current Events/2022 December 9

• Russo-Ukrainian War
  • 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
    • Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant crisis
      • Ukraine's Energoatom says that Russian soldiers have abducted two senior staff members from the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. Energoatom says that the two workers were "beaten" before being driven off in an "unknown direction". (Reuters)
    • Battle of Bakhmut
      • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accuses Russia of "destroying" the front line city of Bakhmut after weeks of relentless shelling by Russian forces. (Newsweek)
• 2022 North Kosovo crisis
  • Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić says that Serbia is close to deploying its troops to North Kosovo after claiming that the lives of the Serb minority there are "being threatened", and that the NATO-led Kosovo Force was "failing to protect them". (ABC News)

Disasters and accidents

• Ten people are killed and four others are injured in an explosion at a coal mine in Sawahlunto, West Sumatra, Indonesia. (AP)
• At least one person is killed after a large explosion occurs during a massive fire at a shopping center in Moscow, Russia. (Al Jazeera)

International relations

• United States sanctions
  • China–United States relations
    • United States sanctions against China
      • The United States Office of Foreign Assets Control imposes sanctions on former Chinese Communist Party Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region Wu Yingjie and People's Police chief for the Himalayas Zhang Hongbo over "serious" human rights abuses in Tibet. (AFP via NDTV)
  • Guinea–United States relations
    • The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control imposes sanctions on former Guinean president Alpha Condé for engaging in political violence during his presidency. (AFP via VOA)

Law and crime

• Protests against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • A court in Moscow sentences prominent opposition figure Ilya Yashin to eight and a half years in prison on charges related to his criticism of the ongoing war in Ukraine. (ABC News)
• Qatar corruption scandal at the European Parliament
  • The Belgian Federal Police arrest Greek MEP and European Parliament vice-president Eva Kaili following an investigation into corruption tied to lobbying efforts in support of Qatar. Kaili's political parties, the Panhellenic Socialist Movement and the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, have both suspended her membership. (AFP via WION) (CNN)
• Fifteen people are killed during a gunfight between soldiers and drug smugglers in Mon Pin, Thailand. (Bangkok Post)

Science and technology

• A Japanese research team from Yamagata University announces the discovery of 168 new big figures near the Nazca Lines in Peru. (EFE via El Mundo)

Sports

• Ironman Triathlon
  • The Ironman Triathlon cancels the 2023 and 2024 triathlons to be held in Juneau, Alaska, United States, citing economic concerns. (Juneau Empire)