The information processed here comes from international media and news agencies, but also from the warring parties and their allies. In particular, information on losses suffered by the armies participating in the Ukrainian war cannot be independently verified.
Updated from December 3, 1:11 p.m.: At least six civilians were said to have been injured in a Ukrainian attack on a beauty salon in Donzic. This was stated today by a correspondent from the Russian State Agency RIA Novosti. It was not initially possible to independently verify the information.
Ukraine News: Klitschko accuses Zelensky of making mistakes
Updated from December 3, 12:41 p.m: Unusually clear criticism of the Ukrainian president – from the mayor of Kiev. “People ask why we were not better prepared for this war. Why did Zelensky deny until the end that this was happening?” Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko told the Swiss news portal. 20 minutes.
“There was a lot of information that did not correspond to reality,” says Klitschko, who called for more honesty regarding the “true situation” in Ukraine. He also clearly stood by the Supreme Commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Valery Zalochny. Much to Volodymyr Zelensky’s annoyance, he recently spoke of the stalemate in the Ukraine war.
Klitschko secured Zelenskiy in yesterday’s news 20 minutes-Interview at the same time in support – until the end of the war. “But at the end of this war, every politician will pay the price for his successes or failures.”
Ukraine News: Winter weather changes battles with Russia
Updated from December 3, 11:05 a.m: Bad weather conditions slow down fighting in Ukraine – along the entire front line. Ukrainian army spokesman Volodymyr Vitgo said that Russian fire on the front in Bakhmut continues unabated. This is what the American Institute for the Study of War reported in its latest report analysis.
According to the analyst, Russian military bloggers previously claimed that strong winds near Bakhmut prevented Vladimir Putin’s forces from using drones and artillery there. It was not possible to verify the information provided by both sides.
Ukraine News: General Staff with figures on Russia’s losses
Updated from December 3, 9:55 a.m: The Ukrainian General Staff released new figures on Russia’s losses in the Ukraine war. According to this, 930 Russian soldiers were killed or wounded in the fighting within one day. The information could not be independently verified.
Soldiers: 332,040 (+930 the previous day)
tank: 5575 (+4)
Armored vehicles: 10,396 (+11)
Artillery systems: 7949 (+8)
Multiple rocket launchers: 913
Anti-aircraft guns: 602
Planes: 323
helicopter: 324
Drones: 5995 (+1)
Missiles/cruise missiles: 1569 (+1)
Ships: 22
Submarines: 1
Tank trucks and other vehicles: 10,432 (+22)
Special vehicles and other equipment: 1140 (+2)
Source: Ukrainian General Staff as of December 3, 2023. Information about Russia’s losses comes from the Ukrainian army. It cannot be independently verified. Russia itself does not provide any information about its losses in the Ukraine war
Updated from December 3, 8:27 a.m: New details about the situation in Front near Avdiivka: Russia reduced its attacks on the city by half in the past 24 hours. The reason is the large losses, according to what the Ukrainian News Agency reported, citing Ukrainian army spokesman Oleksandr Stubon. Reuters On state television.
Outside the city centre, in the so-called industrial zone, fighting continued. Russian war bloggers reported that the area was now under Russian control. It was not initially possible to independently verify the information.
News about the Ukraine war: The front near Avdiivka is currently the focal point
Updated from December 3, 7:24 a.mThe fiercest fighters are currently in eastern Ukraine, according to reports of the Ukrainian General Staff. In the Front near Avdiivka Yesterday alone, 20 Russian attacks were repelled. According to the front report, the Russians are said to have attacked the vicinity of Bakhmut 15 times. It was not initially possible to independently verify this information.
Updated from December 2, 10:26 p.m.: The Ukrainian Air Force warns of a wave of attacks by Russian drones through its Telegram channel. This was reported by the Ukrainian News Agency ocrinform. The report stated that there was a movement of a witness drone from the Kherson region towards the Mykolaiv region.
The fight for Bakhmut in the Ukraine war continues
Updated from December 2, 3:43 p.m.: Russian and Ukrainian forces appear to continue fierce fighting in Bakhmut. “Ukrainian defenders repelled 21 enemy attacks near such settlements as Bohdanivka, Ivanivsk, Klyshchevka and Andreevka,” Volodymyr Vityu said loudly. ocrinform During a national call. Vitio is the head of the Public Relations Service of the Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. He also noted that the Russian attackers are trying to regain their lost positions, but have not succeeded so far.
War in Ukraine: Power outages in Zaporizhya
Updated from December 2 at 11:30 a.m.: According to Ukrainian information, another temporary power outage occurred at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhia nuclear power plant. The Ukrainian Ministry of Energy announced via the Telegram application that the last working power line was cut on Saturday evening.
Until the line was repaired about five hours later, the nuclear power plant was supplied with emergency power generators. This was the eighth power outage of its kind. “This could have led to a nuclear disaster,” the ministry said. The plant, which has been occupied by Russia since March 2022, no longer produces electricity, but itself requires electricity to cool the reactor.
Ukraine News: The situation in the east is still unclear
Updated from December 2, 6:15 a.m.: Control of the city of Marinka in eastern Ukraine remains unclear. Unofficial reports indicate that Russian forces are making some gains. The city, which once had a population of 10,000, was almost completely destroyed in fighting that lasted more than a year. Civilians are no longer present in the city.
The Ukrainian General Staff said in its evening report on Friday (December 1) that Russian forces tried unsuccessfully to advance towards the villages near Marinka. Ukrainian military spokesman Volodymyr Vityu stated in a speech broadcast on Ukrainian television that Russian forces are launching attacks in many areas of the 1,000-kilometre-long front line.
Russia attacks Odessa with drones
Update from December 1, 10:47 p.m.: Russia launched a drone attack on Odessa during the Ukrainian war. This was reported by the Ukrainian authorities in the city. Several groups of combat drones moved across the Black Sea towards the port city, but were destroyed by Ukrainian air defense.
Update from December 1, 9:51 p.m.: Ukraine celebrates partial success in the war against Russia. According to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, its forces were able to destroy a total of five ammunition depots belonging to the Russian army. In addition, three other Russian positions in the Marinka settlement near Donetsk were damaged. The information provided by the Ukrainian military cannot be independently verified.
Updated from December 1, 8:44 p.m.: Due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, Russia will expand its army again. According to news agency information, this is possible dpa From the Kremlin decree. The number of soldiers should be increased to about 1.32 million. This means recruiting 170,000 new soldiers.
Vladimir Putin announced the expansion of the Russian army only in the summer of 2022. However, the Russian president continues to refuse mobilization.
Russia is attacking Ukraine with drones and artillery
Updated from December 1, 8:02 p.m.: Three people were killed in Russian artillery and drone strikes on Friday. This is what the news agency reported Reuters. In addition, an unspecified infrastructure facility, power lines and gas pipeline were damaged in the Ukrainian regions of Dnipropetrovsk and Kherson.
Update from December 1, 6:18 p.m.: Russia attacks again the city of Kherson in the Ukrainian war. Local authorities reported this on Friday evening. Residents of the southern city were asked to go to shelters or not leave their homes. Individual buildings were bombed by Russian missiles. The attacks are said to have come from Crimea, about 200 kilometers away, which Russia annexed in 2014.
Russia continues its offensive around Avdiivka
First report from December 1, 2023: KIEV – The Battle of Avdiivka rages on in the Ukrainian war. Russia is said to have deployed additional military forces to the region in the past 24 hours. Russian units are said to have already advanced out of the city north of Donetsk. This was announced by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) in its report. Accordingly, Russia is said to have also launched an offensive in southwest Donetsk.
According to the Russian army, the fighting is currently concentrated in an industrial area on the outskirts of Avdiivka. Ukrainian units are said to have holed up behind massive defenses at a coal plant there. The Ukrainian Armed Forces also reported numerous attacks launched by Russia around the besieged city. According to Ukrainian media, the arrival of winter and muddy roads makes it more difficult for armored vehicles to advance in the south of the country.
Russia’s losses in the Ukrainian war
Source: Ukrainian General Staff as of December 1, 2023. Information about Russia’s losses comes from the Ukrainian army. It cannot be independently verified. Russia itself does not provide any information about its losses in the Ukraine war.
Putin redeploys his forces to the war in Ukraine
Due to the heavy losses, the military leadership under President Vladimir Putin is said to have begun the process of redeploying forces in the Ukraine war. As reported by the news portal Ukrainian Pravda. Accordingly, Russian attacks around the northern city of Kubyansk are said to have decreased significantly.
But Ukraine has recently been unable to report any successes on the front in the Ukrainian war. Volodymyr Zelensky recently admitted this. The counterattack in the summer and autumn did not „achieve the desired results.” The President also announced that construction of defense structures along the front with Russia will now begin. (talk to agencies)
During a meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump verbally attacked his political rival Kamala Harris. „She’s really destructive,” Trump said at his Florida home, with Netanyahu in attendance. „I think her comments were disrespectful. She wasn’t very nice about Israel.”
Earlier, after meeting with Netanyahu, Vice President Harris said: “We cannot turn a blind eye to these tragedies. We cannot allow ourselves to be callous in the face of suffering, and I will not remain silent.”
Trump’s first meeting with Netanyahu in more than three years
trump card He said, referring to Harris, that he did not know “how a Jewish person could vote for her, but that is up to each individual.” He found their behavior “definitely disrespectful to Israel.”
The Republican also assured the Israeli prime minister of his full solidarity, the campaign team said. “If we don’t win, there will be major wars in the Middle East and maybe World War III,” Trump said. It was the first time Netanyahu and Trump had met in person since he left the White House more than three years ago.
Netanyahu praises Trump’s policy toward Israel
Netanyahu praised Trump’s qualities in the meeting Israel She added that during his term from 2017 to 2021, Netanyahu praised Trump’s mediation in the so-called Abraham Accords, the transfer of the US embassy to Jerusalem, the recognition of sovereignty over the Golan Heights, the killing of Iranian General Soleimani, and the termination of the nuclear agreement with Israel. Iran and Trump’s war against anti-Semitism.
Netanyahu is currently on a multi-day visit to the United States. On Wednesday, he defended Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip in a speech to the US Congress. He also reportedly discussed artificial intelligence and its impact on the economy with tech billionaire Elon Musk on the sidelines of the speech. He was welcomed on Thursday by US President Biden and Kamala Harris They were welcomed to the White House for separate talks.
hoping to reach a hostage deal
Asked by a reporter whether his visit to the United States showed progress toward a hostage deal, Netanyahu replied: „I hope so. But I think time will tell. We are certainly keen to reach (an agreement). We are working on it.”
Netanyahu added that Israel would send a team of negotiators to Rome, likely early next week. Regarding the status of negotiations over the release of the hostages still held by Hamas, he said that, in his view, there had been some movement in the talks “because of the military pressure we have applied.” “I hope there will be enough movement to complete the deal,” Netanyahu said.
In Israel, the prime minister is increasingly accused of delaying the conflict in order to avoid the collapse of his far-right government coalition, which is expected if the war ends.
During a meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump verbally attacked his political rival Kamala Harris. „She’s really destructive,” Trump said at his Florida home, with Netanyahu in attendance. „I think her comments were disrespectful. She wasn’t very nice about Israel.”
Earlier, after meeting with Netanyahu, Vice President Harris said: “We cannot turn a blind eye to these tragedies. We cannot allow ourselves to be callous in the face of suffering, and I will not remain silent.”
In an interview, Reinhold Messner, 79, settled scores with his sons. Now the son of the mountaineering star is coming forward – and revealing new details.
Updated as of July 25, 2024 at 2:45 PM: Reinhold Messner caused a stir in an interview last weekend. The mountaineering legend described, among other things, the early inheritance of his sons as “one of my biggest mistakes”. The 79-year-old revealed that “the question of who got more was the main focus”. But now son Simon responds: “It’s unfortunate and sad.” Bavaria Radio His father’s accusations.
He himself greatly values the inheritance he received from his father: two mountain farms in Vinschgau in South Tyrol, and he always passed this on to his father. „That’s why I fundamentally don’t understand this accusation,” says Simon Messner. He sees no similarity between the inheritance and the break in the family, which happened gradually and had other causes, says Simon Messner. Father Reinhold did not want to comment further on this topic.
After inheritance dispute: Mountaineering legend Reinhold Messner 'on the brink’
First report dated July 21, 2024: Bolzano – Mountaineering legend Reinhold Messner turns 80 in September. But things don’t always go well for Messner, especially in his old age – he recently drew attention to himself with a thoughtful Instagram post in which he wrote: “I’m coming to the end.” Now the 79-year-old is talking about the circumstances in his family. In an interview with Pharmacy Journal Miser gives insight into his relationship with his children, which was strained by his decision to leave the majority of his assets to them in his will before his death.
Reinhold Messner talks about the biggest mistake of his life – the 79-year-old was 'on the edge of the abyss’
“One of my biggest mistakes was leaving them the majority of my assets in my will before I died,” Meisner says of his children. “They don’t understand that everything was a gift and don’t appreciate my generosity.” This is very disappointing to him, especially compared to his childhood, when there was nothing to bequeath but respect and gratitude.
Meisner explains to Pharmacy Journal “We were a big family, with many brothers and sisters, and we took care of our parents when they were old. For me, it was the opposite. The moment I distributed my material inheritance to my children and my wife, the family collapsed. The question of who got more was at the forefront and I was on the edge of the abyss when I was 75 years old.
Reinhold Messner
September 17, 1944
Brixen (South Tyrol)
Member of the European Parliament (1999-2004)
Climbing Mount Everest Without Oxygen
Asked if he would like to improve the relationship again, Meisner replies, “What parent wouldn’t want to?” He stresses that each person should find their own path rather than following in the footsteps of others: “Everyone should do it. Follow their own path, go their own way.”
’I’m Coming to the End’: Reinhold Messner’s Fans Worried
Recently, Messner caused concern among fans with his Instagram post: “I’ve reached the end, this is reality,” the mountaineering legend used the words to say. Messner’s post caused great concern among some fans.
“I leave with a clear conscience and the knowledge that I was a good person, did my best, was a loving father, a good friend, and a good brother,” Meisner continued in his post. “Now it’s time to live my last dreams and love the people who mean the most to me, but most importantly, gratitude.”
Many years after his climbing career ended, Messner remains one of the world’s most famous mountaineers. He was the first person ever to climb all eight-thousanders. However, in his native South Tyrol, a different Messner has been in the spotlight in recent months: his younger brother Hubert Messner, 71, a former pediatrician who also took part in numerous expeditions, recently became health minister for the northern Italian region.
Recently, there was also a fuss about the Guinness World Records being stripped of Reinhold Messner’s record. The mountaineer spoke of „conspiracy theories”.
’Symbolic’ Consequences – EU Moves Ministerial Meeting From Budapest to Brussels
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Hungary, led by Viktor Orban, has held the presidency of the Council of the European Union since July 1.
Source: German Press Agency/Alexander Zemlianichenko
There is still a lot of anger in Brussels about Viktor Orbán’s “peace mission”: EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell wants to ban Budapest from the next meeting of foreign and defence ministers. But the shot could backfire.
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DrThe European Commission is drawing further conclusions from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s unilateral actions: EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday that upcoming meetings of foreign and defence ministers will be held in Brussels – not in the Hungarian capital Budapest.
Borrell said after a ministerial meeting in Brussels that he had taken the decision after a majority of ministers spoke out against Hungary and wanted to impose „symbolic” consequences on the country. According to Borrell, 25 foreign ministers condemned Orban’s behaviour. The Hungarian received support only from Slovakia.
But Borrell has also been heavily criticised for his uncoordinated move to cancel the Budapest meeting. “Spain does not support a boycott in the EU,” Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said. Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister Xavier Bettel called the idea of a boycott “nonsense”. Bettel said he would rather go to Budapest and express his opinion to the Hungarians. Germany, France and the Netherlands have also voiced opposition to Borrell’s proposal.
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In Brussels, it cannot be ruled out that Borrell’s boycott campaign will ultimately backfire: several ministers are now said to be staying away from the Brussels meeting on 28-30 August in protest.
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Hungary has held the six-month rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union since the beginning of July. Immediately after that visit began, Orbán made a surprise visit to Ukraine, Russia and China on a self-proclaimed “peace mission.” He also met with US presidential candidate Donald Trump. His meetings have drawn criticism from EU member states.
The European Commission had already reached its first conclusions a week ago. A Council spokesman had said that no commissioners would be sent to informal meetings of the Hungarian Council Presidency, but only senior officials. The decision was taken by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. There will also be no customary inaugural visit by the Commission to the new Council Presidency.
