Key developments on the 1,038th day since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine include:
This is the situation on Saturday, December 28th.
Finding:
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced on Saturday that it had foiled a plot by Ukrainian intelligence to kill a senior Russian official and a war blogger, Interfax news agency reported. According to Ukraine and South Korea, Ukrainian forces killed or wounded more than 1,000 North Korean soldiers sent by Russia to fight. “Their losses are significant, very significant. We see that neither the Russian military nor the North Korean supervisors have any interest in ensuring the survival of these North Koreans,” Ukraine’s Volodymyr said.・President Zelenskiy said in a speech on Friday night. Meanwhile, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the “desperate” attack by generals who viewed North Korea’s military as expendable had resulted in a “sea of people” being sent in and killed. He said there was. Russia’s Ministry of Defense announced on Friday that Russian troops had captured two villages in eastern Ukraine: Ivanivka in the Donetsk region and Zakhrizhove in the Kharkov region, state news agency RIA reported. The RIA also cited the ministry as claiming to have shot down four British-made Storm Shadow missiles in the past week. A North Korean soldier fighting for Russia has died of severe injuries in Ukrainian captivity, according to South Korean intelligence. Ukraine’s air defense forces shot down 13 of 24 Russian drones launched in night attacks, the air force said on Friday. The Air Force said 11 other Russian drones were “lost” without damage.
Trading and diplomacy:
US President Joe Biden’s administration has promised to approve new military aid to Ukraine, including air defense systems. Mr Kirby said a US security assistance package was expected to be announced “in the coming days”. “If anyone wants to organize peace talks in Slovakia, we will be ready and hospitable,” Slovak Prime Minister Roberto Fico said in a Facebook post late Friday. His remarks came after Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said he was open to Slovakia’s offer to host peace talks with Ukraine. Ukraine received the first batch of liquefied natural gas from the United States. Kyiv says the deal is key to boosting energy security for Ukraine and Europe as a major gas transit deal with Russia comes to an end. “Dtek, Ukraine’s largest private energy company, today received its first cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States,” the company announced on Friday.
Opposing opinion:
According to Russian News Agency, a Russian court has sentenced singer Eduard Charlotte (26) to five and a half years in prison for burning his passport in protest of Russia’s war in Ukraine. State news agency RIA Novosti reported that Charlotte was sentenced by a court in the city of Samara, Volga region, in a lawsuit over a video she posted online that “publicly insulted” the religious feelings of believers and “rehabilitated Nazism.” He was found guilty of the crime.
