Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,377

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Here’s wherever things basal connected Tuesday, December 2:

Fighting

• Russian forces launched a ballistic rocket connected Ukraine’s Dnipro, sidesplitting 4 radical and wounding 40 others, according to Ukrainian authorities.
• Russia claimed the seizure of the strategical eastbound Ukrainian municipality of Pokrovsk, the logistics hub that has been nether onslaught for months by Moscow’s forces. It besides claimed power of Vovchansk municipality successful the northeastern Kharkiv region.
• The Russian Ministry of Defence posted a video purportedly showing Russian soldiers raising their country’s emblem implicit the cardinal quadrate successful Pokrovsk, known successful Russian arsenic Krasnoarmeysk.
• According to the Russian authorities TASS quality agency, Russian subject commanders informed President Vladimir Putin astir Pokrovsk’s seizure portion helium was visiting an unidentified subject bid station connected Sunday. Putin called the determination “important” and said that “it volition guarantee solutions going guardant to the tasks we initially acceptable astatine the opening of the peculiar subject operation”.
• Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov told Putin that Russian forces were determined to property connected with the seizure of the full Donbas country – an concern country made up of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions, according to TASS.
• Ukrainian officials, however, person not confirmed that Russia had taken power of either Pokrovsk oregon Vovchansk.
• The Russian Defence Ministry besides claimed the seizure connected Monday of the colony of Klynove successful Ukraine’s Donetsk region.
• Ukraine’s DeepState subject blog said connected Monday that Russian forces captured immoderate 505 sq km (195 sq miles) of Ukrainian territory successful November, astir doubly the magnitude captured successful October. The unfastened root mapping radical said Russian forces were the astir palmy successful the country astir Huliaipole successful the southeastern Zaporizhia region.
• The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), which exports lipid chiefly from Kazakhstan to an export terminal successful Russia, said connected Monday that it had resumed lipid shipments from 1 mooring constituent astatine its Black Sea terminal pursuing a large Ukrainian drone onslaught connected November 29.

Politics and diplomacy

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, successful Paris to enactment up European enactment for Kyiv, and said that territorial concessions were the cardinal sticking constituent successful the United States-led talks to extremity Russia’s war.
• Zelenskyy said helium was expecting a speech with US President Donald Trump connected “key issues that are rather challenging”.
• Macron told reporters that lone Ukraine could determine connected its territories successful bid negotiations with Russia and said the existent infinitesimal “could beryllium decisive for the aboriginal of bid successful Ukraine and information successful Europe”.
• Macron spoke to Trump aboriginal connected Monday and discussed “next steps successful the mediation efforts”, with the French president emphasising “the cardinal value of information guarantees indispensable for Ukraine”, according to the French government.
• The White House said connected Monday that the Trump medication was “very optimistic” astir reaching an statement to extremity the warfare successful Ukraine pursuing the talks betwixt Ukrainian and US delegations successful Florida connected Sunday.
• The comments came arsenic Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, is acceptable to conscionable with Putin successful Moscow connected Tuesday.
• European Union overseas argumentation main Kaja Kallas expressed interest implicit the planned Putin-Witkoff meeting, saying she feared “all the unit volition beryllium enactment connected the weaker side, due to the fact that that is the easier mode to halt this warfare erstwhile Ukraine surrenders”.
• Top Russian banker Andrei Kostin said that Moscow would retaliate if the EU utilized frozen Russian sovereign assets for a indebtedness to Ukraine by seizing assets owned by European investors successful Russia. He besides warned Moscow could unleash fractional a period of litigation implicit the money.

Weapons and subject aid

• Ukraine and the Netherlands signed an statement for associated drone production, and the Dutch authorities pledged to bargain immoderate 250 cardinal euros ($290m) worthy of weapons from the US for Kyiv.
• The weapons volition see instrumentality and missiles for aerial defence, arsenic good arsenic munitions for F-16 combatant jets and unmanned aerial systems, the Dutch authorities said.

Regional security

• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has condemned attacks connected commercialized ships successful the Black Sea aft a drone onslaught connected a tanker that forms portion of Russia’s alleged shadiness fleet successful Turkiye’s waters. Ukrainian officials person confirmed work for the attack.
• Belarus, a adjacent state of Russia, accused Lithuania, an EU member, of deploying a drone to spy connected it and driblet “extremist material”. Vilnius rejected the complaint arsenic false.
• For its part, Lithuania has blamed Belarus for balloon incursions that halted flights astatine the Vilnius airport. It said the EU’s diplomatic work had summoned the Belarusian typical successful Brussels and called for “a halt of hybrid attacks against EU countries”.