US-Ukrainian talks reportedly continued in Florida on December 1 ahead of US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on December 2 to present the US-Ukrainian peace proposal.
The Kremlin is setting conditions to refrain from publicly discussing the outcomes of the December 2 US-Russian meeting, possibly in order to obfuscate Russia’s likely rejection of the US-Ukrainian peace proposal.
Prominent Russian milbloggers continue to undermine the Kremlin’s effort to portray a Russian victory in Ukraine as imminent or inevitable.
Russian forces are not yet confirmed to have seized all of Pokrovsk despite operating within the town for over 120 days.
Ukraine’s European allies continue to provide military aid and support to Ukraine’s growing defense industrial base (DIB).
The Russian military continues implementing longstanding plans to form new Russian divisions as part of the Russian military’s transition back towards a force structure based on maneuver divisions, likely in preparation for a possible future war with NATO.
Balloon incursions in NATO airspace continue to shut down Lithuanian airports.
Russian forces recently advanced in the Hulyaipole direction.
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 1, 2025 (Institute for the Study of War)
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