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Experts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) have stated that the Russian military leadership is talking about the "active defence" of Avdiivka to hide "the lack of any major Russian progress around Avdivka" and to explain the inability of the Russians to "translate tactical gains into operationally significant advances.

Guerrillas in the temporarily occupied Melitopol, Zaporizhzhya Oblast, carried out a successful attack against Russian invasion forces around lunchtime on Dec. 1, the press service of Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence or HUR has said.

Russian forces have been pushing forward in the vicinity of Avdiivka over the course of the last day. They also confirmed an attack in the vicinity of Staromaiorske, Donetsk Oblast. Source: the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) Details: According to Russian military bloggers, Russian forces pushed west of the railway line near Novokalynove (11 kilometres northwest of Avdiivka) and Stepove (3 kilometres northwest of Avdiivka).

Ukraine's Defence Forces continue to defeat the Russians, as they killed 1,280 Russian soldiers and destroyed 13 tanks, 32 armoured combat vehicles and 22 artillery systems belonging to the Russians over the past day alone.

Conflicting reports from Russian “war correspondents” regarding advancements near Avdiivka, Donetsk Oblast, coupled with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s OSCE speech have raised questions about Moscow’s war plans, U.S.-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said in its Nov. 30 report.

In the war of liberation against Russia, Ukraine's Defence Forces continue to kill the Russians: Ukrainian soldiers killed 1,180 invaders, destroyed 28 Russians anti-aircraft guns and 13 tanks in the past day alone.

Russian troops attacked Darivka in Kherson Oblast overnight on 30 November, as a result of which a dozen residential buildings, a kindergarten, and a hospital were damaged, and four people were injured.

Ukraine has lost up to 270 soldiers in the Donetsk direction over the past 24 hours, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday.

Russian forces have deployed a unique acoustic system named the “Yazykoved” (lit. "Linguist"), a device mounted on a Tigr vehicle equipped with loudspeakers to broadcast messages in Ukrainian and Russian, urging Ukrainian soldiers – who are often conscripted into the military against their will – not to die for NATO’s interests.

Sputnik correspondent Russell Bentley has a deep conversation with ‘Electric’, an old friend and comrade from XAH Spetsnaz Battalion.