversk, a longstanding people successful Russia’s thrust to seizure each of Ukraine’s Donetsk region.
• Moscow’s forces person besides taken power of the colony of Lyman successful Ukraine’s eastbound Kharkiv region, Russian authorities quality agencies reported, citing the Ministry of Defence.
• Russia said Ukraine launched a large aerial onslaught with astatine slightest 287 drones downed implicit a fig of regions wrong the country, including Moscow. Russia’s Defence Ministry said astatine slightest 40 drones were changeable down implicit the Moscow region, location to much than 22 cardinal people.
• Ukrainian drones deed 2 chemic plants successful Russia’s Novgorod and Smolensk regions, the commandant of Kyiv’s drone forces said. Ukrainian drones besides struck Russia’s Filanovsky lipid level successful the Caspian Sea for the archetypal time, halting accumulation astatine the installation owned by Lukoil, according to a Ukraine Security Service official.
• Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has called connected Britain to disclose what British worker George Hooley, who was precocious killed successful Ukraine, was doing successful the country.
• Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova accused London of helping Kyiv transportation retired “acts of terrorism” connected Russia, but provided nary grounds for her assertion. Britain’s Ministry of Defence said Hooley died portion observing Ukrainian forces trial a caller antiaircraft capableness distant from the beforehand enactment with Russian forces.

Peace deal

• Ukraine has presented the United States with a revised 20-point model to extremity its warfare with Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, adding that the contented of ceding territory to Russia remains a large sticking constituent successful negotiations.
• Zelenskyy said, arsenic a compromise, the US is offering to make a “free economical zone” successful Ukraine-controlled parts of the eastbound Donbas, which Russia has demanded Ukraine cede.
• “They spot it arsenic Ukrainian troops withdrawing from the Donetsk region, and the compromise is supposedly that Russian troops volition not participate this portion of Donetsk region. They bash not cognize who volition govern this territory,” Zelenskyy said, adding that Russia is referring to it arsenic a “demilitarised zone”.
• Zelenskyy besides said that Ukrainians should ballot connected immoderate territorial concessions successful a referendum and that helium had discussed information guarantees for Ukraine successful a video telephone with apical US officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and White House peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff.

• Speaking astatine a gathering of the “coalition of the willing” – a radical of 34 nations led by Britain and France that person pledged enactment for Ukraine against Russian aggression – Zelenskyy said that holding elections successful Ukraine during wartime would necessitate a ceasefire.
• US President Donald Trump said the US volition nonstop a typical to enactment successful talks successful Europe connected Ukraine this play if determination is simply a bully accidental of making advancement connected a ceasefire deal.
• “We’ll beryllium attending the gathering connected Saturday successful Europe if we deliberation there’s a bully chance. And we don’t privation to discarded a batch of clip if we deliberation it’s negative,” Trump said.
• Earlier, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters that Trump had grown weary of aggregate meetings that ne'er reached an statement connected ending the warfare successful Ukraine.

Regional security

• NATO main Mark Rutte urged allies to measurement up defence efforts to forestall a warfare waged successful Europe by Russia, which could beryllium “on the standard of warfare our grandparents and great-grandparents endured”.
• In a code successful Berlin, Rutte said excessively galore allies of the subject confederation did not consciousness the urgency of Russia’s menace successful Europe and that they indispensable rapidly summation defence spending and accumulation to forestall war.

Sanctions

• Russian and Belarusian younker athletes should vie successful planetary events without entree restrictions, the International Olympic Committee said, marking a archetypal measurement successful easing sanctions imposed pursuing Russia’s 2022 penetration of Ukraine.

• European Union governments person started a process to frost Russian cardinal slope assets immobilised successful Europe for the agelong word to debar votes each six months connected rolling implicit the freeze, a determination that would pave the mode to usage the wealth to provide a indebtedness to Ukraine.
• Belgium’s Deputy Prime Minister Vincent Van Peteghem said Russian frozen assets volition person to beryllium utilized for Ukraine astatine immoderate point, adding that Brussels “would not instrumentality immoderate reckless compromises” earlier it agreed to immoderate woody connected the issue.
• Brussels has opposed an unprecedented plan to usage Russian funds frozen successful the EU – chiefly successful Belgian banking institutions – to money a indebtedness to Ukraine, saying it places the state astatine outsized hazard of aboriginal ineligible enactment from Moscow.
• Russia’s Foreign Ministry reiterated that the EU’s “manipulations” with Moscow’s frozen assets would not spell unanswered.
• Germany’s apical fiscal tribunal has ruled that authorities cannot, for now, merchantability oregon usage an lipid tanker and its cargo seized disconnected the Baltic Sea coast, siding with the vessel’s owners successful 2 abstracted cases.
• The Panama-flagged Eventin was recovered drifting disconnected Germany’s seashore successful January aft departing Russia with astir 100,000 metric tonnes of lipid worthy astir 40 cardinal euros ($47m). German authorities fishy the vas is portion of a “shadow fleet” utilized by Russia to skirt EU sanctions

Economy

• Russia’s revenues from exports of crude lipid and refined products fell again successful November, the International Energy Agency said, touching their lowest level since its 2022 penetration of Ukraine.