Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 19:44 The Armed Forces of Ukraine went into “active defense” in the Bakhmut direction, said the speaker of the Ground Forces, Vladimir Fityo: “Battles are taking place in the south and north of Bakhmut. Our military are in active defense, but with the best opportunity they switch to attack actions and improve their tactical position ".
18:17 The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that air defense forces allegedly destroyed two Ukrainian S-200 missiles, converted to hit ground targets, over the Sea of Azov.
17:36 Germany transferred another package of military assistance to Ukraine, which included, in particular, four 8x8 HX81 tractors and semi-trailers for them; two vehicles for the border service; five drone detection systems; 3840 artillery ammunition; 15 HLR 338 sniper rifles and 60 thousand rounds of ammunition for them.
16:59 Zelensky said in an interview with AP that prisoner exchanges sometimes take place right on the battlefield: “Over the last six months, we have returned a little, up to 100 people. Over the entire period, several thousand people have been returned. Very often we exchange prisoners of war not so loudly, not so publicly ". I'll be honest - we change them right on the battlefield. When we have ten of their prisoners, and they have several of our guys - and we change them. It happens in different ways."
15:07 The Russians fired at the border Semenovskaya community of the Chernihiv region, two people were wounded, said the head of the OBA Vyacheslav Chaus.
13:41 Russian public pages write that in Simferopol, two saboteurs poisoned 35 Russian military personnel, to whom they brought vodka and food poisoned with arsenic “as a sign of gratitude.” As a result, 24 people died, another 11 were hospitalized, and the “criminals” could not be found.
12:56 The second group of 70 Ukrainian military personnel was trained in Germany on the Patriot air defense system, said the commander of the multinational training command, Andreas Marlov. The training lasted six weeks and included experienced Ukrainian military personnel, many of whom had experience working with Soviet S-300 systems.
11:38 Ukrainian resistance forces in Melitopol killed several Russians and disabled an enemy tanker, reports the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense. The attack took place on December 1 at the entrance to the occupied city, on Bohdan Khmelnitsky Avenue, 115. The occupation administration is trying to hide the consequences of the attack because it is afraid of the reaction of the Kremlin intelligence services.
10:51 The Russians fired missiles at the Dnieper region. No people were injured, the consequences of the attack are being clarified, said the head of the OVA, Sergei Lysak.
09:57 Another blackout has occurred at the Zaporozhye NPP, there is a threat to radiation safety, Energoatom says. Due to the complete blackout, Zaporizhia NPP switched to powering its needs from diesel generators. The greatest security threat in this state exists at the fourth power unit, which the occupiers used with violations and kept in a hot state. The block requires urgent transfer to a cold state. Through the efforts of Ukrainian specialists, on the morning of December 2, communication with the Ukrainian energy system was resumed.
09:16 The International Red Cross suspended the membership of Belarus because the Belarusian CC did not remove Secretary General Dmitry Shevtsov from his post, who admitted participation in the deportation of Ukrainian children and traveled to occupied Lugansk and Donetsk. Shevtsov is also being investigated for his claims about nuclear weapons.
09:13 Russia uses about 300 combat aircraft and helicopters out of one and a half thousand in Ukraine, Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat said in an interview with Dmitry Gordon. According to him, the planes carrying out strikes on Ukraine are located at 30-40 airfields, of which five are in Crimea.
09:08 The German concern Rheinmetall wants to build the first armored vehicles in Ukraine in 2024. We are talking about two models - the Fox wheeled armored personnel carrier (Fuchs) and the Lynx infantry fighting vehicle. The head of the concern, Armin Papperger, said that production of Fuchs in Ukraine will become possible from the end of the summer of 2024, Lynx - from the summer of 2025. According to him, Rheinmetall does not plan to build new plants in Ukraine, but will rent existing ones.
08:53 In the Odessa region, during a night attack, a fire occurred as a result of hitting an infrastructure facility, which was promptly extinguished. No people were injured, the Southern Defense Forces said.
08:31 The General Staff announced the estimated losses of the Russian Federation as of the morning of December 2:
- personnel - about 331,110 (+1070) people,
- tanks - 5571 (+7),
- armored combat vehicles - 10,385 (+13),
- artillery systems - 7941 (+10),
- MLRS - 913 (+1),
- air defense systems - 602 (+0),
- aircraft - 323 (+0),
- helicopters - 324 (+0),
- UAV of operational-tactical level - 5994 (+18),
- cruise missiles - 1568 (+1),
- ships/boats - 22 (+0),
- submarines - 1 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tank trucks - 10,410 (+11),
- special equipment - 1138 (+1).
07:54 At night, air defense destroyed 10 of 11 Shahed attack UAVs and an X-59 guided missile, the Air Force command reported. Russia attacked with drones from the Crimean Cape Chauda, and with a missile from the airspace of the occupied Zaporozhye region. The missile was shot down in the Dnepropetrovsk region, the drones in the Odessa region.
07:27 Over the past 24 hours, 84 military clashes took place at the front, the General Staff reported in its morning report . In particular, in the Avdeevsky direction, the Defense Forces repelled 21 attacks (in the areas south of Novokalinovo, Stepnoe, Avdeevka, Severny, Pervomaisky of the Donetsk region) and the same number in the Bakhmutsky direction (in the areas of Grigoryevka, Bogdanovka, Ivanovsky, Kleshcheevka and Andreevka of the Donetsk region).
In addition, in the Kupyansk direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces repelled enemy attacks in the areas of Sinkovka, Kharkov region, and Stelmakhovka, Lugansk region; on Limansky - in the Serebryansky forestry area of the Lugansk region; on Maryinsky - in the Novomikhailovka area of the Donetsk region; in Zaporozhye - in the Rabotino district and west of Verbovoy, Zaporozhye region. The enemy did not conduct offensive operations in the Shakhtarsky direction.
At the same time, the Defense Forces continue the offensive operation in the Melitopol direction, assault operations south of Bakhmut, Donetsk region, and in the Kherson direction they hold occupied positions on the left bank of the Dnieper.
04:10 If the US Congress does not pass a bill to allocate funds to help Ukraine by the end of the year, it will be very difficult to continue supporting Kiev at the required level, said John Kirby, coordinator of the White House National Security Council. He added that due to delays in funding, the Biden administration is already forced to limit the volume of supplies to Ukraine.
03:23 Most Russian oligarchs have been able to increase their wealth since the beginning of 2023, even under the conditions of the introduction of sanctions against the Russian Federation, writes Bloomberg. In total, they were able to replenish their accounts by $38.575 billion. The overall ranking of 500 billionaires includes 25 Russians. And six Russians made it into the top hundred rich people in the world , ranking from 47th to 88th place.