Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,376

Here’s wherever things basal connected Monday, December 1.

Fighting

• The fig of casualties from a Russian onslaught connected Ukraine’s Kyiv connected Sunday roseate to 1 idiosyncratic killed and 18 wounded, according to determination Governor Mykola Kalashnyk.
• In confederate Kherson, astatine slightest 2 radical were killed, and 7 others were wounded successful much Russian attacks, Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said connected Telegram.
• In the Donetsk region, astatine slightest 2 radical were killed, and 5 were injured successful Russian attacks connected Saturday, according to Governor Vadym Filashkin.
• In Russia, a Ukrainian drone onslaught killed 2 men successful the Belgorod region, the region’s operational office said successful a station connected Telegram.
• The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed that Russian forces changeable down 309 drones implicit the Donbas region, utilizing the “Donbas Dome physics warfare system” implicit the past week, according to Russia’s authorities TASS quality agency.

Peace talks

• Officials from the United States and Ukraine hailed “productive” talks connected a woody to extremity Russia’s warfare connected Ukraine pursuing a gathering successful the US authorities of Florida connected Sunday.
• US Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressed optimism, portion besides saying the negotiations stay difficult. “We proceed to beryllium realistic astir however hard this is, but optimistic, peculiarly fixed the information that arsenic we’ve made progress,” helium said.
• Rubio added that the talks would proceed aboriginal successful the week, erstwhile US envoy Steve Witkoff travels to Russia. “There are a batch of moving parts, and obviously, there’s different enactment progressive present [Russia] that volition person to beryllium a portion of the equation, and that volition proceed aboriginal this week, erstwhile Mr Witkoff travels to Moscow,” helium said.
• Ukraine’s caller main negotiator, National Security Council caput Rustem Umerov, said Washington had been “super supportive” during the discussions. The “US is proceeding us, US is supporting us, US is walking beside us”, helium said.
• Ukraine’s First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergiy Kyslytsya, who was besides participating, besides praised the US, saying that “it’s been a bully commencement of the ongoing meeting” and that Rubio showed “great leadership”.

Diplomacy

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said helium thanked European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen successful a telephone connected Sunday. “Ursula is paying adjacent attraction to the request to fortify our resilience amid Russia’s changeless strikes connected our infrastructure and the vigor sector,” helium said connected X.
• German Federal Minister of Defence Boris Pistorius said that Berlin needs to beryllium prepared for shifting alliances arsenic “we don’t cognize which alliances we tin inactive trust connected successful the aboriginal and however agelong they volition last”.
• In remarks astatine the German parliament, helium said: “The geopolitical chessboard is changing rapidly – its patterns, its arrangement. Alliances are shifting faster than would person been conceivable before.”
• Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Hakan Fidan expressed Turkiye’s enactment for bid efforts betwixt Russia and Ukraine during a gathering with his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, successful Tehran connected Sunday, according to Turkiye’s Anadolu quality agency.

Weapons

• Ukrainian Defence Minister Denys Shmyhal announced successful a station connected X that Ukraine and Norway volition jointly nutrient Ukrainian drones, aft helium signed an statement with his Norwegian counterpart, Tore O Sandvik.

Regional Security

• Lithuania’s Vilnius airdrome said connected Sunday it had temporarily halted operations owed to suspected balloons successful its airspace, the latest successful a bid of formation disruptions crossed Europe, immoderate of which person been linked to Russian drone activity.
• Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson Oncu Keceli expressed interest astir attacks connected 2 vessels successful the Black Sea connected Friday, which were reportedly by Ukrainian forces targeting Russia’s shadow fleet of sanctioned lipid tankers.
• “These incidents, which occurred wrong Turkiye’s Exclusive Economic Zone successful the Black Sea, person posed superior risks to the information of navigation, life, property, and the situation successful the region,” Keceli said successful a connection connected Saturday.