kyiv says it received new Western air defense systems; water and electricity supply “stabilized” in Kherson

• Occupation authorities in Kherson, southern Ukraine, today announced the “stabilization” water and electricity supplythe day after two strikes of which Russians and Ukrainians accuse each other. They also damaged the Kakhovka hydroelectric damoccupied by Russian forces and which supplies annexed Crimea, in a region where Ukrainian troops have been on the offensive for weeks.
• kyiv is preparing for a winter without heating, without water, without electricity. Rotating power cuts were planned today in some neighborhoods. Municipal authorities plan to deploy around 1,000 collective heating stations, but this will probably not be enough for a city of 3 million inhabitants.
• “Every day it becomes more and more difficult to live in Bakhmout”a city under siege by Russian forces, according to Deputy Mayor Oleksandr Marchenko. Donetsk Oblast city has been without electricity, gas and running water for nearly two months. The deputy mayor told Reuters that Russian troops “attempt to storm the city from several directions” but that the inhabitants “hold on”.
• Iran admitted for the first time, Saturday, November 5, having supplied drones to Russiabefore the start of the invasion of Ukraine. “Even making this confession, they lied”Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in the evening. We shoot down at least ten Iranian drones every day, and the Iranian regime says it would have given few, and even before the start of the full-scale invasion” from Ukraine. “On Friday alone, eleven Shaheds were destroyed.
• Washington accused Moscow on Friday, November 4, of trying to subjugate the Ukrainians by making them ” freeze “ as winter approaches. G7 countries should create a “coordinating mechanism” in order to repair the infrastructures allowing the distribution of water and electricity. It will also be a question of delivering water pumps, heaters, housing containers, toilets, beds, blankets or tents.
• Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Chmyhal nevertheless assured on Friday that “nearly half of the buildings in all of Ukraine [avaient] heating”. “These are schools, kindergartens, hospitals, apartment buildings (…). In kyiv, 78% of buildings are currently heated. » According to him, the gas reserves will be sufficient to survive the winter.
• “During the day, the Russian occupiers fired three missiles and carried out five airstrikes and two multiple rocket launchers” on the regions of Lviv (West), Kharkiv (North-East), Dnipro (Centre) and Zaporijia (South), reported the staff of the Ukrainian forces.
• Kyiv has firmly ” sentenced ” them “evictions” inhabitants of Zaporizhia and Kherson oblasts, where Russia is carrying out “forced mass displacement”. The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Friday that these population movements were continuing at the rate of “more than 5,000” people per day. Russian President Vladimir Putin justified the evacuations for the first time, saying that civilians “must be away” combat zones “the most dangerous”.
• In view of this situation, the United States will finance the modernization of T-72 tanks and HAWK surface-to-air missiles as part of a program of some 400 million dollars (about 400 million euros), announced Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser to the American president, during a meeting in kyiv with Volodymyr Zelensky.
• On Red Square, on the occasion of National Unity Day, Vladimir Putin estimated on Friday, November 4, that this aid from Westerners favors “geopolitical objectiveswhich have nothing to do with the interests of the Ukrainian people” but aim “to weaken, disintegrate, destroy Russia”.
• Grain exports from Ukrainian ports resumed on Thursdayafter the return of Russia to the agreement on a humanitarian corridor.

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