MACRON GOES TO TALK TO POUTINE
The French president announced that he would meet again with his Russian counterpart, “in the coming days”.
NEW US MILITARY AID
The United States will provide 400 million dollars in additional military aid to Ukraine, “to help it defend itself against relentless attacks from the Kremlin”, announced the head of American diplomacy.
“This $400 million tranche includes additional weapons, ammunition and air defense equipment from US Department of Defense inventory,” Blinken said in a statement.
The new aid includes generators to help the country deal with power cuts caused by Russian strikes, the Pentagon said separately.
RUSSIAN BOMBING
The Russian army launched since last night an offensive on the whole of the Ukrainian territory. 70 cruise missiles were fired.
RUSSIA LACK OF AMMUNITION?
Russia suffers from a “significant shortage” of ammunition for its artillery, which could limit its operations in Ukraine in the future, said US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.
“The Russians have had logistical problems since the very beginning” of the invasion of Ukraine and “they are still struggling with logistics,” Mr. Austin told a group of reporters aboard a military plane. They “suffer from a significant shortage of artillery missiles”, in particular because kyiv destroyed several stocks of Russian ammunition, specified the head of the Pentagon.
CRUISE MISSILE
Russia fired “about 70 cruise missiles” at Ukraine on Wednesday, according to a tally by the Ukrainian military, which also claims that 51 of them were intercepted.
CYBER ATTACK ON THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT
The European Parliament was targeted by a computer attack after a vote on Russia. The deputies had in particular described Russia as a “State promoter of terrorism”.
TESTIMONY
On the set of LCI, a French teacher from kyiv testifies, after the Russian strikes which left the Ukrainian capital without water or electricity.
kyiv: testimony from a French teacher on siteSource : TF1 News
THREE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS DISCONNECTED
Three Ukrainian nuclear power plants were “disconnected” from the electricity grid after Russian strikes, according to the Ukrainian operator.
RUSSIA “PROMOTER OF TERRORISM”
Russia is a “state promoter of terrorism”. It is with these words that the European Parliament qualified this Wednesday the aggressor of Ukraine, calling on the 27 countries of the European Union to do the same.
MACRON GOES TO TALK TO POUTINE
The French president announced that he would have “direct contact” with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin “in the coming days” on civilian nuclear power and the Zaporijjia power plant that Moscow and kyiv mutually accuse each other of having bombed.
“I intend to have direct contact with him in the coming days,” said Emmanuel Macron on the sidelines of a visit to the Salon des Maires, “on civilian nuclear subjects first and foremost, and the Zaporijia power plant”.
ASSESSMENT IN kyiv
Three people were killed and six others injured in Russian strikes on kyiv on Wednesday, the capital’s military administration announced on Telegram.
“A one-story building was damaged” by one of these strikes, added the administration without giving further details.
kyiv
The water supply was “suspended” Wednesday in kyiv after new Russian strikes targeting energy infrastructure which also killed at least three people, announced the mayor of the Ukrainian capital.
“Due to the shelling, the water supply is suspended throughout Kyiv. Specialists (…) are working to restore it as soon as possible,” Vitaly Klitschko said on Telegram, calling on residents to stock up on water. water.
FROM LVIV TO MOLDOVA, POWER CUTS
The whole city” of Lviv, in the west, is without electricity after Russian strikes, announces the mayor. “The whole city is without light. We are awaiting further information from experts. There may be water supply interruptions,” he said on Telegram.
The bombings have consequences beyond the borders of Ukraine, since the Deputy Prime of Moldova announces “massive power outages” in his country this Wednesday.
kyiv UNDER THE BOMBS
An “infrastructure” site in kyiv was hit by a bombardment on Wednesday, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, shortly after a series of explosions heard by AFP journalists in the capital.
“An infrastructure site has been hit. Stay in shelters,” the mayor wrote on Telegram, without giving further details. According to an AFP journalist, just after a series of explosions, a northern district of kyiv was left without electricity.
TERRORISM
The European Parliament has voted a text qualifying Russia as a “State promoter of terrorism” in the war in Ukraine, calling on the 27 countries of the European Union to do the same.
In the text adopted in Strasbourg by 494 votes in favor (58 votes against and 44 abstentions), MEPs describe “Russia as a state that promotes terrorism and as a state that uses terrorist means”.
GROWTH
The phenomenon has been spreading in recent weeks on social networks.
DEADLY ATTACK
A newborn was killed and his mother injured, according to the emergency services.
MOLDOVA
Moldova assured on Wednesday that it would pay for the gas supplied by Russia but held back in Ukraine through which it transits, after Moscow threatened to reduce its deliveries by accusing kyiv of siphoning off a gas pipeline.
A small ex-Soviet republic that is a candidate for entry into the European Union, Moldova heats up largely with this Russian gas which passes through Ukrainian territory. On Tuesday, the Russian supplier Gazprom accused kyiv of diverting part of it and threatened to reduce the volumes sent to Chisinau from next week.
“To be clear, all the gas delivered to Moldova ends up arriving in our country,” Moldovan Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Spinu said.
CONVICTION
Zelensky accuses Russia of “terror and murder” after the attack on a maternity hospital in Ukraine. “The enemy has once again decided to try to accomplish by terror and murder what he could not accomplish in nine months” of his invasion of Ukraine, launched Mr. Zelensky on Telegram.
DRAMA
A newborn baby was killed by a Russian strike on a maternity ward in the Zaporizhia region, annexed by Moscow, in southern Ukraine, Ukrainian emergency services said on Wednesday.
“On the night of November 23, in the city of Vilnyansk in the Zaporizhia region, a two-storey building housing a maternity hospital was destroyed by a rocket attack in the area of the local hospital”, said the rescuers in a message posted on a social network. “As a result of the attack, a baby born in 2022 died,” they added.
CRIMEA
Is Ukraine targeting power plants in Crimea? Our explanations.
Crimea: kyiv also targets power plantsSource : TF1 News
DRAG QUEENS
The lower house of the Russian Parliament, the Duma, must soon vote on second reading of amendments considerably expanding a decried law dating from 2013 and aimed at “protecting” children against LGBT + “propaganda”.
This initiative comes at a time when President Vladimir Putin has stiffened up in defense of the values he describes as “traditional”, in the midst of a conservative turn accompanying his military attack in Ukraine.
The changes seek to also ban ‘propaganda’ aimed at adults, which LGBT+ rights advocates fear could cover a wide range of areas, from books to movies, social media posts to shows like the “Draglesque Brunch”.
The situation worsened further after the launch of the offensive against Ukraine in February, with authorities presenting the tougher law on LGBTQ+ “propaganda” as an act of defense in an ideological war against Westerners.
ANTONIO GUTERRES
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned on Tuesday against the “dangerous rhetoric” fueling nuclear threats around the world, during an international meeting in Morocco devoted to the “dialogue of civilizations”.
“Growing divisions are threatening global peace and security, provoking new confrontations and making it all the more difficult to resolve old conflicts,” Guterres told reporters at an Alliance of Nations forum. United Nations Civilizations (UNAOC) organized in Fez (north-eastern Morocco).
“Dangerous rhetoric is raising nuclear tensions,” he warned, as Western countries accused Moscow of threatening atomic war to dissuade them from backing Ukraine, where Russia is waging a war. military offensive since late February.
KULEBA FEARS EU ‘FATIGUE’
The head of Ukrainian diplomacy warned the European Union against “fatigue” in the face of the war in Ukraine, urging the adoption of a new package of sanctions against Moscow.
“I call on my colleagues in the EU” to “dismiss any doubt” and any “fatigue”, Dmytro Kouleba told an online press conference, and “finalize the ninth sanctions package as soon as possible” which is “long overdue”.
“If we Ukrainians are not tired, the rest of Europe has no moral or political right to get tired,” insisted the minister. In particular, he demanded that the nuclear operator Rosatom be sanctioned because of its role in Russia’s occupation of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporizhia, the largest in Europe.
RUSSIAN OIL
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”, according to a Treasury official, the US Department of Finance.
“In the coming days, our coalition will announce the price level for oil and gas” produced by Russia, “we are working with our partners to finalize this”, explained this official during a telephone press briefing.
EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY
Will Europe remain a space giant? The European Space Agency (ESA) will vote on Wednesday a decisive budget to stay in the race, and unveil to the public its new and highly anticipated promotion of astronauts.
Negotiations promised to be difficult on launchers, a crucial subject for independent access to space. European sovereignty is weakened by the delays of Ariane 6 -considered as the response to Space X- and the war in Ukraine, which deprived Europe of Russian Soyuz launchers. ESA, for example, was forced to use the services of Elon Musk’s company to launch two missions