Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,377

Zelenskyy says US peace plan ‘looks better’ with new revisions

Here’s where things stand on Tuesday, December 2:

Fighting

• Russian forces launched a ballistic missile on Ukraine’s Dnipro, killing four people and wounding 40 others, according to Ukrainian authorities.
• Russia claimed the capture of the strategic eastern Ukrainian town of Pokrovsk, the logistics hub that has been under attack for months by Moscow’s forces. It also claimed control of Vovchansk town in the northeastern Kharkiv region.
• The Russian Ministry of Defence posted a video purportedly showing Russian soldiers raising their country’s flag over the central square in Pokrovsk, known in Russian as Krasnoarmeysk.
• According to the Russian state TASS news agency, Russian military commanders informed President Vladimir Putin about Pokrovsk’s capture while he was visiting an unidentified military command post on Sunday. Putin called the move “important” and said that “it will ensure solutions going forward to the tasks we initially set at the beginning of the special military operation”.
• Chief of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov told Putin that Russian forces were determined to press on with the capture of the entire Donbas area – an industrial area made up of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions, according to TASS.
• Ukrainian officials, however, have not confirmed that Russia had taken control of either Pokrovsk or Vovchansk.
• The Russian Defence Ministry also claimed the capture on Monday of the settlement of Klynove in Ukraine’s Donetsk region.
• Ukraine’s DeepState military blog said on Monday that Russian forces captured some 505 sq km (195 sq miles) of Ukrainian territory in November, almost twice the amount captured in October. The open source mapping group said Russian forces were the most successful in the area around Huliaipole in the southeastern Zaporizhia region.
• The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), which exports oil mainly from Kazakhstan to an export terminal in Russia, said on Monday that it had resumed oil shipments from one mooring point at its Black Sea terminal following a major Ukrainian drone attack on November 29.

Politics and diplomacy

• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, in Paris to shore up European support for Kyiv, and said that territorial concessions were the key sti