Any escalation of the war — not in the information space, but in physical space — could destroy the regime of the Belarusian usurper Alexander Lukashenko, adviser to the Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Franak Viačorka has told NV.

The West is now trying not to go for additional escalation, and this is absolutely the wrong logic. This is because Putin has now resorted to a classic strategy, which I call the "Aleppo strategy." Remember how the Russians deliberately created a humanitarian catastrophe, killed tens (and some say hundreds) of thousands of people? Now, the same general who did this in Syria is repeating it in Ukraine.

Rosatom representatives at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant are diverting money intended for the employees of the plant by forging documents in their names, the Ukrainian military’s Main Directorate of Intelligence or HUR said on Telegram on Dec. 2.

The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden is negotiating with Middle Eastern countries on the transfer of their NASAMS air defense systems to Ukraine, news outlet Politico reported on Dec. 1.

The European Commission will channel frozen Russian Central Bank assets and cash seized from Russian oligarchs to help pay for rebuilding Ukraine, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Nov. 30.

Changes to the Russian law on “foreign agents” that come into effect on Dec. 1 could usher in a new wave of Kremlin political repression, UK intelligence said on Twitter in its summary for Nov. 30.

Russia has lost Europe as its largest energy client “forever,” the Reuters news agency quoted the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA), Fatih Birol, as saying during an energy conference on Nov. 29.

Russia is firing cruise missiles with dummy nuclear warheads at targets in Ukraine in order to overwhelm and exhaust the Ukrainian air defense system, a senior Pentagon official said on Nov. 29 during a press briefing.

Russia has increased the number of aircraft at the Engels airfield in Saratov Oblast, which may mean the Kremlin aims to increase its strikes in Ukraine, Yuriy Ihnat, spokesman of the Air Force Command, said on Ukrainian national television on Nov. 30.

Russian military bloggers' claims that Russian troops have broken through the Ukrainian defensive line near Bakhmut appear to be exaggerations, U.S. think tank the Institute for the Study of the War (ISW) said in its update on the Russian invasion of Ukraine for Nov. 29.

Ukrainians should remain on guard, as Russia may unleash another mass missile strike on the country at any time, Natalia Humeniuk, spokeswoman for the Ukrainian military’s South Operational Command, said on Ukrainian national television on Nov. 30.

Ukraine accumulated 14 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas in its storage facilities, as well as 1.3 million tons of coal ahead of the winter season, the Ukrinform news agency quoted Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal as saying on Nov. 29.

During the nine months of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, Ukraine’s air defense forces have detected and tracked more than 240,000 enemy aerial targets, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhnyy said in Telegram on Nov. 30.

Ukraine’s Cabinet of Ministers has exempted Starlink satellite communication terminals, as well as spare parts and components for the manufacture of electric generators, from import duty and VAT, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said in a statement on Nov. 29.

The Ukrainian army repulsed several attacks by Russian invading forces in Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts, the Ukrainian military’s General Staff reported in its daily morning update on Facebook on Nov. 30.

It is highly likely that Russia has completely stopped deploying its typical military formations, called “Battalion Tactical Groups” (BTGs), in the past three months, the UnitedKingdom Defence Intelligence reported on its update on the situation in Ukraine as of Nov. 29.

Washington does not yet consider it useful to recognize Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, the U.S. state-owned media outlet Voice of America reported on Nov. 28, quoting the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, Julianne Smith.

Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation plans to buy several thousand more Starlink satellite communication terminals, Ukraine’s Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov said in an interview with the Interfax-Ukraine news agency on Nov. 29.

NATO member countries urgently must boost weapon production, political news agency Politico reported on Nov. 28, quoting the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Dmytro Kuleba.

NATO leaders are again considering the idea of providing Ukraine with MiG-29 and U.S. F-16 fighter jets, James Stavridis, a retired U.S. Navy admiral and former supreme allied commander of NATO, wrote in an article for the Bloomberg news agency on Nov. 29.