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

These are the key developments on the 1,377th day of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

The situation as of Tuesday, December 2 is as follows:

fighting

• Russian forces fired a ballistic missile at Dnipro, Ukraine, killing four people and injuring 40 others, according to Ukrainian officials.
• Russia claims to have captured the strategic city of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine, a logistics hub that has been under attack by Moscow’s forces for months. It also claimed control of the city of Vovchansk in the northeastern Kharkiv region.
• The Russian Defense Ministry posted a video purportedly showing Russian soldiers waving their country’s flag at the central square in Pokrovsk, known as Krasnoarmeysk in Russian.
• Russian military commanders informed President Vladimir Putin about the capture of Pokrovsk when he visited an unnamed military command post on Sunday, according to the Russian state TASS news agency. Putin described the move as “important” and said that “it will ensure solutions to the tasks that we set at the beginning of the special military operation”.
• According to TASS, Russian General Staff chief Valery Gerasimov told Putin that Russian forces are determined to capture the entire Donbass region – an industrial zone made up of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
• However, Ukrainian officials have not confirmed whether Russia has taken control of Pokrovsk or Vovchansk.
• The Russian Defense Ministry also claimed on Monday to have captured the settlement of Klinov in Ukraine’s Donetsk region.
• Ukraine’s DeepState military blog said on Monday that Russian forces captured about 505 square km (195 square miles) of Ukrainian territory in November, almost double the amount captured in October. The Open Source Mapping Group said Russian forces were most successful in the area around Hulyupol in the southeastern Zaporizhia region.
• The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), which mainly exports oil from Kazakhstan to an export terminal in Russia, said on Monday it had resumed oil shipments from a mooring point at its Black Sea terminal following a major Ukrainian drone attack on November 29.

politics and diplomacy

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Paris to boost European support for Kiev and said territorial concessions were a key issue in United States-led talks to end Russia’s war.
• Zelensky said he was looking forward to talks with US President Donald Trump on “major issues that are quite challenging”.
• Macron told reporters that only Ukraine could decide on its territories in peace talks with Russia and said the current moment “could be decisive for the future of peace in Ukraine and security in Europe”.
• According to the French government, Macron spoke to Trump later on Monday and discussed “next steps in mediation efforts”, with the French president stressing “the central importance of essential security guarantees for Ukraine”.
• The White House said Monday that the Trump administration was “very optimistic” about reaching an agreement to end the war in Ukraine following talks between the Ukrainian and US delegations in Florida on Sunday.
• The comments come as Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff is scheduled to meet Putin in Moscow on Tuesday.
• EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas expressed concern over the planned Putin-Wittkoff meeting, saying she feared “all the pressure will be put on the weaker side, because the easiest way to stop this war is if Ukraine surrenders”.
• Top Russian banker Andrei Kostin said Moscow would retaliate if the EU used frozen Russian sovereign assets to finance loans to Ukraine by seizing assets in Russia owned by European investors. He also warned that Moscow could face half a century of litigation over the money.

Arms and military support

• Ukraine and the Netherlands signed a deal for joint drone production, and the Dutch government pledged to buy about 250 million euros ($290m) worth of weapons from the US for Kiev.
• The Dutch government said the weapons would include equipment and missiles for air defense, as well as ammunition for F-16 fighter jets and unmanned aerial systems.

regional security

• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has condemned attacks on commercial ships in the Black Sea after a drone attack on a tanker that is part of Russia’s so-called shadow fleet in Turkish waters. Ukrainian officials have confirmed responsibility for the attack.
• Russia’s close ally Belarus accused EU member Lithuania of spying and deploying drones to drop “extremist material”. Vilnius rejected the allegation as false.
• For its part, Lithuania has blamed Belarus for the balloon intrusion, which halted flights at Vilnius airport. It said the EU diplomatic service had called the Belarusian representative in Brussels and called on him to “stop hybrid attacks against EU countries.”