{"id":676815,"date":"2026-01-06T03:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/676815\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T03:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T03:24:12","slug":"ukraine-war-briefing-russian-strikes-kill-two-and-trigger-hospital-fire-ahead-of-paris-peace-talks-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/676815\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war briefing: Russian strikes kill two and trigger hospital fire ahead of Paris peace talks | Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    Russian strikes on Ukraine early on Monday killed two people and forced night-time evacuations into freezing temperatures, a day ahead of Ukrainian allies meeting in France<\/strong> to revive diplomatic efforts to stop the fighting. Donald Trump\u2019s envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner will attend the Paris meeting of the so-called \u201ccoalition of the willing\u201d on Tuesday \u2013 being hosted by French president Emmanuel Macron \u2013 to discuss security guarantees as part of a peace proposal<\/a>. Russia\u2019s overnight strikes triggered a fire at a private medical facility in Kyiv, killing one person and wounding three others, authorities said. \u201cDoctors and nurses were forced to evacuate the wounded under fire,\u201d Ukraine\u2019s prime minister, Yulia Svyrydenko, said on X. The attack also killed a man in his 70s in the neighbouring city of Fastiv, the Kyiv regional governor said.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    The strikes caused power outages in the area<\/strong>, with backup systems activated to maintain water and heating supplies, the official said, as temperatures dropped to -8C. Russia launched a total of 165 drones and at least nine missiles overnight, the Ukrainian air force said.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    European leaders are in Paris on Tuesday seeking a breakthrough<\/a> on a plan to end the fighting that Kyiv says is \u201c90%\u201d ready<\/strong>. \u201cThis week, we will be working with our European and American partners to ensure that Ukraine has the assistance it needs,\u201d Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday. To lay the groundwork, security advisers from 15 countries \u2013 including the UK, France and Germany as well as representatives from Nato and the European Union \u2013 gathered in Kyiv at the weekend.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    One person was killed and two were injured from a Ukrainian drone attack in Russia\u2019s Tver region<\/strong>, the regional governor\u2019s office said on Tuesday. Drone debris hit a ninth-floor apartment in Tver and sparked a fire that was later extinguished, while residents of neighbouring flats were evacuated, the office said on Telegram, citing the region\u2019s acting governor, Vitaly Korolev.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Russia launched five missile strikes on Ukraine\u2019s second-biggest city, Kharkiv, on Monday<\/strong>, damaging energy infrastructure, and attacked an enterprise owned by US agricultural producer Bunge in the south-eastern city of Dnipro, Ukrainian officials said. Ukrainian foreign minister Andrii Sybiha said the Dnipro attack \u2013 which caused a leak of sunflower oil \u2013 underscored that Russian forces were targeting US businesses, adding that Russian president Vladimir Putin had \u201ccomplete disregard\u201d for US-led efforts to end the war. There was no immediate comment on the strikes from Moscow. Kharkiv mayor Ihor Terekhov said the strikes were \u201cnot just an attack on facilities. It\u2019s an attack on heating, on water, on people\u2019s normal lives. They are trying to break us with fear and darkness.\u201d Kharkiv\u2019s regional prosecutors\u2019 office said at least one civilian was injured.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Zelenskyy has named Canada\u2019s former finance minister Chrystia Freeland as an adviser on economic development<\/strong>, a move he says will help strengthen the \u201cinternal resilience\u201d of the war-torn nation, report Leyland Cecco and Shaun Walker<\/a>. Freeland \u201chas extensive experience in attracting investment and implementing economic transformations\u201d, the Ukrainian president said on social media. The move comes amid a major government shake-up in Kyiv as Zelenskyy replaces several key figures.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    The spy chief who led Ukraine\u2019s most audacious behind-the-lines operations<\/a> in its war with Russia has been forced to resign under pressure from Zelenskyy<\/strong>. Vasyl Malyuk, who was awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine last year, reportedly fought to remain head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) but relented on Monday at a meeting with the president, reports Daniel Boffey<\/a>. Zelenskyy said Malyuk would be reassigned to overseeing unconventional warfare. \u201cThere must be more Ukrainian asymmetric operations against the occupier and the Russian state and more solid results in eliminating the enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Russia said on Monday it had seized the village of Grabovske in Ukraine\u2019s north-eastern Sumy region<\/strong>, from where Kyiv had last month accused Moscow of forcibly relocating dozens of residents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian strikes on Ukraine early on Monday killed two people and forced night-time evacuations into freezing temperatures, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[332],"class_list":{"0":"post-676815","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-russia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115846019047662289","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}