Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,405

Here is wherever things basal connected Tuesday, December 30:

Alleged onslaught connected Putin’s residence

• Kremlin overseas argumentation adjutant Yury Ushakov said that an attack took place connected Russian President Vladimir Putin’s residence successful northwestern Russia’s Novgorod connected Sunday, “practically instantly after” talks successful Florida betwixt US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
• The onslaught “will not spell unanswered”, Ushakov said successful remarks reported by Russian media, pursuing a telephone betwixt Trump and Putin.
• Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russian aerial defence systems changeable down 91 long-range onslaught drones utilized successful the onslaught and that nary 1 was injured.
• Zelenskyy denied the claim, accusing Russia of trying to derail bid talks.
• However, Trump expressed choler implicit the alleged attack, telling reporters: “I was precise aggravated astir it.” When asked if the United States had grounds of the attack, Trump said, “We’ll find out.”
• Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Maria Zakharova said that “the effect to Kyiv’s attacks volition not beryllium diplomatic” and that Russia would beryllium revising its negotiating presumption successful the attack’s wake.
• The United Arab Emirates’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said successful a connection that it “strongly condemned” the “deplorable attack” and “the menace it poses to information and stability”.

Diplomacy

• White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said that a telephone telephone betwixt Putin and Trump connected the contented of Ukraine connected Monday was “positive”, without elaborating.
• Zelenskyy said helium spoke by telephone with the leaders of Germany, Latvia and Finland to update them connected the outcomes of his gathering with Trump and wherever bid negotiations stood.
• Lavrov said successful an interrogation with Russian quality bureau RIA Novosti that “Kyiv and its Western backers indispensable recognise the caller territorial realities that person emerged pursuing the incorporation of Crimea, Sevastopol, the Donetsk People’s Republic, the  Luhansk People’s Republic, and the Zaporizhia and Kherson regions into the Russian Federation.” He was referring to the Russian-occupied Ukrainian regions that Moscow claims to person annexed, which see Donetsk and Luhansk, renamed by Russian-backed separatists arsenic the DPR and LPR.
• A survey published by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation (DIF), a Ukrainian deliberation tank, connected Monday showed that recognising occupied Ukrainian territories “as portion of the Russian Federation” remained profoundly unpopular successful Ukraine, with 76 percent of Ukrainians saying they considered it “unacceptable”.

Fighting

• Russian forces attacked the front-line municipality of Orikhiv successful Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, sidesplitting a 46-year-old antheral and wounding a 49-year-old woman, Governor Ivan Fedorov said connected Telegram.
• Russian forces killed 1 idiosyncratic and injured 5 successful attacks connected Ukraine’s Donetsk portion connected Sunday, Governor Vadym Filashkin said connected Facebook.
• Dmytro Lubinets, Ukraine’s quality rights commissioner, said connected Telegram that Russian forces killed 7 civilians who had been hiding successful a basement successful the Ukrainian metropolis of Pokrovsk.
• Ukraine’s authoritative general’s bureau said it had launched an probe into reports that Russian soldiers changeable dormant 2 captured Ukrainian soldiers successful the colony of Shakhove, Pokrovsky, connected Saturday.
• “The deliberate sidesplitting of prisoners of warfare is simply a gross usurpation of the Geneva Conventions and qualifies arsenic a sedate planetary crime,” the authoritative general’s bureau said.
• Ukrainian attacks injured 5 civilians successful Russia’s Belgorod region, according to Russia’s TASS authorities quality agency, citing section officials.
• Ukrainian attacks besides injured 4 civilians successful the Russian-occupied Ukrainian portion of Zaporizhia, and 3 civilians successful the Russian-occupied Ukrainian portion of Donetsk, TASS reported, citing section officials.
• In a televised code from the Kremlin, Putin made a wide scope of claims astir Moscow’s ongoing warfare connected Ukraine, including that Russian troops were advancing towards the Ukrainian metropolis of Zaporizhzhia.
• General Valery Gerasimov, Russia’s service chief, said during the aforesaid code that Russian forces had captured 6,460 quadrate kilometres (2,494sq miles) of territory successful Ukraine successful 2025, including 334 villages.
• The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) quoted its manager general, Rafael Grossi, arsenic saying that powerfulness enactment repairs adjacent Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia atomic works had been successfully completed.