The conflict in real time
A Russian plane damaged by a Ukrainian drone at the Dyagilevo air base, 500km from the border with Ukraine
Blinken: Moscow will seek a fake peace to rearm
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Russia may be looking for a way to withdraw from Ukraine without negotiating a lasting peace. Speaking at the CEO Council Summit in Washington, organized by the Wall Street Journal, the head of US diplomacy said that the Kiev government must decide the future goals of the war and the terms with which it intends to stop it. But he also warned of the possibility that Russia could look for a false exit in order to regain strength and prepare for a new attack. “One of the things you can imagine – he said – is that Russia is looking for a way out”. “But – he added – unless Russia shows that it is interested in serious diplomatic work, it won’t go anywhere. What we want to see is only a lasting peace, not a fake peace”.
The governor: Moscow is bombing Zaporizhzhia
The governor of the Zaporizhzhia region, Oleksandr Starukh, said Russia attacked the outskirts of the city of Zaporizhzhia on the night of 6 December. One of the missiles hit the community of Stepne. Critical infrastructure and residential buildings were damaged as a result of the attack. According to preliminary information, there are no casualties, Starukh said.
Moscow: Three soldiers were killed by Ukrainian drone strikes on Russian territory
The Russian Defense Ministry said it formally acknowledged that yesterday three soldiers were killed and four were injured by drone strikes at the Dyagilevo airfield near the city of Ryazan and the Engels-1 military air base in the region of Saratov. In Ukraine, four more people were killed by Russian attacks yesterday afternoon in Ukraine.
The governor: “Half of the Kiev region will be without electricity for days”
About half of the region surrounding the Ukrainian capital will be without electricity for the next few days after Russian missile attacks on power facilities, the regional governor of Kyiv said. Yesterday’s attacks, which plunged parts of Ukraine back into freezing temperatures, were the latest in weeks of attacks that hit critical infrastructure and cut off heat and water to many. Kyiv, a city of about 3 million people, appears to have managed to avoid major damage. But the Kiev region, which does not include the capital and had a pre-war population of about 1.8 million, has been hit hard. “In the coming days, about half of the region will be without electricity,” Oleksiy Kuleba, the region’s governor, said late Monday evening.
Moscow will not give up control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to create a nuclear safety zone
“Russia’s withdrawal from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant or the transfer of control over it to some ‘third party’ is out of the question,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said last night. a denial aimed at the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, who on December 2 had speculated that he could reach an agreement with Russia and Ukraine on the protection of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant by the end of the year.
Zelensky: Signing agreements with these terrorists will not bring peace
“With today’s missile attack Russia celebrated the anniversary of the Budapest Memorandum. The fate of this document gives answers to many current questions about Russia. Simply signing something with these terrorists will not bring peace. They will surely break any agreement reached with them. Giving Russia any element of someone else’s security means new war.” Thus the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, on his Telegram channel. “Only the dismantling of Russian terrorist capabilities, the liberation of all our territories and the holding of accountability of the killers will bring peace. I believe we will come to this,” Zelensky added.
