{"id":641424,"date":"2025-12-19T02:58:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T02:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/641424\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T02:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T02:58:15","slug":"russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-1394-russia-ukraine-war-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/641424\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,394 | Russia-Ukraine war News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">These are the key developments from day 1,394 of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Published On 19 Dec 202519 Dec 2025<\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p>share2<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<p>Here is where things stand on Friday, December 19:<\/p>\n<p>Fighting<\/p>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>Three people, including two crew members of a cargo vessel, were killed in overnight Ukrainian drone attacks on the Russian port of Rostov-on-Don and the town of Bataysk in the country\u2019s southern Rostov region, local governor Yury Slyusar said.<\/li>\n<li>Russian strikes near Ukraine\u2019s Black Sea port of Odesa killed a woman in her car and hit infrastructure. Odesa\u2019s Governor Oleh Kiper said a Russian drone killed a woman crossing a bridge in her car, and three children were injured in the incident.<\/li>\n<li>Kiper also asked residents whose homes have been affected by extended power outages to be patient and to end blocking roads in protest against the blackouts.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAs a result of enemy attacks, the energy infrastructure in Odesa region has suffered extensive damage,\u201d Kiper said.<\/li>\n<li>About 180,000 consumers have been left without electricity across five Ukrainian regions after Russian attacks, Ukraine\u2019s acting energy minister, Artem Nekrasov, said.<\/li>\n<li>Nekrasov said the southern regions of Mykolaiv and Zaporizhia, the central regions of Cherkasy and Dnipropetrovsk, and the northeastern region of Sumy have been impacted.<\/li>\n<li>Russia has formed a military brigade equipped with Moscow\u2019s new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2024\/11\/22\/what-do-we-know-about-russias-new-ballistic-missile-oreshnik\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile<\/a>, Russian chief of the general staff, Valery Gerasimov, said.<\/li>\n<li>Russia fired the Oreshnik at Ukraine for the first time in November 2024, and Russian President Vladimir Putin has boasted that the missile is impossible to intercept and has destructive power comparable to that of a nuclear weapon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sanctions<\/p>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>European Union leaders have agreed in principle at a summit in Brussels to work on financing Ukraine in 2026 and 2027 through the use of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/12\/18\/eu-summit-on-knife-edge-over-plan-to-fund-ukraine-using-russian-assets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">frozen Russian assets<\/a> rather than EU borrowing, Poland\u2019s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.<\/li>\n<li>EU leaders were still trying to overcome differences over the plan, with talks in Brussels focused on seeking to reassure Belgium, which holds most of the frozen assets, and other concerned countries, that Europe would share the legal and financial risks resulting from the initiative.<\/li>\n<li>A new draft of the deal offered Belgium and other countries unlimited guarantees for damages should Moscow successfully sue them for using Russian assets to finance Ukraine.<\/li>\n<li>Diplomats said the deal could be a problem for some governments, who would need parliamentary approval. The new draft also offered EU countries and institutions, whose assets may be seized by Russia in retaliation, the possibility to offset such damages against Russian assets held by the EU.<\/li>\n<li>The text of the draft deal also offered a mechanism of unconditional, irrevocable, on-demand guarantees that the EU would swiftly repay the Russian central bank assets in all circumstances should the need arise.<\/li>\n<li>Russia\u2019s central bank has said it will extend legal action beyond its lawsuit against Belgium-based depository Euroclear and sue European banks in a Russian court over attempts the EU\u2019s plans to use frozen Russian assets as loans for Kyiv.<\/li>\n<li>Britain has imposed more sanctions targeting Russian oil companies, including 24 individuals and entities, in what it described as a move against Russia\u2019s largest remaining unsanctioned oil companies: Tatneft, Russneft, NNK-Oil and Rusneftegaz.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Peace talks<\/p>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>Ukrainian peace negotiators are en route to the United States and plan to meet Washington\u2019s negotiating team on Friday and Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.<\/li>\n<li>US President Donald Trump said he believes talks to end the war in Ukraine are \u201cgetting close to something\u201d as Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner plan to meet a Russian delegation in Miami this weekend.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Aid<\/p>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>The Ukraine-US reconstruction fund, established as part of a Trump-pushed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/5\/1\/what-is-in-the-us-ukraine-minerals-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">minerals deal<\/a> the two countries signed in April, has approved its asset policies and is poised to begin reviewing its first investment opportunities in 2026, the US body overseeing the fund said.<\/li>\n<li>The Development Finance Corporation (DFC) said the fund\u2019s second meeting \u201creached final consensus necessary to bring the fund to full operational status\u201d. Potential deals could focus on critical minerals extraction and energy development as well as on maritime infrastructure, the DFC said.<\/li>\n<li>Ukraine is facing a foreign aid shortfall of 45-50 billion euros ($53-$59bn) in 2026, President Zelenskyy said, adding that if Kyiv did not receive a first tranche of a loan secured by Russian assets by next spring, it would have to cut drone production.<\/li>\n<li>Ukraine has clinched a long-awaited deal to restructure $2.6bn of growth-linked debt, with creditors overwhelmingly accepting a bonds-and-cash swap offer \u2013 a key step for the country to emerge from the sovereign default it suffered in the wake of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion in 2022.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Politics and diplomacy<\/p>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>President Zelenskyy said he saw no need to change Ukraine\u2019s constitution enshrining its aim to become a NATO member state. A block on Ukraine joining the military alliance has been a core Russian demand to end its war.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTo be honest, I don\u2019t think we need to change our country\u2019s constitution,\u201d Zelenskyy said. \u201cCertainly not because of calls from the Russian Federation or anyone else,\u201d he said.<\/li>\n<li>Earlier this week, Zelenskyy said Ukraine could compromise on NATO membership if given bilateral security guarantees with protections similar to NATO\u2019s Article 5, which considers an attack on one member as an attack against all.<\/li>\n<li>Ukraine\u2019s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergiy Kyslytsya met Chinese foreign ministerial aide Liu Bin in Beijing, where the pair \u201cdiscussed ways to strengthen trade and economic cooperation, and issues of co-operation within international organisations\u201d, the Foreign Ministry said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Russian affairs<\/p>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>Sergei Yeremeyev, a Belarusian man accused by Russia of blowing up two trains in Siberia for Ukraine, has been jailed for 22 years. Yeremeyev was found guilty of carrying out an act of terrorism and of planting explosives on two freight trains in 2023.<\/li>\n<li>British man Hayden Davies, who fought for Ukraine against Russia, has been sentenced to 13 years in a maximum security prison camp after being convicted of being a paid mercenary, Russian prosecutors said. The 30-year-old was tried by a court in a part of Russian-controlled Donetsk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These are the key developments from day 1,394 of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine. 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