Portal:Current events/2022 December 21

Armed conflicts and attacks

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Two people are killed and five others are injured during the shelling of a hotel and a restaurant in Donetsk. Former Russian Deputy Prime Minister and head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin and Prime Minister of the Donetsk People's Republic Vitaliy Khotsenko are among the injured. (BBC News)
• Spillover of the Somali Civil War
  • A vehicle travelling from Hayley Lapsset camp to Garissa, Kenya, hits a roadside bomb planted by Al-Shabaab militants, who then engage in a shootout with the car's occupants, killing two police officers and a civilian, and injuring several others. (Al Jazeera)
• Yemeni Civil War
  • Four people are killed and three others are injured when a roadside bomb explodes near a military vehicle in Al Mahfad District, Abyan Governorate, Yemen. (Siasat)
• Islamic State insurgency in Iraq
  • Two soldiers are killed and three others are injured during an ambush by Islamic State gunmen in Kirkuk, Iraq. (WSJ)
• 2022 Gambian coup d'état attempt
  • Four soldiers are arrested after an alleged coup attempt in The Gambia. (BBC News)

Disasters and accidents

• At least 15 students are killed when a school bus overturns in Manipur, India. (Business Today)

International relations

• Ukraine–United States relations
  • 2022 visit by Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the United States
    • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives in the United States on his first official trip abroad after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (The New York Times)
• Germany–Russia relations
  • A German Federal Intelligence Service official is arrested for allegedly relaying classified information to Russian intelligence services. (AFP via South China Morning Post)