The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development EBRD has teamed up with insurance broker Aon to launch a program aimed at restoring the war risk insurance market in Ukraine, the bank announced on Dec. .

   The xA ;Supreme Court of the Netherlands xA ;has rejected an appeal by Russia to overturn a ruling requiring compensation for the illegal expropriation of Naftogaz Group’s assets in occupied Crimea, Ukraine’s state owned oil and gas company reported on Dec. .

   President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed on Dec. that Russia has begun deploying North Korean soldiers for assault operations in Kursk Oblast, with casualties already reported.

   A military facility in the Russian Siberian city of Novosibirsk burned down on Dec. , Andriy Kovalenko, the head of the Ukrainian Center for Countering Disinformation CCD at the National Security and Defense Council, wrote on Telegram the following day, posting a video of a massive fire.

   Ukrainian officials are pulling out all the stops to persuade U.S. President elect Donald Trump to back their cause in strengthening Ukraine x ;s position in its war with Russia, The New York Times reported on Dec. .

   NV highlights upcoming Ukrainian films set to premiere in theaters between December and February .

   An explosion occurred at the intersection of Stepan Bandera Street and Lesia Ukrainka Avenue in Dnipro, Suspilne Dnipro reported on Dec. .

   Explosions hit Odesa, reportedly from a Russian Iskander M ballistic missile, local Telegram channels and monitoring groups said on Dec. , adding that the threat of further ballistic strikes persists.

   President of Georgia Salome Zourabichvili addressed protesters in Tbilisi on Dec. , making her first statement regarding the presidential election results, which declared Mikheil Kavelashvili the winner, according to the Echo of the Caucasus.

   A Su fighter jet and three locomotives were destroyed in the city of Krymsk, in Russia x ;s Krasnodar Krai, Ukraine x ;s HUR said Dec. via Telegram.

   Mikheil Kavelashvili, a former soccer player and the sole candidate, has been elected president of Georgia by the country x ;s electoral college, Echo of the Caucasus reported on Dec. .

   South Korea x ;s parliament voted on Dec. to impeach President Yoon Suk yeol, with of lawmakers in favor, news outlet Yonhap reported.

   On the night of Dec. , Russia launched a drone attack on Ukraine, with fragments falling in Kyiv x ;s Darnytskyi district, while air defense forces neutralized about a dozen drones threatening the capital, according to Kyiv military administration head Serhiy Popko.

   NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte warned against publicly discussing the details of a potential Ukraine Russia peace deal in an interview with Voice of America on Dec. .

   U.S. President elect Donald Trump and his team have held talks with the White House and Ukrainian officials as part of a joint effort to find a way to end Russia x ;s war, NBC News reported Dec. , citing informed sources.

   Germany x ;s Foreign Ministry is considering bypassing Hungary x ;s veto to impose EU sanctions on Georgia x ;s pro Russian government, Spiegel reported on Dec. , citing sources.

   Russia x ;s recent series of strikes on Ukraine x ;s energy infrastructure is part of a broader campaign aimed at x C;freezing x D; Ukraine during the winter and pressuring the West into making political decisions favorable to the Kremlin, to the Institute for the Study of War ISW ...

   Kyiv is prepared to supply food to Syria following the fall of Assad’s regime, Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Vitaliy Koval said on Dec. .

   The commander of the Donetsk Operational Group, Oleksandr Lutsenko, has been dismissed following Russian forces x ; steady advance towards Pokrovsk, the Financial Times reported on Dec. .

   Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to meet with leaders of the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and other NATO and EU members in Brussels on Dec. to discuss continued Western military aid to Kyiv, Reuters reported on Dec. .

   Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto expressed the country’s willingness to join a potential international peacekeeping mission in post war Ukraine on Dec. , only to be contradicted by Italy x ;s Foreign Ministry.

   The Russo Ukrainian war could end in the coming months, Keith Kellogg, recently tapped to be the U.S. special envoy on Ukraine, said on Dec. .

   A Ukrainian soldier from the Halych Volyn Radio Technical Brigade successfully shot down a Russian cruise missile using a man portable Igla surface to air missile, the press service of the Ukrainian Air Force reported on Telegram on Dec. .

   Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs displayed photos of downed Russian Shahed strike drones used in an attempted attack on Ukraine on Dec. .

   The Khortytsia Operational Strategic Troop Grouping has addressed reports of a potential encirclement of Ukrainian defense units near Uspenivka in Donetsk Oblast in a Telegram post on Dec. .

   The Ukrainian Air Force released a video showing air defense operations during Russia’s massive missile and drone attack on Dec. .

   Russia is considering another strike on Ukraine using the Oreshnik missile as soon as this weekend, the Financial Times reported on Dec. , citing an anonymous U.S. National Security Council representative.

   A critical infrastructure facility in Ternopil Oblast was damaged in a Russian missile attack, Stepan Kuybida, first deputy head of the regional military administration, said in a comment to Suspilne on Dec. .

   Rescuers in Ternopil and Ivano Frankivsk oblasts cleared the aftermath of Russian attacks during a massive shelling of Ukraine on Dec. .

   The massive missile strike on Ukraine x ;s fuel and energy infrastructure was a response to Ukraine’s attack on a military airfield in Taganrog, Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed on Dec. .

   The company is expected to be unprofitable in , said Oleksandr Pertsovskyi, chairman of the board of Ukrainian Railways Ukrzaliznytsia, Interfax Ukraine reported on Dec. .

   Russian invaders attacked six energy infrastructure facilities during a massive attack on Ukraine, Andrii Godyk, First Deputy Head of the Lviv Regional State Administration, said during a telethon on the United News channel on Dec. .

   Five of Ukraine x ;s nine nuclear reactors reduced their power output following Russia x ;s massive attack on Ukraine x ;s energy infrastructure, International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA wrote on X on Dec. .

   Gas prices for Russians have increased by over a third since the start of the war as the Russian government sharply raises tariffs to compensate for Gazprom’s budget shortfalls, The Moscow Times reported on Telegram on Dec. .

   Ukrainian border guards repelled an attack by a Russian sabotage group in Kharkiv, a border official said Dec. .

   Ukrainian forces have regained lost positions near Svatove, while Russian troops have made advances in the Kursk and Donetsk oblasts, according to the Dec. report of the U.S. based Institute for the Study of War ISW .

   A massive Russian missile and drone attack damaged energy facilities across several Ukrainian oblasts, marking the th large scale strike on the energy system this year, Ukrenergo reported on Dec. .

   The aggressor state Russia launched a massive strike on DTEK x ;s thermal power plants, resulting in significant equipment damage, the energy company wrote on Telegram on Dec. .

   French President Emmanuel Macron praised Warsaw x ;s role in supporting Ukraine after meeting with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, highlighting the importance of continued European cooperation for peace and security in a post on X on Dec. .

   Russia has unleashed a barrage of ballistic missiles on Ukraine, U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink wrote on X early Dec. .