These are the important thing developments from day 1,391 of Russia’s battle on Ukraine.
Printed On 16 Dec 2025
Right here is the place issues stand on Tuesday, December 16:
Combating
- A Russian drone assault killed a 62-year-old Ukrainian man as he was driving a bicycle within the Velyka Pysarivka group of Ukraine’s Sumy area, Governor Oleh Hryhorov stated in a put up on the Telegram messaging app.
- Russian forces launched 850 assaults on Ukraine’s Zaporizhia area in a single day, injuring 14 folks and damaging homes, vehicles and infrastructure, Governor Ivan Fedorov stated on Telegram.
- Russian forces injured 5 folks in assaults on Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk area, and 6 folks within the Kherson area up to now day, native officers stated, in accordance with the Ukrainian information company Ukrinform.
- In Dnipropetrovsk, these injured included a firefighter and manufacturing facility employee, damage after Russian forces launched a second assault on a manufacturing facility within the Synelnykivskyi district, as rescuers tried to reply to a hearth attributable to an earlier Russian assault, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine reported on its web site.
- Russian assaults prompted energy outages in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, in addition to the Donetsk and Dnipropetrovsk areas, the Ukrainian power firm NPC Ukrenergo stated on Fb.
- Ukraine claimed that underwater drones had, for the primary time within the battle, struck a Russian submarine docked within the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk.
- The top of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet press service, Aleksei Rulyov, denied that the underwater drone assault was profitable. “Not a single ship or submarine of the Black Sea Fleet situated on the base in Novorossiysk Bay was broken,” he stated. “The enemy’s try at sabotage by underwater drones failed to realize its goals.”
Ceasefire talks
- US President Donald Trump stated a deal to finish Russia’s battle in Ukraine was “closer than ever” after American, Ukrainian, European and NATO leaders met in Berlin for hours of talks on a possible settlement, hosted by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
- European leaders issued a joint assertion after the talks, saying that any choices on potential Ukrainian territorial concessions to Russia can solely be made by the folks of Ukraine, and as soon as strong safety ensures are in place for Kyiv.
- In addition they stated that US and European leaders had agreed to “work collectively to offer strong safety ensures”, together with a European-led “multinational drive” made up of countries prepared to help “in securing Ukraine’s skies, and in supporting safer seas, together with by working inside Ukraine”.
- Talking at a information convention after the talks, Merz stated that the US had supplied “appreciable” safety ensures, and that though there’s now a “probability for an actual peace course of”, “territorial settlement stays a key query”.
Regional safety
- Russian Minister of Overseas Affairs Sergey Lavrov referred to as “the EU’s aggressive actions the primary risk on this planet for the time being”, and claimed that the US is making an attempt to place Europe “as a replacement”, in an interview with Iranian state tv.
- Germany’s decrease home of parliament, the Bundestag, suffered a serious e-mail outage. Officers advised UK newspaper The Monetary Instances that they believe it was a cyberattack, whereas the Ukraine ceasefire talks had been happening in Berlin.
- Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, the brand new head of the UK’s armed forces, has referred to as for “nationwide resilience” within the face of a “rising” threat from Russia. “It means extra folks being able to battle for his or her nation,” Knighton stated of the risk from Moscow, whereas additionally referring to latest feedback from his French counterpart, Fabien Mandon, who stated France have to be able to “lose its youngsters”.
