Ukrainian military intelligence says two Russian fighter aircraft were disabled during a fire at a military airfield near the city of Lipetsk overnight on Dec. 20–21, in what Kyiv describes as a sabotage operation carried out by the resistance movement
The attack was executed by "Russian partisans," Ukraine claims, and happened 200 miles from the border. The apparent sabotage action, 200 miles from the Ukrainian border, comes after a string of drone strikes on Russian jets.
A top aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday contradicted U.S. claims that three days of peace talks in Miami went well, calling several of Washington's proposals meant to end Russia's war with Ukraine "rather unconstructive."
Yuri Ushakov, Putin's top foreign policy aide, said most of the peace plan proposals the U.S. offered were put forward by Ukraine and Europe and would not suit Russia, Kremlin state news agency TASS reported.
That assessment came after special envoy Steve Witkoff said Sunday that he, along with President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and White House senior adviser Josh Gruenbaum, "held productive and constructive meetings" with Russian special envoy Kirill Dmitriev to advance the Trump administration's peace plan for Ukraine.