- French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday he intends to call his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to discuss Russian bombings and drone strikes in Ukraine. – “many of them are war crimes,” he said – and an agreement on the safety of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.
- The US sending Patriot missiles to Ukraine could be seen as an “escalation”. This was announced by the spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova. The US broadcaster CNN reported on Tuesday that Washington is seriously considering supplying Kyiv with Patriot anti-aircraft missiles.
- Washington will begin developing its program with the Ukrainian military beginning in January to train more soldiers and instill broader skills.
- A month after his release by Kyiv, The city of Kherson was hit “more than sixteen times” by Russian shelling on Thursday, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the evening. These attacks killed two people and caused power outages.
- The situation on the front in eastern Ukraine remains very tense and heavy fighting continues. In the Donetsk region, “Bahmout and Avdiivka directions remain the epicenter of fighting,” Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said on Thursday.
- For their part, the pro-Russian separatist authorities reported Ukrainian bombing of Donetsk“the most massive since 2014,” the year that city fell under the control of these Moscow-backed rebels.
- The 27 member states of the European Union agreed on a ninth package of sanctions against Russia on Thursday evening. In particular, it provides for new restrictive measures for almost 200 companies and personalities, the ban on drone exports to Russia, the blacklisting of three more banks and the end of new investments in the mining sector in Russia.
- The United States has announced it will impose financial sanctions on Vladimir Potanin, Vladimir Putin’s former Deputy Prime Minister and one of the richest men in Russia, as well as against dozens of Russian government officials and financial sector companies.
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