Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,380

Here’s where things stand on Friday, December 5:

Fighting

Ukraine’s military said its forces had struck a large chemical plant in the Stavropol region in southern Russia, triggering a fire. The military’s General Staff said the Nevinnomyssk Azot plant was hit overnight and added that the facility produced components for explosives.

Tens of thousands of people were left without power and heating in southern Ukraine after Russian attacks on the front-line city of Kherson and Ukraine’s largest seaport, Odesa.

State oil and gas firm Naftogaz said a heat and power plant in the southern city of Kherson had been “almost completely destroyed”. “This is a purely civilian facility providing heat to residents,” Naftogaz CEO Sergii Koretskyi wrote on X. “Such targeted bombing is terrorism.” Region