Russian support for the war declined

A draft resolution calling for the establishment of a Nuremberg-style tribunal to hold the Russian leadership accountable for crimes of aggression in Ukraine is currently being circulated at the United Nations in New York. This was reported by the Guardian, which wrote signs that US opposition to the proposal could weaken in the face of pressure from Ukrainian President Zelensky. This is something President Zelensky cares about deeply, Beth Van Schaack, the US Ambassador for Criminal Justice, said recently. “But the question is whether they will get votes in the general meeting,” she asked.

The Russian military is using banned K-51 chloropicrin grenades against the Ukrainian army in the east of the country, the press service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported in Telegram, citing UNIAN. The leaflet read: “Using banned chemical weapons, the occupiers are dropping chlorpicrin bombs from drones on our defenders in the east.”

Russian public support for the “special military operation” has declined significantly: the data shows that 55% of Russians support peace talks with Ukraine, while only 25% support the continuation of the conflict. This was stated by the British Ministry of Defense Intelligence on Twitter in its daily update. The survey – explains the London report – was conducted by an independent Russian media that has access to data collected by Russia’s Federal Protection Service for internal use. “Despite the efforts of the Russian authorities to establish widespread control over the information environment, the conflict has become increasingly tangible for many Russians since the partial mobilization in September 2022,” says British intelligence. “As Russia is unlikely to achieve major battlefield successes in the coming months, the Kremlin will likely find it increasingly difficult to maintain tacit approval of war among the population.”

Fighting in Ukraine is slowing and is likely to continue into the coming winter months. However, there is no evidence of weak resistance by Kyiv forces, the director of US intelligence, Avril Haines, said at a defense forum in California, as reported by The Guardian. Haines said both sides would look to “resupply and replenish” for any counterattack in the spring, while Russia lost more than half of the territory it had captured. Haines noted that most of the fighting is taking place in the Bakhmut and Donetsk regions of eastern Ukraine, and that fighting has slowed down after the withdrawal of Russian forces from the western Kherson region last month. He pointed out, “We are already witnessing a kind of decrease in the pace of the conflict, and we expect this result to be in the coming months.” The Ukrainian and Russian armies will prepare for a counterattack after the winter. But we actually have some doubts about whether the Russians are willing to do that or not,” he said, but stressed that US intelligence believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin does not have a complete picture at this point of what his armed forces are disappointed with. We see ammunition shortages, problems with supply, logistics, and a whole series of concerns that the Russians have.”

The fighters of the special unit «Carlson» raised the Ukrainian flag on the left bank of the Kherson region. This was announced by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as reported by Ukrinform, after the army of November 15 in Kyiv liberated the city of Kherson on the right bank of the Dnipro River. The flag of Ukraine is hung on a crane tower. After the liberation of Kherson, the Russians continued their bombing: the area was bombed 28 times in the last 24 hours, and the cancer center was also hit by Russian fire.

Emergency power outages were announced today by the electric company Dtek in Kyiv and the entire region, which determines that they cannot follow up on already planned power outages and that technicians are “doing everything possible to stabilize the situation,” Ukrinform reported. Today’s weather indicates a temperature of minus five degrees and frost in the Ukrainian capital. DTEK Director Dmytro Sakharok said that it will be possible to return to the stability of power outages only after the system’s capabilities are increased.

If not for the United States, we would be in trouble.”

Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said that Russia’s war in Ukraine shows that the European Union is not strong enough. pic.twitter.com/KIkwT9HVEO

– DW News (dwnews) December 3, 2022

The Russian army has carried out dozens of attacks in the last 24 in Donbass: this was announced by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in its morning report, UNIAN reports. “More than 30 attacks with missile systems, and 16 air strikes were launched on the positions of the Ukrainian forces and settlements along the contact line. Civilian infrastructure was damaged in the regions of Kharkiv, Kramatorsk and Donetsk,” according to the Armed Forces in Kyiv, adding that they “repelled the attacks of the military units of the Union on the 17th region “.