Published on: 07/12/2025 - 07:33 Modified on: 07/12/2025 - 17:11

Russian attacks carried out overnight and on Sunday left at least four dead in Ukraine. US envoy Keith Kellogg said a peace deal to end the war was "very close" as the Kremlin demanded "radical" changes from the United States. Here is the thread for December 7, 2025.

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Russian strikes kill at least four people

Russian attacks overnight and on Sunday left at least four people dead in Ukraine.

A man was killed in a drone attack in the Chernihiv region of northern Ukraine on Saturday evening, local authorities said.

Three people were killed and ten others injured on Sunday during a shelling carried out by Russian troops in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, according to the regional prosecutor's office.

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Swiss see key role for OSCE in Ukraine ceasefire

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe could play a major role in monitoring a ceasefire in Russia's war in Ukraine, Switzerland's foreign minister said in an interview on Sunday.

Switzerland will chair the OSCE in 2026 and Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis said Bern wanted to focus on confidence-building measures and prepare for a possible truce between Moscow and kyiv.

"There are already concrete considerations on this: the organization is capable of deploying several dozen people in a very short time. The OSCE could observe the ceasefire, monitor the ceasefire line, monitor the elections, etc.," Cassis told the SonntagsBlick newspaper.

Russian strikes kill one in Chernihiv region

A man was killed in a drone attack in the Chernihiv region of northern Ukraine on Saturday evening, according to local authorities.

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New US security strategy 'broadly consistent' with Russia's vision, Kremlin says

Russia welcomed the new US national security strategy, saying its adjustments, which reflect a decidedly nationalist view of the Trump presidency, were "broadly consistent" with Moscow's vision.

“The adjustments we are seeing, I would say, are broadly in line with our vision,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with state television about the document released Friday.

The latter hoped that this new strategy "can constitute a modest guarantee of our ability to constructively continue our joint work to find a peaceful settlement in Ukraine."

Peace deal near, says US envoy Keith Kellogg

Departing US envoy Keith Kellogg said a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine was "very close" and depended on only two major issues: the future of Ukraine's Donbass region and that of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.

“If we can resolve these two issues, I think the rest will be resolved quite easily,” declared the emissary of American President Donald Trump. “We’re really, really close.”

The man who is due to leave his post in January declared at the Reagan National Defense Forum that efforts to end the war were entering "the last ten meters", which are always the most difficult, according to him.

The IAEA calls for work at Chernobyl where the ark has lost “its safety functions”

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced that its teams had been in Ukraine since early December to assess nuclear security, and had found that the Chernobyl ark had lost its "primary security functions" following a bombing in February.

The metal structure, hit in mid-February by an explosive Russian drone according to kyiv, was installed in 2016 and officially inaugurated in 2019, and covers the reactor which exploded in April 1986, the worst nuclear accident in history. It protects a first sarcophagus built by the Soviets.

The protective ark "has lost its primary security functions, including containment capacity", underlines the IAEA in its latest report published at the end of the week. However, it also notes that there was "no permanent damage to the supporting structures or surveillance systems".

Russia says it shot down 83 Ukrainian drones overnight

Russian air defense units destroyed 83 Ukrainian drones launched overnight, the Russian Defense Ministry said (77 in one report, then six in another).

The drones were shot down over seven regions in southern and central Russia, as well as over Russian-annexed Crimea, the ministry said in a statement on messaging app Telegram.

An electricity pylon was damaged in the Rostov region on the border with Ukraine, about 1,000 km south of Moscow, leaving around 250 residents without power, Rostov Governor Yuri Slyusar said on Telegram, adding that no one was injured.

China and Russia hold third joint missile defense exercise on Russian territory

China and Russia held their third round of joint anti-missile exercises on Russian territory in early December, the Chinese Defense Ministry announced Saturday evening.

These exercises did not target any third parties and did not constitute a response to a current international situation, according to a press release published on the ministry's website.

Russia and China signed a "no-holds-barred" strategic partnership shortly before Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, pledging to conduct regular military exercises to rehearse coordination between their armed forces.

Russian strike hits Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk

Russian forces launched a combined airstrike on infrastructure in the central Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk overnight, causing power and water cuts, its mayor Vitalii Maletskyi said.

Located on the Dnipro River, Kremenchuk is an important industrial hub and home to one of Ukraine's largest oil refineries. The city has been hit several times by Russian missiles, including in 2022 in a strike on a crowded shopping center that left at least 21 people dead.

Vitalii Maletskyi said in a social media post that details of the impact of the strike would be communicated later today, once the damage assessment was completed.

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