Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,382 | Russia-Ukraine war News

These are the important thing developments from day 1,382 of Russia’s warfare on Ukraine.

Right here’s the place issues stand on Sunday, December 7:

Preventing

• Russian forces launched a “large-scale” assault on the central Ukrainian metropolis of Kremenchuk in a single day on Sunday, the Kyiv Impartial reported, citing native officers. The extent of the harm was not instantly clear, it mentioned.
• A big-scale Russian drone and missile attack broken energy services in eight Ukrainian areas, inflicting blackouts and forcing nuclear energy crops to chop energy output, officers and the Worldwide Atomic Power Company (IAEA) mentioned.
• The Ukrainian navy mentioned Russia had launched 653 drones and 51 missiles on Ukraine within the in a single day assault, including that its forces downed 585 drones and 30 missiles.
• Energy and warmth technology services within the Chernihiv, Zaporizhia, Lviv, and Dnipropetrovsk areas have been focused within the assault, whereas port services within the Black Sea metropolis of Odesa have been additionally broken, in response to the Ukrainian authorities.
• The Ukrainian state railway firm, Ukrzaliznytsia, a railway hub close to the capital, Kyiv, was additionally hit, with harm triggered to the depot and railway carriages. The have been no studies on casualties from the assault within the city of Fastiv.
• The IAEA mentioned Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant, which is below Russian management, quickly misplaced all off-site energy in a single day as a result of widespread navy actions. It mentioned the plant reconnected to a 330 kilowatt energy line after a half hour outage, however {that a} 750 kilowatt line remains to be disconnected.
• The Russian Ministry of Defence confirmed the assault on Saturday, saying its forces launched a “huge strike” in response to what it known as Ukrainian assaults on civilian targets in Russia. The ministry mentioned the strike used high-precision, long-range air- and ground-based weapons, together with Kinzhal hypersonic missiles and long-range drones.
• The ministry additionally mentioned its air defences had shot down 116 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory in a single day into Saturday.
• Poland additionally introduced scrambling jets as a result of Russian assaults on Ukraine on Saturday, however the Operational Command of the Armed Forces mentioned there have been no airspace violations.
• Ukraine’s navy, in the meantime, mentioned that its forces had hit the Russian Ryazan oil refinery, in addition to a shell-casing manufacturing plant situated in Alchevsk, within the Russian-occupied Luhansk area.
• Ukraine’s navy additionally denied Russian claims that it had encircled the embattled cities of Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad within the Donetsk area, in response to the Kyiv Impartial. The navy mentioned that its defence items have been increasing logistics routes and sustaining management over key positions within the space.

Chornobyl

• A protecting protect at Ukraine’s Chornobyl nuclear plant, constructed to comprise radioactive materials from the 1986 catastrophe, can not carry out its foremost security operate attributable to drone harm, the IAEA mentioned after a strike that Kyiv blamed on Moscow.

Politics and diplomacy

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned he had a protracted and “substantive” cellphone name with United States President Donald Trump’s particular envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, on the push to finish Russia’s warfare on Ukraine.
• “Ukraine is set to maintain working in good religion with the American aspect to genuinely obtain peace. We agreed on the subsequent steps and codecs for talks with america,” Zelenskyy wrote on X.
• The decision adopted talks between Witkoff, Kushner and Ukraine’s negotiator, Rustem Umerov, within the US metropolis of Miami. Ukraine’s envoy to the US, Olha Stefanishyna, advised the Axios information web site that “the principle difficult points concern territorial issues and safety ensures”.
• Zelenskyy is about to satisfy British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in London on Monday, in response to media studies.
• French President Emmanuel Macron mentioned he would additionally journey to London for Monday’s assembly to debate the scenario in Ukraine and the continued negotiations with Russia below US mediation.

• Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban introduced dispatching a enterprise delegation to Russia within the coming days in preparation for the tip of the Ukraine warfare. Orban addressed the scenario throughout a rally within the central metropolis of Kecskemet, forward of legislative elections within the spring.