22/12/2025 – 09:38Kremlin says special envoy Dmitiriev to report to Putin US proposals for Ukrainian settlement
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russian special envoy Kirill Dmitriev will report to President Vladimir Putin on US proposals for possible Ukrainian settlement as soon as he arrives in Moscow from Miami.
Kremlin special envoy Kirill Dmitriev arrived in Miami on Saturday and held two days of talks with US President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner.
22/12/2025 – 08:13Russian general killed in car bomb in Moscow
A Russian general was killed Monday morning after an explosive device detonated underneath his car in southern Moscow, investigators said.
Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Operational Training Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces General Staff, died from his injuries, Svetlana Petrenko, official spokesperson for Russia’s Investigative Committee said.
“Investigators are pursuing numerous lines of enquiry regarding the murder. One of these is that the crime was orchestrated by Ukrainian intelligence services,” Petrenko said.
22/12/2025 – 08:05Ukraine is leveraging its powerful – and cheap – new drone killers for air defence
The icy ground crackling under their feet, members of an elite Ukrainian drone-hunting team set up for a long night.
Antennas and sensors are clipped to a light stand. Monitors and controls are pulled from hard cases, and a game-changing new weapon is readied for deployment.
The Sting, shaped like a flying thermos, is one of Ukraine’s new homegrown interceptors.
The unit’s commander says the interceptors can effectively counter Russia’s fast-evolving suicide drones, which are now flying faster and at higher altitudes.
A serviceman prepares an interceptor drone of “General Cherry” company before a flight at the polygon in Ukraine, on Dec. 4, 2025. © Evgeniy Maloletka, AP
An engineer collects FPV drones of “General Cherry” company at the workshop in Ukraine, on Dec. 4, 2025. © Evgeniy Maloletka, AP
22/12/2025 – 07:06Western intelligence suspects Russia is developing new weapon to target Musk’s Starlink satellites
Two NATO-nation intelligence services suspect Russia is developing a new anti-satellite weapon to target Elon Musk’s Starlink constellation with destructive orbiting clouds of shrapnel, with the aim of reining in Western space superiority that has helped Ukraine on the battlefield.
Intelligence findings seen by The Associated Press say the so-called “zone-effect” weapon would seek to flood Starlink orbits with hundreds of thousands of high-density pellets, potentially disabling multiple satellites at once but also risking catastrophic collateral damage to other orbiting systems.
Analysts who haven’t seen the findings say they doubt such a weapon could work without causing uncontrollable chaos in space for companies and countries, including Russia and its ally China, that rely on thousands of orbiting satellites for communications, defense and other vital needs.
22/12/2025 – 03:52US envoy Witkoff calls Ukraine, Russia talks ‘productive’
Talks held between US, European and Ukrainian officials over the last three days in Florida aimed at ending Russia’s war in Ukraine focused on aligning positions, US special envoy Steve Witkoff said on Sunday, calling those meetings and separate talks with Russian negotiators productive.
US President Donald Trump has been pressuring Ukraine and Russia to come to an agreement on ending the nearly four-year-old conflict as soon as possible, but Russia wants to keep the Ukrainian areas it has seized and Kyiv has refused to cede ground.
After meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy Kirill Dmitriev on Saturday, Witkoff and Trump adviser Jared Kushner met on Sunday with officials from Ukraine and Europe, and then separately with the Ukrainian delegation, led by senior official Rustem Umerov.
Witkoff, in a social media post, called Sunday’s talks “productive and constructive” and focused on a “shared strategic approach between Ukraine, the United States and Europe.”
22/12/2025 – 03:50Ukrainian drone attack damages two vessels in Russia’s Krasnodar, regional authorities say
Two vessels and two piers were damaged as a result of a Ukrainian drone attack in Russia’s Krasnodar region, authorities in the southern Russia region said on Monday.
All crew on the ships at the Volna terminal in the region have been safely evacuated, the Krasnodar region’s operational headquarters said on the Telegram messaging app. The damage led to a fire spreading across up to 1,500 square metres (1,794 square yards), the authorities added.