Russia-Ukraine War: List of key events, day 1,038 | Russia-Ukraine war News

Here are the key developments on day 1,038 of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Here is the situation for Saturday, December 28:

Fighting:

• Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Saturday it had foiled a plot by Ukraine’s intelligence service to kill a high-ranking Russian official and a war blogger, Interfax news agency reported.
• Ukrainian troops have killed or wounded more than 1,000 North Korean soldiers sent by Russia to fight them, according to Ukraine and South Korea. “Their loss is great, very great. We see that neither the Russian military nor their North Korean proxies are interested in ensuring the survival of these North Koreans,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his late-night speech on Friday. A spokesman for the United States National Security Council, John Kirby, said a “wave” of North Korean soldiers were being killed in a “hopeless” attack on a general they believed could work.
• Russia’s Ministry of Defense said on Friday that its forces took control of two villages in eastern Ukraine, Ivanivka in Donetsk region and Zahryzove in Kharkiv region, RIA news agency reported.
• RIA also quoted the ministry as saying it had downed four British-made Storm Shadow missiles last week.
• A North Korean soldier, who was fighting for Russia, died in captivity in Ukraine due to serious injuries, according to South Korea’s intelligence service.
• Johannesburg – 13 out of 24 Russian planes shot down overnight, the air force said on Friday. The air force said another 11 Russian drones were “lost” without causing any damage.

Deals and diplomacy:

• US President Joe Biden’s administration has promised to authorize new military aid to Ukraine, including air defense systems. Kirby said the US security aid package was expected to be announced “in the next few days”.
• “If someone wants to organize peace talks in Slovakia, we will be ready and hospitable,” Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said in a Facebook post on Friday. He said this after Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that he is open to Slovakia’s proposal to host peace talks with Ukraine.
• Ukraine has received its first batch of liquefied natural gas from the US, a deal Kyiv says is key to improving Ukraine’s and Europe’s energy security as a major gas deal with Russia expires. “Dtek, Ukraine’s largest private energy company, today delivered its first cargo of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States,” the company said on Friday.

Oppose:

• A Russian court has sentenced Eduard Sharlot, 26, an artist who burned his passport in protest of Russia’s war in Ukraine, to five and a half years in prison, according to Russian news agencies. Charlotte was found guilty of “publicly insulting” the religious feelings of believers and “reviving Nazism” by the court of the Volga city of Samara in the case of the videos she published on the Internet, the state news agency RIA Novosti reported.