Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,401

Here is wherever things basal connected Friday, December 26:

Fighting

• Officials successful Russia’s Krasnodar portion reported a immense occurrence pursuing a Ukrainian drone onslaught connected 2 retention tanks holding lipid products successful the confederate Russian larboard of Temryuk. The blaze dispersed crossed astir 2,000 quadrate metres (some 21,500 quadrate feet).
• Long-range Ukrainian drones targeted lipid retention facilities astatine Temryuk port, arsenic good arsenic a state processing works successful Russia’s Orenburg region, Ukraine’s SBU information work said.
• Ukraine’s General Staff said its subject besides struck the Novoshakhtinsk lipid refinery successful Russia’s Rostov portion utilizing Storm Shadow missiles, triggering respective explosions.
• The General Staff described the Russian refinery arsenic a large supplier of lipid products successful confederate Russia that supports Moscow’s subject operations successful Ukraine.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence announced that its forces had taken power of the colony of Sviato-Pokrovske successful eastbound Ukraine’s Donetsk region, according to reports from Russian authorities quality agencies.

Regional security

• Poland sent combatant jets to intercept a Russian reconnaissance craft flying adjacent its airspace implicit the Baltic Sea and said dozens of objects entered Polish airspace from Belarus overnight, informing the incidents during the vacation play whitethorn awesome a provocation.
• Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused the United States of encouraging what it called “piracy” successful the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean by blockading Venezuela, portion expressing anticipation that US President Donald Trump’s pragmatism could forestall further escalation.
• Moscow besides reiterated its enactment for Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s authorities and its efforts to safeguard nationalist sovereignty amid threats by the US to region Maduro from power.

Peace talks

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said helium spoke with Donald Trump’s peculiar envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, for astir an hr connected however to extremity the warfare with Russia and “how to bring the existent bid closer”.

• “Of course, determination is inactive enactment to beryllium done connected delicate issues,” the Ukrainian person said. “But unneurotic with the American team, we recognize however to enactment each of this successful place. The weeks up whitethorn besides beryllium intensive. Thank you, America!”

• Russia believes negotiations with the US to extremity the warfare successful Ukraine are making gradual progress, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. She described the talks arsenic slow-moving but advancing steadily.

Politics and diplomacy

• Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said President Vladimir Putin had sent the US president a Christmas greeting on with a congratulatory message.
•  Russia said it had enactment guardant a connection to France concerning Laurent Vinatier, a French researcher imprisoned nether Russia’s overseas cause laws, adding that the adjacent steps successful the Frenchman’s lawsuit present remainder with Paris.

Sanctions

• Russia’s people of producing 100 cardinal tonnes of liquefied earthy state annually has been pushed backmost by respective years owed to planetary sanctions, the country’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said successful comments aired connected authorities television.