Worth noting, korrespondent.net has compiled its Invasion of Ukraine series into separate months, beginning May 9th, 2023. Linked in the title.
[Korrespondent] 19.15. On December 5, Russian occupiers launched a missile attack on Voznesensk. As a result of the enemy attack, there is a fatality. This was reported by the head of the Nikolaev OVA Vitaly Kim.
18.03 More than 30 thousand DeepStrike attack drones will be delivered to the Ukrainian military next year. This was announced by the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Rustem Umerov. According to him, some of these UAVs were financed by international partners who invested in the Ukrainian defense industry.
17.46 Ukrainian defenders repelled an air attack by Russian troops last night. The video was published by the Air Force Command.
"Combat work of air defense on the night of December 5 in the south-eastern direction," the report says.
16.15. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy put into effect the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine on countering threats to national security in the healthcare sector during the special period.
14:45 Elements of a Russian missile were found in the Dniester district of Chernivtsi Oblast. The missile's warhead did not detonate. Explosives experts carried out blasting operations.
13:35 Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha left the plenary session hall of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe before the speech of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Following the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, a number of other foreign ministers and diplomats left the hall.
11:45 Counterintelligence of the Security Service has exposed the organizer of the draft dodgers' schemes in cooperation with the Russian FSB. SBU officers detained him when he was trying to swim across a section of the Dnieper River on the border with Belarus in flippers, in order to then move to the Russian Federation.
The man was in contact with FSB representatives, deliberately disrupted mobilization in Ukraine and planned to participate in information and psychological operations after fleeing to Russia.
11:10 Ukraine will be ready to immediately move on to elections after a fair peace is established. This was stated by the head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak.
"Looking at reality, the president said that after establishing a just peace, we will be ready to immediately move to proper democratic elections in our country," he said.
9:56 In the Kiev region, as a result of falling debris from downed Russian drones, three private houses and a power line were damaged.
9:15 During the night, air defense forces shot down 30 of 44 drones launched by Russian troops on Ukrainian territory. Enemy drones were shot down in the Kyiv, Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia, Khmelnytsky and Odessa regions.
8:40 Ukraine is not preparing to lower the mobilization age from the current 25 years to 18 years. This was stated by adviser to the President of Ukraine Dmitry Litvin.
"Nobody is preparing any mobilization of 18-year-olds," he wrote on the social network X in response to a post about the advisability of taking 15-17 year old boys abroad.
8:25 Over the past 24 hours, 168 combat clashes have been recorded on the front. 82 attacks by Russian troops were repelled by defenders in the Pokrovsk and Kurakhovsky directions. This was reported by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the morning report.
7:55 As of December 5, the total combat losses of Russian troops on Ukrainian territory were approximately 748,950 people (1,580 per day).
7:40 Russia is not directly involving mercenaries from South Korea in the fighting in the Kursk region. Instead, it is keeping them in the second echelon. This was reported by the Center for National Resistance.
The mercenaries were subordinated to the 11th Airborne Assault Brigade. They are involved in duty at observation posts and checkpoints, and they also guard areas where enemy troops are concentrated.
05:30 Last week, Chief of the General Staff of Russia General Valery Gerasimov called Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Charles Brown. This is the first conversation between the head of the Russian General Staff and his American counterpart in more than two years. According to the publication, during the conversation, Gerasimov told Brown that the launch of the Oreshnik missile was allegedly planned long before the US administration allowed Ukraine to use American missiles to shell military facilities in Russia.
01:55 On Wednesday, December 4, defenders from the 48th separate assault battalion liberated the village of Novy Komar in the Donetsk region from the enemy, the DeepState project reports. The enemy suffered heavy losses in killed, and there are also prisoners.