WAR IN UKRAINE: December 5, 2022
People take shelter inside a metro station amid Russian missile attacks on Kyiv on December 5.
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: Day 285
Several regions of Ukraine reported interruptionsMonday to power and water supplies amid freezing temperatures after about 70 Russian missiles were fired at targets across the country in a new round of Moscow strikes. Despite the wave of strikes, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed a high success rate in destroying the Russian missiles. The Ukrainian Air Force said more than 60 of Moscow's missiles were intercepted Monday - CNN
The Russian Defense Ministry claimed Ukraine used drones to attack two Russian military air bases within its territory Monday morning and that three Russian military personnel were killed. A ministry statement said they were "Soviet-made, low-flying Ukrainian drones" targeting Russian long-range warplanes at two airbases: Dyagilevo in Ryazan region and Engels in Saratov region, both of them hundreds of kilometres from Ukraine. It said "three Russian military personnel died and four more were wounded in the Ukrainian armed forces attack…air defences intercepted these drones," it added. "As a result of the crash and explosion of fragments of the Ukrainian drones on the Russian airbases there was some slight fuselage damage on two planes."
Russia is losing from 50 to 100 soldiers each day in the battle of Bakhmut amid its desperate attempts to capture the city in the eastern Donetsk Oblast, a military spokesman said on Dec. 4.
A missile was discovered on the territory of Moldova near the Ukrainian border after another Russian missile attack on Ukraine, according to Moldovan mass media, including Newsmaker, writes "European Truth". The Ministry of Internal Affairs officers discovered a rocket near the border, near the town of Brychany. In late October, missile fragments fell on Moldovan territory and Russian missiles have violated its airspace on several occasions.
Two-way traffic has been restored on a Russian-built bridge that connects Russia to the Crimean Peninsula, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014. Meanwhile, Washington says it sees no signs that Moscow is interested in talks on ending the war in Ukraine, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said - RFE/RL
World Bank: Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction to cost up to 600 billion euros. World Bank Vice President for Europe and Central Asia Anna Bjerde told Austrian newspaper Die Press that the cost of rebuilding Ukraine’s infrastructure damaged or completely destroyed by Russia since Feb. 24 will cost from 500 to 600 billion euros ($527 billion to $632 billion) - Kyiv Independent
KSE: Russia has stolen, destroyed $1.9 billion worth of agricultural products in Ukraine. The estimated 2.8 million metric tons of grain and 1.2 million tons of oil seeds were destroyed or stolen because of Russia’s war against Ukraine, according to the Center for Food and Land Use Research of the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) - Kyiv Independent