The long-range missiles provided by the United States and Britain were used to strike inside Russian territory, despite concerns that their use would escalate the conflict. Kyiv’s stockpiles are running out.

Trump-nominated Ukraine-Russia envoy General Keith Kellogg has condemned Russia's large-scale missile strike against Ukraine this Christmas. Source: General Keith Kellogg on X (Twitter), as reported by European Pravda Details: Kellogg said that Christmas ought to be the time of peace,

Today's massive shelling of Ukraine's energy system by Russia serves as a stark response to those advocating for an illusionary "Christmas truce," Andrii Sybiha, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine,

The Finnish authorities said the tanker might be part of Russia’s shadow fleet, which emerged as a way to circumvent Western-imposed price caps on Russian oil transported by sea. The caps were introduced several months after President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Finnish authorities have detained a Russia-linked ship as they investigate whether it damaged a Baltic Sea power cable and several data cables, according to police and news media reports, in the latest incident involving disruption of key infrastructure.

Damage to the power cable in the Baltic Sea is the latest in a spate of murky disruptions to undersea cables that have put European authorities on high alert.