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news of the day
Kherson was liberated from Russian occupation. However, on Tuesday, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk called on Kherson residents to “evacuate for the winter to safer parts of the country”. On Telegram, the Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister indicates that the government offers free evacuations to “Kryvy Rih, Mykolaiv and Odessa”.
Priority is given to women, children and the elderly. On Monday, the World Health Organization warned of a “life-threatening” winter for millions of people in Ukraine and Kherson’s infrastructure was particularly damaged.
sentence of the day
Dangerous rhetoric raises nuclear tensions”
This is a statement by Antonio Guterres, the UN Secretary General, during an international meeting in Morocco devoted to the “dialogue of civilizations”. Western countries accuse Moscow of brandishing the threat of an atomic war in order to dissuade them from supporting Ukraine.
The number of the day
119. This is the number of Iskander missiles that Russia still has in stock according to the Ukrainian Defense Minister. At the start of the war, Moscow had 900 examples of these short- and medium-range ballistic missiles, which were sometimes used for tactical strikes.
The trend of the day
Explosions killed three people in the Russian region of Belgorod, bordering Ukraine, the governor of this territory regularly hit by gunfire and where fortifications are under construction announced on Tuesday. On Telegram, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said a woman had died after suffering head trauma during a bombardment in Chebekino, a town eight kilometers from Ukraine.
According to the same source, two people were killed in the explosion of “ammunition of an unidentified type” in the village of Starosselié, bordering Ukraine and where the state of emergency has been in force since October 27, according to the governor. Localities and infrastructures in the region very frequently suffer from fire, often fatal, attributed by Moscow to the Ukrainian army.
The regional capital, also named Belgorod, has been directly hit several times. So much so that the governor indicated on Monday that a line of fortifications was under construction at the border, without specifying the length or its location.