Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,379

Here’s wherever things basal connected Thursday, December 4:

Fighting

• Russian forces person taken power of the colony of Chervone successful Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhia region, according to the Russian Ministry of Defence.
• Ukraine’s subject said it struck a Russian lipid depot successful the Tambov portion and different 1 successful the Oryol portion connected Tuesday. It added that the attacks sparked fires astatine the sites.
• A root successful Ukraine’s GUR subject quality besides confirmed to the Reuters quality bureau that it had deed the Druzhba lipid pipeline, besides successful Russia’s cardinal Tambov region, which supplies Russian lipid to Hungary and Slovakia.

Peace talks

• United States President Donald Trump has said the way up for bid successful Ukraine is unclear aft what helium called “reasonably good” talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin connected Tuesday. Special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump advisor Jared Kushner spent hours astatine the Kremlin but departed with nary breakthrough connected ending the war.
• Trump said Witkoff and Kushner briefed him astir the talks and told him their content of Putin was “he would similar to marque a deal”. But Trump added that helium “can’t tell” what volition travel retired of the gathering “because it does instrumentality 2 to tango”. He added that Washington already has “something beauteous good worked retired [with Ukraine]”.
• Asked if it would beryllium close to accidental that Putin had rejected Washington’s proposals, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov disagreed. “A nonstop speech of views took spot yesterday for the archetypal time,” Peskov said. “Some things were accepted, immoderate things were marked arsenic unacceptable. This is simply a mean moving process of uncovering a compromise.”
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has confirmed his squad is preparing for meetings successful the US and that dialog with Trump’s envoys volition continue. “Only by taking Ukraine’s interests into relationship is simply a dignified bid possible,” helium said.
• An unnamed White House authoritative confirmed to Reuters that Witkoff and Kushner would conscionable with Ukrainian officials successful Miami connected Thursday.

United Nations

• Ninety-one countries astatine the United Nations General Assembly, including the US, person backed a solution demanding Russia “ensure the immediate, harmless and unconditional instrumentality of each Ukrainian children who person been forcibly transferred oregon deported” from Ukraine since Moscow launched its warfare successful 2022.
• Russia and 11 different countries voted against the solution – which was drafted by Ukraine, Canada and the European Union – portion 57 countries abstained.
• Ahead of the vote, Russia had urged countries to reason the resolution. “Each ballot for the solution is enactment for lies, warfare and confrontation. Every ballot against is simply a ballot for peace,” Russia’s lawman UN ambassador, Maria Zabolotskaya, said.

Ukrainian affairs

• Ukraine’s parliament has approved the 2026 fund allocating astir a 3rd of the country’s gross home merchandise (GDP) to defence. The vote, which comes arsenic Ukraine is dogged by a governmental situation pursuing a recent corruption scandal, was seen arsenic a litmus trial for parliament to walk cardinal decisions during a captious signifier of the war.
• “This is an important awesome of Ukraine’s resilience and securing a unchangeable fiscal proviso for the adjacent year’s needs,” President Zelenskyy said. “The priorities are clear: ensuring our defence, societal programmes and the quality to rebuild our lives aft Russia’s attacks.”

Sanctions and subject aid

• The European Commission, the EU’s enforcement body, has projected an unprecedented usage of frozen Russian assets oregon planetary borrowing to rise 90 cardinal euros ($105bn) for Ukraine. Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the assemblage is “proposing to screen two-thirds of Ukraine’s financing needs for the adjacent 2 years. That’s 90 cardinal euros”. She added that the “remainder would beryllium for planetary partners to cover”.
• But Belgium, whose Brussels-based fiscal instauration Euroclear is the main holder of the Russian assets, has voiced a scope of ineligible concerns. While Von der Leyen said the connection had taken into relationship Belgium’s concerns, Brussels does not “share that assessment”, a elder authoritative told Reuters, adding that it “cannot judge being asked to carnivore the risks of specified an cognition alone”.
• The EU besides agreed to signifier retired Russian state imports by precocious 2027 arsenic portion of an effort to extremity the bloc’s decades-long dependency connected Russian energy. Under the agreement, the EU volition permanently halt the import of Russian state and determination towards a phase-out of Russian oil. Liquefied earthy state imports volition beryllium phased retired by the extremity of 2026 and pipeline state by the extremity of September 2027.
• Hungary and Slovakia are some weighing up ineligible options to situation the order, arsenic some EU members are inactive highly reliant connected state and lipid supplies from Moscow and fearful that much costly alternatives volition harm their economies.
• More than two-thirds of NATO subordinate states person truthful acold committed $4bn worthy of weapons for Ukraine done the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) – an inaugural to proviso Kyiv with weapons bought from the US – according to the alliance’s secretary-general, Mark Rutte.
• Outside NATO, Australia and New Zealand person besides agreed to lend to the PURL initiative, Rutte said.

European defence

• Germany has go the archetypal European federation to deploy the Arrow aerial defence system, built to intercept intermediate-range ballistic missiles specified arsenic Russia’s Oreshnik.
• The system, developed by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) successful practice with the US Missile Defense Agency, is utilized arsenic the precocious furniture of Israel’s rocket defences. “Who could person imagined that lone 80 years aft the liberation of Auschwitz, the Jewish state, done the technologies it develops, would assistance support not lone Germany but each of Europe,” said Ron Prosor, Israel’s ambassador to Germany.
• The Romanian subject has blown up a maritime drone it said was endangering navigation successful the Black Sea, identifying it arsenic a Ukrainian-developed Sea Baby. Ukraine’s SBU information service, however, said that each of its Sea Baby maritime drones engaged successful operational tasks successful the Black Sea portion were accounted for, with nary entering Romanian waters.
• Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has described attacks connected Russia-linked tankers successful the Black Sea successful caller days arsenic “very scary”. Ukraine has claimed immoderate of these attacks. Fidan said that the attacks endanger determination information and amusement that the scope of the warfare is expanding. The strikes wrong Turkiye’s exclusive economical portion interruption navigational information and are impacting commerce, helium added, saying that Turkiye, Romania and Bulgaria were looking astatine measures to boost security.