live blog
Status: 11/24/2022 03:52 a.m
Ukraine reports progress in restoring power after Russian missile strikes. French President Macron calls for penalties for all war crimes. All developments in the live blog.
3:38 a.m
Amnesty: Russian reprisals on reports about opponents of the war
The human rights organization Amnesty International has complained that the media and human rights activists reporting on anti-war protests in Russia are being massively obstructed. “We can see that the Russian authorities are not only doing everything they can to stop and severely punish any protest, no matter how peaceful, they are also trying to prevent such protests from becoming public knowledge at all,” said Natalia Prilutskaya, Amnesty’s Russia researcher International. Amnesty has seen the rights of the media and activists increasingly restricted since the Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin took office in 2000. But since the start of the Russian war of aggression in February of this year, reprisals have “increased considerably”.
2:24 a.m
Ukraine reports progress on infrastructure repairs
According to official information, technicians are making progress in restoring the power supply after the heavy Russian rocket attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure. In 15 administrative areas there is electricity again, said the deputy head of the Presidential Office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, in Kyiv. In the capital itself, critical infrastructure such as hospitals will be supplied again, after which it will be the turn of private consumers. By the evening, 2,750 emergency contact points had been put into operation nationwide, with heating, light, water, internet and telephone for citizens.
1:35 a.m
Oil price caps of the G7 countries initially without much effect
According to industry calculations, the price cap of USD 65 to USD 70 per barrel proposed by the G7 countries for Russian oil would have only a minor direct impact on Russia’s revenues. The background is that the planned limit is already around the price that Asian buyers are currently putting on the table for Russian oil. The idea of the price cap is to ban shipping, insurance and reinsurance companies from handling Russian crude oil shipments around the globe – unless the oil is sold at a price no higher than the maximum set by the G7 and its allies .
12:13 a.m
Macron: War crimes must not go unpunished
French President Emmanuel Macron has described the Russian attacks on Ukraine’s electricity and water supplies as war crimes, which must have consequences. “Today there were massive bombing raids on Ukraine, leaving large parts of the country without water and electricity,” Macron said on Wednesday evening. “Any strike against civilian infrastructure constitutes a war crime and must not go unpunished.”