Russia-Ukraine War: List of Major Events, Day 1,038 | News about the Russia-Ukraine war

Here are the key developments on 1,038. Day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Here is the situation on Saturday, December 28th:

Battle:

• Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Saturday it had foiled a plot by Ukrainian intelligence to kill a senior Russian officer and a war blogger, Interfax news agency reported.
• Ukrainian forces have more than killed or wounded 1,000 North Korean soldiers According to Ukraine and South Korea, Russia sent them to fight them. “Their losses are significant, very significant. “We see that neither the Russian military nor its North Korean overseers have any interest in ensuring the survival of these North Koreans,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his evening address on Friday. Meanwhile, John Kirby, spokesman for the United States National Security Council, said a “human wave” of North Korean troops was being sent to their deaths by “hopeless” attacks by generals who viewed them as expendable.
• The Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday that its forces had taken control of two eastern Ukrainian villages, Ivanivka in the Donetsk region and Zahryzove in the Kharkiv region, state news agency RIA reported.
• RIA also quoted the ministry as claiming it shot down four British-made Storm Shadow missiles last week.
• A North Korean soldier who fought for Russia died in Ukrainian captivity According to the South Korean spy service, due to serious injuries.
• Ukrainian air defense shot down 13 of 24 Russian drones launched in a nighttime attack, the air force said on Friday. The Air Force said the other 11 Russian drones were “lost” without causing any damage.

Deals and Diplomacy:

• US President Joe Biden’s administration promised to approve new military aid to Ukraine, including air defense systems. Kirby said the U.S. security assistance package is expected to be announced “in the next few days.”
• “If anyone wants to organize peace talks in Slovakia, we will be ready and welcoming,” Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said in a post on Facebook late Friday. His comments came after Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he was open to a Slovak proposal to host peace talks with Ukraine.
• Ukraine has received its first shipment of liquefied natural gas from the United States, a deal that Kiev says is crucial to strengthening Ukrainian and European energy security as a key gas transit contract with Russia expires. “Dtek, Ukraine’s largest private energy company, today received its first shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States,” the company said on Friday.

Dissent:

• According to Russian news agencies, a Russian court sentenced 26-year-old singer Eduard Sharlot, who burned his passport in protest against Russia’s war in Ukraine, to five and a half years in prison. As state news agency RIA Novosti reported, Sharlot was found guilty by a court in the Volga city of Samara in a case of “publicly insulting” the religious feelings of believers and “rehabilitating Nazism” over the videos he posted online.