Russia-Ukraine War: List of key events, day 1,015 | News

These were the key events on the 1,015th day of the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Here is the situation on Thursday, December 5:

Fighting

• Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said a Ukrainian drone attack in Grozny damaged a special police unit fighting in Ukraine and injured civilians, the second such attack in Russia's North Caucasus region.
• Ukraine needs to recruit young people to fight against Russia, says US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
• A Russian government minister has been recorded saying that 48,000 relatives of Russian soldiers have submitted DNA samples, in a sensitive interview apparently about efforts to identify dead Russian soldiers from their bodies.
• Ukraine's security forces say they have arrested a 16-year-old girl accused of helping Moscow plan an air strike in the northern region of Chernihiv.

Diplomacy

• Ukraine has dismissed as “groundless” Russia's suggestion that it is involved in the Syrian conflict after the United Nations ambassador in Moscow accused Kyiv of aiding rebels fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
• Advisors to US President-elect Donald Trump are publicly and privately floating proposals to end Russia's war in Ukraine, including handing over large swaths of the country to Moscow for the foreseeable future and taking Ukraine's NATO membership off the table.
• The collapse of the French government on Wednesday and the country's failure to pass a budget could make it difficult for Paris to strengthen its support for Ukraine despite President Emmanuel Macron's repeated pledges to help Kyiv as long as necessary.
• A Ukrainian delegation met with senior representatives of President-elect Trump, a source familiar with the meeting said, as Ukraine seeks support from the US administration in its war with Russia.

• Friedrich Merz, Germany's chancellor-designate, has criticized the country's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock for her comments suggesting Germany could send troops to Ukraine to keep the peace.
• Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Malta for a meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), TASS news agency reported, marking the first visit by a Russian minister to a European Union member state since the start of the war in Moscow. in Ukraine.
• The US has warned of “very serious consequences” if Romania turns its back on the West, after an outsider won the country's presidential vote in the first round, paving the way for a run-off. Calin Georgescu, a 62-year-old anti-vaxxer and admirer of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has raised fears in the West that he may herald a change in the foreign policy of bordering NATO member Ukraine.

Regional security

• NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said the military alliance had agreed on “strong measures” to counter Russia's campaign of joint attacks on its members.
• Rutte also accused Russia of supporting North Korea's nuclear weapons program by exchanging troops and weapons for fighting in Ukraine.
• Hungary's foreign minister said a meeting of his counterparts from NATO member states in Brussels produced “disagreements” over the possibility of inviting Ukraine to join the transatlantic military alliance.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the torture of protesters in Georgia and accused the country's leadership of bowing to Moscow.

• The head of the US military, General CQ Brown, spoke by phone with the Russian Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov last week, the US military said, the first time Brown spoke with his Russian counterpart and where they “discussed global and regional security issues including the ongoing conflict in Ukraine”.
• The crew of a Russian warship in the Baltic Sea fired bullets at a German military helicopter on a reconnaissance mission. German Foreign Minister Baerbock said that there are often ships in the Baltic Sea involved in evading sanctions imposed due to Russia's attack on Ukraine.
• A comprehensive strategic partnership agreement between North Korea and Russia has entered into force, Pyongyang's state-run KCNA news agency reported. The formalization of the agreement comes as the United States and South Korea have accused North Korea of ​​sending more than 10,000 troops to help Russia fight Ukraine.

• A multi-billion-dollar money laundering network run by two Russian billionaires and used by United Kingdom drug dealers to hide criminal proceeds has been brought down in brutal fashion around the world.
• The world is at the start of a “third nuclear age” in which the UK is threatened by multiple threats, the head of the military has warned. However, Admiral Tony Radakin said, it would only be a “remote possibility” that Russia would attack or invade the UK if the two countries were at war.

Humanitarian aid, human rights

• The new head of the UN aid agency says it will be “brutal” if it prioritizes how to spend money, acknowledging the challenges of raising funds for aid programs for civilians in war zones such as Gaza, Sudan, Syria and Ukraine.
• A representative of the Ukrainian government has appealed to nations around the world to help return Ukrainian children, who have been taken to Russia since the start of the war in Moscow.
• Ukraine's Zelenskyy hosted Council of Europe Secretary-General Alain Berset in Kyiv. After their meeting, Zelenskyy sent to X that the two discussed the need to establish a court to try the crimes of Russian aggression against Ukraine.