Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,386 | Russia-Ukraine war News

These are the important thing developments from day 1,386 of Russia’s battle on Ukraine.

Right here’s the place issues stand on Thursday, December 11:

Combating

• Ukrainian sea drones hit and disabled a tanker concerned in buying and selling Russian oil because it sailed via Ukraine’s unique financial zone within the Black Sea to the Russian port of Novorossiysk, a Safety Service of Ukraine (SBU) official stated.
• The Dashan tanker was crusing at most velocity with its transponders off when highly effective explosions hit its stern, inflicting important injury on the vessel, the SBU official stated. No info was accessible on attainable casualties from the assault.
• The assault marks the third sea drone strike in two weeks on vessels which can be a part of Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet” – unregulated ships which Kyiv says are serving to Moscow export massive portions of oil and fund its battle in Ukraine regardless of Western sanctions.
• Three folks have been killed and two wounded by Ukrainian shelling of a hospital within the Russia-controlled a part of the Kherson area in Ukraine, a Russia-installed governor claimed on Telegram. All these killed and injured have been reportedly workers of the medical facility.
• Ukrainian forces are keeping off an unusually massive Russian mechanised assault contained in the strategic eastern city of Pokrovsk, Kyiv’s navy stated, together with “armoured autos, automobiles, and bikes”.
• Russian drones have hit the gasoline transport system in Ukraine’s southern Odesa area, a senior Ukrainian official stated, in an space which incorporates a number of pipelines carrying US liquefied pure gasoline to Ukraine from Greece.
• Russian air defences shot down two drones en path to Moscow, town’s Mayor Sergei Sobyanin stated.

Peace deal

• President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated Ukraine had agreed on key factors of a post-war reconstruction plan and an “financial doc” in talks with United States President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and BlackRock CEO Larry Fink.
• “The rules of the financial doc are fully clear, and we’re absolutely aligned with the American facet,” Zelenskyy stated. “An vital widespread precept is that for reconstruction to be of top quality and financial progress after this battle to be tangible, actual safety should be on the core. When there may be safety, every little thing else is there too,” he stated.
• Zelenskyy additionally stated work was continuing on the “elementary doc” of a US-backed 20-point plan aimed toward ending the battle. He stated two different related paperwork handled safety ensures and financial points.
• The leaders of Britain, France and Germany held a name with President Trump to debate Washington’s newest peace efforts to finish the battle in Ukraine, in what they stated was “a important second” within the course of.
• French President Emmanuel Macron stated Trump and the European leaders mentioned the right way to transfer ahead on “a topic that issues all of us”.
• There might be one other assembly on Thursday of the leaders of the so-called “coalition of the keen” group of countries backing Ukraine, stated the French presidency, including that this assembly could be held by way of videoconference.

Army support

• The US Home of Representatives has handed a large defence coverage invoice authorising a file $901bn in annual navy spending, together with $400m in navy help to Ukraine in every of the subsequent two years and different measures reinforcing the US dedication to Europe’s defence.

Politics and diplomacy

• Trump once more expressed concern that Ukraine had not had an election in a long time, placing extra strain on Zelenskyy to carry one.
• Zelenskyy stated he had mentioned with Ukraine’s parliament authorized and different points linked to the potential for holding an election throughout wartime, and urged different nations, together with the US, to not apply strain on the difficulty.
• Wartime elections are forbidden by regulation in Ukraine, however Zelenskyy, whose time period expired final 12 months, is going through renewed strain from Trump to carry a vote.

Regional safety

• Following a report from the top of Kyiv’s international intelligence service that Russia and China have been taking steps to accentuate cooperation, Zelenskyy stated there was a “rising development of the de-sovereignisation of elements of Russian territory in China’s favour”, primarily via Moscow’s sale of its “scarce assets” to Beijing.
• “We … notice that China is taking steps to accentuate cooperation with Russia, together with within the military-industrial sector,” Zelenskyy wrote on X.

A report from the Head of the Overseas Intelligence Service of Ukraine, Oleh Ivashchenko. There have been many particulars concerning the international coverage scenario surrounding Ukraine and the financial scenario in Russia – particularly, the dependence of its corporations and state system on… pic.twitter.com/xV5fvx6RvR

— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) December 10, 2025

Sanctions

• The US has prolonged a deadline for negotiations on shopping for the worldwide property of Russian oil firm Lukoil by just a little over a month to January 17. Trump imposed sanctions on Lukoil and Rosneft, Russia’s two largest vitality corporations, on October 22 as a part of an effort to strain Moscow over its battle in Ukraine, and Lukoil put its property up on the market shortly after.
• Russian prosecutors requested a Moscow courtroom to grab the property of US non-public fairness fund NCH Capital in Russia, the Kommersant newspaper stated, citing courtroom paperwork. Prosecutors accused the fund’s homeowners of financing Ukraine’s navy forces.
• European Union ambassadors have greenlit the bloc’s plan to phase out Russian gas imports by late 2027, three EU officers advised the Reuters information company, clearing one of many closing authorized hurdles earlier than the ban can go into regulation.