December 4, 2022 5:16 p.m
Russian attacks in Dnipro: civilians killed
A civilian died as a result of shelling by Russian troops in the Nikopol district of the Dnipro region. This was announced by the head of the Dnipro regional council Mykola Lukaschuk, as reported by Ukrinform. “The Russians have killed another peaceful person. As a result of enemy shelling of the municipality of Pokrovsk in the Nikopol district in the afternoon, one man died,” Lukashuk wrote.
December 4, 2022 2:40 p.m
Kyiv: “Russians use banned chemical grenades”
The Russian army is using banned K-51 Chlorpicrin grenades against the Ukrainian army in the east of the country, the press service of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on Telegram, quoted by UNIAN. “Using banned chemical weapons, occupiers are throwing chloropicrin grenades from drones at our defenders in the east,” the post reads.
December 4, 2022 1:26 p.m
Putin will give a speech in the Kremlin next week
Russian President Vladimir Putin will address the Kremlin next week on Heroes of the Fatherland Day. This was confirmed by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov to TASS.
4 Dec 2022 1pm
Kyiv: “10-13 thousand of our soldiers are dead”
Between 10,000 and 13,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since the Russian invasion began in February. According to Mykhailo Podolyak, senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the number is far lower than estimates by Western leaders. “We have the official data from the General Staff, the data from the Central Command and it puts it somewhere between 12,500 and 13,000 people killed,” he said, adding that the number of civilian casualties was “significant.”
December 4, 2022 12:59 p.m
More than 500 places in Ukraine without electricity
More than 500 Ukrainian cities are still without power today after Russian bombing in recent weeks caused damage to the country’s power grid, Deputy Interior Minister Yevgeny Yenin said on TV. “The Russian military continues to attack the country’s essential infrastructure. Currently, 507 places in eight regions of our country are cut off from the power grid,” he said. Mykolaiv Governor Vitaly Kim added: “We must resist” as multiple daily power outages plunge millions of Ukrainians into darkness and cold.
December 4, 2022 12:33
Kyiv: “Kherson condominiums bombed, one dead”
Yesterday the Russian army struck 46 times in the southern Kherson region, targeting residential areas and civilian infrastructure and killing one civilian, said the head of the regional military administration Yaroslav Yanushevich, quoted by Ukrinform. “The Russian occupiers shelled the territory of the Kherson region 46 times. The enemy has fired artillery, tanks, mortars and rocket launchers at populated areas in the region. The Russians again attacked residential areas of Kherson, private houses and apartment buildings. Other civilian infrastructure in the city was also damaged,” said Yanushevich, head of the Kherson regional military administration.
December 4, 2022 12:33
Kyiv: “Moscow attack at night in Zaporizhia, 300 Russian soldiers killed”
Bloody night battle in Ukraine in the south-eastern Zaporizhia region, where the Russian army attacked a village and triggered the reaction of the Ukrainian units: “Three hundred soldiers of the (Russian) Federation were killed or wounded,” reported the head of the regional military administration, Oleksandr Starukh.
December 4, 2022 12:32 p.m
Media: “Russians evacuate exhibits from museums in Crimea”
The Russian Federation is bringing packing materials to Crimea to “evacuate” museums, the NGO Crimean Institute of Strategic Studies reported, noting that museum collections are under threat because “Russians can steal valuable items.” UNIAN reports on this, commenting that “the occupiers are preparing to repeat the same escape scenario from Crimea that they already saw when they left Kherson”. “The packaging material for the evacuation of the collections was brought to some Crimean museums. According to exclusive information, in the event of the departure of the invading forces to Perekop, the evacuation can begin. According to the institute’s experts, the so-called “evacuation” can probably begin earlier, with the offensive deployment of the Ukrainian armed forces on the left bank of the Dnieper. We’re monitoring the situation.”
December 4, 2022 12:30 p.m
Activists: “Russians executed a group of civilians in the Lugansk region”
The Russian occupiers publicly executed a group of civilians in the occupied part of the Lugansk region: Ukrainian activist and lawyer Sergiy Sternenko reported on Telegram and published the relevant pictures, as reported by Ukrinform. “In the Luhansk region, the Russians publicly executed civilians. It was a cosmetic move for everyone to see. And the world needs to see it. A truly hideous Russian face of brutes flaunting their atrocities,” Sternenko wrote.
December 4, 2022 12:29 p.m
Blackout emergency in Kyiv
Emergency power cuts in Kyiv and across the region were announced today by electricity company Dtek, which says it cannot keep up with power cuts already planned and that technicians are “doing everything possible to stabilize the situation,” Ukrinform reports. Today the weather in the Ukrainian capital indicates temperatures of minus five degrees and frost. DTEK director Dmytro Sakharuk said it will be possible to return to stabilizing blackouts after the system’s capacities are increased.