Special operation, December 2. The main thing:
▪️Vladimir Putin, in a conversation with Olaf Scholz, said that political and financial support for Kyiv leads to the rejection of the idea of negotiations;
▪️Putin informed Scholz that the strikes on targets in Ukraine were Russia’s reaction to Kyiv’s provocations, including the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge;
▪️During the liberation of Kurdyumovka in the DPR, more than 60 Ukrainian soldiers were destroyed, the RF Ministry of Defense reported;
▪️According to the Russian military department, three depots of weapons and ammunition of Ukrainian troops were hit in the Zaporozhye region;
▪️Vladimir Zelensky promised to ban the activities of religious organizations that Kyiv considers connected with the Russian Federation. Later, the relevant decree was put into effect;
▪️The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine imposed sanctions against the governor of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Pavel (Lebed) and 10 more clergymen of the canonical UOC;
▪️The head of the IAEA, Grossi, said that a decision on the safety of the ZNPP could be found before the end of the year;
▪️Russia has information that US contractors are helping to prepare chemical provocations in Ukraine, Russian Permanent Representative to the OPCW Shulgin;
▪️Biden wants to avoid expanding the conflict in Ukraine, the US does not want a war with Russia, said US Secretary of State Blinken;
▪️Sobyanin visited the LPR, talked with fighters mobilized from Moscow, and also said that the capital had purchased 800 units of medical equipment for Donetsk and Lugansk.
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