War Ukraine Russia, live: Zelensky accuses Putin of wanting to commit genocide, last minute

Ukraine refuses to bow to Russia despite massive attacks affecting the power grid and its civilian infrastructure, while the situation on the front lines has practically come to a standstill due to the weather situation. “Behind each of the thousands of Russian missiles there are inhuman beings who are responsible for the deaths and losses caused by these missiles. Behind each manifestation of Russian aggression are those who planned, organized, justified it,” the president said this Sunday. Ukrainian, Voldimir Zelensky, on Telegram. In a message in which he showed apartment buildings in ruins from missile strikes, the president stated that “terrorists will be punished for all this. And we will definitely expel them from our land.”

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has announced that the energy system has finally been stabilized after Russian attacks this week left much of the country without power. “Unable to win on the battlefield, Russian terrorists are trying to destroy the Ukrainian energy system to end our resistance,” he wrote on his Facebook account.

Despite this, the more than 1,000 technicians who work daily to repair damage to the electrical network have managed to stabilize the operation of the energy system, said Shmyhal, although there is still a production deficit of around 20%.

The British Foreign Secretary, James Cleverly, stated this Sunday that rape, which occurs in Ukraine and other countries at war, should be a “red line”, as is the use of chemical weapons. . Cleverly recalled this Sunday in an article in the ‘Sunday Times’ his horror at the victims who denounced rape in Yemen and Iraq and has assured that it is “heartbreaking” to hear “similar stories” again in Ukraine.

In this sense, he has branded these acts as “abominable”, while indicating that it is necessary for the commanders and soldiers involved in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine to know that these behaviors are “unacceptable”. “Whether the culprits are Russian soldiers or African militiamen, (they should know that) there can be no impunity and nowhere to hide,” he added.

The Russian Defense Ministry has announced the death of “a hundred foreign mercenaries” in an attack with high-precision missiles in the surroundings of the city of Chasiv Yar, in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, in the east of the country. “Up to 100 foreign mercenaries and six armored vehicles were destroyed in the Chasiv Yar area as a result of a high-precision weapon attack by the Russian Aerospace Forces on the temporary deployment points of the so-called Foreign Legion militiamen,” it said. declared the spokesman of the Russian Army, General Igor Konashenkov.

This small city under Ukrainian control has been the scene of intense hostilities for days, and Ukraine reported this past Saturday at least three wounded by the impact of a Russian missile against an apartment building, according to the Ukrainian military governor of the region, Pavlo Kirilenko.

The spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zajarova, has denounced that “hostile” countries, mainly from the European Union, have minimized the Russian diplomatic presence to a minimum, which she has described as “absurd”. “We only have one or two diplomats in some countries,” Zakharova said, recalling that Moscow “has never” started the problem by breaking relations with these countries, as she said on Saturday night on the national television channel and has collected the TASS news agency.

Colonel and security analyst Pedro Baños has stated that “there is beginning to be great fatigue with the war in Ukraine, especially in the United States”, without forgetting the negative sensations that an “old Europe, which is becoming obsolete” is experiencing. . In an interview for EFE, he stated that in nine months of war in Ukraine, “the United States could have spent more than 90,000 million dollars” in military aid to the Ukrainian army. “This figure represents 10 percent of its defense budget.” , and very concrete results have not yet been seen, the analyst maintains.All this, he affirms, is generating a feeling of weariness in the American public opinion, to which the Republican Party is no stranger, with its reluctance and criticism of the way in which The Democratic administration chaired by Joe Biden is managing this situation. / EFE

Most of the residents of kyiv already have access to the electricity supply and the rest of basic services, the military administration of the Ukrainian capital reported that morning. “In the capital, electricity, water, heating and communications have been almost completely restored,” the institution reported through its Telegram account. This means that most of the residents not only have electricity but also do not suffer temporary supply cuts, he added. “Everything works normally. Only localized emergency situations are possible,” the military administration reported, noting that the work to repair the network is in its “final phase.”

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has assured that Russian President Vladimir Putin is trying to use winter as a weapon in the context of the recent wave of Russian attacks that even caused a “massive blackout” in the neighboring Moldova. “The increase in food and energy bills means difficult times for many households in Europe. But we must remember that the people of Ukraine pay with their blood every day,” he said in an interview with the German newspaper ‘Die Welt’, adding that Moscow “will not succeed” in succeeding.

Stoltenberg once again recalled “how dangerous” it is for the population to “depend on Russia for gas.” “Now we have to assess our dependence on authoritarian regimes, especially China,” he said. These statements come before the NATO foreign ministers meet on November 29 and 30 in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, to discuss the war in Ukraine, the Alliance’s support for kyiv, as well as the role of China in the framework of the socio-political challenges facing the future.

The head of the Ukrainian National Police, Igor Klimenko, estimates that at least 32 people have been killed in Kherson, in the east of the country, by Russian airstrikes since the withdrawal of forces from Moscow on November 9. Among the attacks, he highlighted those that occurred on November 24, when, according to his estimates, at least seven people died and another 21 were injured, according to his Telegram account. Likewise, Klimenko has reported that the Ukrainian demining forces have cleared at least 450 hectares of land in the region, and removed 3,500 explosives.

The governor of the Russian region of Pskov, Mikhail Vedernikov, has assured this Sunday that NATO drones tried to cross the border of his territory, which borders Latvia and Estonia, before the invasion of Ukraine began. “We have never provided extensive coverage to that, but there were attempts by military unmanned aerial vehicles and other aircraft to illegally cross the border,” Vedernikov said, according to the Russian agency TASS.