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21 December 2024
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December 2024 in brief
Guided bombs hit a car service station in Zaporizhzhia, killing 10 people, Governor Ivan Fedorov said, and a ballistic missile attack on Kyiv killed one and cut heating to 630 residential buildings, according to Mayor Vitali Klitschko. [1][2] Russia kept up strikes on the power system, with Zelensky saying 93 missiles and almost 200 drones were launched in one attack, and a Christmas morning strike seriously damaged DTEK thermal power plants. [1][3] A drone badly damaged an IAEA vehicle on its way to a staff rotation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, which Zelensky said was Russian, and WHO recorded attacks on health facilities in places including Dnipro and Shostka. [1][2][3] Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of Russia's radiological, chemical and biological protection forces, was killed by a bomb in Moscow; Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov accused Ukraine of terrorist methods, and anonymous SBU sources told CNN the service was behind it. [1] South Korea's intelligence service said at least 100 North Korean soldiers had been killed and more than 1,000 wounded in Kursk, while Zelensky put Ukrainian soldiers killed at 43,000 and Russia's defence minister claimed Ukraine had lost almost one million people. [1][2] The sides carried out a prisoner exchange that Moscow put at 150 for 150 and Kyiv said returned 189 Ukrainians, and the five-year gas transit deal expired, ending Russian gas flows to Europe through Ukraine. [1][2] In Europe, the Leiden dataset recorded damage to the Estlink 2 power cable by the tanker Eagle S, which Finland investigated. [1]