Right here is the state of affairs on Thursday, December 12:
Navy
- Ukrainian officers mentioned that the loss of life toll from a Russian missile strike on the southern metropolis of Zaporizhzhia on Tuesday had climbed to 9.
- Ukraine’s navy common employees says it hit an oil depot in western Russia that fuels a key pipeline for Russian navy provides in an in a single day assault that induced a “huge hearth” on the facility within the Bryansk area.
- Bryansk Governor Alexander Bogomaz acknowledged a manufacturing facility had caught hearth after a drone assault, however mentioned there have been no casualties and that the fireplace was extinguished.
- Russia’s military mentioned it recaptured two villages within the western Kursk area, the place Kyiv has been waging a cross-border offensive since August.
- Russia’s Ministry of Defence mentioned that Ukraine fired six Western-supplied ATACMS missiles at a navy airfield within the port metropolis of Taganrog in its southern Rostov area.
- Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Sabrina Singh informed journalists a United States “intelligence evaluation” discovered “it’s potential that Russia may use [an] Oreshnik missile within the coming days”, after a US official, talking on situation of anonymity, mentioned “Russia has signalled its intent to launch one other experimental Oreshnik missile at Ukraine.”
- Movies posted on social media present {that a} legislation handed in April to spice up military conscription in Ukraine is going through rising resistance whereas some Ukrainian warfare veterans say they really feel snubbed and forgotten.
Politics and diplomacy
- Russia’s Overseas Ministry mentioned a $20bn mortgage from the US to Ukraine, backed by frozen Russian property, was “banal theft” that “is not going to go unanswered”. The mortgage is a part of a $50bn G7 assist bundle introduced in October.
- Ukraine denied having mentioned with Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban a Christmas ceasefire and prisoner trade take care of Russia.
- Russia warned its residents to not journey to the US and different Western international locations, claiming they may very well be “hunted” by the authorities amid worsening relations between Moscow and the West.
- Austrian oil and fuel agency OMV introduced it had ended its contract with Russian vitality big Gazprom, which had earlier stopped supplying Austria with fuel. Some European international locations stay extremely reliant on Russian fuel, funnelled by way of Ukraine, though the warfare has seen them scale back imports.
