Russia–Ukraine war: list of major events, day 1,033 | russia-ukraine war news
Here are the key developments from the 1,033rd day of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The situation as of Monday, December 23 is as follows:
fighting:
- More than 1,000 North Korean soldiers have been killed or wounded in Russia’s war with Ukraine, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said on Monday.
- Russia’s Defense Ministry said its air defense systems destroyed 42 Ukrainian drones in five Russian regions overnight Sunday.
- Russian forces have captured two villages in Ukraine, one in the Kharkiv region in the northeast and one in the eastern Donetsk region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
- A Ukrainian army general said Sontsivka, a village in the east, had been in the sector under 26 Russian attacks in the past 24 hours. The General Staff also reported heavy fighting near Pokrovsk, with 34 attempts being made to break through the Russian defense forces.
- Ukraine’s parliamentary commissioner for human rights Dmytro Lubinets said Russian forces executed five unarmed Ukrainian POWs on Sunday.
- The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has named Colonel General Alexei Kim, the deputy chief of the General Staff of Russia, as one of those suspected of ordering a missile attack on a hotel in eastern Ukraine in August. The SBU said it acted “with the aim of deliberately killing employees” of the Reuters news agency.
Diplomacy and Security
- Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised retaliation after Ukrainian drones attacked residential buildings in the city of Kazan in Russia’s Tatarstan region.
- Putin met Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico in the Kremlin on Sunday, a rare visit by an EU leader to Moscow, as a contract allowing Russian gas to transit through Ukraine neared its expiration.
- South Korea says North Korea is preparing to deploy additional troops and weapons to assist Russia in a full-scale war against Ukraine, Yonhap news agency reports.
- US President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday said Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed a desire to meet with him “as soon as possible” to discuss the war in Ukraine.
