Here are the key developments on the 1,020th day of the Russia-Ukraine war. Here is the situation on Tuesday, December 10: Military President Volodymyr Zelenskyy issued orders to increase funding for equipping Ukraine’s brigades with new drones. “We recently approved a decision about the amount of such direct funds. But now I see that the amount is insufficient,” Zelenskyy said in his nightly address. “I instructed the prime...

Some 250 Israeli air strikes have hit Syria in 48 hours, reports the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Israel has unleashed a barrage of aerial attacks across Syria, battering key military sites amid a security vacuum after opposition forces ousted President Bashar al-Assad. Near the port city of Latakia, Israel targeted an air defence facility and damaged Syrian naval ships as well as military warehouses. In and around...