Here’s what happened on Wednesday, December 3:
fights
- Russian troops attacked Ukraine’s Kherson region using “rocket launchers, mortars and drones,” killing a 76-year-old woman and injuring at least two others, the Kherson regional prosecutor’s office said in a post on Telegram.
- A Russian drone attack killed one person and injured 5 people in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, the head of the city’s military administration, Oleksandr Honcharenko, wrote on Facebook.
- Rescuers recovered the body of a man killed in a Russian attack on a nine-story residential building in Kramatorsk, Ukraine’s Donetsk region on Tuesday, the State Emergency Service (SES) said.
- A woman injured in a Russian attack Ternopil, Ukraine on November 19 Ternopil regional police chief Serhiy Zyubanenko said the death toll from the bombing had reached 36.
- Four adults and a child are still missing after the attack on Ternopil, and forensic scientists and investigators are still searching the site, Zyubanenko added in a post on Facebook.
- In the frontline Zaporizhia region, Governor Ivan Fedorov said a Russian drone attack left 5,000 people without electricity.
- The Russian Defense Ministry has re-released the video footage it claims to show caught up Pokrovsk is a major city in eastern Ukraine. Ukraine’s military says it still controls the northern part of the city and that fighting is ongoing.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin challenged foreign and Ukrainian journalists to visit Pokrovsk in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, as well as Kupyansk, to “inform their listeners and readers objectively about what is happening in the world, including Ukraine”.
Regional security
- The Russian-flagged MIDVOLGA-2 oil tanker It has arrived in northern Turkey after reports of drone strikes in the Black Sea. Russia has blamed Ukraine for the attack, a charge Kiev has denied.
US-Russia talks
- Putin met US special envoy Steve Witkoff and US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. A five-hour meeting in the Kremlin on tuesday.
- Putin aide Yuri Ushakov expressed hope for rapid progress in talks aimed at ending Russia’s war on Ukraine, saying the meeting was “constructive” but that no compromises had been reached, Russia’s TASS news agency reported.
- Putin has previously accused European countries of deliberately derailing efforts to reach a peace deal by including proposals that are “completely unacceptable” to Russia. “They are in favor of war,” Putin said.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Putin stood by the Trump administration in hopes of losing interest in resolving the conflict.
- Trump briefly mentioned the discussion during a cabinet meeting in Washington DC. “We have people in Russia right now to see if we can settle it,” Trump said. “Not an easy situation. What a mess.”
economy
- After a meeting with Irish President Catherine Connolly in Dublin, Zelenskiy said he would encourage Irish companies to invest in his country.
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said India’s imports of Russian oil could drop “for a short period of time” as Moscow plans to increase supplies using “state-of-the-art” technology to mitigate the impact of Western sanctions.