[NYPOST] Russian forces have pulled back from fortified positions along the bank of the Dnipro River across from the recently liberated city of Kherson, Ukrainian authorities said Thursday.
The reports, if confirmed, could indicate a Russian withdrawal from what has become the war’s de facto southern front.
"A decrease in the number of Russian soldiers and military equipment is observed in the settlement of Oleshky," the Ukrainian military said Thursday, referring to a town across the Dnipro from Kherson city.
The military added that Russian troops had apparently withdrawn from other settlements in the Kherson province and "dispersed in forest strips."
The Dnipro River, which bisects Ukraine in an arced path from Kyiv in the north to Kherson city in the south, became the effective southern front earlier this month, after Russia troops withdrew from the eponymous regional capital the Kherson province, located on the river’s west bank.
Russian fortifications have been reported across the Dnipro’s eastern bank, and all major crossings across the section of river in Kherson province have been destroyed.
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[LB] The occupiers also fought in the Donetsk, Sumy, Kharkiv, Zaporizhia and Luhansk regions.
by Iryna Lysohor
The night was relatively calm in Volyn, Transcarpathia, Rivne Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk, Odesa, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, Khmelnytskyi, Chernivtsi, Lviv, Ternopil Oblasts, Poltava Oblast, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy Oblast, Chernihiv Oblast, Zhytomyr Oblast and Kyiv Oblast.
In the Sumy region , Russian troops fired 110 shells and mines along the border yesterday. Bilopolska, Krasnopilska, Seredino-Budska and Esmanska communities were affected. In the Bilopol community: the Russians shelled the city hospital with barrel artillery (35 "arrivals"). A 15-year-old boy died. The premises of the hospital were damaged, according to the summary from OVA as of this morning.
In Donetsk this morning, there was a massive artillery attack in the central part of Avdiyivka. At night - shelling of the Kurakhovo area; positional combat operations in the area of Vodyanyi, Opytny, Pervomaisky Ocheretyn community; periodic shelling of the villages of Bakhmutske, Yakovlivka, Rozdolivka of the Soledar community. During the day, there was constant shelling of Bakhmut, the villages of Torske, Zarichne, and settlements along the entire front line. Three civilians were wounded in the past day.
In Zaporizhzhya Oblast, the occupiers shelled civilian infrastructure in the area of Stepove, Kamianske, Mali Shcherbaki, Gulyaipole, Orihiv, Dorozhnianka, Olgivske, Novodanilivka, Zaliznychne, Noaoandriivka, Charivne, Malynivka, and Preobrazhenka settlements. 24 reports were received about the destruction of houses (apartments) of citizens and infrastructure objects as a result of shelling by Russian servicemen. Detailed information on the consequences is being clarified.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region, the Russians again shelled the Nikopol district. Two communities - Marganetska and Chervonogrigorivska - came under the fire of Russian "Grads" and heavy artillery. Previously, people were not injured. Four private houses, two farm buildings, a gas pipeline and a power line were damaged in the Chervonogrigorivska community. In the Marganets community, the details of the shelling are still being clarified.
On the front in the Kupyansk and Lymansk directions , the enemy continues to defend. During the past day, the Russians carried out a fire attack on Novoselivka, Stelmakhivka, Makiivka, Ploschanka, Nevsky, Chervopopivka, and Bilogorivka. In total, during the day, the enemy carried out 56 attacks on the positions of the defenders of the Luhansk region. Units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the districts of Novoselivskyi, Stelmakhiva and Bilogorivka.
In the Kharkiv region, the intensity of shelling increased in the Kupyan district. Voluntary evacuation of the population continues. During the day, the Russians launched artillery strikes almost every two hours. Fires broke out in houses, outbuildings, warehouses, during the night (for about four hours) the occupiers hit Kupyansk with S-300 rockets, only open areas were hit. The border communities of Vovchansk and Lipetsk are also under fire. According to emergency services, there were no casualties.
In the Kherson region, the situation remains difficult. Areas of settlements located on the right bank of the Dnipro River were subjected to artillery and tank fire. Russian invaders again shelled Kherson.
Last day, the occupiers fought in the middle of the city. Several residential buildings and medical facilities were damaged, and a gas pipeline was hit. A 70-year-old resident of Kherson died in her own apartment due to enemy shelling. A 64-year-old man from Kherson was injured when he was on the street - Russian shells fell on the road.
On the night of December 1, another attack was made on Kherson. The enemy hit a multi-story residential building located in the Dnipro Market area. After the shelling, a fire broke out on the spot. Information about the victims is being clarified.
On the occupied territory of the Kherson region, shelling of the city of Kakhovka continues from the villages of Rozdolne and Korobka. Humanitarian goods are delivered to the liberated communities of the Kherson region from charitable organizations, enterprises, volunteers and within the framework of state programs.
We will remind, as a result of the shelling of Kherson, the power supply was cut off. As of yesterday, 65 percent of the city was restored. After leaving the city, the occupiers hit it every day.
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[Vesti] December 1 is the 281st day of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Briefly about the main thing that is happening in the country on this day, about the situation in the regions, the exchange of prisoners, as well as all the relevant information from key departments - online Vesti.ua .
07:00 . The main thing from the morning summary of the General Staff:
During the day, the Russians launched 2 missile strikes on civilian targets in Kamyshevakh, Zaporozhye region, carried out 41 air strikes and 28 shelling with MLRS on the positions of our troops and settlements, including Kherson.
The Armed Forces of Ukraine repulsed the attacks of Russian troops in the areas of settlements: Novoselovskoe, Stelmakhivka and Belogorivka of the Luhansk region and Belogorovka, Yakovlevka, Bakhmut, Kurdyumovka, Krasnogorovka, Kamenka, Vodianoe, Pervomayskoye and Maryinka of the Donetsk region.
Aviation of the Defense Forces in 24 hours delivered 17 strikes on areas of concentration of personnel, weapons and military equipment of the enemy, as well as 4 strikes on the positions of its air defense systems.
Ukrainian units shot down a UAV (probably of the Orlan-10 type).
During the day, missile and artillery units of the Defense Forces hit: 7 areas of concentration of personnel and weapons and military equipment, a fuel and lubricants warehouse, and 5 other important objects of the Russian Federation.
08:00 . Kherson region. In Kherson, the voltage in the power grids disappeared, said the head of the OVA, Yaroslav Yanushevich. According to him, this happened due to the powerful shelling of the city by the Russian military at night. Some arrivals were near residential buildings. Fires started in the city.
Dnipropetrovsk region. "Hails" and heavy artillery, the Russians fired at the Nikopol region 8 times a night . Several private houses and household structures, a gas pipeline and a power line were damaged. No casualties.
09:30 . Kherson region. There is a decrease in the number of Russian military and military equipment in Oleshki, they say in the General Staff. Russian troops have been withdrawn from individual settlements in the region and dispersed in forest belts along the section of the Oleshki-Golaya Pristan highway. The basis of the troops - mobilized.
12:00 . Donetsk region. The Armed Forces of Ukraine allegedly attacked the railway station in Ilovaisk, according to the so-called. "DNR".
13:30 . Donetsk region. In the so-called. "DPR" announced the next exchange of prisoners of war 50 to 50 . The Ukrainian side has not yet commented on this information. Previously, all statements of the so-called. "heads of the DPR" Pushilin about the exchange were confirmed.
15:00 . Poltava region. Explosions in Kremenchug.
16:00 . A total of 50 Ukrainian defenders returned from captivity , Andriy Yermak said. The defenders of Mariupol and Azovstal returned, being in Olenivka prisoners, wounded, including in battles in the Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporozhye directions.
17:17 All 30 NATO member countries agree on the need for Ukraine to join the Alliance. This was stated by Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine Olha Stefanyshina at the Kiev Security Forum.
17:50 On the afternoon of December 1, Russian invaders fired artillery at the city of Nikopol, Dnepropetrovsk region - several high-rise buildings were damaged, there is a victim. This was announced by the head of the Dnipropetrovsk OVA Valentin Reznichenko in Telegram.
18:19 The threat of missile strikes on Ukraine's critical infrastructure remains. This is reported in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
18:40 Joe Biden appealed to Congress with a request to provide Ukraine with 37 billion dollars. This was stated by US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland.
19:04 Oleksandr Usyk donated $50,000 for generators for Ukrainian hospitals. This is reported by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine.
19:33 In November, the Russian Federation launched 239 cruise missiles and 80 Shahed-136 drones in Ukraine. Air defense forces managed to shoot down 72% of missiles and 80 percent of drones. This was stated by the representative of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexei Gromov during a briefing.
19:59 The Russians have no chance to plunge Ukraine into darkness, - DTEK CEO Maxim Timchenko. He also believes that Ukraine is ready for the next missile attacks.
20:23 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that they had taken control of the village of Kurdyumovka in the Donetsk region.
20:47 In the Bakhmut direction, Russian troops are concentrating their main efforts to conduct offensive operations. The main thing from the evening summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
21:13 NATO will put pressure on Hungary, which, due to issues of national minorities, is blocking Ukraine's participation in political meetings of the allies.
21:42 On December 1, President Volodymyr Zelensky conferred the rank of Major General on Vasyl Malyuk, who is now acting head of the Security Service.
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[Korrespondent] 22:54 The National Security and Defense Council instructed the government to submit to the Verkhovna Rada a bill on the impossibility of activities in Ukraine of religious organizations affiliated with centers of influence in the Russian Federation , Zelensky said in an evening video message. In addition, at the meeting of the National Security and Defense Council, the State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience was instructed to ensure the conduct of a religious examination of the Charter on the management of the UOC for the presence of a church-canonical connection with the Moscow Patriarchate and, if necessary, take the measures provided for by law.
It was also instructed to ensure the verification of the existence of legal grounds and compliance with the conditions for the use of property by religious organizations located on the territory of the National Kyiv-Pechersk Historical and Cultural Reserve. All bodies whose competence includes issues in the field of ensuring national security were instructed to intensify measures to identify and counter the subversive activities of Russian special services in the religious environment of Ukraine. And apply personal sanctions - the names will be made public soon.
"We need to raise the status and strengthen the capabilities of the State Service for Ethnopolitics and Freedom of Conscience. This structure will be reformed, which will allow it to really protect the rights and legitimate interests of Ukrainians and the state," the president stressed.
"We will ensure for our state the fullness of independence. In particular, spiritual independence. We will never allow anyone to build an empire inside the Ukrainian soul," Zelensky said.
22:25 The Cabinet of Ministers of Italy adopted a decree extending the supply of weapons to Ukraine for the whole of 2023, Corriere della Sera reported.
21:59 In the Kursk region of the Russian Federation, the settlements of Tetkino and Popovo-Lezhachi were left without electricity after "a drone of the Armed Forces of Ukraine dropped an explosive device," Governor Roman Starovoit said.
21:57 The loss of the Ukrainian army is about 13 thousand dead, Podolyak said: "We have official estimates of the General Staff, which are voiced by the Supreme Commander. They range from 10 to 12.5-13 thousand dead ... Yes, we have more losses from - for wounds.
21:55 Podolyak said that Russia initially planned to kill tens of thousands of people in Ukraine: "A preliminary analysis of the documents" on the beginning of the SVO "says that Russia planned to seize Central Ukraine, destroy the government, kill tens of thousands of people (Bucha everywhere), remove traces and pass it off in the media as a "liberation". After the victory of Ukraine, this evidence will be examined by an international tribunal."
21:32 Norway will double the number of instructors for training the Ukrainian military. According to the Ministry of Defense of the country, in 2023, 150 military instructors will be sent to train Ukrainian soldiers. In addition, the kingdom has already allocated about $15 million for their education.
21:21 Macron said at a joint press conference with Biden that the development of the situation in Ukraine in the coming weeks and months will allow us to talk about the timing of possible negotiations between Kiev and Moscow. At the same time, he stressed that neither France nor the United States would put pressure on Ukraine to force it to negotiate.
21:16 Biden and Macron in a joint statement condemned Russian aggression and promised to support Ukraine for as long as necessary, in particular, to provide more air defense systems and help with energy.
21:10 Chinese leader Xi Jinping, following talks with the head of the European Council, Charles Michel, called for an end to the war in Ukraine by political means: "Resolving the Ukrainian crisis by political means is in the interests of Europe and the common interests of all Eurasian countries... Escalation and expansion of the crisis must be avoided" .
21:06 Biden said that he does not plan contacts with Putin in the near future, and if such contacts take place, then only in consultations with NATO, not on an independent basis. He clarified that he was ready to talk with Putin if the Russian Federation showed interest in putting an end to the war in Ukraine.
21:02 In addition to the Ukrainian embassy in Spain, three more Ukrainian diplomatic missions received threatening letters, Kuleba said: "The letters are not with explosives, but with another substance. I won't comment yet, we will soon come out with an official position on this topic. Let's just say , inside these envelopes is a symbolic threat handed over to Ukraine. I can only say that all the envelopes were soaked in a red liquid at the time they were received."
According to the Foreign Minister, this is done to intimidate Ukraine and Ukrainian diplomats: “Now we are analyzing what happened. I draw one simple conclusion: if embassies have already begun to be attacked - with bombs, some kind of satanic or voodoo symbols, then they are afraid of us trying to stop us. But nothing will stop us."
20:57 Sweden has prepared a new "winter" assistance package for Ukraine for almost $338 million, which, in particular, includes air defense, Shmyhal said after a conversation with Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson. Sweden also joined the Grain from Ukraine initiative, allocating 10 million euros for the purchase of Ukrainian grain for the countries of Asia and Africa.
20:53 The upper house of the Czech parliament - the Senate - approved the training of Ukrainian military personnel in the country. According to the decision, up to 4,000 Ukrainian military personnel will be able to receive training in the Czech Republic in 2023. According to the proposal of the Czech government, by the end of next year, five four-week courses should be completed, each of which can be attended by up to 800 Ukrainian military personnel.
The Czech Senate also supported sending Czech military personnel to train Ukrainians in other EU countries. The Czech Republic will be able to send 55 troops to participate in the EU mission to train the Ukrainian military.
20:36 Intensification of combat training is expected in Belarus, however, there are no signs of the creation of a powerful strike force on the territory of the Republic of Belarus yet, Vadim Skibitsky, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, said: "In Belarus, we expect the intensification of combat training, because from December 1, a new academic year. The troops will go to the training grounds, they will work out various issues of combat coordination, testing of troops. So we expect active measures on the Belarusian territory, primarily in operational and combat training. We are ready for this. But I want to note that today there are signs the creation of a powerful strike force on the territory of Belarus is not visible."
At the same time, Skibitsky noted that in the future there is a threat of using the grouping of the union state of Belarus-Russia, but there are not enough weapons for this. Russia is actively removing weapons and military equipment from storage from warehouses, arsenals, mobilization deployment support centers in order to make up for losses and equip formations and units created as part of mobilization.
19:58 Russians during massive attacks on October 31 for the first time used X-55 cruise missiles , their fragments were found in the Lviv and Khmelnytsky regions, said Nikolai Danilyuk, a representative of the Central Military Scientific Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to him, these weapons are aimed at opening the air defense of Ukraine and its depletion. He also noted that "the peculiarity of these missiles was that they were equipped with a non-explosive warhead."
19:24 Representatives of Rosatom are laundering money allocated for the management of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. To do this, they draw up fictitious financial documents (corporate cards) in the name of ZNPP employees who have Ukrainian citizenship, the GUR MOU reports. According to intelligence, real financial statements are not drawn up and not submitted - that is, the money that was intended to pay for the work of the station personnel is appropriated by the occupation administration and Rosatom employees.
Currently, about 500 occupiers remain at the ZNPP, 200 of which are Kadyrovites. Their main task is to intimidate the personnel and induce them to cooperate with the occupiers. In the industrial zone of the station, about 300 mines were found, which were left behind by the invaders' units when they left the station. The FSB officers who arrived at the scene stated that these were supposedly "hiding places of the sabotage units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine."
19:18 Lithuania will purchase about 25,000 sets of winter clothes from three Lithuanian manufacturers for the amount of 2 million euros for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the country's Ministry of Defense reported. One of the manufacturers - Audimas Supply - decided to donate another thousand fleece sweaters to the Ukrainian Armed Forces at its own expense.
19:12 Klitschko does not rule out that in the event of Russian shelling of Kiev's infrastructure in cold weather, water will have to be drained from the heating system, and it will be difficult to supply it until spring: "If there is no heating and water for 24 hours at an outside temperature of -5, we it will be necessary to drain the heating systems in Kiev, because this can lead to damage to life support systems. We will be forced to drain the water. This means that it will be very difficult to supply water until spring. And there will be difficult challenges until the beginning of spring."
Thus, according to the mayor, "in a very short period of time the temperature in the apartments may not differ much from the outside," the threat of destruction of the power supply system throughout the city also remains. Klitschko urged residents to be prepared for different scenarios, even the worst, and to have an action plan for such a case, in particular, consider the possibility of moving out of town.
19:08 No letters with explosives will change the decision to help Ukraine, said Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles.
18:59 Germany is providing Ukraine with a new aid package, the country's government has announced. It will include, in particular, seven Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, three BIBER armored bridge-laying vehicles, eight surface drones, 12 border vehicles, as well as 100,000 first aid kits, 4,000 sleeping bags, 30 ambulances and spare parts for Mi-24 helicopters.
18:33 The Russians are withdrawing separate units and preparing the personnel of the occupation administrations of the Zaporozhye region for evacuation, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in the evening summary. So, units that were based in the local police department and one of the educational institutions left Mikhailovka. In the settlements of Pologi and Inzhenernoe, the occupiers leave the houses where they were quartered and take out the stolen property. In Burchak, the occupying authorities are conducting a census for the so-called voluntary evacuation of the population.
18:27 Biden has asked Congress for an additional $37 billion to support Ukraine, US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said during the Kiev Security Forum.
18:21 The EU has tentatively agreed to cap the price of Russian offshore oil at $60 per barrel, with an adjustment mechanism that would keep caps at 5% below the market price, Reuters writes.
17:46 Over the past two days, two more Ukrainian embassies abroad, in addition to the Spanish embassy, have received threatening letters, Kuleba said at the meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Lodz: "This is definitely a new form of terror. Together with the Spanish authorities, we are very actively working on in order to establish who is behind this. We certainly have a hunch who is behind this, but we need to trace the entire network of agents and people involved in this campaign. " According to the minister, in addition to the incident in Madrid, "other disturbing events took place, not related to explosives, but with the sending of very specific threats to the Ukrainian embassies."
17:43 Macron said he plans to talk with Putin in the coming days, after negotiations with Biden.
17:41 Russians in the Kherson region fired at their unit. Alexei Gromov, deputy chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said that on November 24 near Tsukurov, 14 Russian servicemen were killed and seven wounded as a result of a shell hitting a tent.
17:36 All 30 NATO member countries agree on the need for Ukraine to join the alliance, Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Olha Stefanishyna said: "We have progress in approaching NATO. At the last ministerial meeting in Bucharest, all 30 countries - NATO members agreed on the need to grant Ukraine membership in the alliance... NATO members confirmed that the doors are open for Ukraine.It is important that this decision is not a repetition of the conclusion of the Bucharest summit in 2008. This is a new powerful signal, and it is very important that it shows that no one afraid of pressure from the Russian Federation.
The Deputy Prime Minister also said that NATO is going to use political tools to put pressure on Hungary, which allegedly blocks Ukraine's participation in political meetings of the allies due to issues of national minorities.
17:30 The Rada adopted a bill that allows the Ukrainian military to go on vacation during martial law for up to ten days, not counting the road - a maximum of four more days are allocated for it in both directions. Cash payments are kept.
17:08 Scholz said in his speech at the Berlin Security Conference that Russia will not win the war against Ukraine: "Russia - I am convinced of this - will not win this war. Ruthless attacks on vital infrastructure, on water pipes and energy facilities, against Ukrainian towns and villages is a terrible and at the same time desperate scorched earth strategy.
16:39 Russian troops on Thursday, December 1, once again fired at the energy enterprises of DTEK Energy, the company said. As a result of the attack, two power engineers were injured.
16:35 Macron said at a meeting with Biden that negotiations to resolve the Russian-Ukrainian conflict are still possible.
16:33 The Verkhovna Rada approved a statement on the need to reform the UN and the illegitimacy of Russia's presence in it.
16:30 Ukrenergo has attracted 300 million euros in EBRD loans, as well as 72 million euros in grant funds from the Netherlands to restore grids and improve the company's financial stability. According to NEK Investment Director Oleg Pavlenko, 150 million euros of the EBRD loan and 72 million euros of the grant will be directed directly to the purchase of equipment that is urgently needed for the damaged substations. The remaining 150 million euros will be used to fulfill Ukrenergo's financial obligations in the electricity market.
16:28 The Russians are using Soviet missiles with erased serial numbers, said the representative of the Central Military Scientific Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Nikolai Danilyuk. So, according to him, all the detected X-55 missiles were with deliberately erased serial numbers.
16:23 Danilov said that the Russian Federation within its current borders should cease to exist: "They just need to be destroyed so that they cease to exist as a country within the limits in which they exist. Because today Russia is one of the few countries that has colonies on their territory, which destroyed a huge number of peoples, languages, cultures, traditions. They are just barbarians. And when they say that we should sit down at the same table with these barbarians and say something, I generally think that this is unworthy."
16:00 Another major exchange of prisoners took place: 50 defenders of Ukraine were released. Among them are the defenders of Mariupol and Azovstal, prisoners from Yelenovka, the wounded, including those in the battles in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporozhye directions, Yermak said.
15:55 The SBU reported a suspicion to a priest from the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, at whose divine service the "Russian world" was glorified. During the pre-trial investigation, the fact of illegal actions of one of the clergy and his accomplices who participated in this service was established. This is confirmed by relevant expert studies.
15:49 Another package of explosives found in Spain - at the US Embassy in Madrid.
15:43 Switzerland has frozen the assets of the Russian Federation in the amount of 7.2 billion euros, the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) said. In addition, 15 properties belonging to individuals, companies and sanctioned entities were seized in six cantons.
15:19 Russian ships in the Black Sea are collecting intelligence for a possible strike on Ukraine. Enemy rocket carriers are already equipped and prepared, said Natalya Gumenyuk, speaker of OK Pivden. "We are talking about the need to be ready for a massive missile attack, because this is one of the means of depleting our air defense," she added.
14:58 Putin's attempts to weaponize hunger and cold must be defeated, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said at the Kiev Security Forum: "The United States will stand with Ukraine for as long as necessary, because the American people understand that you are fighting not only for your own survival, you are fighting for us all. Putin's attempts at violent conquest, his war crimes and nuclear blackmail, his attempts to weaponize hunger and freeze Ukraine must be repulsed and defeated."
14:17 The NATO Parliamentary Assembly supports the idea of creating a special tribunal to condemn Russia for war crimes against Ukraine and Ukrainians, said PA President Joel Garrio-Maillam: "Russia must be held accountable for all its crimes. All its actions, including war crimes, crimes against humanity and probable acts of genocide must be investigated. The crime of aggression by Russia must also be investigated by a special international tribunal. Our Assembly fully supports the establishment of such a special tribunal."
14:11 The National Police reported that since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, 46,442 criminal proceedings have been opened on the facts of crimes committed on the territory of Ukraine by the military personnel of the RF Armed Forces and their accomplices.
13:53 During November, 16,970 Russian soldiers were destroyed by the Defense Forces - this is the largest number in the entire war, the Ministry of Defense reported.
13:46 Russia can put pressure on Ukraine with reports of a "decisive missile attack," Natalia Gumenyuk, head of the press center of the Defense Forces of the South of Ukraine, said. According to her, in this way the enemy is trying to intimidate the population: “We know how many missiles they have left and what class, we understand that they are able to use them as strongly as possible ... But we are also aware that the wear and tear of those means by which they launch missiles, also has its own indicators, they are taken into account by our analysts. This is insane psychological pressure in the conditions of the created energy crisis, when people are tense and look for a moment to throw out their discontent."
Gumenyuk stressed that the military promptly informs about launch vehicles or other means of the enemy so that the Ukrainians are ready for a massive missile attack.
13:07 The head of the London law firm Mccue Jury & Partners, Jason McCue, met with the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kirill Budanov, and told him that he was filing a lawsuit against the Wagner group. The lawsuit will be filed on behalf of Ukrainian citizens - victims of Russian terror. PMC Wagner and its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin are accused of causing harm and suffering to the plaintiffs, as well as using the means of terrorism to wage an illegal war.
Jason McCue is also preparing a lawsuit against Putin in order to bring him to criminal liability.
12:43 Over the past five days, Russian military bases have been neutralized in Inzhenerny, Pologi, Tokmak, Basan, Mikhailovka, Chernigovka, in the Vasilyevsky district, near Energodar and in Melitopol, Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov said.
12:39 Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov asks Ukrainians not to worry and not live in anticipation of massive missile strikes: “I want to reassure everyone. then trouble. Live your life, which is already difficult. "
He also recalled that Ukraine has a warning system that has repeatedly proven its effectiveness. In addition, Danilov advised to take information about the upcoming shelling only from trusted sources, because Russia does a lot of "stuffing".
12:10 SBU completed counterintelligence activities on the territory of St. Cyril and Methodius convent of the Mukachevo diocese of the UOC (MP) in Transcarpathia. A large number of agitation and propaganda materials were found, most of the literature was authored by Russian figures and published by Russian printing houses. In particular, these are xenophobic books with offensive fabrications about other nationalities and religions. The pamphlets deny Ukraine's right to independence and say that Russia, Ukraine and Belarus "cannot be divided."
Despite the prohibition of the head of the diocese, the monastery continued to remember during prayers the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Kirill Gundyaev, who "blessed" the Russian military to kill Ukrainians. Also during the check, the SBU found the texts of pro-Russian songs that glorified the "Russian land" and called for the "awakening of Mother Rus'."
12:04 Peskov said that attempts by the West to create a war crimes tribunal for Russia in Ukraine "will not be legitimate, will not be accepted and will be condemned."
12:00 In Spain, they found two more parcels with bombs: one of them was sent to the Ministry of Defense, the second - to Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
11:58 Lavrov said that Russia in Ukraine is attacking infrastructure "which helps to kill Russians."
11:53 Energoatom President Petr Kotin, by his order, dismissed the deputy chief engineer of the Zaporizhzhya NPP, Yuriy Chernichuk, who also acted as the station's chief engineer. This decision is connected with the collaboration and treacherous activities of Chernichuk in favor of the invaders. By other orders, Kotin appointed Dmitry Verbitsky as acting general director of ZNPP and Igor Murashov as chief engineer of the plant. The day before, the Russians reported that Chernichuk had been appointed "director" of the ZNPP.
11:47 The Ministry of Digital Development and Amazon signed a memorandum of cooperation for 2023. The company will provide Ukraine with $75 million in support, Minister Mikhail Fedorov said. He also recalled that at the beginning of a full-scale war, Amazon AWS was one of the first to help keep the digital infrastructure of Ukraine - the company provided services worth millions of dollars to store about 100 state registries. In addition, Amazon helps to train thousands of Ukrainians in IT specialties.
11:30 Lavrov said that it will no longer be possible to restore the old relations with the West in the field of European security, "because restoration means what it was before. But there will be no business as usual." He also stressed that Moscow "did not ask for negotiations with Kyiv, but is ready to listen to the other side."
11:26 The third explosive device hidden in the parcel was sent to the air force base in Madrid, which shares intelligence with Ukraine. To ensure security, employees of the National Police and the National Guard left for the territory of the base. The envelope was addressed to the Satellite Center, Spanish media reported.
11:23 The Vilnius municipality has begun work on the dismantling of Soviet sculptures at the Antakalnis cemetery, which was previously blocked by the decision of the UN Human Rights Committee, the mayor of the city, Remigius Simasius, said. Work is expected to take up to three weeks.
10:37 In Russia, military men dissatisfied with the "special operation" began to be called in for talks at the FSB. The calls began even before the entry into force of the FSB order prohibiting reporting on the moral climate in the troops, the Can Explain channel reports.
On December 1, an expanded and updated order of the FSB came into force in the Russian Federation, prohibiting citizens from reporting any information about military operations. Among other things, it is forbidden to report on the "moral and psychological climate in the troops." Persons sharing this information may be considered "foreign agents".
09:58 British intelligence notes that Russian strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure are likely to be the first example of the implementation of the Russian Federation's concept of the Strategic Operation to destroy critical targets, which is a key component of the military doctrine adopted by it in recent years.
Russia envisioned the SODCIT concept as using long-range missiles to strike the enemy state's critical national infrastructure rather than its armed forces in order to demoralize the population and eventually force the state's leaders to capitulate. Russian strikes continue to cause power outages, resulting in indiscriminate massive humanitarian suffering across Ukraine.
However, their effectiveness as a strategy has likely declined because Russia has already used up most of its eligible missiles against tactical targets. In addition, since Ukraine has been successfully mobilizing for nine months, the material and psychological impact of SODCIT is likely to be less than if it had been deployed in the initial period of the war, analysts said.
09:25 France has begun to create a special tribunal that will investigate Russia's war crimes, the country's Foreign Ministry said.
09:22 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) notes that the efforts of the Russians around Bakhmut indicate that they have not learned from previous campaigns with a large number of victims. Losses in six months of brutal fighting around Bakhmut far outweigh any operational advantage the Russians could gain from capturing the city, analysts say.
09:16 Spiegel reports, citing satellite images from the Russian airfield Engels-2 near Saratov, that the Russians, apparently, are preparing for a new missile attack on Ukraine. The images show almost two dozen Tu-95 and Tu-160 long-range bombers, as well as tankers, ammunition crates and a host of cargo planes.
09:10 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of December 1.
personnel - about 89,440 (+560) people liquidated,
tanks - 2915 (+1),
armored combat vehicles - 5877 (+5),
artillery systems - 1904 (+2),
MLRS - 395 (+0),
air defense systems - 210 (+0),
aircraft - 280 (+0),
helicopters - 261 (+0),
UAV operational-tactical level - 1562 (+0),
cruise missiles - 531 (+0),
ships/boats - 16 (+0),
automotive equipment and tankers - 4441 (+12),
special equipment - 163 (+0).
09:04 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of enemy shelling, three civilians were wounded - in Bakhmut, the head of the OVA Pavel Kirilenko said.
09:02 In Kherson, because of the powerful shelling of the city by the Russians, voltage has hit the power grids, the head of the OVA, Yaroslav Yanushevich, said.
08:54 Americans will train 2,500 Ukrainian soldiers per month in Germany, CNN reports, citing White House officials. Specifically, under the new program, the US will begin training much larger groups of Ukrainian soldiers in more sophisticated combat tactics, including coordinating infantry maneuvers with artillery support.
08:31 Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces repelled attacks by Russian invaders in the areas of settlements: Novoselovskoye, Stelmakhovka and Belogorovka of the Luhansk region and Belogorovka, Yakovlevka, Bakhmut, Kurdyumovka, Krasnogorovka, Kamenka, Vodianoe, Pervomayskoye and Maryinka of the Donetsk region, the General Staff said in the morning summary .
In the Svatovsky and Limansky directions, the enemy is engaged in the engineering equipment of the defense line, continues to move personnel, ammunition, fuel and lubricants to recruit and provide new and lost units.
In Oleshky, Kherson region, the number of Russian military and military equipment is decreasing. Enemy troops have been withdrawn from individual settlements in the Kherson region and dispersed in the forest belts along the section of the Oleshki-Golaya Pristan highway. The bulk of the troops are mobilized.
01:50 The Pentagon and the American company Raytheon Technologies have signed a $1.2 billion contract for the purchase of NASAMS air defense systems for Ukraine, the US Department of Defense announced. We are talking about the delivery of six more NASAMS batteries in addition to the two delivered in November. They will be delivered to Kyiv within the next months, as soon as they are built.
00:15 Zelensky, in his speech at the NYT DealBook Summit, expressed the hope that the war will end in the coming months: "The war will end when we win, or when the Russian Federation wants it. It may happen that Russia wants only when it feels that she is weak, she is isolated and she has no partners on this issue. Let's hope that this will happen in the coming months."
00:02 YASNO General Director Serhiy Kovalenko said that the time that the people of Kiev spend without electricity is decreasing, but emergency shutdowns continue, stabilization schedules do not work, "but we focus on them and are approaching them." He also noted that the number of homes connected to the same lines as critical infrastructure is declining. So, in the capital, their number has decreased from 2000 to 745. And houses that cannot be reconnected to another line to be turned off along with the whole city will be turned off manually - this should be done by housing and condominiums or management companies.
Kindly note that several entries in this article may have been removed because they included discussions of the grand strategic level.
[NewsFrontInfo] 21:27 Mobilized service men are training at the shooting range near Kazan
Soldiers who have recently joined the Russian Armed Forces are training to fire small arms with tracer bullets.
They fire at various types of training targets at a distance of 100 to 400 meters.
At the same time, when planning such training, instructors use the experience of a military operation. 20:20 Defeat Ukrainian armored car "Kozak"
Direct hit ATGM "Fagot" (AT-4) destroyed the car with the landing on board For its time the AT-4 was an advanced ATGM, yet it still is in use in the breakaway republics. 19:00 Preparation at the training grounds goes into full swing.
Motorized riflemen of the Central Military District, called up as part of partial mobilization, continue to hone their combat skills. The emphasis is on clear, coordinated actions in pairs and as part of units. Soldiers train elements of tactical shooting with a change of leader and fire cover on the move.
Classes at the training ground are held jointly with the crews of infantry fighting vehicles to work out interaction during an offensive. The infantry fighting vehicle delivers shooters to a given square, the personnel lands from the vehicle on the move and deploys a battle formation to advance deep into the enemy defenses under the cover of a combat vehicle.
In addition, servicemen practice shooting at waist and tall targets from a standstill at a distance of up to 200 meters. This is one of the final stages of coordination of combat units.
18:01 Air alert announced in Dnepropetrovsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, Vinnitsa, Cherkasy, Poltava, Kirovohrad, Khmelnytsky regions and the capital of Ukraine
17:58 Air defense worked over Belgorod and the Belgorod region - Governor Gladkov
"There are no casualties. The operational services are clarifying the consequences on the ground," the governor added.
17:00 Explosions are reported in Kyiv, after which smoke rose over the city
16:06 Su-34 fighter-bombers reliably cover ground forces in the special operation zone
The crews of the Su-34 are on combat duty around the clock at home airfields.
The pilots perform air patrol tasks, as well as cover the actions of units of the Russian Armed Forces and allied forces in any meteorological conditions.
15:37 An air raid alert has been announced throughout Ukraine.
According to the official alert resource, the first sirens sounded at 14:19 (15:19 Moscow time) in the central part of the country. Then the red zone spread to all areas.
14:38 Servicemen of the Western Military District continue tactical training classes at the training grounds of the Republic of Belarus
At the command "To battle!" the squad dismounts, deploys in battle formation and begins the offensive. When attacking, motorized riflemen maneuver on the field without ceasing fire. Soldiers shoot both on the move and during short stops, thus trying to suppress a mock enemy.
Upon completion of the shooting - a thorough analysis, analysis of errors and again to the original. So, step by step, on the training grounds of Belarus, the military personnel of the Western Military District are mastering the tactics of modern infantry combat. Learn all its nuances.
Ammunition is spared here. Fighters hone their fire skills every day, firing from machine guns, machine guns and hand-held anti-tank grenade launchers.
13:31 The main thing from the new briefing of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation:
◾️The RF Armed Forces destroyed two AN/TPQ-37 counter-battery radar stations in the DPR;
◾️The RF Armed Forces repulsed all counterattacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Yuzhno-Donets direction, the enemy was driven back to their original positions;
◾️Russian troops thwarted an attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Kuzemovka in the LPR, killing more than 60 Ukrainian servicemen and six tanks;
◾️The Russian Armed Forces hit three points of deployment of foreign mercenaries of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR;
◾️The RF Armed Forces thwarted an attempted attack by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the direction of Chervonopopovka in the LPR.
12:33 Russian armed forces continue to consistently achieve the goals set by the president, Medvedev said
11:26 Scouts of the 9th regiment destroyed Ukrainian militant with the help of a strike UAV
In the 9th Regiment of the 1st Army Corps, modern methods of warfare are successfully used. So the unit's scouts with a sniper throw of a grenade from an attack copter eliminated a Ukrainian militant in his shelter.
10:32 Air raid alert in Kirovohrad, Dnepropetrovsk and Nikolaev regions of Ukraine, as well as in Kyiv-controlled parts of Kherson and Zaporozhye
09:35 In the Kherson direction, Russian artillery hit Aleksandrovka and Kizomys. There were also arrivals in the regional center.
Fierce battles for Maryinka continue on the Donetsk front. The Russian army is attacking in the city, the Armed Forces of Ukraine are not going to retreat. Artillery of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is working closely in the fortified area of the Ukrainian army in Krasnogorovka. On the ground, they conduct assault operations near Nevelskoye and Pervomaisky. Artillery hits Avdiivka.
To the north-east of Soledar, Russian troops cut the railroad near Donetsk Belogorovka. Ground fighting continues in the area of the practically non-existent Disputed. The Russian army is attacking.
In the Lugansk direction, the Armed Forces of Ukraine already tried to break through to Krasnopopovka and cut the section of the R-66 highway to Kremennaya. Russian troops in the area, in turn, were shelling Nevsky and Makeevka. And to the north, on the ground, they again attacked in the direction of Stelmahovka.
08:14 The work of impact copters in the NWO zone. A drone with a grenade drop system hit several targets in forest plantations. On the cadres you can see the fire of the ammunition load of the 73-mm SPG-9 recoilless gun.
Commercial drones and quadcopters have taken an important place in the current conflict because of their ease of use and their versatility. The light weight of the ammunition allows it to be used with almost any copter, which greatly facilitates the work of infantry units in clearing enemy positions.
07:07 Armored train "Amur"checksdangerous routes and escorts cargo.
It would seem that the time of armored trains is long gone. A formidable weapon during the Civil War, the last time it was widely used in the Great Patriotic War. But in fact, armored trains were used even during the fighting in Chechnya. Only he was already entrusted not with the tasks of fire support for the troops, but with escorting cargo and checking dangerous sections of the path.
Approximately the same armored trains operate in the NWO zone. They are equipped with ZU-23-2 installations to suppress the enemy, who decides to attack the echelon with cargo. /Ministry of Defense, iz.ru/
05:00 Ukrainian prisoner of war Sergei Ulyanov told about the low level of training in the Armed Forces of Ukraine: since March, his unit had only one lesson in tactics and was taken to the shooting range three times.
01:19 Russian Armed Forces units, which include mobilized ones, are being restored and are conducting combat coordination after successfully completing combat missions in the special operation zone.VideoRIA Novosti.
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[NewsFrontInfo] 22:28 On the operational lines of the DPR JCCC for December 1, additional information was received about civilian casualties in the cities of the Republic:
Donetsk (Voroshilovsky district): - on Mira Ave., 3 "e", a man born in 1983 was injured; were injured.
As of 2200 hrs, the total number of civilian casualties from AFU attacks on December 1, 2022 is six people (one dead, five injured). The information continues to flow.
Additional information was received about damage as a result of the shelling of the Ukrainian cities of the Republic: Donetsk:
Voroshilovsky district: - the administration of Donetsk was damaged;
— Building No. 3 of the Donetsk National Technical University was damaged;
- st. R. Luxembourg, 54 "a"
- the grocery supermarket "Moloko" was damaged;
— Prospekt Mira, 11 “a”
trade pavilions;
— Vatutina Ave., 21, 22
– apartment buildings;
- st. Shchorsa, 54/2 - a private residential building;
- st. Otechestvennaya, 32-2 - a private residential building;
- st. Universitetskaya, 48 "b", 50, 52, 59 - apartment buildings.
Kievsky district:
- the building of the Kievsky District Department of Internal Affairs was damaged; car fires were also recorded; — Mira Ave., 2, 4, 5 — multi-apartment residential buildings.
Petrovsky district:
- a direct hit on the building of the MBOU "Boarding School No. 3 in Donetsk" was recorded.
21:57 Allied forces continue to advance, squeezing the ring around Avdiivka, Denis Pushilin said. He also reported on the successes of the allied forces in the Artyomovsk and Maryinsk directions.
21:44 The building of the administration of Donetsk was damaged during the shelling of the city center by the Armed Forces of Ukraine - the mayor of the city
21:01 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation publishesvideowith soldiers returning from Ukrainian captivity
The exchange took place today according to the formula "50 to 50". In captivity, the soldiers were in mortal danger, according to the department.
19:35 Moment arrivals of 122mm BM-21 "Gradov" rocket artillery in Donetsk. Voroshilovsky district.
19:30 Ukrainian militants fired twelve rockets from the 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS in the direction of the settlement. Avdiivka - Donetsk (Voroshilovsky and Kuibyshevsky districts), reported the representative office of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine.
19:20 In the Gulyaipole area in the Zaporozhye direction, a tank of the Armed Forces of Ukraine fired at the positions of our units, but was hunted down anddestroyedspecial forces group.
19:10 Fixation of consequences of the shelling of the Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk on 01.12.2022
According to updated information, as a result of the shelling, four civilians were injured: women born in 1940 and 1946, men born in 1937 and 1952.
18:59 Security officers of the LPR with the support of the Russian Guard continue to carry out measures to neutralize SBU accomplices in the areas of the LPR liberated during a special military operation.
As a result of the events, persons were detained who, according to operational data, were involved in cooperation with the special services of Ukraine. Among the detainees are gunners who transmitted data for the Ukrainian military to carry out artillery strikes on the civilian and critical infrastructure of cities.
At present, the necessary operational-search measures and investigative actions are being carried out to establish the details of the crimes of accomplices of the Kyiv regime. The issue of initiating criminal cases under Article 276 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Espionage”, which provides for imprisonment for up to 20 years, is being resolved.
18:35 First frames of Russian soldiers released from captivity.
18:23 The Ukrainian military fired four rounds with a caliber of 152mm in the direction of the settlement.
Avdiivka
- n.p. Chestnut, three rounds with a caliber of 155mm in the direction of the settlement.
Krasnogorovka
- Donetsk (Petrovsky district), reported the representative office of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine.
18:10 Evening summary by Headquarters of the Territorial Defense of the DPR on December 1, 2022.
17:39 The Ukrainian military fired nine rounds of 155mm caliber in the direction of the settlement. Orlovka - Donetsk (Kyiv and Kuibyshevsky districts), three rounds with a caliber of 122mm in the direction of the settlement.
Dyleevka
- n.p. Zaitsevo, the DPR office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine reported.
17:10 On the outskirts of the Disputable, artillerymen of the 4th brigade of the 2nd AC of the LPR destroyed an infantry fighting vehicle of Ukrainian militants. Video NM LNR.
16:54 Russian fighters daily reflect attacks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station.
DRGs of the enemy do not leave attempts to break through the defenses and attack the hydroelectric power station in Novaya Kakhovka.
"Regularly they try to break through, accumulate their forces on the other side of the river," machine gunner Alexander said.
After unsuccessful attempts, the Armed Forces of Ukraine begin to hit the residential areas of Nova Kakhovka, trying to intimidate civilians.
16:36 Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk was hit by 122mm BM-21 MLRS GRAD.
For the second week in a row, Ukrainian militants have been hitting residential areas in the Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk. According to preliminary data, on December 1, as a result of a terrorist strike by Ukrainian militants, three civilians received shrapnel wounds. Video NM DNR.
16:35 This is how the firepower training of mobilized volunteers and the regular army goes. The unit of the internal troops of the DPR showed their work at the training ground.VideoR.T.
16:24 It is reported that today at 14:50 fire damage was inflicted on one of the units of the Armed Forces Terodefense Brigade in the Chernobaevka area. The destruction of two units of military vehicles and 15 Ukrainian servicemen was confirmed, seven servicemen were wounded and sent to medical institutions.
16:14 Ukrainian fighters fired four 152mm rounds in the direction of the settlement. Avdiivka
- n.p. Yakovlevka, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine reported.
16:03 As a result of shelling from the VFU in the village of Golmovsky on the street. Novozavodskaya, a peaceful woman K. E. A., born in 1975, died.
15:46 Fixation of consequences of the shelling of the Kievsky district of Donetsk on November 30, 2022.
15:40 Ukrainian militants are shelling the village of Golmovsky (Nikitovsky district of Gorlovka). Residents report shell explosions near Novozavodskaya and Bolshaya Golma streets.
15:20 Briefing on violations by the political leadership of Ukraine and the Armed Forces of Ukraine of international standards regarding prisoners of war.VideoNM LNR.
15:18 An 152mm MSTA-S self-propelled gun battery is working on enemy fortifications in Maryinka. Russian gunners cover the advance of assault units. This city is now approximately 50 percent under Russian control. And the rescue operation goes on.Videoreporter Rudenko.
15:08 Near Artemivsk, day after day, not only large enemy forces continue to grind, but also the remnants of the hopes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for the success of a large offensive in the coming weeks - and the very prospects of such an offensive at the same time.
As far as one can judge from a certain amount of fragmentary information, in the Artemovsk direction, the Ukrainian defense is cracking to such an extent that the enemy is driving reserves there in battalions, almost every day and from various sectors of the front.
Plugging a hole so that at least it does not burst irrevocably, this still allows. But will the Armed Forces of Ukraine manage to assemble at least something resembling a strike force elsewhere without these incinerated reserves, this is the question.
14:37 Ukrainian militants fired seventeen mines with a caliber of 120mm in the direction of the settlement. Friendship
- n.p. Maiorsk, six rounds with a caliber of 122mm
Dyleevka
- n.p. Zaitsevo, as well as six mines with a caliber of 120mm in the direction of the settlement.
Friendship
- n.p. Zaitsevo, the DPR office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine reported.
14:16 Effects of shelling by Ukrainian militants of the Voroshilovsky district of Donetsk, as a result of which three civilians were injured.
13:32 As a result of the shelling of the VFU in the center of Donetsk, the number of wounded has increased to three people.
13:10 Ukrainian militants are hitting the peaceful quarters of Donetsk.
The capital of the DPR is daily shelled by the Ukrainian Nazis, who indiscriminately hit civilian areas. Another such shelling occurred on the night of November 30 to December 1. Fortunately, there were no people on the street at that time and no one was hurt. Video NM DNR.
12:37 Ukrainian troops fired at the center of Donetsk from 122mm BM-21 Gradov, including the Ramada hotel and a kindergarten were under fire, at least two people were injured.VideoRIA News.
12:21 Main hit produced by Ukrainian militants in the center of Donetsk fell on multi-apartment residential buildings.
12:04 The moment of shelling in the center of Donetsk. The VFU attacked the Naberezhnaya area from the 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS. Video reporter Rudenko.
12:00 Russian fighters against the backdrop of the railway station in Artemovsk (Bakhmut). And this is practically the center of the settlement.
11:58 Ukrainian militants fired nine shots from a tank in the direction of the settlement.
Friendship
- n.p. Zaitsevo, the DPR office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine reported.
11:48 Ukrainian military fired three rounds of 155mm caliber.
in the direction of n.p. Krasnogorovka - the city of Donetsk (Kirov district) and four rounds with a caliber of 155mm on the settlement.
Orlovka - Donetsk (Kyiv and Kuibyshevsky regions). Ten missiles were also fired from the 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS in the direction of the settlement.
Avdiivka - Donetsk (Voroshilovsky district), reported the representative office of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine.
11:15 Yesterday, Ukrainian telegram channels were full of loud headlines and photographs of the shelling of the Shumen microdistrict of the city of Kherson.
Ukrainian propagandists showed footage of shelled residential areas and shops, as always, without mentioning that in these very territories the Armed Forces of Ukraine placed guns to shell the left bank of the Kherson region.
Particularly noteworthy is what kind of equipment the militants hid behind the houses of civilians: these are D-20 152mm towed gun-howitzers, 2S3 Akatsia 152mm self-propelled howitzers and mortar crews. In fact, the Armed Forces of Ukraine continue to place equipment near playgrounds, residential buildings and hospitals.
11:10 Scouts of the 9th Regiment destroyed a Ukrainian militant with the help of a strike UAV.
In the 9th Regiment of the 1st Army Corps, modern methods of warfare are successfully used. So the unit's scouts with a sniper throw of a grenade from an attack copter eliminated a Ukrainian militant in his shelter.VideoNM DNR.
10:57 The Armed Forces of Ukraine dug holes all over Kurdyumivka, but after several weeks of such grinding of the enemy with artillery, mortars, tanks, they finally succeededknock outfrom this strategically important village near Artyomovsk.
10:55 It is reported that on the evening of November 30, barracks with fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed in Kherson.
10:50 Ukrainian militants from 93rd Separate Mechanized Brigade continue to hide in residential apartments in the city of Soledar, hoping to avoid denazification.Video18+ on the frames there is obscene vocabulary.
10:45 Statement by the NM DPR on the situation at 10:30 01.12.2022
The Ukrainian side continues to terrorize the civilian population of the Republic, inflicting massive artillery strikes on residential areas and civilian infrastructure, which are not military targets.
Over the past day, according to the Representative Office of the JCCC in the DPR, the enemy fired one hundred and thirty-nine ammunition from the Himars and 122mm BM-21 Grad MLRS, 155mm, 152mm and 122mm cannon artillery, as well as 120mm mortars, used AGM-88 HARM missiles.
The artillery was fired at the districts of eleven settlements of the Republic. As a result of shelling, one civilian was killed and three were injured. Twenty-six housing constructions and seven civil infrastructure facilities were damaged. Additional information about injured civilians and damage to infrastructure is being specified.
Joint actions of the military personnel of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the following enemy weapons and military equipment: two howitzers (D-30), two tanks (T-72M1 and T-64BV), seven armored and automotive vehicles, six were shot down in the air Enemy UAV. Losses in enemy manpower amounted to more than 60 people.
10:21 Ukrainian military fired three rounds of 155mm caliber.
in the direction of n.p. Krasnogorovka - Donetsk (Kirov district)
four rounds with a caliber of 152mm in the village. Avdiivka - n.p. Chestnut, reported the representative office of the DPR in the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine.
10:08 Effects of shelling from the VFU of the Kievsky district of Donetsk. The streets with apartment buildings were hit with the use of MLRS Grad.
10:01 Statement by the official representative of the NM of the LPR, Major Filiponenko I.M. as of December 1, 2022
Over the past day, during the active offensive operations of the units of the People's Militia of the LPR, the enemy suffered heavy losses in manpower and military equipment. Destroyed:
-up to 95 personnel;
- three tanks;
- five armored personnel carriers;
- one artillery mount;
- 15 units of special vehicles.
The enemy continues shelling civilian infrastructure facilities in LPR settlements. Since the beginning of the current day, the armed formations of Ukraine have fired at the settlement. Svatovo, using the American M142 HIMARS MLRS, firing three missiles. Information about the victims and damage is being specified.
In the territories of the Luhansk People's Republic liberated from Ukrainian militants, peaceful life is being restored: engineering and sapper units of the People's Militia of the LPR continue demining. During November 30, they cleared more than eight hectares of territory from explosive objects left by Ukrainian nationalists in the areas of the settlements of Nizhne and Gorskoye, Popasnyansky district.
09:47 Destruction of Armored vehicles of the armed formations of Ukraine near Bogoyavlenka in the Ugledarsky direction by the forces of the DPR OBTF "Cascade".
09:25 For the period since the beginning of the NWO, the Representative Office of the LPR in the JCCC recorded:
A total of 1,290 attacks on the territory of the Republic by the armed formations of Ukraine using heavy weapons. In total, the enemy used more than 11,000 units of ammunition of various calibers in the settlements of the Republic, including missiles of the Tochka-U tactical missile system (37 missiles) and the American HIMARS MLRS (515 missiles), MLRS (BM-21 Grad, BM-27 "Hurricane", BM-30 "Smerch") - 2,709 rounds, 155mm artillery pieces (157 rounds), and a case of using two American-made strike UAVs was also recorded.
During the above period, 517 civilians became victims of the AFU aggression, of which 131 people died and 386 were injured. As a result of the shelling, seven children were killed and 29 were injured.
Destroyed and damaged 3,350 houses in 80 settlements. 349 civilian infrastructure facilities were damaged, including 83 educational and 16 medical institutions.
09:05 A separate tank battalion provides fire support to Sparta and Somalia in Vodyanoye.
Tankers of a separate tank battalion on their T-80s provided fire support to the Sparta and Somali battalions while repelling an enemy counterattack attempt in the village of Vodyanoe. The well-aimed fire of the tankers inflicted heavy losses on the Ukrainian fighters.VideoNM DNR.
08:38 Ukrainian militants fired two rockets from the M142 Himars MLRS in the direction of the settlement. Memrick - n.p. Ilovaisk, the DPR representative office at the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of Issues Related to War Crimes of Ukraine reported.
08:37 Information on the shelling of Gorlovka as of 08:00 on December 1, 2022
08:32 The administrative building, according to preliminary information, was damaged as a result of the shelling of Svatovo by the Kyiv security forces.
08:30 Scouts of the 3rd Guards Special Forces Battalion of the 1st Army Corps are terrifying the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the village of Vodyanoye in the Avdeevsky direction.
08:05 Artillerymen of the 6th Regiment of the 2nd Army Corps of the LPR inflicted fire damage on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Artyomovsk.
08:00 During the day, one1 person died on the territory of the DPR, three more were injured.
Over the past 24 hours, from 08:00 on November 30 to 08:00 on December 1, as a result of shelling of the VFU in the territory of the Donetsk People's Republic, one person was killed and three more civilians were injured.
05:25 From the side of the armed formations of Ukraine shelling on N of the item is recorded. Svatovo with the use of MLRS HIMARS (three missiles). Information about the victims and damage is being specified.
03:00 Scouts showed an attack on Ukrainian positions in the Vuglodar direction.VideoRIA News.
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[REGNUM] In order to confirm the moral decay of the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, there are plenty of documents. The West knows about this and ignores the numerous facts of the consequences of this decomposition.
When the Russian heirs to the KGB are involved, sadly there is always the question of whether the touted proofs are real.
Documents were found near Kherson, testifying to the moral decay in the ranks of the Ukrainian military, the press service of the Russian Guard reported on December 1.
In particular, the oppressed state of the military, which are in conflict with each other, is noted. The reason that influenced the decline in morale is called "unsatisfactory selection of personnel." It is also said about the need to establish "a system of interpersonal relations between officers and sergeants of the company": the commander does not know how to work with the personnel of the unit.
The fact of moral decay was previously cited by the Deputy Minister of Information of the DPR Daniil Bezsonov. According to him, the commanders of the Armed Forces of Ukraine use their right to certify wills in their own interests.
"Good news, but not for Ukrainian warriors. I already imagine how many warriors will be written off as combat losses so that the commanders can squeeze out their property," Bezsonov said.
The moral decay of the Kyiv army is evidenced by numerous facts of unjustified aggression and cruel reprisals against both the civilian population and the military. The fact that Zelensky’s office no longer hides the level of moral decay to which the Ukrainian army has reached, said Petr Kolchin, an analyst at the Center for Expert Support of Political Processes:
"Now this is just a bunch of murderers, criminals and marauders who implement all their anti-humanist ideologies and aspirations with impunity. Without any control and without regard not only to international organizations, but also to our own authorities." According to him, the leadership of Ukraine, by its inaction, encourages the militants of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to commit new crimes.
"This behavior is associated with the inability to somehow influence their military. The army of Ukraine is increasingly isolated from the authorities and already lives in its own internal likeness of laws, which are in no way connected with the concepts of morality, humanism and morality," the expert believes.
Recently, for the first time, the Western media, which had not previously talked about the crimes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, spoke about the atrocities of the Kyiv punishers for the first time. This happened after a video of the inhumane execution by the Nazis of the Kyiv regime of captured Russian soldiers became public. Video footage of the massacre was handed over by Russia to international organizations, including colleagues from the UN.
A referencing news article (in Russian) link
[ColonelCassad] “Putin must leave Ukraine, this is number one. While he is not going to do this, ”Biden made a number of statements following a meeting with Macron.
The Presidents of the United States and France held talks in the White House. After the meeting with Macron, the head of the United States made a number of statements, including on issues of contacts with Russia:
- Biden, commenting on the issue of peace negotiations, indicated that Putin should leave Ukraine, this is number one;
- Possible contacts with Putin will take place only in consultations with NATO, not on an independent basis;
- Biden said he does not plan contacts with Putin in the near future;
- Biden said that he was ready to negotiate with Putin on the completion of the special operation in Ukraine, if the President of the Russian Federation makes such a decision;
- The United States will do everything to call to account those who are responsible for the violation of human rights in Iran, support Russia's military actions.
In addition, the heads of the two countries prepared joint statements regarding assistance to Ukraine - France and the United States intend to intensify the supply of air defense systems and equipment necessary to restore the energy system of the Kyiv regime.
Following commentary from Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
Biden's statements about "Readiness to negotiate with Putin" are, in fact, ordinary calls to "surrender, or else ...". There are no fundamental changes since spring. Like, give up 4 or 5 regions, and then we will kind of communicate with you.
There is nothing interesting in these proposals, so we must continue to methodically destroy the Ukrainian infrastructure and increase the rate of utilization of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, so that von der Leyen in one of her speeches could complain about 200,000 + killed by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The risk of bluffing about nuclear war certainly is...
From Lavrov's statements today.
1. The US and NATO are directly involved in the war in Ukraine.
2. No change in Western policy should be expected.
3. Russia strikes at the Ukrainian infrastructure that helps to kill Russians.
4. The OSCE is a marginal organization.
5. The risk of nuclear war in a military clash between nuclear powers is enormous.
Today's statements by Lavrov (and not only) clearly show that there is no agreement and is not expected. Of key importance in the coming months will be not consultations in third countries, but the course and outcome of the winter campaign 2022-2023.
#1
Putin tried but the west and Ukraine wanted wanted their little war like a flea on a dog. Russia is going its way now and will continue the obliteration of the Ukrainian collection of NATO forces. 100,000 Ukrainian deaths slipped out but covered up immediately. Winter now and Russia will make their move. It has been said 1,000,000 Russian force and modern offensive military equipment now gathered. I do see Bordering nations being offered former lands they had lost after WW11. This will be the salve to cure what ales Poland. Poles will always hate Russia. So this joke goes; What is the difference between a Russian and a cat fish?. One is a fish and the other is a bottom feeder.
[AnNahar] Ukraine said Wednesday it will strengthen security at all the country's embassies after an employee of the embassy in Madrid was injured when a letter bomb blew up.
"Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba instructed to strengthen the security of all Ukrainian embassies," Ukraine's foreign ministry spokesperson Oleg Nikolenko said on social media in English.
[AnNahar] Explosive devices concealed in postal packages were discovered at Spain's Defense Ministry, a satellite center at an air base and an arms factory that makes grenades sent to Ukraine, Spanish authorities said Thursday, a day after a similar package went kaboom! at the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid.
Authorities also said that a similar bomb was dispatched by regular post to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Nov. 24, but was disposed of by bomb squad experts.
The latest discoveries raise to five the number of bombs that were sent by post around the country over the past few days.
The Russian embassy in Madrid on Thursday condemned the letter bombs, saying in a tweet that "any threat or terrorist attack, especially those directed at diplomatic missions, are totally condemnable."
The package dispatched to the Ukrainian embassy and addressed to the ambassador slightly injured an employee when it burst into flames while he was handling it.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba quickly ordered that security be stepped up at all Ukrainian embassies abroad and has asked his Spanish counterpart for a speedy investigation.
Spain's National Court is investigating the incident as a terrorist act and extra security has been assigned to the Ukrainian embassy.
Police said all but one of the four letter bombs were disposed of. Interior Ministry State Secretary for Security Rafael Pérez said police were using the one intact bomb and its package that was sent to the air base to assist Sherlocks.
He said an initial assessment was that all five packages were likely sent from within Spain.
Pérez said that security has been stepped up at public buildings following the discovery of the package that was sent to Sánchez. This has now been extended to embassies, which already have extra security measures in place since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February.
The Defense Ministry package had been addressed to minister Margarita Robles, Pérez said. Spain has contributed both military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion.
The arms factory, located in the northeastern city of Zaragoza, makes grenade launchers that Spain has sent to Ukraine. The parcel was addressed to the factory's director.
A government official in Zaragoza said that both the arms factory and Ukrainian embassy packages had the same email address listed as the sender. No further details were given.
Officials said extra security forces have been deployed at the Torrejón de Ardoz base, just east of Madrid. They said the package was sent to the director of the base's European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... Satellite Center.
The sending of small bombs in postal parcels is not uncommon in many countries. They were common occurrence for many years in Spain, especially during the most active years of the now defunct armed Basque group ETA.
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[NYPOST] Russian forces have pulled back from fortified positions along the bank of the Dnipro River across from the recently liberated city of Kherson, Ukrainian authorities said Thursday.
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