💢British Ministry of Defence: Ukraine has liberated around 54% of the maximum amount of extra territory Russia seized since 24 Feb 2022. Russia now controls around 18% of internationally recognised areas of Ukraine, including the Donbas and Crimea regions under Russian control since 2014.

💢Washington Times: China is developing weapons that can attack the United States from space. They include lasers, jammers, lethal satellites, anti-satellite missiles. The Pentagon notes that China's space force is actively growing, and that US low-orbit satellites are under threat.

💢United States transferred about 800 armored vehicles to Poland

💢British Ministry of Defence: On 5 December 2022, multiple open sources reported explosions at Engels Airbase, in Russia's Saratov Oblast, and at Dyagilyaevo airfield near Ryazan, south-east of Moscow. Two Tu-95 BEAR heavy bombers were reportedly damaged at Engels and three people were killed when a fuel tank exploded at Dyagilyaevo. The causes of the explosions have not been confirmed. However, if Russia assesses the incidents were deliberate attacks, it will probably consider them as some of the most strategically significant failures of force protection since its invasion of Ukraine. The sites are much deeper inside Russia than previous similar explosions: Engels is over 600km from Ukrainian controlled territory. Engels is the main operating base of Russia's Long Range Aviation (LRA) within western Russia and is home to more than 30 heavy bombers. These aircraft contribute to Russia's nuclear deterrent and have also frequently been used to launch conventional cruise missiles at Ukraine. The LRA is likely to respond by temporarily moving bombers to dispersal airfields. The Russian chain of command will probably seek to identify and impose severe sanctions on Russian officers deemed responsible for allowing the incident.

💢North Korean army has issued an emergency order and combat forces at all levels are on high alert.

💢Turkish F-16 fighter jets have been deployed in the Republic of Azerbaijan!

💢South Korea says North Korea has fired more than 100 artillery shells into the East Sea's maritime buffer zone.

💢Belarus armed forces started the scheduled combat readiness exercise‌‌

💢China armed forces will hold military exercise at the ​​Nansan Island in Zhanjiang Province from 7 until 10 December

💢China president will arrive in Saudi Arabia on a three-day travel tomorrow December 7