Russia-Ukraine War: List of key events, day 1,027 | Russia-Ukraine war News

Here are the key developments on day 1,027 of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Here is the situation on Tuesday, December 17:

Fighting

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on the X website that “initial reports indicate that Russia is trying to cover up the loss of North Korean personnel,” after Ukraine’s intelligence service said on Monday that the military had killed or wounded at least 30 North Korean soldiers.
• Pentagon spokesman Major General Pat Ryder told reporters that the United States’ investigation found that “North Korean troops engaged in Kursk” and the US “has indications that they have been wounded, killed and wounded”.
• Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov referred questions about North Korean casualties to the Russian Defense Ministry, which did not immediately comment, the Associated Press reported.
• Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov said Russian forces have seized about 4,500 square kilometers (1,737sq miles) of Ukrainian territory this year and were now capturing 30 square kilometers each day.

The nature of humanity

• The United Nations humanitarian agency, OCHA, reports that about 12,000 residents who remain in the Ukrainian towns of Pokrovsk, Kurakhove and Chasiv Yar – located a few kilometers from the front – are facing a shortage of drinking water and gas under the cold winter conditions behind. local utility operators have stopped the utilities.

Politics and diplomacy

• Russia’s ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, told the UN Security Council that the investigation of US funds in Kyiv by US President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the FBI, Kash Patel, “speaks of problems in the leadership of Ukraine”.
• The European Union Foreign Affairs Council adopted its 15th package of sanctions against Russia, with a new round of sanctions against North Korean officials and, for the first time, Chinese firms making drones in Moscow.
• EU sanctions have also targeted 52 vessels that are part of Moscow’s large “shadow fleet” reportedly used to transport stolen Ukrainian oil, gas and grain.
• Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, said the sanctions against Russian oil tankers were “helpful” but “too late”, as two Russian oil tankers spilled thousands of tonnes of oil in the Azov and Black Seas after being damaged in rough seas.
• Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said in a post on Telegram that Ukraine’s agreement to allow Russian gas to pass through his country to European customers “will not be extended” when it expires on January 1, 2025.
• A former FBI informant pleaded guilty to lying about a bribery scheme involving US President Joe Biden, his son Hunter and the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.