These are the main developments since day 1,381 of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Here’s what it looked like on Saturday, December 6:

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• Two men, aged 52 and 67, were unloading firewood from a truck in the Ukrainian city of Izyum when they were attacked by a Russian drone, local officials said.
• Local officials said Russian troops also launched attacks in the Vasylkivska community in Ukraine’s Dnepropetrovsk region, killing a 12-year-old boy; they also launched attacks in the Kherson, Donetsk and Sumy regions, injuring more than a dozen Ukrainians.
• Ukraine’s state grid operator Ukrenergo announced in a post on Telegram that electricity restrictions would be implemented across the country starting Saturday due to “previous large-scale missile and drone attacks by Russia on energy facilities.”
• Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said a Ukrainian drone had hit and damaged a building in Grozny, the capital of Russia’s southern Chechnya region, and promised retaliation. He said the attack caused no casualties.
• A Ukrainian drone strike in Russia’s Belgorod region injured the chief of Berezovka village, while Ukraine attacked energy facilities in Russian-occupied Luhansk, causing a power outage, officials said.
• Ukraine’s HUR military intelligence agency claimed to have struck military targets in Russian-occupied Crimea, including a Su-24 tactical bomber, while the Ukrainian military said it carried out drone attacks on the Temluk seaport in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai and the Syzran oil refinery in the Samara region on Friday night.
• The Russian Defense Ministry said it shot down 41 Ukrainian drones on Friday night, Tass news agency reported.
• Russian investigators have charged a Ukrainian armed forces commander with terrorism in absentia over the death of journalist and Russia Channel 1 military correspondent Anna Prokofieva in March, Tass news agency reported.

Politics and Diplomacy

• U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkov held “productive” talks with top Ukrainian negotiator Rustem Umerov in Miami, Florida on Thursday, White House officials said on Friday. According to Reuters, White House officials said “progress has been made.” “They will reconvene later today after briefing their respective leaders.”
• Witkov met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow earlier this week, with the Kremlin’s top foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov describing the talks as “truly friendly” discussions.
• Ushakov also said that Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, as a U.S. negotiator, was working “frantically” to resolve the war between Russia and Ukraine, TASS reported.
• European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said they had “very constructive” talks with Belgian Prime Minister Bart de Wever on Friday about the EU’s plan to use Russia’s frozen assets to fund Ukraine, but Belgium has so far refused to support the plan.
• The NGO Save Ukraine said it repatriated 18 Ukrainian children aged 2 to 17 from the Russian-occupied zone in Ukraine’s Kherson region last week.
• The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said on Friday that arrest warrant Putin and five other Russians accused of war crimes in Ukraine will remain in office even if a full amnesty is granted during U.S.-led peace talks.
• Putin said Moscow was ready to provide “uninterrupted” fuel shipments to India. met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in New Delhi on Friday despite U.S. sanctions.
• Bulgarian maritime authorities, border police and navy are working to restore Sanctioned Russian oil tanker KairosThe vessel was rescued last week after being hit by a Ukrainian drone in Türkiye’s exclusive economic zone on the Black Sea, causing its crew to catch fire.