Russia-Ukraine War: List of Major Events, Day 1,015

These are the key developments on the 1,015th day of the Russia-Ukraine war.

Here’s the situation as of Thursday, December 5:

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Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said a Ukrainian drone attack on Grozny damaged the compound of a special police unit fighting in Ukraine and also injured civilians, the second attack on Russian territory in the North Caucasus.
United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that Ukraine needs to recruit younger people into its military to succeed in its war against Russia.
A Russian government minister has documented that 48,000 relatives of Russian soldiers have submitted DNA samples, citing efforts to identify dead Russian soldiers from their remains in a sensitive debate.
Ukraine’s security service said a 16-year-old girl was arrested on suspicion of helping Moscow launch an airstrike on the northern Chernihiv region.

Ukraine has dismissed as “baseless” Russia’s suggestion that Syria is involved in the conflict after Moscow’s UN ambassador accused Kyiv of aiding rebels fighting the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Advisers to incoming US President-elect Donald Trump have publicly and privately floated proposals to end Russia’s war on Ukraine, including ceding large parts of the country to Moscow for the foreseeable future and taking Ukraine’s NATO membership off the table.
The collapse of France’s government on Wednesday and the country’s failure to pass a budget could make it difficult for President Emmanuel Macron to step up its support for Ukraine despite repeated promises.
A Ukrainian delegation has met with senior representatives of President-elect Trump, a source familiar with the meeting said, as Ukraine seeks support from the incoming US administration in its war against Russia.

Germany’s conservative candidate for chancellor, Friedrich Merz, lashed out at the country’s foreign minister, Annalena Baerbach, after suggesting Germany could send troops to Ukraine to keep the peace.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrived in Malta for a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), state news agency TASS reported, marking the first visit by a Russian minister to a European Union member state since the start of the war with Moscow. In Ukraine.
After the right-wing outsider’s victory in the country’s first round of presidential voting, the US warned of “serious negative consequences” if Romania moved away from the West, paving the way for a run-off. Calin Georgescu, a 62-year-old opponent and admirer of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has sparked fears in the West that he could signal a change in the foreign policy of the NATO member on the border with Ukraine.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said the military alliance had agreed to “proactive measures” to counter Russia’s campaign of hybrid attacks against its members.
Rutte accused Russia of supporting North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs in exchange for troops and weapons to fight in Ukraine.
Hungary’s foreign minister said there was “no consensus” on the prospect of a meeting of his counterparts in NATO member states in Brussels inviting Ukraine to join the transatlantic military alliance.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized the harsh crackdown on protesters in Georgia and accused the country’s leadership of bowing to Moscow.

A top US military official, Air Force Gen. CQ Brown, spoke by phone with Russian Chief of Staff Gen. Valery Gerasimov last week, the US military said, marking the first time Brown spoke with his Russian counterpart and where they “discussed a number of global and regional security issues, including the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.” problems.
The crew of a Russian ship fired signal munitions at a German military helicopter during a reconnaissance mission in the Baltic Sea. Germany’s Foreign Minister Baerbach said ships in the Baltic Sea are usually there to avoid sanctions imposed because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Pyongyang’s state-controlled news agency KCNA reported that the comprehensive strategic partnership agreement between North Korea and Russia has come into force. The formalization of the deal comes as the US and South Korea accuse North Korea of sending more than 10,000 troops to help Russia fight Ukraine.

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The world stands at the dawn of a “third nuclear age” in which the UK is threatened by multiple dilemmas, the head of the country’s armed forces has warned. However, Admiral Tony Radakin said there was only a “remote chance” Russia would attack or invade the UK directly if the two countries were at war.

The new head of the UN humanitarian aid agency says it is “ruthless” when it prioritizes how to spend money, acknowledging challenges in fundraising for programs helping civilians in war zones such as Gaza, Sudan, Syria and Ukraine.
A representative of the Ukrainian government urged nations globally to help repatriate Ukrainian children who have been taken to Russia since the start of Moscow’s war.
Ukraine’s Zelenskyy was hosted by Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Burset in Kyiv. After their meeting, Zelenskyy posted on X that the pair discussed the need to establish a tribunal to try crimes of Russian aggression against Ukraine.