The Russo-Ukrainian War: List of major events, day 1032 | news

Here are the main developments on the 1,032nd day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

This is the situation on Sunday, December 22:

Fighting:

• eight Ukrainian drones Residential buildings were bombed in the Russian city of Kazan, more than 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) from the front line, taking the war deep into the heart of Russia. Local authorities said there were no casualties.
• Russia’s civil aviation authority Rosaviatsiya temporarily closed Kazan International Airport and canceled all major public events in the region as a precaution.
• Acting Governor RussiaAlexander Khinshtin, from the Kursk region, said that six people, including a child, were killed on Friday in a Ukrainian missile attack on the town of Rylsk. Ten others, including a 13-year-old boy, were slightly injured.
• Ukrainian officials said that Moscow sent 113 drones to Ukraine on Saturday night, and 57 of them were shot down. Another 56 aircraft were lost, most likely due to electronic jamming.
• The Russian Ministry of Defense announced that its forces took control of the village of Kostyantinopolsky, referred to as Ostrovsky by Russian authorities, amid an ongoing campaign to control the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine.
• The Ukrainian president said that a Russian raid on the Kherson region in the south of the country hit an oncology hospital Volodymyr Zelensky. There were no casualties while staff and patients took shelter.

Diplomacy and security

• Zelensky said he met with CIA Director William Burns in Ukraine, a rare public revelation of a meeting between the two men. He did not specify a date for the meeting, but he said it would be the last before Burns leaves office with Trump taking office.
• Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has announced that it has sentenced a man to 19 years in prison for passing information about Russian soldiers to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
• In response to the attack that killed six people in Kursk, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzia, told the Security Council that Moscow’s response to this targeted crime against peaceful Russian citizens will not take long.
• Zelensky said that Ukraine “will certainly continue to strike Russian military targets with drones and missiles.”