{"id":465824,"date":"2025-12-23T04:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T04:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/465824\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T04:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T04:16:13","slug":"ukraine-war-briefing-russian-forces-attack-odesa-twice-in-one-day-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/465824\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war briefing: Russian forces attack Odesa twice in one day | Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    Russian forces struck Ukraine\u2019s Black Sea port of Odesa<\/strong> late on Monday and damaged port facilities and a ship, the regional governor said, in the second attack on the region in less than 24 hours. Oleh Kiper said on Telegram that emergency crews were tackling the aftermath of the latest attack and that no casualties had been reported but provided no further details. An earlier overnight attack hit port and energy infrastructure in the Odesa region, causing a fire at a major port and disrupting electricity supplies to tens of thousands of people. \u201cRussia is attempting to disrupt maritime logistics by launching systematic attacks on port and energy infrastructure,\u201d deputy prime minister Oleksiy Kuleba said on Telegram.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    A Russian general was killed after an explosive device detonated beneath his car<\/strong> in what Moscow described as a likely assassination carried out by Ukrainian intelligence services, reports Pjotr Sauer<\/a>. Lt Gen Fanil Sarvarov, head of the operational training directorate of the Russian armed forces\u2019 general staff, died of his injuries, a spokesperson for Russia\u2019s investigative committee said. \u201cInvestigators are pursuing numerous lines of inquiry regarding the murder.\u201d Russian Telegram channels with links to the security services reported that Sarvarov\u2019s car exploded while driving along a Moscow street about 7am on Monday. Ukraine has not claimed responsibility for the attack.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Donald Trump has said talks to end the Ukraine war are going \u201cOK\u201d<\/strong>, a day after his envoy Steve Witkoff characterised US discussions with Ukrainian and European representatives in Florida as \u201cproductive and constructive\u201d<\/a>. \u201cThe talks are going along,\u201d Trump said at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Monday. \u201cWe are talking. It\u2019s going OK.\u201d Asked if he planned to speak to Volodymyr Zelenskyy or Vladimir Putin, Trump didn\u2019t say, offering only of the fighting: \u201cI\u2019d like to see it stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Zelenskyy said initial drafts of US proposals for a peace deal met many of Kyiv\u2019s demands<\/strong> but suggested neither side in the war was likely to get everything it wanted in talks on a settlement. \u201cOverall, it looks quite solid at this stage,\u201d the Ukrainian president said on Monday of the latest talks with US officials. \u201cThere are some things we are probably not ready for, and I\u2019m sure there are things the Russians are not ready for either.\u201d Trump has been pushing for a peace deal for months but has run into sharply conflicting demands from Moscow and Kyiv.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Moscow said parallel talks between Russia and the US in Miami at the weekend should not be seen as a breakthrough<\/strong>. \u201cThis is a working process,\u201d Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said when asked whether the talks could be seen as a turning point. The Izvestia news outlet cited him as saying in remarks published on Tuesday that discussions were expected to continue in a \u201cmeticulous\u201d format and that Russia\u2019s priority was to obtain from the US details of Washington\u2019s work with Europeans and Ukrainians on a possible settlement. He said Moscow would then judge how far those ideas matched what he called the \u201cspirit of Anchorage\u201d, after the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska<\/a> in August.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Zelenskyy has said residents of a border village taken into Russia by Moscow\u2019s troops had interacted with their neighbours for years<\/strong> without incident. The Ukrainian president on Monday confirmed media reports that residents of Hrabovske village \u2013 on the Sumy region\u2019s border and home to 52 people \u2013 were taken away by Russian troops. \u201cI think they simply didn\u2019t expect Russian troops to simply walk in and take them away as prisoners,\u201d Zelenskyy said. \u201cBut that\u2019s what happened.\u201d The Kremlin has not commented on the situation. The Ukrainian army has said it is battling an attempted Russian breakthrough<\/a> in the north-eastern Ukrainian region, where Russian forces have recently seized several villages near the border.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russian forces struck Ukraine\u2019s Black Sea port of Odesa late on Monday and damaged port facilities and a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":465825,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[50,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-465824","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115766950925593177","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}