Portal:Current events/2022 December 27
December 27, 2022 (Tuesday)
Conflicts and attacks Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Ukrainian forces claim they are closing in the the city of Kreminna in Luhansk Oblast. According to governor Serhiy Haidai, fighters in some parts of the city were forced to retreat to neighboring Rubizhne. (The Guardian)
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Disasters and accidents
- 2022 Northern Mindanao floods
- The Philippine national disaster agency reports that the death toll from monsoon floods in Northern Mindanao has increased to 13, with 23 others still missing. (Al Jazeera)
- 2022 Omdurman bus crash
- Sixteen people are killed when a bus collides with a dump truck on the outskirts of Omdurman, Khartoum, Sudan. (Reuters)
Law and crime
- Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping plot
- A federal judge in Michigan, United States, sentences a man to 16 years in prison for plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in 2020. The man was also convicted of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction. (CNN)
- South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol pardons former president Lee Myung-bak as part of a mass pardon aimed at "national unity". Lee had been serving a 17-year sentence for corruption. (Al Jazeera)
