Cover image: This photo taken and released by Ukrainian emergency services on November 25, 2023 shows rescuers working to put out a fire at the site of a drone attack in Kiev, part of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. HANDOUT / AFP
- kyiv was the target, during the night from Friday to Saturday, of “the most massive Russian drone attack” that she has suffered since the start of the conflict. “The air alert lasted six hours”And “five people, including an 11-year-old child, were injured”said the mayor of the Ukrainian capital, Vitali Klitschko.
- Several areas of the city were affected and suffered damage. Dozens of buildings and buildings were disconnected from the electricity network for several hours in kyiv following the attack. Power returned to the entire capital at midday, the city’s military administration said.
- The Ukrainian Air Force said it had destroyed 71 of the 75 missiles launched by Russia against the whole of Ukraine, with kyiv being the main target. “Air defense worked in at least six regions”she clarified, referring to “Shahed type drones[-136] », Iranian-made machines supplied to the Moscow army.
- Paris condemned on Saturday “with the greatest firmness” Russian air attacksaid the French Minister of Foreign Affairs.
- “Russian leaders seem proud of their ability to kill people”declared Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in reaction. He made the link between the occurrence of these massive attacks in the night and “Holodomor Genocide Remembrance Day”which took place this November 25.
- Ukraine commemorated on Saturday the memory of the victims of this great famine which affected the former Soviet country in 1932 and 1933. During the latter, the country lost 4 to 8 million inhabitants, against a backdrop of land collectivization, orchestrated, according to historians, by Stalin to repress any nationalist and independence desire in the country, then a Soviet republic. In a statement, Volodymyr Zelensky said he is ” impossible “ for Ukrainians to forgive the “crimes” Soviets.
- The Russian army is returning to the offensive in the Avdiïvka sector, according to the town’s mayor. The Russian armed forces have launched their third wave of assaults since October 10 in Avdiïvka, in eastern Ukraine, the center of which they are systematically bombarding, declared its mayor, Vitalii Barabash, on Friday. For more than a month, this almost surrounded industrial city has been facing incessant attacks from Moscow’s forces, who have been seeking to seize it for years.
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