🇺🇦🇷🇺Vladimir Zelensky admitted that “everyone forgot about Ukraine because of the events in the Middle East.”

The president said this in an interview in Kyiv with Nikkei and other foreign media.

“Today everyone has forgotten about Ukraine because of the events in the Middle East. I believe that this is exactly what the Russian Federation tried to achieve, and I am sorry to say that they achieved the desired result,” Zelensky said.

He also explained the reasons for the unsuccessful offensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces this year.

“It is very difficult to reconquer territory that is fortified and where the fortifications are built in several lines. This is difficult for people,” the president said.

However, according to Zelensky, “negotiations on a ceasefire with Moscow can begin only after the Russian military completely leaves the territory of Ukraine.”

“We cannot recognize our territories as territories of the Russian Federation,” he explained.

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🇮🇱⚔️🇵🇸Israeli army spokesman:

We are ready to resume fighting in the Gaza Strip immediately

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🇦🇷❌🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦 As expected...

Argentina's incoming Foreign Minister Diana Mondino says the country will not join the BRICS grouping of developing nations in a post on social media X on Thursday.

Argentina was among six countries invited to become new members of the BRICS at a summit held in South Africa in August.

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🇺🇦💀 AFU losses as estimated by @Rybar

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🏦💰💰💰💸🇺🇦🇯🇵The World Bank has approved a $1.2 billion loan to Ukraine guaranteed by the Japanese government.

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🗓 Top News Today

▫️ Units of Russian Groups of Forces repelled eight enemy attacks in Krasny Liman, Kupyansk, Donetsk and Zaporozhye direction within the special military operation.

▫️ Air defence units intercepted nine Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles near Tokarevka (Kharkov region), Lipovoye and Maryinka (Donetsk People's Republic), Pshenichnoye (Zaporozhye region), and Chaplinka (Kherson region).

▫️ Russian Defence Ministry shows MiG-31 fighter jets, Msta-B and Giatsint-B howitzers in action during the special military operation.

▫️ Another Ukrainian soldier describes the Ukrainian army's disastrous situation

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🔹 Russian Defence Ministry

⚡️ On 1 December at around 8.00 am Moscow time, one uncrewed surface vehicle of the Ukrainian Navy was detected travelling in the direction of the Crimean peninsula in the western part of the Black Sea.

The detected target was destroyed from the standard armament of the Black Sea Fleet's naval aviation.

🔹 Russian Defence Ministry

Report by Press Centre Chief of Yug Group of Forces

▫️Units of the Yug Group of Forces continue to perform tasks in Donetsk direction of the special military operation.

▫️The Group's units, aviation, and artillery repelled two attacks of the AFU 79th Air Assault Brigade's assault groups near Maryinka.

▫️Artillery inflicted fire damage on manpower and hardware of the AFU 93rd Mechanised Brigade close to Andreevka.

▫️The enemy lost up to 270 Ukrainian troops, two armoured fighting vehicles, and three pickup trucks.

🔹 Russian Defence Ministry

Russia's Su-25 ground-attack aircraft strike AFU facilities and hardware

📍 South Donetsk direction

After the use of aviation weapons, the crews performed a manoeuver, releasing heat flares, and returned to the departure airfield.

🔹 Russian Defence Ministry