December 21, 2022 (Wednesday)
Armed conflicts and attacks
- Russo-Ukrainian War
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Two people are killed and five others are injured during the shelling of a hotel and a restaurant in Donetsk. Former Russian Deputy Prime Minister and head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin and Prime Minister of the Donetsk People's Republic Vitaliy Khotsenko are among the injured. (BBC News)
- 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
- Spillover of the Somali Civil War
- A vehicle travelling from Hayley Lapsset camp to Garissa, Kenya, hits a roadside bomb planted by Al-Shabaab militants, who then engage in a shootout with the car's occupants, killing two police officers and a civilian, and injuring several others. (Al Jazeera)
- Yemeni Civil War
- Four people are killed and three others are injured when a roadside bomb explodes near a military vehicle in Al Mahfad District, Abyan Governorate, Yemen. (Siasat)
- Islamic State insurgency in Iraq
- Two soldiers are killed and three others are injured during an ambush by Islamic State gunmen in Kirkuk, Iraq. (WSJ)
- 2022 Gambian coup d'état attempt
- Four soldiers are arrested after an alleged coup attempt in The Gambia. (BBC News)
Disasters and accidents
- At least 15 students are killed when a school bus overturns in Manipur, India. (Business Today)
International relations
- Ukraine–United States relations
- 2022 visit by Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the United States
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives in the United States on his first official trip abroad after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (The New York Times)
- 2022 visit by Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the United States
- Germany–Russia relations
- A German Federal Intelligence Service official is arrested for allegedly relaying classified information to Russian intelligence services. (AFP via South China Morning Post)