As the war enters its 676th day, these are the primary advancements.
Here is the circumstance on Sunday, December 31, 2023.
Combating
- Russia stated a minimum of 21 individuals, consisting of 3 kids, were eliminated and lots more hurt after an attack Moscow blamed on Kyiv struck a suburb of Belgorod near the border with Ukraine.
- Ukraine stated a minimum of 21 individuals were hurt after Russia fired 2 S-300 surface-to-surface rockets at the northeastern town of Kharkiv, hours after the Belgorod attack. The Kharkiv local chief district attorney stated the rockets originated from the instructions of Belgorod, about 30km (19 miles) from the Ukrainian border.
- The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that 10 Iranian-made Shahed drones had actually been shot down throughout Ukraine’s Kherson, Khmelnytskyi, and Mykolaiv areas. Kyiv’s military administration stated air defence systems in the area surrounding the capital fended off a brand-new Russian barrage late on Saturday night.
- The Polish Army stated it ended a ground search after discovering no parts of a believed Russian rocket that it stated had actually broken the nation’s airspace on Friday early morning. Poland earlier summoned the Russian charge d’affaires and required a description for the breach of its airspace.
Politics and diplomacy
- Russia drew sharp criticism at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) for its substantial air attack on Ukraine on Friday that harmed a maternity health center, home blocks and schools and eliminated a minimum of 41 individuals. Kyiv and its allies required an immediate conference of the 15-member body to resolve the strikes. Russia likewise required the UNSC to assemble on Saturday following the Belgorod attack, which it referred to as “a terrorist attack by the Kyiv routine versus a civilian city”.
- United States President Joe Biden stated Russia’s rocket attack was a “plain pointer” that Russian President Vladimir Putin stayed dedicated to ruining Ukraine which “he need to be stopped”. Biden advised Congress to “step up” and back continued financing for Ukraine amidst opposition from conservative Republicans.
- Ukraine’s Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov stated the nation had actually exported about 13 million tonnes of freight on some 400 ships given that developing a secured maritime passage in August, after Moscow deserted the Black Sea grain offer brokered by the UN and Turkey that had actually formerly permitted safe passage for Ukraine’s exports.
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Al Jazeera and news firms