Cover image: A Ukrainian soldier at an artillery post in the east of the country on November 30, 2022. YEVHEN TITOV / AFP
- A maximum of 13,000 Ukrainian servicemen were killed since Russia invaded their country in February, 1er December Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “We have official estimates from the general staff (…) They range from 10,000 (…) to 13,000 dead”, he said on the Ukrainian channel Channel 24. Russia, for its part, admitted in September the death of 5,937 Russian soldiers since the start of the conflict on February 24. Unverifiable figures on one side or the other.
- More than 1,300 Ukrainian prisoners have been released during exchanges with Russia since the start of the war in February, Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Thursday after a new exchange between kyiv and Moscow.
- Ukraine will limit the activities on its territory of religious organizations affiliated with Russia and question the status of the Orthodox Church dependent on the Moscow Patriarchate, the Ukrainian president announced on Thursday.
- Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed Thursday “the continued support of their countries to Ukraine” at the end of the French president’s visit to Washington. The two countries undertake in particular to provide it with “political, security, humanitarian and economic aid for as long as necessary”.
- Joe Biden said to himself ” ready “ to speak with Vladimir Putin if the latter “looking for a way to end the war” in Ukraine. For his part, Emmanuel Macron assured that he “would never push the Ukrainians to accept a compromise that would be unacceptable to them”because it would not allow to build “lasting peace”.
- Ukrainian nuclear operator Energoatom accused Thursday the new Ukrainian director of the Zaporijia power plant, appointed the day before by Russia which appropriated the site, of treason for having agreed to collaborate with Moscow.
- Almost half of Ukraine’s power grid was still down on Thursday, a week after the last Russian bombings on the country’s energy infrastructure, announced the private operator DTEK.
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