Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban declared “dead” the proposals to seize the $247 billion in frozen Russian assets within the European Union and use them to finance a reparations loan for Ukraine.

The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russia was preparing for contacts with the United States to get details about U.S. talks with European powers and Ukraine on a possible peace settlement to end the Ukraine conflict.

We’ve examined satellite imagery of Novorossiysk, where Ukraine says it carried out an undersea drone attack on a Russian submarine on Monday. Imagery from 11 December, days before the attack, shows three submarines docked inside a quay, surrounded by several warships.