⚡️All 30 NATO member countries agree with the need for Ukraine to join the Alliance, – Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine Olha Stefanishyna says.
"It is important that this decision is not a repetition of the conclusion of the Bucharest Summit in 2008. It is a new powerful signal, and it is very important that it shows: no one is afraid of pressure from the Russian Federation", – Stefanishyna says.
⚡️Operational information from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 06:00 (GMT +2) on December 3:
On the Avdiivka and Bakhmut directions, offensive actions are continuing.
The movement of personnel and military equipment of the occupiers to equip units that have suffered losses continues.
Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine have repelled attacks by Russian invaders in the areas of the settlements of Chervopopivka in the Luhansk region and Soledar, Opytne, Nevelske, Krasnohorivka and Mariinka in the Donetsk region.
⚡️Russian soldier talks to his wife about his visit to the hospital and learns the latest news from Russia.
- How are you, tell me?
- Oh, I went to the hospital, my back hurts, my head hurts, my kidneys hurt. I don't like anything. I did these 3 injections in 3 days. Then they told me to go to the position and they gave me 3 injections. I tried to argue and they gave me a lecture:
“Do you understand that your body has adapted to everything? And you come here and whine, go away. Soldiers leave with a heart attack, stroke and pneumonia.”
- Is it quiet now?
- No, it's still going on.
- After the new year, there will be a general mobilization
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⚡️Operational information from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine as of 18:00 (GMT+2) on December 2:
"During the current day, the Russian occupiers carried out 13 airstrikes on the positions of our troops along the contact line;
4 missile strikes on civilian objects in the cities of Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia, the village of Zarichne in the Zaporizhzhia region, and the city of Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region.
Also, the enemy launched more than 10 attacks from rocket salvo systems on the civilian infrastructure of Kherson, Antonivka and the positions of our troops along the contact line."
Russia's withdrawal from the west bank of the Dnipro River last month has provided the Ukrainian Armed Forces with opportunities to strike additional Russian logistics nodes and lines of communication.
This threat has highly likely prompted Russian logisticians to relocate supply nodes, including rail transfer points, further south and east. Russian logistics units will need to conduct extra labour-intensive loading and unloading from rail to road transport.
Road moves will subsequently still be vulnerable to Ukrainian artillery as they move on to supply Russian forward defensive positions.
⚡️ The US Department of Defense is trying to negotiate with individual NATO and Middle East countries on the transfer of their NASAMS missile systems to Ukraine, says Greg Hayes, General Director of Raytheon Technologies, producing NASAMS — Defense One.
⚡️ The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces:
Over the past day, Russia has fired five missile strikes at the civilian infrastructure of the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions.
Russia carried out 30 air strikes on Ukrainian soldiers' positions and more than 35 multiple rocket attacks on populated areas along the confrontation line.
The threat of missile strikes by Russia against Ukrainian facilities of the power system and critical infrastructure remains.