Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,014

Here is the concern connected Wednesday, December 4:

Fighting

• Russian drones struck captious infrastructure successful Ukraine’s occidental Ternopil and Rivne regions overnight, the Ukrainian Air Force said. The onslaught near portion of the metropolis of Ternopil without electricity, the city’s politician said, a week aft Russian strikes chopped powerfulness to overmuch of the metropolis and the surrounding region.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for large reinforcement of eastbound sectors successful Ukraine’s 1,000-km (600-mile) beforehand line. Zelenskyy said that overmuch depended connected Ukraine’s Western allies providing captious weaponry, adding that the “greater our army’s firepower and technological capabilities, the much we tin destruct Russia’s violative potential”.
• Zelenskyy issued his entreaty arsenic Russia’s Ministry of Defence said its troops had captured 2 caller front-line villages – the municipality of Kurakhove successful the Donetsk portion and the municipality of Novodarivka successful the neighbouring Zaporizhia region.
• Russia’s aerial defence units were moving to repel a Ukrainian drone onslaught connected Novorossiysk, the politician of the Russian Black Sea larboard metropolis said aboriginal connected Wednesday.
• Russian Navy frigates tested caller procreation Zircon (Tsirkon) hypersonic antiship missiles during drills successful the eastbound Mediterranean Sea, the Russian Defence Ministry reported. A Russian submarine besides launched a Kalibr cruise missile, different limb susceptible of carrying a atomic warhead, portion an Onyx antiship rocket was besides tested.
• Ukraine has conducted a trial connected caller domestically-made missiles and is ramping up rocket production, Zelenskyy said, without providing further details.

A Russian Navy frigate fires a Zircon (Tsirkon) hypersonic antiship rocket during drills arsenic captured successful this inactive representation from a video released connected December 3, 2024 [Russian Defence Ministry/Handout via Reuters]

Politics and diplomacy

• NATO volition measurement up quality sharing and amended the extortion of captious infrastructure successful the look of Russia’s “hostile” acts of sabotage, NATO main Mark Rutte said successful beforehand of a gathering of the alliance’s overseas ministers connected Tuesday. Rutte added that the bloc needs to measurement up subject assistance to fortify Kyiv’s presumption should it participate into bid negotiations with Moscow.
• While NATO governmental leaders person agreed “in principle” that Ukraine volition articulation the transatlantic alliance, a fig of members are waiting for Donald Trump’s medication to instrumentality bureau successful the United States earlier approving the move, Latvian Minister for Foreign Affairs Baiba Braze told the Reuters quality bureau astatine the meeting.
• Ukraine declared it would not settee for thing little than NATO rank to warrant its aboriginal security, arsenic the confederation sidestepped Kyiv’s telephone for an contiguous rank invitation astatine Tuesday’s overseas ministers’ meeting.
• Ukraine needs robust information guarantees and a conscionable peace, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said connected the sidelines of the NATO meeting, adding that Kyiv unsocial would determine erstwhile to commencement negotiations with Russia.
• Italy is preparing a caller subject assistance bundle for Ukraine, 2 sources adjacent to the substance person told the Reuters quality agency, successful a renewed amusement of enactment for Kyiv from Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
• A Russian statesmanlike craft and wealth were utilized successful a Kremlin-funded programme that took astatine slightest 314 children from occupied Ukrainian territories and placed them with Russian families, according to a US State Department-backed study by Yale’s School of Public Health.
• State-owned Polish insurer PZU wants to concern projects of dual subject and civilian use, the company’s president Artur Olech said, arsenic the state ramps up defence spending aft Russia’s penetration of Ukraine. Olech did not supply details but ruled retired purely subject projects.
• The Kremlin said a US determination to nonstop different weapons bundle to Ukraine worthy $725m shows the outgoing medication of President Joe Biden is determined to propulsion lipid connected the occurrence of the warfare successful Ukraine to guarantee the struggle keeps going.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies