{"id":6181,"date":"2025-12-22T02:11:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T02:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=6181"},"modified":"2025-12-22T02:11:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T02:11:47","slug":"russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-1397-russia-ukraine-war-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=6181","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,397 | Russia-Ukraine war News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"article__subhead\"><em>These are the key developments from day 1,397 of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-dates\">\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Published On 22 Dec 2025<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">22 Dec 2025<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-share\" data-testid=\"rich-share\">\n<div class=\"rich-share__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"rich-share__button-wrapper\"><button class=\"rich-share__button row\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><\/p>\n<p>Click here to share on social media<\/p>\n<p><svg class=\"icon icon--share2 icon--primary icon--16 \" viewbox=\"0 0 20 16\" version=\"1.1\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><title>share2<\/title><path fill=\"#000\" fill-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M11.688 9.048c-.659 0-1.252.282-1.673.733l-4.92-2.45c.016-.115.028-.232.028-.352 0-.117-.011-.23-.027-.343l4.913-2.423a2.285 2.285 0 0 0 1.68.739C12.964 4.952 14 3.899 14 2.6 14 1.302 12.965.25 11.688.25S9.377 1.302 9.377 2.601c0 .117.01.23.027.343L4.49 5.367a2.285 2.285 0 0 0-1.68-.739C1.536 4.628.5 5.681.5 6.979c0 1.299 1.035 2.35 2.312 2.35.659 0 1.252-.281 1.673-.731l4.92 2.45a2.357 2.357 0 0 0-.029.351c0 1.299 1.035 2.351 2.312 2.351S14 12.698 14 11.399s-1.035-2.35-2.312-2.35Z\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\"\/><\/svg><\/button><\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-share__social-text\">Share<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\">\n<p>Here is where things stand on Monday, December 22:<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"fighting\">Fighting<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>A Russian attack on Ukraine\u2019s Kharkiv region killed a 49-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman, according to Governor Oleh Syniehubov. The killings took place in the village of Izyum.<\/li>\n<li>Russian attacks also killed one person in Ukraine\u2019s Donetsk region, and one person in the southeastern Zaporizhia region, local officials reported.<\/li>\n<li>Russian forces have shelled the Zaporizhia region nearly 5,000 times over the past week, wounding 60 people and damaging hundreds of buildings, according to Governor Ivan Fedorov.<\/li>\n<li>Overall, Russian forces have launched about 1,300 drones, nearly 1,200 guided aerial bombs, and nine missiles towards Ukraine over the past week, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/li>\n<li>Ukraine\u2019s ombudsman, Dmytro Lubinets, accused Russian forces of \u201cillegally\u201d detaining about 50 residents of the village of Hrabovske in the Sumy region and \u201cforcibly deporting\u201d them to Russian territory.<\/li>\n<li>The Kyiv Independent, citing Ukrainian authorities, reported that wreckage from a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia damaged a pipeline in the Krasnodar Krai region.<\/li>\n<li>Russia\u2019s Ministry of Defence said its forces shot down 29 Ukrainian drones in the past 24-hour period.<\/li>\n<li>The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed that Russian forces shot down 252 drones over the Russian-occupied Donbas region, using the \u201cDonbas Dome electronic warfare system\u201d over the past week, the TASS news agency reported.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"politics-and-diplomacy\">Politics and diplomacy<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met with a Ukrainian delegation, led by senior official Rustem Umerov and European officials, as the US continued to host talks in Miami, Florida, on a prospective peace deal for Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine for a third day on Sunday.<\/li>\n<li>Witkoff said in a post on X late on Sunday that the talks with the Ukrainians and Europeans had been \u201cproductive and constructive\u201d and focused on a \u201cshared strategic approach between Ukraine, the United States and Europe\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>In a second post about two hours later, Witkoff said that the US had also had \u201cproductive and constructive meetings\u201d with Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev over the past two days.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cRussia remains fully committed to achieving peace in Ukraine [and] highly values the efforts and support of the United States to resolve the Ukrainian conflict and re-establish global security,\u201d Witkoff said.<\/li>\n<li>Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s top foreign policy aide, Yury Ushakov, said that changes made by European countries and Ukraine to the US\u2019s proposals for an end to Russia\u2019s war did not improve prospects for peace.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:22px\">\u201cI am sure that the proposals that the Europeans and Ukrainians have made or are trying to make definitely do not improve the document and do not improve the possibility of achieving long-term peace,\u201d Ushakov was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the Russian president was ready to talk with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, after the latter said Europe should reach out to Moscow to end the war.<\/li>\n<li>Macron\u2019s office welcomed the Russian statement, saying: \u201cIt is welcome that the Kremlin has publicly agreed to this approach. We will decide in the coming days on the best way to proceed.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>India\u2019s Ministry of External Affairs said that \u201c202 Indian nationals are believed to have been recruited into the Russian armed forces\u201d during Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine. It said Russian authorities had reported that 26 had been killed and seven were missing.<\/li>\n<li>Sweden\u2019s customs service said on Sunday that Swedish authorities boarded a Russian freighter that anchored in Swedish waters on Friday after developing engine problems, to inspect the cargo. The owners of the vessel, the Adler, are on the European Union\u2019s sanctions list, Martin Hoglund, spokesman at the customs authority, said.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cShortly after 0100 last night [00:00 GMT] we boarded the ship with support from the Swedish Coast Guard and the police service in order to make a customs inspection,\u201d Hoglund said. \u201cThe inspection is still ongoing.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the key developments from day 1,397 of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine. Published On 22 Dec 202522 Dec 2025 Click here to share on social media share2 Share Here is where things stand on Monday, December 22: Fighting A Russian attack on Ukraine\u2019s Kharkiv region killed a 49-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}