These are the important thing developments from day 1,405 of Russia’s conflict on Ukraine.
Printed On 30 Dec 2025
Right here is the place issues stand on Tuesday, December 30:
Alleged assault on Putin’s residence
- Kremlin overseas coverage aide Yury Ushakov stated that an attack took place on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s residence in northwestern Russia’s Novgorod on Sunday, “virtually instantly after” talks in Florida between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
- The strike “is not going to go unanswered”, Ushakov stated in remarks reported by Russian media, following a name between Trump and Putin.
- Russian Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov stated that Russian air defence methods shot down 91 long-range strike drones used within the assault and that nobody was injured.
- Zelenskyy denied the claim, accusing Russia of attempting to derail peace talks.
- Nonetheless, Trump expressed anger over the alleged assault, telling reporters: “I used to be very indignant about it.” When requested if the US had proof of the assault, Trump stated, “We’ll discover out.”
- Russian Ministry of Overseas Affairs spokesperson Maria Zakharova stated that “the response to Kyiv’s assaults is not going to be diplomatic” and that Russia can be revising its negotiating place within the assault’s wake.
- The United Arab Emirates’s Ministry of Overseas Affairs stated in a press release that it “strongly condemned” the “deplorable assault” and “the risk it poses to safety and stability”.
Diplomacy
- White Home spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt stated {that a} cellphone name between Putin and Trump on the problem of Ukraine on Monday was “optimistic”, with out elaborating.
- Zelenskyy stated he spoke by cellphone with the leaders of Germany, Latvia and Finland to replace them on the outcomes of his assembly with Trump and the place peace negotiations stood.
- Lavrov stated in an interview with Russian information company RIA Novosti that “Kyiv and its Western backers should recognise the brand new territorial realities which have emerged following the incorporation of Crimea, Sevastopol, the Donetsk Individuals’s Republic, the Luhansk Individuals’s Republic, and the Zaporizhia and Kherson areas into the Russian Federation.” He was referring to the Russian-occupied Ukrainian areas that Moscow claims to have annexed, which embrace Donetsk and Luhansk, renamed by Russian-backed separatists because the DPR and LPR.
- A survey revealed by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Basis (DIF), a Ukrainian suppose tank, on Monday confirmed that recognising occupied Ukrainian territories “as a part of the Russian Federation” remained deeply unpopular in Ukraine, with 76 % of Ukrainians saying they thought of it “unacceptable”.
Preventing
- Russian forces attacked the front-line city of Orikhiv in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia area, killing a 46-year-old man and wounding a 49-year-old girl, Governor Ivan Fedorov stated on Telegram.
- Russian forces killed one individual and injured 5 in assaults on Ukraine’s Donetsk area on Sunday, Governor Vadym Filashkin stated on Fb.
- Dmytro Lubinets, Ukraine’s human rights commissioner, stated on Telegram that Russian forces killed seven civilians who had been hiding in a basement within the Ukrainian metropolis of Pokrovsk.
- Ukraine’s prosecutor basic’s workplace stated it had launched an investigation into experiences that Russian troopers shot lifeless two captured Ukrainian troopers within the village of Shakhove, Pokrovsky, on Saturday.
- “The deliberate killing of prisoners of conflict is a gross violation of the Geneva Conventions and qualifies as a grave worldwide crime,” the prosecutor basic’s workplace stated.
- Ukrainian assaults injured 5 civilians in Russia’s Belgorod area, based on Russia’s TASS state information company, citing native officers.
- Ukrainian assaults additionally injured 4 civilians within the Russian-occupied Ukrainian area of Zaporizhia, and three civilians within the Russian-occupied Ukrainian area of Donetsk, TASS reported, citing native officers.
- In a televised tackle from the Kremlin, Putin made a variety of claims about Moscow’s ongoing conflict on Ukraine, together with that Russian troops have been advancing in the direction of the Ukrainian metropolis of Zaporizhzhia.
- Normal Valery Gerasimov, Russia’s military chief, stated throughout the identical tackle that Russian forces had captured 6,460 sq. kilometres (2,494sq miles) of territory in Ukraine in 2025, together with 334 villages.
- The Worldwide Atomic Power Company (IAEA) quoted its director basic, Rafael Grossi, as saying that energy line repairs close to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant had been efficiently accomplished.
