Russo-Ukrainian war main facts

  • 16 December 2022

  • The first shipment of energy repair equipment from the USA arrived in Ukraine
  • The EU finally approved the 9th package of sanctions against Russia
  • The US Senate approved a record $800 million defense budget for Ukraine
  • The Russian Federation damaged approximately 9 generation facilities with a missile attack
  • Ukrainian forces shot down 60 of the 76 missiles fired by Russia in a day
  • FIFA refused Zelensky's request to spread a message of peace at the World Cup final
  • Anti-aircraft defense shot down 10 rockets of the occupiers over Dnipropetrovsk region
  • Ukrenergo declared an emergency due to rocket attacks
  • More than 40 rockets were fired at Kyiv, 37 of them were shot down
  • The International Financial Corporation allocated $2 billion to support investments in Ukraine
  • The mayor about the shelling of Kharkiv: Colossal infrastructural destruction
  • The Russians hit an infrastructure facility in Zhytomyr Oblast
  • Medvedev called Russia's "military goals" in Ukraine: bridges, roads, energy and politics
  • Putin convened the Security Council: discusses Russia's defense
  • Hungary froze Russian assets worth 870 million euros, recently it was only 3 thousand euros
  • A Russian missile in Kryvyi Rih destroyed an entire entrance, 2 people died
  • The entire Kirovohrad region is without electricity due to massive rocket attacks
  • Emergency power outages, problems with water supply in Kyiv
  • 15 hits in the Zaporizhzhia region
  • The Russian Federation fired more than 70 missiles at Ukraine in an hour
  • Poltava is also without electricity
  • Kharkiv is completely without electricity due to Russian attacks
  • In Kyiv, there were explosions in three districts
  • Lithuania signed a contract with the USA for the purchase of HIMARS worth $495 million
  • Explosions in Kharkiv, Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast: Russians attack energy facilities
  • 13 states and Russia voted against the UN resolution on Crimea
  • There is an air alert in Ukraine, half a hundred Russian missiles are flying
  • Hungary resisted the removal of three Russian ministers from the 9th package of EU sanctions
  • Due to heavy losses of the occupiers, mobile crematoria are operating in Tokmak
  • The Armed Forces repelled enemy attacks near 22 settlements
  • The UN adopted a new resolution on human rights violations in Crimea, taking into account the invasion of the Russian Federation
  • The EU summit agreed to increase military support to Ukraine, in particular regarding air defense
  • EU leaders agreed on 18 billion euros of macro finance for Ukraine in 2023
  • 15 December 2022

  • Sumyshchyna: during the day, the Russians made 58 strikes on two communities
  • The US is expanding the Ukrainian military training program - the Pentagon
  • Shelling in Dnipropetrovsk region: 1 dead and 5 wounded, among them a minor
  • The EU agreed on the ninth package of sanctions against the Russian Federation
  • The DTEK power facility was disconnected from the system due to another shelling
  • Germany handed Ukraine additional missiles for the IRIS-T system
  • The USA introduced sanctions against the second richest man in Russia
  • The occupiers are transporting the wounded and corpses from Melitopol to Crimea
  • The Russians are building up groups in the Kupyan and Zaporozhye directions
  • The Russians shelled Ochakiv, damaged infrastructure facilities
  • Zelensky asked the EU to speed up the assessment of Ukraine's fulfillment of the candidate criteria
  • The Russian Federation mines the coast of Crimea to prevent the landing of Ukrainian troops
  • The occupiers fired rockets at Orikhov in Zaporizhzhia, wounding 2 workers
  • Ericsson announced the layoff of 400 employees and the sale of its service business in the Russian Federation
  • Russia hit Kharkiv's infrastructure
  • The European Parliament recognized the Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian people
  • Kyiv received special equipment and more than 130 generators from the US government
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