Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,403

Here is wherever things basal connected Sunday, December 28:

Fighting

• At slightest 2 radical were killed successful Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and the surrounding region, aft Russian forces launched a monolithic attack with hundreds of missiles and drones, up of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s gathering with United States President Donald Trump to enactment retired a program to extremity astir 4 years of war.
• The onslaught besides wounded astatine slightest 46 people, including 2 children, according to Ukrainian officials.
• Zelenskyy, who was connected his mode to conscionable Trump successful Florida, said that Russia had launched astir 500 drones and 40 missiles, targeting vigor and civilian infrastructure.
• Ukraine’s authorities grid operator, Ukrenergo, said that vigor facilities crossed Ukraine were struck, and exigency powerfulness cuts had been implemented crossed the capital. DTEK, Ukraine’s largest backstage vigor company, said the onslaught had near much than a cardinal households successful and astir Kyiv without power.
• Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Oleksii Kuleba said that much than 40 percent of residential buildings successful Kyiv were near without heat, arsenic temperatures hovered astir 0 degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit) pursuing the attack.
• Poland’s Air Navigation Services Agency said successful a connection connected X that the Rzeszow and Lublin airports successful the country’s southeastern portion were temporarily unopen pursuing Russia’s strikes connected Ukraine. The Operational Command of the Polish Armed Forces said that Polish and allied jets were deployed during the attack, but nary violations of Polish airspace were reported.
• In Russia, aerial defence forces changeable down 11 drones headed for the capital, Moscow, according to the city’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin.
• Russia’s aviation watchdog, Rosaviatsia, said that Moscow’s Vnukovo and Sheremetyevo airports imposed impermanent restrictions connected airspace owed to information reasons.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defence besides said that its aerial defence systems had intercepted and destroyed much than 100 Ukrainian drones successful 3 hours implicit six different Russian regions.
• Russian commanders told President Vladimir Putin that Moscow’s forces had captured the Ukrainian towns of Myrnohrad, Rodynske and Artemivka successful Ukraine’s Donetsk region, arsenic good arsenic Huliaipole and Stepnohirsk successful the Zaporizhia region, the Kremlin and Russian quality agencies said connected Telegram.
• But Ukraine’s subject said successful its regular battlefield update that its forces had beaten backmost Russian attempts to beforehand successful the vicinity of Myrnohrad and Huliaipole.

Politics and diplomacy

• Zelenskyy announced successful a Telegram connection that helium would clasp talks with European leaders after his gathering with Trump on Sunday, arsenic Kyiv pushes for a stronger presumption successful the ongoing ceasefire negotiations to forestall Russia from prolonging the warfare successful Ukraine.
• Zelenskyy said helium wants to sermon with Trump territorial issues, the main stumbling artifact successful talks to extremity the war, arsenic a 20-point bid model and a information warrant woody adjacent completion.
• On the mode to the gathering successful Florida, Zelenskyy stopped successful Canada’s Halifax to conscionable Mark Carney, the Canadian premier curate said successful a connection aft the meeting.
• Carney denounced the latest Russian onslaught arsenic “barbarism”, stressing that it is important for allies to “stand with Ukraine successful this hard time”. He besides announced $1.83bn successful further economical assistance to Ukraine.
• Zelenskyy spoke to European leaders pursuing the gathering with Carney. In a connection posted connected X, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said: “We invited each efforts starring to our shared nonsubjective – a conscionable and lasting bid that preserves Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. And that strengthens the country’s information and defence capabilities.”
• Antonio Costa, the president of the European Council, which represents the bloc’s 27 subordinate states, echoed von der Leyen’s committedness to proceed backing Ukraine, saying connected X: “The EU’s enactment for Ukraine volition not falter. In war, successful peace, successful reconstruction.”
• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that Zelenskyy had “the afloat support” of European leaders up of his talks with Trump. The leaders of NATO and the European Union said they would enactment “in adjacent coordination” with the US “for a conscionable and lasting bid successful Ukraine”, Merz added successful a statement.
• French President Emmanuel Macron said successful a telephone with Zelenskyy that the latest Russian strikes connected Kyiv showed that Moscow was not funny successful ending the war, the AFP quality bureau reported, citing officials from Macron’s office. During the call, Macron highlighted what helium called the “contrast” betwixt “the willingness of Ukraine to physique a lasting bid and Russia’s determination to prolong the warfare that it started”, the study said.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia could spot Kyiv was successful nary hurry to extremity the warfare by peaceful means, according to the Interfax quality agency. Putin said that if Ukraine did not privation to resoluteness the struggle peacefully, past Russia would execute each goals of its “special subject operation” by force, Russian authorities quality bureau TASS reported.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (right) and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney (left) talk to the media arsenic they conscionable successful Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, up of the former’s gathering with US President Donald Trump connected Sunday [Ukrainian Presidential Office/Handout Photo via AFP]