Russian strikes kill four people in Ukraine as Kremlin praises new US security strategy

Russia on Sunday (December 7, 2025) welcomed the Trump administration’s new national security strategy in remarks by the Kremlin spokesman published by the Russian government. Bag news agency.

Dmitry Peskov said the updated strategic document was largely in line with Moscow’s vision.

“There are statements there against confrontation and in favor of dialogue and building good relations,” he said, adding that Russia hoped this would lead to “further constructive cooperation with Washington on the Ukrainian settlement.”

The document released by the White House on Friday said the US wants to improve its relationship with Russia after years of treating Moscow as a global pariah, and that ending the war is a core US interest to “restore strategic stability with Russia.”

The spokesman’s comments came as Russian missile, drone and grenade attacks killed at least four people in Ukraine overnight and Sunday, after US and Ukrainian officials wrapped up a third day of talks aimed at ending the war.

A man was killed in a drone strike on Ukraine’s northern Chernihiv region on Saturday evening, local officials said, while a combined missile and drone attack on infrastructure in the central city of Kremenchuk caused power and water disruptions. Kremenchuk is home to one of Ukraine’s largest oil refineries and is an industrial center.

Kiev and its Western allies say Russia is trying to cripple Ukraine’s power grid and deny citizens access to heat, light and running water for a fourth consecutive winter, in what Ukrainian officials call “weaponizing” the cold.

Three people were killed and 10 others injured in shelling by Russian forces in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region on Sunday, according to the regional prosecutor’s office.

The latest round of attacks came after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday that he had had a “substantial phone call” with US officials who were talking to a Ukrainian delegation in Florida. He said he received an update by telephone from U.S. and Ukrainian officials during the talks.

“Ukraine is determined to continue working in good faith with the American side to achieve real peace,” Zelenskyy wrote on social media.

Speaking at the Reagan National Defense Forum, Keith Kellogg, U.S. President Donald Trump’s outgoing envoy to Ukraine, said efforts to end the war are in “the last ten yards.”

He said a deal depends on the two outstanding issues: “terrain, especially the Donbas”, and the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.

Russia controls most of Donbas, the name for Donetsk, and neighboring Luhansk, which it illegally annexed, along with two southern regions, three years ago. The Zaporizhia nuclear power plant is located in an area that has been under Russian control and not in use since the beginning of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. It needs reliable energy to cool its six idled reactors and spent fuel to avoid catastrophic nuclear incidents.

Mr Kellogg, who will leave his post in January, was not present at the talks in Florida.

Separately, officials said the leaders of the United Kingdom, France and Germany would take part in a meeting with Zelenskyy in London on Monday.