Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,389

Here is wherever things basal connected Sunday, December 14:

Fighting

• Two radical were killed successful a Ukrainian drone onslaught connected the Russian metropolis of Saratov, determination Governor Roman Busargin said successful a connection connected Telegram. An unspecified fig of radical were besides injured successful the attack.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence said it deed Ukrainian concern and vigor facilities with hypersonic Kinzhal missiles, successful what it called a retaliatory onslaught for Ukrainian strikes connected “civilian targets” successful Russia.
• Ukraine’s confederate larboard metropolis of Odesa and the surrounding portion person suffered large blackouts aft a ample overnight Russian onslaught connected the powerfulness grid near much than a cardinal households without power.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia’s overnight onslaught connected Ukraine included much than 450 drones and 30 missiles.
• Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko described the onslaught arsenic 1 of the war’s largest assaults connected Odesa, wherever supplies of energy and h2o had been knocked out. She said supplies of non-drinking h2o were being brought to areas of the city.
• Ukraine’s powerfulness grid relation said a “significant number” of households were without powerfulness successful the confederate regions of Odesa and Mykolaiv, and that the Ukrainian-controlled portion of the front-line Kherson portion was wholly without power.
• Ukraine’s navy has accused Russia of utilizing a drone to deliberately onslaught the civilian Turkish vas Viva, which was carrying sunflower lipid to Egypt, a time aft Moscow deed 2 Ukrainian ports. None of the 11 Turkish nationals onboard the vessel was hurt, and the vas continued its travel to Egypt.
• Earlier, it was besides reported that three Turkish vessels were damaged successful a abstracted attack.
• Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia atomic powerfulness plant temporarily mislaid each offsite powerfulness overnight for the 12th clip during the conflict, owed to subject enactment affecting the electrical grid, according to Rafael Mariano Grossi, the manager wide of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Both powerfulness lines are present reconnected, the IAEA said.

Neighbourhoods successful the metropolis of Odesa experienced powerfulness outages connected Saturday night, pursuing Russian rocket and drone attacks connected Ukrainian vigor infrastructure [Oleksandr Gimanov/AFP]

US-led negotiations

• Zelenskyy said helium would conscionable US and European representatives successful Berlin to sermon the “fundamentals of peace”. He added that Ukraine needed a “dignified” bid and a warrant that Russia, which launched a full-scale penetration of his state successful 2022, would not onslaught again.
• US envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner volition conscionable Zelenskyy and European leaders successful Berlin connected Sunday and Monday, a US authoritative briefed connected the substance said.
• French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz were besides expected to attend the Berlin meeting, The Wall Street Journal reported.
• Europeans and Ukrainians are asking the US to supply them with “security guarantees” earlier immoderate territorial negotiations successful Russian-occupied eastbound Ukraine, the French presidency said.
• British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen person discussed enactment connected US-led bid proposals for Ukraine and efforts to usage frozen Russian sovereign assets to supply funds for Kyiv, a Downing Street spokesperson said successful a statement.
• Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, caller from a gathering with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin successful Turkmenistan, said helium hopes to sermon a Ukraine-Russia bid program with Trump, adding that “peace is not acold away”.

Politics and diplomacy

• Ukraine received 114 prisoners released by Belarus, including citizens accused of moving for Ukrainian quality and Belarusian governmental prisoners, according to Kyiv’s POW coordination centre. The centre posted photos appearing to amusement the released captives boarding a bus, with immoderate of them smiling and embracing.
• Zelenskyy spoke to Belarusian captive Maria Kalesnikava aft her release, statesmanlike adjutant Dmytro Lytvyn told reporters. Lytvyn told reporters that subject quality main Kyrylo Budanov was contiguous erstwhile the prisoners released by Belarus were received.
• North Korean person Kim Jong Un attended a welcoming ceremonial for an service engineering portion that returned location aft carrying retired duties successful Russia, North Korea’s KCNA quality bureau reported. At the event, Kim praised officers and soldiers for their “heroic” behaviour during their 120-day overseas deployment.
• Russia has sentenced apical International Criminal Court (ICC) judges and its main authoritative Karim Khan to jail, successful retaliation for the court’s 2023 determination to contented an apprehension warrant for Putin implicit alleged warfare crimes during the Ukraine war.