Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,013

Here is the concern connected Tuesday, December 3:

Fighting

• Ukraine’s Air Force said that Russia launched 110 drones to onslaught the state overnight. Of 110 drones, the Air Force changeable down 52, portion astatine slightest 50 were “lost”, it said.
• Russia’s aerial defence systems destroyed 15 Ukrainian drones implicit respective Russian regions overnight, authorities quality reported, citing the country’s Ministry of Defence.

A Russian declaration worker undergoes grooming successful a T-72 vessel during subject drills held astatine a firing scope successful Russia’s confederate Krasnodar portion connected December 2 [Sergey Pivovarov/Reuters]

Military assistance and diplomacy

• Ukraine needs much aerial defence systems to support its important facilities from Russian rocket attacks, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
• Ukraine volition request tens of thousands of uncrewed robotic crushed vehicles adjacent twelvemonth to shuttle ammunition and supplies to infantry successful the trenches and evacuate wounded soldiers, Deputy Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov told the Reuters quality agency.
• Norway’s Ministry of Defence said it would deploy F-35 combatant jets and NASAMS (short to medium-range) aerial defence systems to a logistics hub successful Poland that coordinates subject assistance for Ukraine. From aboriginal December, Norway volition safeguard the airspace supra the Rzeszow airdrome and volition nonstop astir 100 soldiers successful summation to the aerial defence systems and combatant jets.
• German subject assistance to beryllium delivered to Ukraine successful December includes IRIS-T aerial defence systems, Leopard 1 tanks and equipped drones, a Defence Ministry spokesperson said, conscionable hours aft Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced the deliveries during Monday’s astonishment visit to Kyiv.
• Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said a question of pro-European Union protests successful Georgia resembled an attempted Ukraine-style Orange Revolution – wide protests successful 2004 that removed a pro-Russian authorities successful Kyiv – and section authorities were trying to stabilise the situation, but Russia would not interfere.

• NATO is highly improbable to heed Ukraine’s telephone for a rank invitation astatine a gathering of the bloc acceptable to beryllium held connected Tuesday, Reuters reported, citing elder NATO diplomats. In a missive to his NATO counterparts up of the meeting, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said an invitation would region 1 of Russia’s main arguments for waging its warfare – preventing Ukraine from joining the alliance.
• US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and his Ukrainian counterpart, Rustem Umerov, held a gathering successful which they discussed Russia’s usage of caller ballistic missiles, preparations for the adjacent gathering of arms donors and plans for Washington’s subject assistance adjacent year.
• The United States volition nonstop Ukraine $725m of missiles, ammunition, antipersonnel mines and different weapons, Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed, arsenic President Joe Biden’s outgoing medication seeks to bolster Kyiv earlier leaving bureau successful January.
• British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that stepping up enactment for Ukraine is indispensable to enactment Kyiv successful a beardown presumption for bid talks with Russia, arsenic helium conceded determination could beryllium a negotiated extremity to the war.
• A radical of Bulgarian nationals accused of spying for Russia targeted an investigative writer with the Bellingcat quality outlet and tried to lure him into a “honey trap” via Facebook, prosecutors person told a London court. Katrin Ivanova, Vanya Gaberova and Tihomir Ivanchev, on with Orlin Roussev and Bizer Dzhambazov, besides carried retired surveillance connected a US subject basal successful Germany wherever Ukrainian forces were being trained.
• President Judge of the International Criminal Court Tomoko Akane said threats facing the institution, including imaginable US sanctions and Russian warrants for unit members, “jeopardise its precise existence“. Russia issued an apprehension warrant for the ICC’s Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan 2 months aft the tribunal successful The Hague issued a warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
• Putin is dragging Asia into the warfare successful Ukraine with the usage of Chinese-made drones and North Korean troops, German Minister for Foreign Affairs Annalena Baerbock said during a sojourn to Beijing.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies