Overview
- By 22:00 on December 4, the General Staff logged 154 clashes across the front, including 51 Russian assault attempts on the Pokrovsk axis, with no offensive actions reported on the Kupiansk or Kramatorsk directions.
- Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi said Ukrainian troops hold the northern part of Pokrovsk and are executing search-and-strike operations to disrupt Russian efforts to mass assault groups near Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad.
- The General Staff confirmed strikes on fuel infrastructure in Russia’s Tambov region and at Livny, and reported a hit on the Nevinnomissky Azot plant in Stavropol that ignited one production shop.
- Ukraine’s military intelligence said special units struck a Russian MiG-29 at Crimea’s Kacha airfield and an “Irtysh” radar near Simferopol, claims not independently verified by Russia.
- EU and allied ministers in Vienna called for sustained pressure and long-term security assurances for Kyiv, as the UK sanctioned Russia’s GRU following a Novichok inquiry that tied the 2018 attack to orders from President Vladimir Putin.