Russia-Ukraine War: List of Key Events, Day 1022 | News of the war between Russia and Ukraine

This is the situation on Thursday, December 12:

military

• Ukrainian officials said the death toll from a Russian missile attack on the southern city of Zaporizhzhia on tuesday he had gone up at nine o’clock.
• Ukraine’s general staff says it hit an oil tank in western Russia that feeds a key pipeline for Russian military supplies in an overnight attack that caused a “massive fire” at the facility from the Bryansk region.
• Bryansk Governor Alexander Bogomaz acknowledged that a production facility had caught fire after a drone strike, but said there were no casualties and the fire was out.
• The Russian military said it retook two villages in the western Kursk region, where Kiev has been waging a cross-border offensive since August.
• Russia’s Defense Ministry said Ukraine fired six Western-supplied troops ATACMS missiles at a military airfield in the port city of Taganrog, in its southern Rostov region.
• Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh told reporters that a US “intelligence assessment” found that “it is possible that Russia could use (an) Oreshnik missile in the coming days,” after a US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that “Russia has indicated its intention to launch another experimental Oreshnik missile in Ukraine”.
• Videos posted on social media show that a law passed in April to boost military conscription in Ukraine is facing growing resistance while some Ukrainian war veterans they say they feel rejected and forgotten.

Politics and diplomacy

• Russia’s Foreign Ministry said a $20 billion US loan to Ukraine, backed by frozen Russian assets, was a “banal theft” that “will not go unanswered”. The loan is part of a $50 billion G7 support package announced in October.
• Ukraine denied discussing with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban a Christmas ceasefire and a prisoner swap deal with Russia.
• Russia warned its citizens against traveling to the United States and other Western countries, claiming they could be “hunted down” by authorities amid worsening relations between Moscow and the West.
• Austrian oil and gas firm OMV announced it had ended its contract with Russian energy giant Gazprom, which had previously stopped supplying gas to Austria. Some European countries they remain highly dependent on Russian gaschanneled through Ukraine, although the war has seen them cut back on imports.