Russian troops continue to attack Ukrainian positions in the Donetsk region. Ukrainian troops are slowly advancing in the Luhansk region on the Kremennaya-Svatovo front line.

The Project publication published data on the losses of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Since February 24, the fleet has lost 16% of all warships. These are 12 ships and boats, including the flagship missile cruiser Moskva.

On December 2, the toponymy commission of the Izyum city administration approved the renaming of 22 city streets. Among them is Turgenev Street, named after the first president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Dzhokhar Dudayev.

Ukraine returned 50 more defenders. This was the fourth exchange with Russia in two weeks.

On December 1, the Meshchansky Court of Moscow passed a verdict on the co-owners of the Summa group - the Dagestani businessmen brothers Magomedov. Ziyavudin Magomedov received 19 years of strict regime, ex-senator from the Smolensk region Magomed Magomedov - 18 years. The court also confiscated all the property remaining from the oligarchs and deprived them of state awards.

On November 30, the human rights association Vayfond reported that Chechen refugee Amina Gerikhanova, detained in Romania at the request of Russia as a participant in hostilities in Syria, was excluded from the database of persons wanted by Interpol. Now she can cross borders without fear of arrest.

On November 30, in Makhachkala, security forces conducted a search in the house of Dagestani historian, professor, and specialist on the Caucasian War, Hadji Murad Donogo. “After morning prayers, a group (not local!) arrived with a warrant. They went through the apartment and confiscated a computer, phone, flash drives, two bags of books, and folders. I still didn’t understand what they were looking for. Then they took me to the 6th department (Department for Combating Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - Ed.), interrogated, in particular, they were interested in my participation in international scientific conferences,” Donogo said in his Telegram channel.

The European Commission estimated the costs of post-war reconstruction of Ukraine at 600 billion euros. Part of this amount may be covered by frozen Russian assets.
In the Sumy region of Ukraine, a 15-year-old child was killed during shelling.

On November 22, Pope Francis gave an interview to the American magazine America, where he spoke about the war in Ukraine. The interview was published on November 28 and caused a stir in Russia due to the fact that the pontiff called the Chechens and Buryats the “most brutal” participants in the war.

The Zaporozhye region was shelled about 70 times by Russian troops. The city of Orekhov was subjected to the most severe shelling.