• DOT-Chain has proved a notable success in bringing agility to Ukrainian defence procurement
• Russia claims to have seized the strategic city of Pokrovsk after more than a year of heavy fighting
• Washington is attempted to push through a peace deal that is thought to heavily favour Moscow

Ukraine’s Defence Procurement Agency (DPA) has revealed that in nearly four months of operation, the DOT-Chain defence marketplace has supplied equipment worth UAH 6.154bn ($145.4m) to the country’s military.

Including in the equipment are first-person view (FPV) drones, electronic warfare systems, fixed-wing UAVs, and other equipment. In total more than 143,000 pieces of equipment have been delivered, the DPA stated in a 2 December social media post.

“The next step is to scale up its functionality,” said Arsen Zhumadilov, director of the DPA.

It is likely that UAVs and FPV represent a significant proportion of equipment delivered, with 17,000 UAVs packaged off to frontline units in the first two months of the DOT-Chain initiative.

Of note, the average delivery time of equipment ordered is around ten days, although instances of deliveries inside of three days have been recorded.

Earlier this autumn, Army Technology was in Ukraine to learn more about the DOT-Chain system, which enables specific deployed units to remotely access and order non-lethal equipment via an online marketplace.

This direct link allows for rapid feedback and iteration, a critical requirement on the frontline of the near four-year-old Ukraine-Russia war.

Russia claims Pokrovsk capture

Russia claimed on Monday to have captured the strategically important city of Pokrovsk in the Donetsk Oblast after more than a year of fierce fighting, although Ukraine subsequently issued a denial that it had lost control of the key city.

Pokrovskhas been a focal point of intense fighting as it offers potential access to the cities of Kramatorsk and Slovyansk, among the last holdouts of Ukrainian forces in Donetsk.

It is notable that Russia’s claim comes as US official are set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin as Washington attempts to negotiate a peace deal, amid fears any agreement will be heavily in favour of Moscow.

On 1 December, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence claimed that since the start of 2025, Russia’s military had sustained the equivalent of “32 divisions of troops” in combat casualties, or more than 383,000 personnel. This is likely a combined combat casualty figure, including wounded and those killed on operations.

In addition, during November Ukraine claims to have destroyed 617 artillery systems; 70+ tanks; 157 armoured fighting vehicles; and 2,400+ assorted other vehicles, throughout the frontline.

Ukraine’s own combat losses are a closely guarded secret, although they are likely to be into the hundreds of thousands of personnel to date, and potentially significantly more.

The nature of the war, as it shifts into a drone-centric conflict, has seen fewer Western military vehicles, such as tanks, artillery, and infantry fighting vehicles, provided in recent months.

Indeed, some Western military platforms have suffered extremely high attrition, such as the US M1A1 Abrams, of which no less than 22 of 31 tanks delivered have been destroyed, according to war tracker site Oryx.

Highlighted Ukraine losses include more than 5,300 armoured combat vehicles throughout the war, including nearly 200 US-supplied M2A2 Bradley IFVs, and tens of thousands of other military vehicles.