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news of the day
The blackout continues in Ukraine, and in particular in the capital, kyiv. The country is still largely without electricity and running water on Thursday, the day after massive new strikes by Russia specifically aimed at energy infrastructure. A strategy described as “war crimes” by the Western allies as winter sets in. In kyiv, hit by freezing rain that fell on snow, around 70% of the population remained without power Thursday morning, according to the town hall. The water supply was restored in the early afternoon, according to the town hall, when temperatures barely exceeded zero degrees.
For its part, the Russian Ministry of Defense affirmed that its bombardments had not targeted kyiv, accusing the Ukrainian anti-aircraft defense of being responsible for the damage in the capital. In Kharkiv, the country’s second largest city on the border with Russia, “electricity supply problems” persisted, Governor Oleg Synegoubov said in particular in the morning. The rest of Ukraine was also largely affected by the outages, but the reconnection of critical infrastructure to the network continued gradually. The Ukrainian presidency announced the opening of some 4,000 heating points across the country.
sentence of the day
Promoting non-traditional sexual relations is prohibited (…) A ban on the promotion of pedophilia and gender change has also been introduced”
Russian MPs adopted amendments on Thursday that significantly expand the scope of a law banning LGBT+ “propaganda”. This new law, which is an expanded version of a much criticized 2013 text banning LGBT+ “propaganda” among minors, now prohibits “promoting non-traditional sexual relations” to all audiences, in the media, on the Internet, in books and in movies. “The fines amount to 10 million rubles” (about 160,000 euros) for offenders, added in a press release the head of the lower house of Parliament (Duma), Vyacheslav Volodin.
The number of the day
80,000. This is the number of passports distributed by Russia in four areas of Ukraine that it claims to have attached to its territory, annexations not recognized by the international community. “Since the four regions were added to the Russian Federation, and in accordance with the law, more than 80,000 people have received passports as citizens of the Russian Federation,” the Russian Interior Ministry said. quoted by local news agencies. For observers, Russia is trying with this strategy to strengthen its claims on the areas of Ukraine that it claims, by asserting that they are populated by Russian citizens, recently naturalized.
The trend of the day
Vladimir Putin has warned of “serious consequences” if the Russian oil price caps. “Such actions run counter to the principles of trade relations and will most likely lead to serious consequences for the global energy market,” the Russian president said in a phone call with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohamed Chia. al-Sudani, according to a Kremlin statement.
The coalition of states wishing to impose a cap on the price of Russian oil, which includes the G7, the European Union and Australia, is expected to announce the proposed limit “in the coming days”, a Treasury official said on Tuesday, the ministry American Finance. The objective is to arrive at a maximum price for Russian hydrocarbons that can be put in place before the entry into force of new European sanctions, planned from December 5.