• Despite the cold, fighting continues on various fronts. Kiev claims the destruction of five Russian military sites, including ammunition depots and other infrastructure
• Putin prepares for a new phase of the war and orders a 15% increase in the number of soldiers.
• Mixed news from Donetsk, where fighting is becoming increasingly intense. Moscow is demanding progress on the ground, while Kiev says Ukrainian forces are holding their positions.
01:46 a.m. – Kiev: Russia has already lost 300,000 men in the war
The Russians may have already lost more than three hundred thousand men in the war in Ukraine, between money and militiamen from Wagner Company (which practically disappeared from the scene at this stage of the conflict): this is the estimate of Ukrainian and Western military analysts, reported The Kyiv Independent website.
01.43 a.m. – Italian-Russian is stopped by the services in Moscow: “Kiev saboteur”
by Marta Serafini, our correspondent in Dnipro
He was allegedly recruited by Ukrainian intelligence in Istanbul last February. Then training in Latvia. Ruslan Sidiki, 35 years old, with an Italian-Russian passport, was arrested by the Moscow FSB on charges of carrying out sabotage operations. The last operation in November was the derailment of a freight train near Ryazan, southeast of Moscow, where 15 wagons overturned. On July 20, on the instructions of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry’s intelligence service, he is said to have manufactured explosive devices with which he “equipped four drones and used them to carry out an attack on the Dyagilevo military airport,” Russian services reported.
1:41 a.m. – Amnesty: The Russian invasion has isolated disabled and elderly people
Elderly people, people with disabilities are the first victims of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Because they do not receive adequate care and accommodation. The situation is denounced by Amnesty International in a new report published ahead of the International Day of People with Disabilities on December 3rd. The large-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine has plunged the already overburdened Ukrainian healthcare system into crisis, it is explained. As a result, many older people, including people with disabilities, remained separated from their families and lived in a state of segregation and isolation. Russia’s constant indiscriminate attacks, many of which constitute war crimes, have forced millions of Ukrainian civilians to flee their homes