These are the important thing developments from day 1,397 of Russia’s conflict on Ukraine.
Revealed On 22 Dec 2025
Right here is the place issues stand on Monday, December 22:
Preventing
- A Russian assault on Ukraine’s Kharkiv area killed a 49-year-old man and a 42-year-old girl, in keeping with Governor Oleh Syniehubov. The killings passed off within the village of Izyum.
- Russian assaults additionally killed one particular person in Ukraine’s Donetsk area, and one particular person within the southeastern Zaporizhia area, native officers reported.
- Russian forces have shelled the Zaporizhia area practically 5,000 instances over the previous week, wounding 60 individuals and damaging tons of of buildings, in keeping with Governor Ivan Fedorov.
- Total, Russian forces have launched about 1,300 drones, practically 1,200 guided aerial bombs, and 9 missiles in the direction of Ukraine over the previous week, in keeping with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
- Ukraine’s ombudsman, Dmytro Lubinets, accused Russian forces of “illegally” detaining about 50 residents of the village of Hrabovske within the Sumy area and “forcibly deporting” them to Russian territory.
- The Kyiv Impartial, citing Ukrainian authorities, reported that wreckage from a Ukrainian drone assault on Russia broken a pipeline within the Krasnodar Krai area.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence stated its forces shot down 29 Ukrainian drones previously 24-hour interval.
- The Russian Federal Safety Service (FSB) claimed that Russian forces shot down 252 drones over the Russian-occupied Donbas area, utilizing the “Donbas Dome digital warfare system” over the previous week, the TASS information company reported.
Politics and diplomacy
- US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met with a Ukrainian delegation, led by senior official Rustem Umerov and European officers, because the US continued to host talks in Miami, Florida, on a potential peace deal for Russia’s conflict on Ukraine for a 3rd day on Sunday.
- Witkoff stated in a put up on X late on Sunday that the talks with the Ukrainians and Europeans had been “productive and constructive” and targeted on a “shared strategic strategy between Ukraine, the USA and Europe”.
- In a second put up about two hours later, Witkoff stated that the US had additionally had “productive and constructive conferences” with Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev over the previous two days.
- “Russia stays totally dedicated to reaching peace in Ukraine [and] extremely values the efforts and help of the USA to resolve the Ukrainian battle and re-establish international safety,” Witkoff stated.
- Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s prime overseas coverage aide, Yury Ushakov, said that modifications made by European nations and Ukraine to the US’s proposals for an finish to Russia’s conflict didn’t enhance prospects for peace.
- “I’m certain that the proposals that the Europeans and Ukrainians have made or try to make positively don’t enhance the doc and don’t enhance the opportunity of reaching long-term peace,” Ushakov was quoted as saying by Russian information companies.
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated the Russian president was prepared to speak together with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, after the latter stated Europe ought to attain out to Moscow to finish the conflict.
- Macron’s workplace welcomed the Russian assertion, saying: “It’s welcome that the Kremlin has publicly agreed to this strategy. We’ll resolve within the coming days on one of the best ways to proceed.”
- India’s Ministry of Exterior Affairs stated that “202 Indian nationals are believed to have been recruited into the Russian armed forces” throughout Russia’s conflict on Ukraine. It stated Russian authorities had reported that 26 had been killed and 7 have been lacking.
- Sweden’s customs service stated on Sunday that Swedish authorities boarded a Russian freighter that anchored in Swedish waters on Friday after creating engine issues, to examine the cargo. The homeowners of the vessel, the Adler, are on the European Union’s sanctions record, Martin Hoglund, spokesman on the customs authority, stated.
- “Shortly after 0100 final night time [00:00 GMT] we boarded the ship with help from the Swedish Coast Guard and the police service so as to make a customs inspection,” Hoglund stated. “The inspection remains to be ongoing.”
