Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,392

Here is wherever things basal connected Wednesday, December 17:

Fighting

• Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko said explosions were heard successful the Ukrainian superior and warned radical to enactment successful shelters precocious connected Tuesday nighttime arsenic aerial defences worked to repel a Russian attack.
• Russian forces launched a “massive” drone onslaught connected Ukraine’s Sumy region, targeting vigor infrastructure and causing energy blackouts, Governor Oleh Hryhorov said connected Telegram precocious connected Tuesday night.
• Power outages were besides reported successful the Donetsk region, Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Energy Mykola Kolisnyk said.
• A Russian onslaught connected electrical substations and different vigor infrastructure near 280,000 households successful Ukraine’s Odesa portion without power, Governor Oleh Kiper wrote connected Telegram.
• Electricity was aboriginal restored to 220,000 homes, Kiper said, but extended enactment was inactive needed to repair damaged networks.

• The Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia atomic powerfulness works successful Ukraine is presently receiving energy done lone 1 of 2 outer powerfulness lines, the facility’s Russian absorption said, aft the different enactment was disconnected owed to subject activity.

• Russian forces changeable down 180 Ukrainian drones successful 1 day, Russia’s Ministry of Defence said, according to the state-run TASS quality agency.
• The ambassador-at-large of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rodion Miroshnik, told TASS that Ukrainian attacks had killed 14 Russian civilians and injured astir 70, including successful the Russian-occupied Kherson and Zaporizhia regions of Ukraine, implicit the past week.

Ceasefire talks

• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz shared details astir a imaginable European-led multinational force being considered arsenic portion of discussions connected information guarantees for Ukraine.
• “We would unafraid a demilitarised portion betwixt the warring parties and, to beryllium precise specific, we would besides enactment against corresponding Russian incursions and attacks,” Merz told ZDF nationalist television, adding that the talks “we’re not determination yet”.

Regional security

• Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Sweden said successful a associated connection connected Tuesday that “Russia is the astir significant, nonstop and semipermanent menace to our information and to bid and stableness successful the Euro-Atlantic area”.
• After the Eastern Flank Summit successful Helsinki, Finland, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that the grouping of European countries discussed an “anti-drone wall” that would necessitate “billions successful expenditure here”.
• Germany’s Federal Ministry of Defence said that it ended the deployment to Poland of its Patriot systems and soldiers from its Air and Missile Defence Task Force, aft the ngo concluded arsenic planned.
• UK Secretary of State for Defence John Healey said the United Kingdom is spending 600 cardinal pounds (more than $800 million) to bargain “thousands of aerial defence systems, missiles, and automated turrets to sprout down drones” for Ukraine, during a virtual gathering of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group, according to the Kyiv Independent quality outlet.
• German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius told the aforesaid gathering that Germany would “transfer a important fig of AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles” to Ukraine adjacent year.

Reparations

• The leaders of 34 European countries signed an statement successful The Hague to make an International Claims Commission for Ukraine to question compensation for hundreds of billions of dollars successful harm from Russian attacks.
• “Every Russian warfare transgression indispensable person consequences for those who committed them,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said earlier signing the agreement.
• “The extremity is to person validated claims that volition yet beryllium paid by Russia. It volition truly person to beryllium paid by Russia,” Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs  David van Weel said.