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Special Representative of the Russian President Dmitriev: Russia and the United States are having "constructive" discussions and relevant discussions will continue in Miami on Sunday.

On December 20, local time, the United States intercepted a sanctioned ship in international waters near the coast of Venezuela. The operation was led by the U.S. Coast Guard.

[Russian President’s Special Representative Arrives in Miami, USA] On the 20th local time, relevant talks on the Ukraine issue continued to advance. Russian President’s Special Representative Dmitriev arrived at a golf club in Miami, USA that day. It is reported that mediation negotiations on the Ukraine issue will be held here. It was recently reported that representatives from the United States and Russia will meet in the southern American city of Miami this weekend in order to promote the Russia-Ukraine "peace plan" proposed by the United States. It is reported that the Russian delegation will include Dmitriev, the Russian President’s special representative, and the U.S. representatives will be President Trump’s special envoy Witkov and son-in-law Kushner. The United States will inform Russia of the results of the recent negotiations between the United States and Ukraine in Berlin, Germany.

Ukrainian President Zelensky: The situation in Odessa after the Russian attack is "serious".

Ukrainian President Zelensky: Russia is trying to restrict Ukraine’s access to the sea.

Ukrainian President Zelensky: The EU’s decision to provide funding to Ukraine strengthens Ukraine’s strength in negotiations.

Ukrainian President Zelensky: Ukraine is cooperating with the United States to reach a stable peace agreement, not an agreement on the "division of territory and resources."

Ukrainian President Zelensky: Elections cannot be held in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Zelensky: Russian President Vladimir Putin has no right to decide how Ukraine’s elections should be held.

Ukrainian presidential aide: Ukraine and Portugal have reached an agreement on joint production of Ukrainian maritime drones.

Market News: Executives at the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) were inspired by conservative news media to push for a mortgage fraud investigation into Democratic members of Congress, government emails show.

Russian Ministry of Defense: Russian troops have occupied Svetlei in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.

Russian Ministry of Defense: Russian troops have captured Visok in Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. (Interfax)

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC): Equity fund managers increased their net long positions in the S&P 500 CME Group by 17,972 contracts to 958,734 contracts in the week ended December 9. Equity fund speculators increased their net short position on the S&P 500 CME Group by 7,057 contracts to 448,341 contracts.

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC): As of the week of December 9, the net long position in the yen was 17,448 contracts, and the net long position in the euro was 138,788 contracts.

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC): COMEX copper speculators increased their net long positions by 6,879 lots to 71,083 lots in the week ended December 9.

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC): In the week ended December 9, the net short position of WTI held by crude oil speculators decreased by 38,888 lots to 12,038 lots.

According to Business Insider: Google has warned some visa employees not to leave the United States because they may face "significant" delays of up to a year in returning home.

US President Trump: We are carrying out a very strong attack on the strongholds of the extremist organization "Islamic State" in Syria, and the Syrian government fully supports us.

Russian sources said that Russian presidential envoy Dmitriev will go to Miami to meet with U.S. envoys Witkov and Kushner, and Ukraine has no plans to participate in trilateral contacts.