Between 10,000 and 13,000 Ukrainian servicemen have died since the start of the Russian invasion. This was stated by adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak, referring to the data of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. “Undoubtedly, Mrs. Ursula ( von der Leyen, head of the European Commission - approx. Meduza ) was mistaken - this is obvious. So they removed that video, removed those numbers.

Super -short -like about the main (so far) sensation of the tournament Abedin Taherkenareh / EPA / Scanpix / Leta Auto Tanaka scores Japan's victorious goal against the Spaniards Germany beat Costa Rica with a score of 4: 2. The match was the first in the history of the world championships, which was served by a team of arbitrators, consisting of women. The main judge was Stefani Frappar from France. In a parallel game, Japan won Spain (2: 1).

US President Joe Biden said he was ready to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin if he is interested in ending the war in Ukraine. Biden said this at a press conference after a meeting with French leader Emmanuel Macron. “I am ready to talk to Putin if he really has an interest in finding a way to end the war. So far, I don’t see this,” Biden said, noting that he did not plan contacts with the Russian president in the near future.

Certain units of the Russian army are leaving their positions in several locales in the annexed part of Zaporizhzhia. This was reported by the Ukrainian General Staff in its evening digest on December 1. The Russian troops are also preparing to evacuate members of occupation-appointed local administrations. The same digest reports that Russian units formerly based in the police and school buildings in Mykhailivka, a village about 60 kilometers from Melitopol, have left the village.

Kyiv could be left without heating until spring if Russian shelling damages the city's critical infrastructure in winter and cannot be restored overnight. This was reported by Ukrayinska Pravda, at the Kiev Security Forum, said the mayor of the city Vitaliy Klitschko. If there is no heating and water for 24 hours at a temperature of -5°C (outdoors), we will need to drain the heating systems in Kyiv, because this can lead to damage to life support systems. We will be forced to drain the water.

Russian troops are withdrawing separate units from several settlements on the territory of the annexed part of the Zaporozhye region of Ukraine. This is stated in the summary of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, published on the evening of December 1. The Russian military is also preparing for the evacuation of employees of local administrations appointed after the occupation of the region's territories, according to the Ukrainian General Staff.

British traveler, TV presenter and writer Bear Grylls said he visited Kiev this week, where he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. According to Grylls, Zelensky became a participant in a special edition of his program. Thanks to this special issue, the world will see President Zelensky from a side that has never been shown before. I wanted to ask how he actually copes ... And he got much more. The program will go live soon. He did not provide any other details about the show.

Following the letter-bomb delivery to the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid, two other Ukrainian embassies received letters with “highly specific threats.” The Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said this to the Ukrinform news agency, at the meeting of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), which took place today in Lodz, Poland. Kuleba said that threatening letters arrived on November 30 and December 1.

Russia gathered 12 times more forces under Kiev than Ukraine, but lost due to the excessive secrecy of its plans Maksim Levin / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta destroyed equipment of the Russian army in the village of Borodyanka of the Kyiv region.

Update. On the air of the telethon, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that three Ukrainian embassies had already received letters with a "symbolic threat." According to him, in these cases, the envelopes contained not explosives, but “another substance.” What, the minister did not specify. “I can only say that all the envelopes were soaked in red liquid at the time they were received,” Kuleba said.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. The Russian occupation of Ukrainian territories contradicts all international norms. And what, is there a legal occupation? Russia continues to occupy part of Ukraine, although the Ukrainian armed forces over the past three months liberated part of the Kherson and Kharkov regions. The fact that the Russian Federation invaded a neighboring country is in itself a violation of the law. But the occupation also contradicts all established standards.

Mediazona published a diary of a Russian engineer who worked in Mariupol a month. He said what happened to the city and how its inhabitants relate to the Russians Alexei Alexandrov / AP / Scanpix / Leta workers are preparing a platform for building a house in the Cheryomushki microdistrict in Mariupol.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has published a unified roster of individuals and organizations designated as “foreign agents.” The new roster merges four different “foreign agent” lists that existed earlier. The PDF document has 15 pages and 493 entries.

The public "Tattoos" in VKontakte stopped displaying from some users. The first attention was paid to this was the telegram channel “Caution, News”, which reported the blocking of the public. When the page is opened, the message appears "Probably, the community contains unacceptable materials and is not available for viewing." The posts of the message were sent by the Medusa respondents in Moscow. Some users of VKontakte report that they have access to a public without a VPN. Update.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. In China, for the first time in decades - political protests. But covid restrictions are only a reason. And then what is the reason? On November 25, in several regions of China, protests began against strict coronavirus restrictions, which either intensify or are weakened in the country from the very beginning of the pandemic. The reason for the performances was a fire in a high -rise building in the city of Urumchi.