About 20 representatives of the Ukrainian community in Finland came to the countrys Ministry of Justice on 8 December, protesting against its refusal to extradite Russian militant Yan Petrovsky. Source
Europe
Romanian Foreign Minister Luminita Odobescu has commended Ukraine for making changes to its national minority laws in line with suggestions from the EU and the Council of Europe. Source
The foreign ministers of Estonia and Lithuania, Margus Tsahkna and Gabrielius Landsbergis, have criticised the International Olympic Committee’s decision to allow the Russians to participate in the 2024 Olympics in Paris as neutrals, as this is against everything the Olympics should stand for. Source
Ukraine has managed to bring back 387 of the nearly 20,000 children abducted by Russia. Source
If the US stops supporting Ukraine and Russia comes to NATO’s borders, it will have to act in accordance with NATOs Article 5 and pay with the blood of Americans. Source
Reports from a pro-Russian TG channel suggest a MiG-29 fighter jet of the Armed Forces of Ukraine's Airborne Forces was shot down by an R-37M air-to-air missile Source
The Russians want to build a so-called special military operation museum in occupied Crimea [special military operation is what Russian propaganda calls the war in Ukraine – ed.]. Source
Russian forces conducted offensive operations near Avdiivka and confirmed their advance by seizing Avdiivkas sewage treatment plant on 8 December. Source
In the Bryansk region of the Russian Federation, near the settlement of Klintsi, the S-400 air defense system launched a devastating missile strike on Kyiv. Source
Up to 800,000 Russian citizens have arrived illegally in Crimea since 2014, and about 100,000 Ukrainians have left the peninsula. Source
Ukrainian forces have repelled 35 Russian assaults on the Avdiivka front and 24 on the Marinka front over the course of the past 24 hours. Source
The Russian occupiers lost another 900 soldiers in Ukraine over the course of 8 December. Source
The Ukrainian Air Force warned there was a threat of a missile attack in five oblasts on the morning of 9 December, with the warning being in place for more than 20 minutes. Source
Mykolaiv was hit by a missile late in the evening on 8 December. The Russians struck an open area in the citys suburbs. Source
The Russian Ministry of Defense [RuMoD] released a new video – a Russian drone shoots down a Ukrainian 'Baba Yaga' drone in the air above Bakhmut in Donetsk. Source
Forty-seven per cent of Americans believe that US aid to Ukraine should remain at the same level or be increased. Source
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, has dismissed Tetiana Ostashchenko from the office of the Commander of the Medical Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and appointed Anatoliy Kazmirchuk, head of a military hospital in Kyiv, as the new commander. Source
Rustem Umierov, Minister of Defence of Ukraine, has stated that the reason for his request to change the Commander of the Medical Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is obvious for everyone who is fighting in the Defence Forces or helping the soldiers. Source
Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, calls upon the international community to give Russia a signal that the world will not get tired of helping Ukraine. Source
A local resident of the town of Seredyna-Buda in Sumy Oblast was killed in a mortar attack on Sunday. Source