Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 991

Ukraine war day 991: These are the key developments as the war begins its 991st day.

Fighting

In the city of Nikopol in the Dnipropetrovsk area of central Ukraine, Russian shelling has killed two persons and injured five more.
A Russian missile attack on a residential building in Kryvyi Rih, also in the Dnipropetrovsk region, killed at least one woman and injured 14 residents.
In Russia’s southern Belgorod region, a fire was started by a Ukrainian drone strike, according to Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.
Russia’s Ministry of Defense claims that Russian forces have taken control of the village of Kolisnykivka in the eastern Kharkiv area of Ukraine.
According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s forces are engaged in combat with around 50,000 enemy troops in the Kursk region of Russia. He also stated that Ukraine will “considerably strengthen” its positions on the Pokrovsk and Kurakhove fronts in the east, where the most intense fighting is occurring.
Ukraine war day 991: According to EU foreign policy leader Josep Borrell, the EU has provided Ukraine with over 980,000 shells for the conflict and intends to surpass the one million mark by the end of this year.

According to North Korea’s state media, KCNA, on Tuesday, the two nations have ratified a mutual defense treaty that was signed by their leaders in June and stipulates that in the event of an armed attack, one side must assist the other.

Reports that US President-elect Donald Trump had spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin were rejected by the Kremlin as “pure fiction.” The denial follows reports from unnamed sources that Trump warned Putin during a phone conversation that Moscow shouldn’t intensify its conflict in Ukraine.
Ukraine war day 991: As French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer reiterated their support for Kyiv during discussions in Paris, France’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Noel Barrot warned that Ukraine’s allies should not “prejudge” how Donald Trump will conduct the situation there.
Finland’s Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen stated that imposing neutrality on Ukraine would not result in a peaceful resolution to the conflict with Russia and that Moscow could not be relied upon to uphold whatever agreements it signs.