These are the main developments since day 1,392 of Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Here’s what it looked like on Wednesday, December 17:

struggle

• Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko said explosions were heard in the Ukrainian capital and warned people to stay in shelters late Tuesday night as air defense systems worked to repel them Russian attack.
• Russian forces launched a “massive” drone attack in Ukraine’s Sumy region, targeting energy infrastructure and causing power outages, Ukrainian governor Oleh Hryhorov said on Telegram late on Tuesday.
• Ukraine’s Deputy Energy Minister Mykola Kolisnik said power outages also occurred in the Donetsk region.
• Russian attacks on substations and other energy infrastructure left 280,000 households in Ukraine’s Odessa region without power, Governor Oleh Kiper wrote on Telegram.
• Power has since been restored to 220,000 homes, but significant work is still needed to repair the damaged network, Kiper said.

• The Russian-occupied Zaporozhye nuclear power plant in Ukraine is currently powered by only one of two external power lines, with the facility’s Russian management saying the other line had been cut due to military activity.

• The Russian Defense Ministry said Russian forces shot down 180 Ukrainian drones in one day, the state-run TASS news agency reported.
• Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik told TASS that 14 Russian civilians have been killed and nearly 70 injured in attacks in Ukraine over the past week, including in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian regions of Kherson and Zaporozhye.

ceasefire talks

• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz shares potential details european led multinational force considered as part of discussions on security assurances in Ukraine.
• “We will ensure the establishment of a demilitarized zone between the warring parties and, specifically, we will also take action against corresponding Russian incursions and attacks,” Merz told German public broadcaster 2, adding that “we are not there yet” in the talks.

regional security

• “Russia poses the most significant, immediate and long-term threat to our security and to peace and stability in the Euro-Atlantic region,” Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Sweden said in a joint statement on Tuesday.
• After the East Wing Summit in Helsinki, Finland, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the group of European countries discussed a “counter-drone wall” that would require “billions of dollars spent here.”
• Germany has stopped deploying Patriot systems and soldiers from the Air and Missile Defense Task Force to Poland after the mission ended as planned, the Federal Ministry of Defense said.
• British Defense Minister John Healey told a virtual meeting of the Ukraine Defense Liaison Group that Britain will spend 600 million pounds (more than $800 million) to buy “thousands of air defense systems, missiles and automatic turrets for shooting down drones” for Ukraine, Kyiv independent news media reported.
• German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius told the same meeting that Germany would “transfer a large number of AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles to Ukraine next year.”

compensation

• Leaders of 34 European countries signed an agreement in The Hague to establish Ukrainian International Claims Commission Seeking compensation for hundreds of billions of dollars in damage caused by Russian attacks.
• “Every Russian war crime must have consequences for its perpetrators,” Ukrainian President Zelensky said before signing the agreement.
• “The goal is to get a valid claim that will ultimately be paid by Russia. It really has to be paid by Russia,” Dutch Foreign Minister David van Weel said.