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Here are the main developments on day 1,033 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Here is the situation Monday December 23:
Struggle:
- More than 1,000 North Korean troops have been killed or injured in the war between Russia and Ukraine, South Korea’s chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said Monday.
- The Russian Defense Ministry said its air defense systems destroyed 42 Ukrainian drones in five Russian regions overnight on Sunday.
- Russian forces have captured two villages in Ukraine, one in the northeastern Kharkiv region and one in the eastern Donetsk region, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
- Ukraine’s military general said the eastern village of Sontsivka was in an area subject to 26 Russian attacks in the past 24 hours. The headquarters also reported heavy fighting near Pokrovsk, with 34 Russian attempts to break through the defenses.
- Ukraine’s Parliamentary Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, said Russian forces executed five unarmed Ukrainian prisoners of war on Sunday.
- The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has named Colonel-General Alexei Kim, deputy chief of the Russian General Staff, as one of those suspected of ordering a missile strike on a hotel in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine in August. The SBU said it had acted “with the motive of murder employees of » Reuters news agency.
Diplomacy and security
- Russian President Vladimir Putin promised retaliation after Ukrainian drones struck residential buildings in the city of Kazan, in Russia’s Tatarstan region.
- Putin met Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico at the Kremlin on Sunday, a rare visit by a European Union leader to Moscow as the contract allowing the transit of Russian gas through Ukraine nears its expiration.
- South Korea says North Korea is preparing to deploy additional troops and weapons to help Russia in its full-scale war against Ukraine, Yonhap news agency reported.
- President-elect of the United States Donald Trump said on Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had expressed a wish to meet with him “as soon as possible” to discuss the war in Ukraine.
