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Monday, 08 December 2025, 04:39
A country that kills sailors and destroys infrastructure cannot be allowed to set global safety standards as a member of the International Maritime Organization’s council.
As a result of today’s strikes by Russian forces on Pavlohrad and Nikopol district of Dnipropetrovsk region, 11 people have been injured.
Moscow authorities claimed that throughout Monday the Russian capital was targeted in an attempted drone attack.
In Ternopil, investigators together with forensic experts and canine units are searching for the remains of people missing after a Russian attack, combing through the rubble of destroyed buildings.
On Wednesday morning, the European Parliament will hold key debates with statements from the European Council and the European Commission, as well as a vote on a resolution regarding the proposed plan and the EU’s role in achieving a just and lasting peace for Ukraine.
Throughout the day in Kherson region, three people have been killed and three more injured as a result of Russian shelling, including an underage boy.
The chairs of the parliamentary foreign affairs committees from 20 European countries have declared their support for a just and lasting peace based on international law and full respect for Ukraine’s territorial integrity, independence, and sovereignty.
Stopping Russia’s leader Putin and forcing him to end the war could be done by China and the United States, but the former is not interested in doing so, while the latter does not want to act decisively.
A 9-year-old child was wounded in the Velyka Chernechchyna subdistrict of the Sumy region as a result of a Russian attack.
In the village of Bilozerka in the Kherson region, a Russian drone killed an elderly man.
An explosion was just heard in Zaporizhzhia. Residents of several districts of the city witnessed it.
Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said that Russian President Vladimir Putin must be forced to sit at the negotiating table in order to end the war in Ukraine.
The number of people wounded as a result of an enemy strike on an enterprise in Chernihiv has increased to four.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that tomorrow, at a virtual meeting of the Coalition of the Willing, the progress of negotiations between Ukraine and the US in Geneva would be discussed.
Chinese exporters are increasing prices for Russian military-industrial buyers as Western sanctions restrict imports from other countries.
Turkey will continue to make efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war with a just and lasting peace and is ready to support all diplomatic initiatives that facilitate direct contacts between the parties.
Russian troops launched an air strike on Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region, damaging civilian infrastructure.
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomes the significant progress achieved yesterday in Geneva at the negotiations between the US and Ukraine.
A fire broke out in Sumy after an explosion, and some areas of the city are reported to be without power.
European Council President Antonio Costa and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen noted substantial progress in the Geneva talks on establishing peace in Ukraine.
Employees of the State Bureau of Investigation, with support from the National Police, have served notices of suspicion to three officials of the South-Western Interregional Directorate of the State Labor Service and the head of a private company who were extorting money from entrepreneurs.
Finland's Prime Minister Petteri Orpo has invited the leaders of seven EU member states to an Eastern Flank summit in Helsinki on December 16 to discuss defense readiness and threats to European security, especially on the EU's eastern border.
In the Lyman sector, Russian invaders are storming without any armor, armed only with automatic weapons.
Lithuania's Minister of Foreign Affairs Kestutis Budrys said that the European Union must urgently take action on the use of frozen Russian assets in order to secure a place at the table for peace negotiations on Ukraine.
The Russian military struck Pavlohrad in the Dnipropetrovsk region with UAVs, resulting in three people being wounded and an enterprise being damaged.
In Chernihiv, a Russian Shahed-type UAV fell on the territory of a private business, injuring three people.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha held telephone talks with his counterparts from Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Finland, Italy, and Poland to coordinate positions following yesterday’s meeting between the Ukrainian and U.S. delegations in Geneva.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the U.S.–Ukraine talks held in Geneva on Sunday, stated that Russia had not officially received any peace plans for resolving the conflict in Ukraine.
The Polish prosecutor’s office has charged Ukrainian citizen Volodymyr B. with aiding and abetting sabotage on railway infrastructure on November 15–16 in the interests of Russian intelligence.