Russia-Ukraine War: List Of Key Events, Day 1,027 | Russia-Ukraine War News

These are the key events on day 1,027 of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Here is the situation on Tuesday, December 17:

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post on at least 30 North Korean soldiers.
Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters that a U.S. assessment found that “North Korean soldiers have engaged in combat at Kursk” and that the U.S. has “indications that they have suffered casualties, both dead and injured”.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov referred questions about North Korean casualties to the Russian Defense Ministry, which had no immediate comment, the Associated Press news agency reported.
Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov claimed that Russian forces had seized a total of almost 4,500 square kilometers (1,737 square miles) of Ukrainian territory this year and were now capturing about 30 square kilometers (11.5 square miles). of territory every day.

Humanitarian situation

The United Nations humanitarian agency, OCHA, reports that almost 12,000 residents remaining in the Ukrainian cities of Pokrovsk, Kurakhove and Chasiv Yar – located a few kilometers from the front line – face shortages of safe drinking water and gas. frigid winter temperatures after Local utility operators suspended their services.

Russia’s U.N. ambassador, Vassily Nebenzia, told the U.N. Security Council that a plan to audit U.S. funding for kyiv by President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to head the FBI, Kash Patel, “means trouble for Ukrainian leaders.
The European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council adopted its 15th package of sanctions against Russia, with the new round of sanctions targeting North Korean officials and, for the first time, Chinese companies that make drones for Moscow.
The EU sanctions also targeted 52 ships that are part of a vast “shadow fleet” that Moscow allegedly uses to transport stolen Ukrainian oil, gas and grain.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the head of Zelenskyy’s office, said sanctions against the Russian oil fleet were “useful” but “too late” as two Russian tankers spilled thousands of tons of fuel oil into the Azov and Black Seas after be damaged in rough seas.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said in a Telegram post that Ukraine’s deal to allow Russian gas transit through its country to European customers “will not be extended” when it ends on Jan. 1, 2025.
A former FBI informant has pleaded guilty to lying about an alleged bribery scheme involving US President Joe Biden, his son Hunter and the Ukrainian energy company Burisma.