• Despite the cold, fighting continues on different fronts, and Kiev claims the destruction of 5 Russian military sites, including ammunition depots and other infrastructure
• Putin is preparing for a new phase of the war and orders an increase in the number of soldiers by 15%.
• Conflicting news from Donetsk, where fighting is fierce. Moscow claims to have made progress on the ground, while Kiev says Ukrainian forces are maintaining their positions.
4.03pm – Kiev, a civilian was killed in a Russian attack in Donetsk
Russian artillery destroyed two houses and killed a civilian in the Ukrainian town of Khasiv Yar in Donetsk, only five kilometers from the martyred city of Bakhmut, where fighting has been continuing for months. This was announced by the Ukrainian Ministry of Interior. In the same region, fierce fighting continues around the city of Avdiivka, where Russian forces have been trying to penetrate for months.
3.19pm – Olena Zelenska: “I don’t want my husband to run again”
Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska does not want her husband, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, to run again. According to Ukrainska Pravda, the president’s wife herself mentioned this in an Economist podcast. “I do not want him to be president for the next term or for the next two terms,” confirms Zelensky’s wife, who believes that her husband needs to find something new in his life.
Economic journalists asked Zelenska how she saw the post-war future for herself and her family. “Our family will be together again. We will live together with my husband and children. always. Let’s take a vacation and go somewhere, I don’t even know where, but let’s be together, the four of us. This vacation will be one month long. Then we will think about what we should do next, he and I,” explains the wife of the Ukrainian president.
12.43 pm – Kiev: “Tonight there is a risk of a nuclear accident in Zaporizhia”
According to the head of Ukraine’s atomic agency Energoatom, Petro Kotin, the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant was “on the verge of a nuclear and radiological accident” tonight due to a complete power outage at the plant, which was resolved this morning. Kotin said, “The (Russian) occupiers are not concerned with the safety of the station,” and “they will continue to create dangerous conditions, and blackmail the whole world with nuclear and radiation accidents.”
11.25 am – British Ministry of Defense: “Moscow is trying to calm the dissatisfaction of soldiers’ wives.”
The Russian authorities are trying to suppress opposition from the wives of soldiers deployed in Ukraine. The British Ministry of Defense confirms this in its daily intelligence report. Research by independent Russian media and comments from protesting wives themselves suggest that in recent weeks, authorities have likely offered increasing amounts of cash to families in exchange for refraining from protests. On November 27, 2023, The Guardian reports, an important group of soldiers’ wives published a statement against “indefinite mobilization.”
10.50am – Kiev could reopen its international airport soon
Ukraine may reopen Kiev airport soon. This was promised by Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, at a meeting at Boryspil International Airport, outside the capital. “Ukraine has gradually become stronger over the past year, and will soon be able to reopen Kiev International Airport,” Yermak said, stressing – according to what was reported by The Guardian – that “we are now able to guarantee the safety of this site…” Thank you to our Defense Forces, our friends and your countries: I am sure that the symbolic boarding passes given to you today upon your arrival will soon become real ones. The airport was the first major location in Ukraine to be closed after the invasion of Russian forces in February 2022.
10.34 am – Kiev: “10 out of 11 Russian drones and a missile were shot down during the night.”
Last night, Ukraine was attacked by 11 Russian-made “Shahed” drones launched from the Crimean Peninsula, 10 of which were shot down by anti-aircraft fire in the Odessa region, and by a Kh-59 cruise missile in the Odessa region. Also dropped. This is what the Kiev Air Force wrote, citing Ukrinform, which did not provide any further details.
06.43 am – A new Ukrainian attack on the Russian railway network in Siberia
Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) It could have caused two successive explosions in Siberia, along the Baikal-Amur railway Strategy for trade between Russia and China. Two trains filled with fuel were blown up during the operation. They return it Ukraineska Pravda And other Ukrainian media, citing anonymous sources in law enforcement in Kiev. The first explosion this morning involved a tank train passing through the Severonomoisky Tunnel in Buryatia (the longest in Russia at 15.3 km), causing a fire that took hours to extinguish according to Russian media. A second explosion occurred a few hours later, hitting another train carrying fuel as it was crossing a 35-meter-high bridge. Russian Railways confirmed the tunnel explosion, but did not specify the causes. Kommersant newspaper quoted investigators as saying that the bomb was placed under one of the train cars. But the second explosion has not been confirmed.
01.46 am – Kiev: Russia has already lost 300,000 men in the war
The Russians may have already lost more than three hundred thousand men in the war in Ukraine, between money and militiamen from the Wagner Company (which has practically disappeared from the scene at this stage of the conflict): this is the Ukrainian and Western military estimate according to the Kyiv Independent website.
01.43 am – Italian-Russian stops devices in Moscow: “Kiev saboteur”
By Marta Serafini, our correspondent in Dnipro
He was recruited by Ukrainian intelligence in Istanbul last February. Then training in Latvia. Ruslan Siddiqui, 35 years old, Italian-Russian passport, was arrested by the FSB in Moscow on charges of sabotage.. The last operation in November, and A freight train derails near RyazanSoutheast of Moscow, with 15 overturned vehicles. Last July 20, on instructions from the intelligence of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, it was reported that FManufacturer of explosive devices Russian services reported that he “equipped four drones and used them to carry out an attack on the Diaghielevo military airport.”
01.41 AM – Amnesty: The Russian invasion isolated the disabled and the elderly
The elderly and people with disabilities are the first victims of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Because they cannot get proper care and housing. Amnesty International condemned this situation in a new report released ahead of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 3 December. Russia’s large-scale invasion of Ukraine has thrown the already overburdened Ukrainian healthcare system into crisis – this has been made clear – and as a result, many older people, including people with disabilities, remain separated from their families in a state of isolation and isolation. Russia’s ongoing indiscriminate attacks, many of which constitute war crimes, have forced millions of Ukrainian civilians to flee their homes.
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