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21 December 2022
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December 2022 in brief
Drone strikes cut power to more than 1.5 million people in Odesa oblast, Zelenskyy said, and a barrage of at least 76 missiles on 16 December caused emergency blackouts across Ukraine and killed four people in Kryvyi Rih, including a one-year-old boy, Al Jazeera reported. [1][2] Mass strikes continued with the largest Shahed drone attack yet and 69 cruise missiles on 29 December, after which Kyiv's mayor said 40 percent of the capital's households lost power, and New Year's Eve strikes killed one person and injured 21 in Kyiv, Kyiv Independent reported. [1][2][3] Zelenskyy said Russian forces had turned Bakhmut into burned ruins, a volunteer said up to 15,000 civilians remained in the town, and WHO recorded an attack there affecting a health facility, health transport and health workers. [1][3] Russia's defence ministry said Ukraine had tried to strike the Engels and Dyagilevo air bases deep inside Russia with jet drones, which Ukraine did not formally claim, and Luhansk's governor said Ukrainian forces struck a hotel used by Wagner fighters in occupied Kadiivka. [1][2] Zelenskyy visited Bakhmut and then travelled to Washington as US officials described a package including a Patriot air defence battery, which Dmitry Medvedev said would be a legitimate target if deployed with NATO personnel. [1] A price cap of 60 dollars a barrel on Russian seaborne crude, agreed by the G7, the EU and Australia, took effect, and Putin later signed a decree banning oil sales to those that applied it. [1] An exchange freed 64 Ukrainian soldiers and a US national, and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Kyiv should fulfil Russia's demands for demilitarisation and denazification or the Russian army would decide the matter. [1]