Russia launches attacks as US-Ukraine talks end

RUSSIAN missile and drone attacks overnight into Sunday killed at least one person in Ukraine after US and Ukrainian officials wrapped up a third day of talks aimed at ending the war.

- SUSIE BLANN

Winter holiday decorations were turned on for St Nicholas in a metro station of Kharkiv, on December 6, 2025 in Ukraine. St Nicholas Day, also known as the Feast of St Nicholas, is observed on December 6 in the Western Christian calendar, which Ukraine has largely adopted in favour of the Eastern Orthodox calendar since the Russian invasion of 2022

(Elise Blanchard)

A man was killed in a drone attack on Ukraine's northern Chernihiv region on Saturday night, local officials said, while a combined missile and drone attack on infrastructure in the central city of Kremenchuk caused power and water outages.

Kremenchuk is home to one of Ukraine's biggest oil refineries.