Russia-Ukraine conflict: Listing of key occasions, day 1,036

Listed below are the important thing developments on the 1,036th day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Right here is the scenario on Thursday, December 26:

Preventing:

Russian and Ukrainian forces have as soon as once more engaged in fierce battles across the strategically essential metropolis of Pokrovsk in jap Ukraine. Ukraine’s Normal Employees mentioned that 35 Russian assaults had been reported across the metropolis on Wednesday. “Three Russian armies are concentrated right here in opposition to us,” Ukraine’s regional commander Viktor Trehubov was quoted as saying.
Russia launched an enormous Christmas Day assault on Ukraine with cruise and ballistic missiles, in addition to drones.
The Russian assault wounded not less than six folks within the northeastern metropolis of Kharkiv and killed one within the area of Dnipropetrovsk, the governors there mentioned.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denounced the “inhumane” assault from Russia, which included greater than 170 missiles and drones, a few of which knocked out energy in a number of areas of the nation.
United States President Joe Biden mentioned the “outrageous assault was designed to chop off the Ukrainian folks’s entry to warmth and electrical energy throughout winter and to jeopardise the security of its grid”.
United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer condemned Russia’s strikes on Ukraine’s vitality grid, saying there was “no respite even at Christmas”.
Russia in the meantime mentioned 5 folks had been killed by Ukrainian missile strikes and from a falling drone within the border area of Kursk and North Ossetia within the Caucasus.
Russia’s Ministry of Overseas Affairs confirmed that Australia had contacted Moscow in regards to the potential seize by the Russian military of an Australian citizen combating with Ukrainian forces and that it was wanting into the matter.

Biden mentioned that he had requested the US Division of Protection to proceed its surge of weapons deliveries to Ukraine, after condemning Russia’s Christmas Day assault on Ukraine.

Pope Francis referred to as for “arms to be silenced” all over the world in his Christmas tackle, interesting for peace within the Center East, Ukraine and Sudan as he denounced the “extraordinarily grave” humanitarian scenario in Gaza.
Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin, who was launched in a prisoner swap by Moscow in August, has been positioned on Russia’s “needed” record, in keeping with an Inside Ministry database seen by the AFP information company. Yashin, 41, was sentenced to eight and a half years in jail on the finish of 2022 for denouncing “the homicide of civilians” within the Ukrainian metropolis of Bucha.

Russia’s Overseas Ministry accused NATO of making an attempt to show Moldova right into a logistical centre to produce the Ukrainian military and of in search of to carry the Western alliance’s navy infrastructure nearer to Russia.
Arto Pahkin, the top of operations of the Finnish electrical energy grid, advised the nation’s public broadcaster Yle that “the potential of sabotage can’t be dominated out” after an undersea energy cable linking Finland and Estonia broke down. It’s the newest in a sequence of incidents involving telecom cables and vitality pipelines within the Baltic Sea.
A “terrorist act” sank the Russian cargo ship that went down in worldwide waters within the Mediterranean this week, the Russian state-owned firm that owns the vessel mentioned. The Oboronlogistika firm mentioned it “thinks a focused terrorist assault was dedicated on December 23, 2024, in opposition to the Ursa Main”, with out indicating who might have been behind the act or why.
The Azerbaijan Airways passenger jet that crashed close to the town of Aktau in Kazakhstan, killing 38 folks, was earlier diverting from an space of Russia that Moscow has not too long ago defended in opposition to Ukrainian drone assaults. Authorities in two Russian areas adjoining to Chechnya, Ingushetia and North Ossetia, reported drone strikes on Wednesday morning.