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In the early hours of 27 Dec 2025 Russian cruise and ballistic missiles hit Kyiv less than 48 hours before President Volodymyr Zelensky’s scheduled Florida meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump to final-ise a 90 %-done, U.S.-brokered 20-point cease-fire plan.
On 27 Dec 2025 Pyongyang published Kim’s New-Year message to Vladimir Putin proclaiming that 2025 cemented the two states’ bond through North Korean troops’ bloodshed while fighting for Russia in the Ukraine war.
On 25 Dec 2025 Kyiv executed its farthest-reaching, coordinated barrage of Storm Shadow missiles and long-range drones, igniting three major Russian energy hubs up to 1,400 km inside Russia.
On 22 Dec 2025 Israel’s security cabinet legalized 19 settlement outposts—two of them dismantled in the 2005 “disengagement”—pushing the tally of new settlements under the current coalition to 69.
Between 22-25 Dec 2025, President Zelensky announced that a full 20-point peace framework with U.S./EU security guarantees is complete and, for the first time, offered to withdraw Ukrainian troops to create a demilitarised strip in Donetsk if Russia does the same.
On 24 Dec 2025, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed envoy Kirill Dmitriev delivered a post-Miami briefing on a draft 20-point U.S.–Ukraine peace plan and said Moscow will now craft its formal response while keeping negotiations confidential.
On 24 Dec 2025 President Zelenskyy publicised a U.S.–negotiated 20-point cease-fire draft that, for the first time, offers a mutual troop pull-back and international buffer zone in Donbas while dangling shared management of the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, and he sent the text to Moscow for a response.
After three days of U.S.-hosted meetings in Miami (Dec 20-22), Washington, Kyiv and Moscow all labeled the sessions “constructive,” yet Russia’s top aide dismissed Ukraine-European amendments to President Trump’s 20-point cease-fire blueprint, leaving the war’s core issues unresolved.
Israel will place fresh military blueprints on President Trump’s desk next week, arguing that Iran’s post-war missile factories are revving back up and now outweigh the nuclear file.
On 18 Dec 2025 Israel’s finance and defense ministers re-classified Palestinian waste-burning in the West Bank as a national-security threat and approved an open-ended emergency program that lets the IDF confiscate Palestinian garbage trucks, build a new landfill, and bill every shekel to the Palestinian Authority.
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