Overview
- Ukrainian security chief Rustem Umerov said Miami meetings with U.S. officials focused on four texts: a revised 20‑point plan, multilateral and bilateral security guarantees, and an economic recovery plan, with timelines discussed but no public agreement announced.
- Special envoy Steve Witkoff described the weekend session with the Russian delegation in Florida as productive and constructive, while Moscow signaled no imminent breakthrough and said its representative would brief the Kremlin before setting next steps.
- Overnight strikes damaged energy facilities in Odesa, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk and Zhytomyr regions, leaving many customers in Odesa without power as repairs continue and nationwide consumption limits and rolling outages remain in effect.
- The Institute for the Study of War assessed recent limited cross‑border attacks in Sumy and Kharkiv as information operations designed to influence negotiations, stating it sees no evidence of preparations for a major new northern offensive.
- U.S. forces detained the Panama‑flagged supertanker Centuries near Venezuela on December 20 under a campaign targeting shadow oil shipments, and Senator Lindsey Graham urged providing Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine and other punitive steps if Vladimir Putin rejects a deal.