update on the situation at dawn

• The Russian army claims to be advancing around Avdiïvka, the Ukrainians claim to repel their attacks. The Russian army, which has been attacking the city for a month, is still trying to surround it and capture a coking plant, a strategic point. “Not only are they fighting for the factory [mais] they are not giving up on surrounding Avdiïvka”declared Oleksandr Shtupoune, spokesperson for the Ukrainian army, on Ukrainian television.
• First delivery of French arms to Moldova. France and Moldova, which also lives in fear of Russian aggression, have started negotiations for a defense agreement. A parliamentary report also estimated France’s military aid to Ukraine at 3.2 billion euros.
• US remains focused on aid to Ukraine, despite the war between Israel and Hamas, recalled State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel. But the Pentagon only has $1 billion left to replenish the stockpiles of weapons sent to Ukraine, said Sabrina Singh, the Pentagon’s deputy spokeswoman.
• Training of Ukrainian pilots on the F-16 is progressing, according to the Ukrainian Air Force. “Our partners don’t want to divulge too many details, but the fact is that pilots are starting to train on F-16s in the air directly – not all, but some pilots are already training with an instructor on board. fighter planes in the sky. So everything is going according to plan.”, declared the spokesperson for the Ukrainian Air Force, Colonel Yuriy Ihnat. At the end of October, Bridget Brink, the American ambassador to kyiv, confirmed that Ukrainian pilots were undergoing training on F-16 fighter jets in Arizona.
• For the Hungarian Prime Minister, the European Union should not begin negotiations on Ukraine’s accession. Member state leaders must decide in mid-December whether to accept the European Commission’s recommendations to invite Ukraine to begin EU accession negotiations as soon as Kiev meets the final conditions. Such a decision must be taken unanimously by the twenty-seven member states. But Viktor Orban’s Hungary represents the main obstacle to Ukrainian membership.
• Surprise visit by Vladimir Putin to the military headquarters in Rostov-on-Don, according to the Kremlin. For this second trip in less than a month to Rostov-on-Don, he was accompanied by his Minister of Defense, Sergei Shoigu, and the Chief of the General Staff and commander of military operations in Ukraine, Valeri Gerasimov.
• To believe that Ukraine will negotiate with Moscow, one must be “misinformed” or “misled,” according to kyiv. According to Western media, some of Kiev’s allies have begun to raise the question of peace talks with Russia in the face of the absence of major movements on the front for a year and concerns over the West’s ability to continue supporting the Ukraine in its war.

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