Overview
- Ukraine’s General Staff reported 237 combat clashes in a single day, including 56 airstrikes and 147 guided bombs, alongside extensive drone and artillery fire.
- Russian attacks on cities injured at least eight people in Kyiv and damaged multiple residential buildings across several districts, while two were killed and eight wounded in Kharkiv after guided bomb strikes.
- President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed a Dec. 28 meeting with President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago to refine the 20-point package covering security guarantees and economic agreements, with European leaders staying connected and aiming for January outcomes.
- Ukraine’s security service said it detained in Kyiv a 28-year-old suspect allegedly recruited by Russia’s FSB to assassinate a military intelligence officer, seizing a handgun and digital evidence.
- Accountability efforts advanced as authorities charged in absentia the head of Russia’s Kizel SIZO over torture and killings, including journalist Viktoriya Roshchyna, sent a Kupyansk torture case against 18 suspects to court, and secured pretrial detention for ex-Kharkiv SBU chief Roman Dudin.