{"id":6810,"date":"2025-12-29T03:38:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T03:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=6810"},"modified":"2025-12-29T03:38:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T03:38:48","slug":"russia-ukraine-war-list-of-key-events-day-1404-russia-ukraine-war-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/?p=6810","title":{"rendered":"Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,404 | 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 1,404 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 29 Dec 2025<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">29 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 29:<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"diplomacy\">Diplomacy<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>United States President Donald Trump hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for talks at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida and said the two leaders were \u201cgetting a lot closer, maybe very close\u201d to a deal to end the war in Ukraine.<\/li>\n<li>Trump and Zelenskyy reported progress on two of the most contentious issues in the peace talks: security guarantees for Ukraine and the division of eastern Ukraine\u2019s Donbas region that Russia has sought to capture.<\/li>\n<li>On security guarantees, Zelenskyy said that a deal had been reached, while Trump said they were 95 percent of the way to such an agreement.<\/li>\n<li class=\"tr-story-p1\">Both Trump and Zelenskyy said that the future of the mostly Russian-occupied Donbas had not been settled, though the US president said discussions were \u201cmoving in the right direction\u201d. \u201cIt\u2019s unresolved, but it\u2019s getting a lot closer. That\u2019s a very tough issue,\u201d Trump said.<\/li>\n<li>The two leaders did not offer further details or a deadline for completing the deal, but Zelenskyy said any peace agreement would have to be approved by Ukraine\u2019s parliament or by a referendum.<\/li>\n<li>Shortly after the Trump-Zelenskyy meeting, Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s special envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, wrote on X that the \u201cwhole world appreciates\u201d Trump and his team\u2019s peace efforts.<\/li>\n<li>Ahead of the meeting with Zelenskyy, Trump and Putin spoke for more than two hours on the telephone. The US president described the call as \u201cexcellent\u201d and \u201cproductive\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Trump said he would call Putin again after the meeting with Zelenskyy.<\/li>\n<li class=\"tr-story-p1\">Kremlin foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov said the initial call was \u201cfriendly\u201d and that Putin had told Trump that a 60-day ceasefire, proposed by the European Union and Ukraine, would simply prolong the war.<\/li>\n<li>Ushakov said that a \u201cbold, responsible, political decision is needed from Kyiv\u201d on the Donbas region and other disputed matters for there to be a \u201ccomplete cessation\u201d of hostilities.<\/li>\n<li>European leaders, including those from Finland, France, Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom, joined at least part of the Trump-Zelenskyy meeting by phone.<\/li>\n<li>European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said in a statement that Europe was ready to keep working with Ukraine and the US, and that having ironclad security guarantees would be of \u201cparamount\u201d importance.<\/li>\n<li>French President Emmanuel Macron said that progress had been made on security guarantees at the meeting. Macron said that countries in the so-called \u201cCoalition of the Willing\u201d would meet in Paris in early January to finalise their \u201cconcrete contributions\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Zelenskyy said that Trump had agreed to host European leaders again, possibly at the White House, sometime in January. Trump said the meeting could be in Washington, DC, or \u201csomeplace\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Earlier on Sunday, Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov warned that any European troop contingents deployed to Ukraine would become legitimate targets for Russia\u2019s forces. Lavrov also accused European politicians of being driven by \u201cambitions\u201d in their relations with Kyiv, and disregarding the people of Ukraine and of their own nations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Fighting<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"spaced-bullet-spacing\">\n<li>Russian forces attacked a heating plant in the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, wounding one person and causing \u201csignificant damage\u201d to the facility, state oil and gas firm Naftogaz said.<\/li>\n<li>Ukraine\u2019s leading private energy provider, DTEK, said it had restored power to more than a million households in and around Kyiv a day after a massive Russian air attack had forced emergency outages.<\/li>\n<li>Ukraine\u2019s military said it had struck the Syzran oil refinery in Russia\u2019s Samara region in a drone attack. The strike caused a fire, and damages were still being assessed, the army said in a statement.<\/li>\n<li>The military also said that only part of the southeastern town of Huliaipole was under Russian control, contradicting an earlier claim by Moscow that it had been captured. It added that fighting was also still under way for Stepnohirsk, another town in the southeastern Zaporizhia region that Russia claimed it had captured.<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile, Russia\u2019s Ministry of Defence said in a statement that its troops had taken control of four other settlements in the Donetsk region. It identified them as Myrnohrad, Artemivka, Rodynske and Vilne.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These are the key developments from day 1,404 of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine. 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