Listed below are the important thing developments on the 1,026th day of the Russia-Ukraine struggle.
Right here is the state of affairs on Monday, December 16:
Combating
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Russia has launched 49 drones to assault Ukraine in a single day, the Ukrainian navy mentioned, including that its air power shot down 27 of the drones and misplaced monitor of 19 others.
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Ukraine’s navy intelligence mentioned its troops killed or wounded a minimum of 30 North Korean troopers who had been deployed by Russia close to the villages of Plekhovo, Vorozhba, and Martynovka within the Kursk area, the place Ukraine has seized territory.
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Russian troops captured the village of Shevchenko in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, the TASS state information company reported on Monday, quoting Denis Pushilin, the Moscow-installed head of the area. The declare couldn’t be instantly verified.
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Russia’s Defence Ministry claimed its forces had taken management of the villages of Veselyi Hai and Pushkino, additionally in Donetsk. The ministry additional mentioned Russian forces had hit and destroyed 4 Patriot air defence programs.
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Ukraine’s SBU safety service mentioned it had launched an operation to destroy 40 railcars carrying gasoline to Russian troops in an space of the Zaporizhzhia area, which is now about 70 p.c beneath Russian management.
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A Ukrainian drone has struck a campus belonging to Russia’s Nationwide Guard on Sunday within the Russian region of Chechnya, as Kyiv continues to strike again in opposition to Moscow. Chechen chief Ramzan Kadyrov confirmed the hit on a website belonging to the Akhmat Grozny riot police battalion.
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Ukraine has claimed there aren’t any extra Russian vessels patrolling the Black Sea, after Moscow’s naval power within the space has been degraded by Kyiv, mentioned Al Jazeera’s Alex Gatopoulous, who’s reporting from Kyiv.
Politics and diplomacy
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Moscow’s overseas intelligence chief Sergey Naryshkin mentioned he has not been involved with the CIA over Kyiv’s strikes with Western long-range weapons into Russia and Moscow’s use of its new missile in response, Russia’s RIA company reported.
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Norway mentioned it would present 2.7 billion crowns ($242.38 million) to strengthen the Ukrainian navy and assist it deter Russian naval forces within the Black Sea. “It’s important to guard the Ukrainian inhabitants and Ukrainian infrastructure from assaults by Russia’s Black Sea Fleet,” Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere mentioned in an announcement. “It’s also necessary to guard exports by sea of grain and different merchandise, which generate essential revenues for Ukraine.”
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International ministers from the European Union are assembly in Belgium on Monday; Russia’s ongoing struggle in Ukraine is on the agenda.
