Latest news bulletin | December 8th, 2025 – Evening
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00:01At least one person was killed and more than a dozen others were injured in overnight Russian strikes targeting several Ukrainian cities.
00:10Trump says President Zelensky is not ready for a peace deal with Russia after three days of talks between U.S. and Ukrainian delegations in Florida.
00:20Euronews caught up with Margarita Shinis and Luigi Di Maio to talk global politics at day two of the Doga Forum in Qatar.
00:30At least one person was killed and more than 15 others were injured in overnight Russian strikes across Ukraine.
00:37A civilian was killed as Russian forces targeted several areas in Dnepropetrovsk, including the city of Dnepro, in the early hours of Monday.
00:46Local officials say a barrage of drones and artillery was fired across the region, damaging residential buildings, private homes, and civilian vehicles.
00:55At least seven people were injured in the northern Sumi region after it sustained heavy strikes which started late on Sunday and continued into Monday.
01:04Several floors of a nine-story residential building were severely damaged in the strikes.
01:09Officials say some residents were trapped inside the damaged apartment building and were rescued by emergency workers.
01:16Rescue operations were reportedly temporarily suspended, however, as officials feared repeated attacks were incoming.
01:22The adjacent Cheneyev region also came under heavy overnight Russian shelling, injuring at least three people.
01:29One person was hospitalized after sustaining moderate wounds after a Russian drone exploded near a residential building.
01:36The blast shattered windows and caused damage to the building, parked vehicles, gas pipelines, and nearby stores and shops.
01:44After three days of talks between U.S. and Ukrainian delegations in Florida, Donald Trump says Zelensky is not ready for a peace deal with Russia.
01:58Speaking to reporters at the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors, he accused the Ukrainian leader of holding up the talks from moving forward.
02:06And I have to say that I'm a little bit disappointed that President Zelensky hasn't yet read the proposal.
02:13That was as of a few hours ago.
02:15His people love it, but he hasn't.
02:18Russia's fine with it.
02:20However, Russian President Vladimir Putin hasn't publicly expressed approval for the White House plan.
02:26Trump was the first president to hold the Kennedy Center Honors, a role normally assumed by journalists and presenters.
02:34He says he did so, quote, at the request of a certain television network.
02:39During his speech, he praised Sylvester Stallone, Kiss, and Gloria Gaynor, among others.
02:45The liberal candidate, Ciprian Ciucu, has been elected mayor of Romania's capital, Bucharest, receiving around 36% of the vote in the local election.
02:59His opponent, Anca Alexandrescu, a journalist supported by the Hard Right Alliance for Romanian Unity Party, received around 22% of votes.
03:07The election came after former mayor Nikus Ordan was elected president earlier this year, leaving the position open.
03:33The mayoral office in Romania's capital is politically significant, as two former mayors later became the country's president.
03:42The new mayor of Bucharest has some difficult tasks ahead.
03:46First of all, he must solve the problem of the heating system, after that the problem of the traffic and pollution.
03:54And he must do that in a complicated political situation, with our government, quote, in the middle, a coalition made by four parties.
04:08Euronews sat with the former vice president of the European Commission, Margarita Shinas, for an exclusive interview in Doha,
04:16where he provided insight as to what the renewed peace efforts might yield in the battled Ukraine.
04:22Europe has to continue, as it did from day one of the invasion of Russia to Ukraine, continue to seek a positive contribution
04:34that would eventually lead to a peaceful settlement.
04:38We have done a lot for Ukraine from day one.
04:43We have been funding Ukraine with two billion euros per month.
04:47So in a way, Ukraine keeps fighting because Europe keeps paying.
04:54We have bought armaments for Ukraine.
04:59We have stood by the country in very difficult diplomatic moments, and we'll continue to do that.
05:06We hope that as a result of the ongoing talks and with the increasing involvement of the U.S. government,
05:14we will be able soon to come to an agreement.
05:18But if this moment comes, this would be only the beginning of the next stage.
05:23It would not be the end settlement.
05:25It would be the beginning that would eventually lead to a final settlement.
05:30Euronews also caught up with Luigi Di Maio, the EU's special envoy to the Gulf,
05:35where he shared with us how the region could advance the bloc's competitiveness
05:38in an increasingly unstable geopolitical climate.
05:41I think that the more we will realize that we have to continue to work with our historical
05:50allies, that we have to create new partnerships, the more we realize, we accept that, the more
05:56we implement in fact, not only in words, this new idea or projection, having at mutual level
06:04new partners, the more we will be closer and the more we will face together, not only the multilateral
06:12political challenges, not only the security challenges, but even the economy, the prosperity
06:18for our people.
06:20Together, these two markets, the GCC market and the European market, together, they represent
06:24the 20%, almost the 20% of the global economy, almost the 18% of the global trade.
06:31So, we have a huge potential, so it means even that we can reach a huge leverage together,
06:36a joint leverage.
06:39The two European Union politicians were in the Qatari capital to attend the second day
06:44of the Doha Forum.
06:50Thailand has launched fresh strikes along the border with neighboring Cambodia.
06:56The Thai Ministry of Defense said that more than 35,000 people have left areas near the
07:01border for shelters, and more are believed to have fled to stay with relatives elsewhere.
07:08Meanwhile, Cambodia's information minister said that several border villages have been
07:14evacuated.
07:15Both sides accuse each other of violating a U.S.-backed ceasefire agreement put in place after
07:21fighting between the two erupted in July.
07:23The interior minister of the West African nation of Benin has said that a military coup, initially
07:36announced on Sunday morning by a group of soldiers on state TV as successful, was spoiled on the
07:42same day.
07:43On Sunday morning, 7 December 2025, a group of soldiers engaged a mutiny in order to destabilize
07:55the state and its institutions.
07:56The group, which called itself the Military Committee for Refoundation, appointed Lieutenant-Colonel Pascal Tigri as
08:17president of the military committee.
08:19Benin's president, Patrice Talon, has been in power since 2016 and is due to step down next April after the
08:27presidential election.
08:29The attempt is the latest in a series of military takeovers to rock West Africa over the last few weeks.
08:35U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth defended the strikes on alleged drug smuggling boats in the
08:45Caribbean and emphasized that President Donald Trump can take military action as he sees fit to defend the nation.
08:51Here again, we've been focused and here we've been clear if you're working for a designated terrorist
08:56organization and you bring drugs to this country in a boat, we will find you and we will sink you.
09:02Let there be no doubt about it.
09:07President Trump can and will take decisive military action as he sees fit.
09:11Hegseth has faced growing scrutiny over an attack in September in which U.S. forces launched a follow-up
09:17strike that killed survivors of an initial hit on a suspected drug vessel.
09:23The incident raised concerns over the legality and oversight of the operation.
09:28Hegseth says he had not been present when the second strike was ordered,
09:32but defended the decision, saying he would have made the same call himself.
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