Overview
- Ukraine shot down 83 attack drones and two Iskander/KN‑23 ballistic missiles from a large overnight strike, though dozens of drones and one missile hit targets including energy sites in Poltava and Odesa regions.
- The IAEA reported that recent strikes disrupted the grid, prompting power reductions or temporary stops at several nuclear reactors and causing Zaporizhzhia’s 11th total loss of external power on 6 December.
- Ukraine’s security service said it detained two suspected GRU recruits accused of scouting thermal and hydro plants around the Kyiv region for future attacks.
- ECB President Christine Lagarde said the European Commission’s plan to mobilize up to €210 billion in frozen Russian assets is closest to international‑law compliance, as EU ministers meeting in Lviv pushed technical accession work despite Hungary’s veto.
- Bloomberg reported that Kyiv sent a revised peace plan to Washington, and the Wall Street Journal outlined U.S. recovery concepts leveraging frozen assets and private investment, while heavy fighting persisted near Pokrovsk and along southern fronts with Gulyaypole still under Ukrainian control.