UKRAINE
Russian invasion: Situation report day 303
December 23, 2022 - North Korea, accused of sending shells, rockets and missiles to Russia’s private military Wagner group, denies supplying Russia with arms and calls the claims “groundless”.
The International Atomic Energy Agency director general Rafael Grossi held talks with Russian Rosatom officials on the creation of a security zone at Zaporizhya Nuclear Power Plant to prevent a nuclear accident, although critics say Russia is using the talks as a means to establish de facto recognition of Russian annexation of Zaporizhya Oblast.
Russia has demolished half of the Mariupol’s Drama Theatre, once a cultural centre and the main bomb shelter during the siege of the city, until it was hit by a twin airstrike in July.