Overview
- Vladimir Putin said Russia will take full control of the Donbas by force unless Ukrainian troops withdraw, a position Kyiv rejects.
- The Russian Defence Ministry claimed it seized Pokrovsk and advanced in other sectors, but Ukraine said its forces still hold the city’s northern sector and continue to fight in Pokrovsk, Vovchansk and Kupiansk.
- Putin called his Kremlin meeting with U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner “very useful,” yet aide Yury Ushakov said Russia agreed to nothing and rejected the latest U.S. proposal.
- From November 27 to December 3, Ukraine reported intercepting about 1,000 of nearly 1,100 Russian drones and half of 39 missiles, with recent strikes killing at least four people in Dnipro and hitting power infrastructure.
- Ukrainian officials said their forces struck Russian energy and military-linked targets including the Saratov refinery, Engels airbase, the Alabuga drone plant, oil docks at Novorossiysk and oil storage in the Tambov region.