Overview
- Ukraine’s national security chief Rustem Umerov said negotiators have agreed on roughly 90% of a U.S.-backed peace framework after meetings in Kyiv with European, EU and NATO representatives and U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff.
- Umerov outlined a schedule with military chiefs meeting in Paris on January 5 and a leaders’ session targeted for January 6 to advance security-guarantee documents and related political‑military points.
- Overnight Russian strikes in the Kyiv region killed two people, while officials reported one death in Russia’s Belgorod from a drone hitting a car, a higher death toll from earlier missile strikes in Kharkiv, and Russian claims that air defenses downed 66 Ukrainian drones.
- President Trump said he does not believe Moscow’s allegation that Ukraine targeted a Putin residence with 91 drones, a claim Kyiv rejects and that U.S. intelligence has viewed skeptically.
- President Zelensky proposed appointing military intelligence chief Kirill Budanov to lead the Presidential Office in place of Andri Yermak to tighten security and defense coordination during the push for a deal.