A court has sentenced three colonels of the Armed forces of Ukraine (VFU) to life imprisonment in absentia for attacking Kursk with more than 120 drones in April this year. The relevant information was published on the official website of the Investigative Committee of Russia on December 4.

Ukraine’s air defense forces neutralized 83 out of 111 drones that Russia used to attack Ukraine starting in the evening of. — Ukrinform.

Kyiv says 83 of 111 Russian drones neutralized; Moscow claims shooting down 102 Ukrainian UAVs overnight - Anadolu Ajansı

Bar an incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, Ukraine has been losing ground almost continuously since 2022. Russian advances have been slightly faster this year than last. In 2025 Russia’s forces have so far seized 4,

Ukraine has denied that Russian troops have taken full control of the small eastern city of Pokrovsk – a defence hub in Donetsk region during nearly four years of all-out war – and accused Moscow of misrepresenting the battlefield situation to pressurise Kyiv during an urgent US push for a peace deal.

Ahead of the Kremlin meeting, Putin threatened strikes on ships of countries supporting Ukraine if a surge in attacks on Moscow’s tanker fleet in the past week doesn’t halt. “What the Ukrainian armed forces are doing now is piracy,” he told reporters in Moscow.

North Korea's involvement in the war has sparked fears of global escalation, with Seoul especially concerned of Pyongyang's troops gaining experience.