Cover image: A worker cleans a poster depicting a Russian soldier with the slogan “Glory to the heroes of Russia” on a bus stop in Moscow on October 24, 2022. YURI KADOBNOV / AFP
- Occupation authorities in Kherson, southern Ukraine, announced on Monday 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 on Saturday that it 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 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.
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