Winter weather impacts fighting in Ukraine. The Russian army opens two new fronts in Avdiivka. The news from the Ukraine war.
- Battles for Avdiivka – Vladimir Putin Army opens new fronts
- Artillery attacks on Cherson – Ukraine defies Russia’s attacks on Avdiivka
- The information processed here comes from international media and news agencies, but also from the warring parties and their allies. In particular, the information on losses suffered by the armies involved in the Ukrainian war cannot be independently verified.
Update from December 4, 2023, 5:30 p.m.: The Ukrainian army has destroyed a weapons and ammunition depot in the Russian-occupied city of Luhansk. Ukraine’s security service said it had attacked the camp using drones. Again Kyiv Independent reported that the security service released a video of the attack.
Zelensky thanks allies for arms deliveries
Update from December 4, 2023, 3:50 p.m.: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Telegram that Ukraine’s allies had supplied missiles for existing air defense systems as well as new weapons systems to defend against aircraft. In the message, the president thanked his allies for the provision. How Ukrainska Pravda announced that Ukraine had also boosted its own weapons production. “For the first time we have reached the number of six Bohdana self-propelled howitzers per month, and we are already seeing how we can increase it further,” said Zelensky.
Update from December 4, 2023, 2:50 p.m.: Russia’s army appears to have killed one person in attacks on the city of Kherson and its outskirts. The heads of the military administration and state administration in Kherson, Roman Mrochko and Oleksandr Produkin, reported to the news portal Ukrainska Pravdathat three other men were also injured in the attacks.
Russia wants victory over Ukraine and is opening new fronts in Avdiivka
Update from December 4, 2023, 2:15 p.m.: According to the Kyiv Post The Russian army has opened two new fronts in the battle for the Ukrainian city of Avdiivka. As the town’s mayor, Vitaliy Barabash, reported, the action proves that the Russian soldiers had received orders to take the town “at any cost.” Russia has been trying to take over the industrial city in the eastern Donetsk region for two months.
Update from December 4th, 1:13 p.m: New information about killed Russian commander: The investigative news portal iStories reported loudly Reuters, Vladimir Zawadsky is the seventh major general whose death Russia has confirmed. Overall, he is the twelfth senior officer whose death has been confirmed since the beginning of the war. According to Gusev, Zawadsky was a highly decorated officer and former tank commander. His death is a terrible loss.
Ukraine News: Russia loses senior officer at the front
Update from December 4th, 12:05 p.m.: Again Guardian Reportedly, deputy commander of the Russian 14th Army Corps Vladimir Zawadsky was killed in Ukraine. This was confirmed by the governor of the Russian city of Voronezh, who is said to have described the commander’s death as a serious loss. According to the governor, Zawadsky was killed “at a combat post in the special operations zone.”
Update from December 4th, 10:55 a.m.: According to the news portal Ukrainska Pravda On the night of December 3rd to 4th, the Russian military attempted to use drones to attack critical infrastructure in the city of Ivano-Frankivsk in western Ukraine. As the state administration announced, the attack was repelled and the drones were shot down. No significant damage was caused.
News from the Ukraine War: High losses reported for Russia
Update from December 4th, 10:25 a.m.: The Ukrainian General Staff has published new figures (as of Monday, December 4th) on Russia’s losses in the Ukraine war. According to this, 770 Russian soldiers were either killed or incapacitated in the fighting within one day. The information could not be independently verified.
- soldiers: 332,810 (+770 on the previous day)
- Panzer: 5580 (+5)
- Armored vehicles: 10.401 (+5)
- Artilleriesysteme: 7961 (+12)
- Multiple rocket launchers: 913
- Anti-aircraft guns: 602
- Airplanes: 323
- helicopter: 324
- Drones: 6017 (+22)
- Rockets/cruise missiles: 1569
- Ships: 22
- U-Boot: 1
- Tank trucks and other vehicles: 10.451 (+19)
- Special vehicles and other equipment: 1141 (+1)
Source: Ukrainian General Staff as of December 3, 2023. The information about Russia’s losses comes from the Ukrainian army. They cannot be independently verified. Russia itself does not provide any information about its own losses in the Ukraine war
Fighting around Avdiivka is easing somewhat – current news from the Ukraine war
Update from December 4th, 6:00 a.m.: In Ukraine, the fierce fighting for the city of Avdiivka that has been going on for two months has subsided, according to the mayor. There have been fewer attacks by Russian ground troops in the past 24 hours, Mayor Vitaly Barabash told the Ukrainian TV channel Freedom on Sunday (December 3).
News from the Ukraine war: Serious Russian attacks on Kherson
First report: Kiev – At least two people have died in a series of Russian artillery raids on the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson. According to official information on Sunday, another seven residents were seriously injured. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the Russian attacks on Kherson as “pure terrorist attacks.” “In total, there were more than 20 Russian attacks in the Kherson region on this day alone,” Zelensky said in his evening video address on Sunday (December 3). “Brutal beatings, all over the city – houses, streets, hospitals.”
According to military administrator Roman Mrotschko, the attack on the city center on Sunday targeted two hospitals, where only minor damage was recorded. Instead, a multi-story residential building was hit and severely damaged. Kherson has been the target of repeated Russian attacks from artillery, grenade launchers and rocket launchers in recent days, the military administration said. Since Saturday alone, the city on the Dnipro has been shelled with almost 400 shells. The information could not initially be independently verified.
Ukraine News: Ukrainian armed forces report Russian attacks along the Dnipro
The Ukrainian armed forces reported repeated Russian attacks against the bridgeheads they had won on the left bank of the Dnipro near Kherson in order to dent them as much as possible. Fighting was also reported from other sectors of the front on Sunday. “Fierce fighting continues in dozens of locations along the entire front line,” Zelensky said. “The most difficult areas are Mariyinka, Avdiivka and Bakhmut.” He did not give any details.
On Sunday evening, air alerts were sounded in both the east and south of Ukraine. Ukrainian media reported on the approach of Iranian-made Russian kamikaze drones over the Black Sea. The air defense in Mykolaiv became active against the drones. (Talk to agency material)
2023-12-04 17:04:55
#Ukraine #News #Russia #victory #cost
