Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,399

Here is wherever things basal connected Wednesday, December 24:

Fighting

• Russian forces began a “massive attack” connected Ukraine connected Monday night, sidesplitting 3 radical and targeting 13 regions with 650 drones and 30 missiles, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said successful a station connected X.
• Those killed successful the overnight attack included a four-year-old miss successful the cardinal Zhytomyr region, Governor Vitalii Bunechko said connected Telegram. “Doctors struggled to prevention the child’s life, but successful the end, they were incapable to prevention her,” Bunechko said, adding that 5 radical were besides injured successful the attack.
• Russian forces besides launched drones and missiles astatine the Vyshhorod territory of Ukraine’s Kyiv region, sidesplitting a pistillate and injuring 3 people, Governor Mykola Kalashnyk said.
• In Ukraine’s occidental Khmelnytskyi region, 1 idiosyncratic was killed by Russian shelling, Governor Serhii Tiurin said.
• Russian drone attacks connected Kyiv’s Sviatoshynskyi territory near 5 radical injured, said Tymur Tkachenko, the caput of the Kyiv City Military Administration.

An injured aged pistillate looks retired of her breached model aft an flat gathering was deed by a Russian drone during an aerial onslaught successful Kyiv, Ukraine, connected Tuesday [Efrem Lukatsky/AP Photo]

• Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy said that “emergency powerfulness outages” were introduced successful respective regions crossed the state owed to Russian forces targeting vigor infrastructure. The ministry said that it was moving to reconstruct energy to the Rivne, Ternopil and Odesa regions. The ministry said that the concern was “most difficult” successful the borderline regions, “as restoring energy is analyzable by continuous fighting”.
• Ukraine’s General Staff said Ukrainian troops person withdrawn from the Donetsk region’s ​​Siversk country aft dense fighting, noting that Moscow’s forces had a “significant advantage” there.
• Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Ukrainian F-16 combatant pilots changeable down 621 of 673 Russian “aerial targets” connected Tuesday night, including 34 of 35 cruise missiles.
• In Russia, a Ukrainian drone onslaught connected a car killed 3 men successful the Belgorod portion connected Monday, the region’s exigency effect squad reported.
• Another Ukrainian drone onslaught successful Belgorod connected Tuesday killed 1 idiosyncratic and injured three, the region’s operational office said connected Telegram.
• Russian forces changeable down 56 Ukrainian drones successful a day, arsenic good arsenic a guided bomb, Russia’s Ministry of Defence said, according to the authorities quality bureau TASS.

Ceasefire

• Zelenskyy said successful his nightly address, “We consciousness that America wants to scope a last agreement” to extremity the warfare successful Ukraine, and that “there is afloat cooperation” from the Ukrainian side.
• In an earlier station connected X, Zelenskyy said that “several draught documents person present been prepared”, pursuing talks successful Miami. “In particular, these see documents connected information guarantees for Ukraine, connected recovery, and connected a basal model for ending this war,” helium said.
• Pope ‍Leo said that Russia’s evident refusal to hold to a ceasefire connected December 25 is “among the things that origin maine overmuch sadness”.
• “I volition marque ​an entreaty 1 ‌more clip to radical of goodwill to respect astatine slightest Christmas ‌Day arsenic a time of ‌peace,” Leo told reporters extracurricular his residence successful Castel Gandolfo, Italy.