⚡️Tumultuous New Year’s Eve in Russia marked by reported drone strikes on oil sites.

Several fires were reported at oil facilities in Kaluga Oblast and Krasnodar Krai overnight on Jan. 1, according to Telegram monitoring channels.

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Italy will soon deliver equipment to help support Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, President Zelensky announced following a call with Italian PM Giorgia Meloni. A timely move as Russia intensifies strikes on critical infrastructure.

Reality in Kyiv. After recent strikes, energy workers are still busy reparing damaged infrastructure after Russian missile and drone strikes. Lots of Kyiv citizens are without power.

Ukrainian drones score 'successful hit' on Russia's Ryazan Oil Refinery, General Staff says; Chornobyl protective shield 'lost its primary safety functions' after Russian drone strike, UN nuclear agency warns; and more.

Le Figaro reported that five drones were detected flying over the Île Longue submarine base on Thursday evening, which houses ballistic missile submarines - a key part of France's nuclear deterrent.

⚡️ Update: Ukraine attacks one of southern Russia's largest oil refineries, sparks fire.

"Explosions were recorded in the target area, followed by a fire at the facility," the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reported.

Putin says Russia will halt hostilities if Ukraine pulls out from territories Moscow claims, otherwise, they’ll take them by force. He also whined that he didn’t expect new U.S. sanctions on Russian oil firms, claiming there were “no conflicts” with Washington after the Alaska summit.

The ex-chief of Ukrenergo, Volodymyr Kudrytskyi — currently out on bail and monitored with an ankle bracelet — was expected in a Kyiv court on Nov. 27 to appeal his pre-trial detention on embezzlement charges brought against him.

⚡️Explosions reported in several Russian cities amid Ukrainian drone attack.

Explosions were reported in several Russian cities, including Taganrog, Smolensk, and Saratov, overnight on Nov. 28 amid a widespread drone attack.

Trump’s 28-point peace plan was crafted in secret by his envoy Witkoff and Putin’s representative Dmitriev, with Jared Kushner also involved. Neither Secretary of State Marco Rubio nor Trump himself initially knew about it, Trump saw the plan only at the last moment but approved it after briefing.

President Volodymyr Zelensky’s recent announcements of long-term fighter jet deals with European allies presents an enticing vision of Ukraine’s future airpower — a fleet of hundreds of modern aircraft ready to defend the country's skies. But that vision clashes with the country’s immediate reality.

Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz says Berlin has been working with Kyiv for months on long range missile projects and the Ukrainian army will be equipped with them. No details on numbers or timelines, keeping Russia unsure of Ukraine’s real capabilities. Merz adds support will continue.

Horrific footage coming out of Ternopil after the Russian strike on 19 November. The National Police has released the first videos from the scene, showing the scale of the destruction. The attack killed 26 people, including three children, and left 93 wounded. Twenty people are still missing.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Washington is drafting a list of ideas to halt Russia’s war, adding that any durable peace will require “difficult but necessary concessions from both sides.” Another sign the administration is trying to shape a deal that Kyiv will find hard to accept.

Footage from Ternopil as rescuers continue searching for the missing. The damage is so severe that parts of the site can only be cleared by hand. This is what deliberate war crimes look like: residential buildings hit by cruise missiles, leaving families buried under the rubble.

Russian sources report that Ukrainian drones hit several power substations in Kursk region, leaving around 16,000 people without electricity. Governor Hinshtein says outages were recorded in Glushkovsky, Rylsky and Korenevsky districts near the border.

"She suddenly remembered she’d left her phone in the car.We stepped outside to get it -we’d only walked two or three meters from the gate when suddenly... There was no sound, no whistle,nothing.Just a flash,a boom - and then we were already on the ground: she was in front of me, and I was behind her