Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,391

Here is wherever things basal connected Tuesday, December 16:

Fighting

• A Russian drone onslaught killed a 62-year-old Ukrainian antheral arsenic helium was riding a bicycle successful the Velyka Pysarivka assemblage of Ukraine’s Sumy region, Governor Oleh Hryhorov said successful a station connected the Telegram messaging app.
• Russian forces launched 850 attacks connected Ukraine’s Zaporizhia portion successful a azygous day, injuring 14 radical and damaging houses, cars and infrastructure, Governor Ivan Fedorov said connected Telegram.
• Russian forces injured 5 radical successful attacks connected Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, and six radical successful the Kherson portion successful the past day, section officials said, according to the Ukrainian quality bureau Ukrinform.
• In Dnipropetrovsk, those injured included a firefighter and mill worker, wounded aft Russian forces launched a 2nd onslaught connected a mill successful the Synelnykivskyi district, arsenic rescuers tried to respond to a occurrence caused by an earlier Russian attack, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine reported connected its website.
• Russian attacks caused powerfulness outages successful Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, arsenic good arsenic the Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions, the Ukrainian vigor institution NPC Ukrenergo said connected Facebook.
• Ukraine claimed that underwater drones had, for the archetypal clip successful the war, struck a Russian submarine docked successful the Black Sea larboard of Novorossiysk.
• The caput of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet property service, Aleksei Rulyov, denied that the underwater drone onslaught was successful. “Not a azygous vessel oregon submarine of the Black Sea Fleet located astatine the basal successful Novorossiysk Bay was damaged,” helium said. “The enemy’s effort astatine sabotage done underwater drones failed to execute its aims.”

Ceasefire talks

• US President Donald Trump said a woody to extremity Russia’s warfare successful Ukraine was “closer than ever” aft American, Ukrainian, European and NATO leaders met successful Berlin for hours of talks connected a imaginable settlement, hosted by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
• European leaders issued a associated connection aft the talks, saying that immoderate decisions connected imaginable Ukrainian territorial concessions to Russia tin lone beryllium made by the radical of Ukraine, and erstwhile robust information guarantees are successful spot for Kyiv.
• They besides said that US and European leaders had agreed to “work unneurotic to supply robust information guarantees”, including a European-led “multinational force” made up of nations consenting to assistance “in securing Ukraine’s skies, and successful supporting safer seas, including done operating wrong Ukraine”.
• Speaking astatine a quality league aft the talks, Merz said that the US had offered “considerable” information guarantees, and that though determination is present a “chance for a existent bid process”, “territorial colony remains a cardinal question”.

Regional security

• Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov called “the EU’s assertive actions the main menace successful the satellite astatine the moment”, and claimed that the US is trying to enactment Europe “in its place”, successful an interrogation with Iranian authorities television.
• Germany’s little location of parliament, the Bundestag, suffered a large email outage. Officials told UK paper The Financial Times that they fishy it was a cyberattack, portion the Ukraine ceasefire talks were taking spot successful Berlin.
• Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, the caller caput of the UK’s equipped forces, has called for “national resilience” successful the look of a “growing” hazard from Russia. “It means much radical being acceptable to combat for their country,” Knighton said of the menace from Moscow, portion besides referring to caller comments from his French counterpart, Fabien Mandon, who said France indispensable beryllium acceptable to “lose its children”.