War in Ukraine: one dead and 8 injured in Ukrainian strikes in the Russian region of Belgorod

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The governor of the Belgorod region, bordering Ukraine, Vyacheslav Gladkov, announced on Telegram that one person had been killed on Sunday and eight others injured in Ukrainian strikes. According to him, the shots targeted Belgorod, the regional capital, as well as a district located nearby. “One person was killed,” he said, adding that it was a man from another Russian region who traveled to Belgorod to work on the construction of a new workshop. from a local poultry farm.

Volunteers from the city of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine made a Christmas tree out of camouflage netting, reports the BBC. After the holidays, the nets will be donated to soldiers fighting on the front line. “We want to celebrate not only Christmas and the New Year, but we also want to celebrate victory,” said a local resident.

Coming out of their cellars, looking haggard and pale-faced, wrapped up in dirty clothes, around twenty residents of the town of Avdiïvka come to pick up food parcels distributed at the bottom of a building, reports AFP.

No one pays attention to the incessant explosions that resonate in this locality near Donetsk (southeast) and under constant fire from Russian forces. Loaded with boxes stamped PAM (World Food Program), the slow step, they set out again in the basement where they live without electricity, neither gas, nor water, sheltered from the bombardments.

Moscow soldiers have been trying for months to take the town on the front line, just 13 km from the rebel stronghold of Donetsk, a “capital” of pro-Russian separatists.

About 30,000 people lived in Avdiivka before the war. Some 2,000 still reside there in mid-December.

UK-trained Ukrainian soldiers are training in the north of England, under the conditions of the Ukrainian front.

Record snowdrifts more than 30 centimeters high rise in the streets of the Russian capital. “These are February snowdrifts” in the middle of December, says the Fobos meteorological center in a press release, assuring “that never in the history of meteorology have snowbanks of this size been seen” in the streets of Moscow a December 18.

About 119,000 people and more than 12,500 vehicles were deployed to clear the snow, according to Moscow City Hall. Road and air traffic are disrupted.

In a video, the Ukrainian president says: “This World Cup has proven once again that different countries and nations can bring out the strongest in a fair fight, not by playing with fire. There are no champions in war, there can be no draws. The Ukrainian proposes a summit this winter to “unite all the countries of the world around world peace”.

According to the governor of the Russian region of Belgorod, Vyacheslav Gladkov, these strikes would have left one dead and five injured. According to him, the shots targeted Belgorod, the regional capital, injuring four people, as well as a nearby district where “unfortunately there is one dead and one injured”. The windows of several buildings were smashed and 14 houses were damaged, Vyacheslav Gladkov said.

These units “will include opera singers, actors and circus artists”, reports the British Ministry of Defense, citing Russian media. But their efforts are “unlikely likely to substantially alleviate the concerns” of Russian soldiers, primarily military casualties, lack of leadership, low pay, etc.

According to the head of the National Police of the Kyiv region, Andriy Nebytov, six Russian missiles crashed in the outskirts of Kyiv on Friday. “The search for fragments is in progress. We thank our air defense units for their efficient work and the citizens for timely reporting the missile drops to the police,” the regional police chief said on Telegram.

According to the Russian army, quoted by the Kyiv Independent newspaper, around 590 Russian soldiers have been killed in the past 24 hours.

A humanitarian aid base was bombed in the suburbs of Kherson by Russian troops: a woman was killed and two other people were injured, announces Kyrylo Tymoshenko, adviser to the Ukrainian presidency on Telegram. According to him, “the Russians fired on the town with mortars. The shells hit the headquarters of the humanitarian aid! A woman died of her injuries, two other people are in hospital”. The bombardments reportedly hit a school, a church and a hospital.

The small Eastern European country has suspended the broadcasting authorization of six television channels, some of which broadcast Russian programs, accused of disinformation. According to Moldova, this decision is linked to the “lack of correct information” in their coverage of national events and Russian military operations in Ukraine in particular. “We consider this ban to be an unprecedented act of political censorship, a violation of the principle of media pluralism and a flagrant violation of the right to freedom of access to information,” commented Moscow.

Dive with us into the daily life of Ludmila, Victoria, Alexii and Volodymir in Bakhmout, this city of Donbass under the din of bombs. The few remaining inhabitants live in underground shelters, where every minute of the day is punctuated by the incessant sound of artillery.

Vladimir Putin spoke on Friday with those responsible for the military intervention in Ukraine to find out their “proposals” on the continuation of the operations.

New Russian strikes have killed five people in Ukraine, where the authorities were trying to restore electricity as quickly as possible after the massive missile strikes the day before which caused power cuts. “Electricity was restored to almost six million Ukrainians during the day. Repair work is ongoing and continues uninterrupted since yesterday’s terrorist attack,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

In an interview with the Spanish newspaper ABCthe pope laments: “I do not see an end (to the conflict) in the short term because it is a world war” in which “many hands” are involved and “many interests” are at stake.

“The head of the Russian army flew over the troop deployment areas and checked the forward positions of Russian units in the special military operation area,” Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Telegram. According to Reuters Shoigu spoke with troops “on the front line” and at a “command post”. However, it was not immediately clear when the visit took place.

Some 74 missiles – mostly cruise – were fired by Russia on Friday, 60 of which were shot down by anti-aircraft defense, according to the Ukrainian military. “All their targets today are civilians. The Russian strikes mainly affect energy and heating supply installations,” denounced Volodymyr Zelensky.

“Electricity was restored to almost six million Ukrainians during the day. Repair work is ongoing and has continued uninterrupted since Friday’s terrorist attack,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday evening.

“Of course, there is still a lot of work to be done to stabilize the system. There are problems with the heat supply, there are big problems with the water supply”. According to the Ukrainian president, the situation “is the most difficult” in kyiv, Vinnytsia (center-west) and Lviv (west) and in their region?

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