11/23/2022
Ukraine war in the live ticker
+++ 00:39 Selenskyj announces the establishment of warming rooms +++
Kyiv wants to set up more than 4,000 warming rooms for the Ukrainian population, who are plagued by the cold and darkness. “All basic services are provided there,” said President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in his evening video address. “This includes electricity, mobile communication and the Internet, heat, water, first aid. Completely free of charge and around the clock.” Selenskyj calls the facilities in administration buildings or schools “stability points”. Should there be another massive Russian attack and the power supply cannot be restored within a few hours, the work of the “stability points” will be activated,” Zelenskyy announced.
+++ 23:36 Kuleba is pushing for further sanctions: the EU should not become “tired” +++
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba is appealing to the European Union not to get “tired” of the war in Ukraine. “I call on my colleagues in the EU” to put “all doubts” and “fatigue” aside and “complete the ninth package of sanctions”, which is “long overdue”, “as soon as possible,” he told an online -Press conference. “If we Ukrainians are not tired, the rest of Europe has neither a moral nor a political right to be tired.” Kuleba is calling for the state-run nuclear operator Rosatom to be punished for its role in occupying Ukraine’s Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.
+++ 22:44 Kyiv: 1800 places are liberated, 2000 still have to be recaptured +++
In Ukraine, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyj, around 2,000 towns and villages occupied by Russian troops still have to be liberated. That’s what Selenskyj says in a video message for French local politicians. A few dozen places such as the port city of Mariupol on the Azov Sea or Wolnowacha in the Donetsk region were completely destroyed by Russian attacks. Ukraine is trying to quickly bring life back to normal in recaptured towns, says Zelenskyy. His country is therefore grateful for all the help in defense and reconstruction. Where the Russian army withdraws, it plunders the occupied towns and villages again and destroys the infrastructure. The Ukrainian army has so far liberated around 1,880 towns in the almost nine months of war, said the deputy chief of the presidential office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko.
+++ 21:53 The Czech Republic is preparing for a possible escalation +++
The NATO member state of the Czech Republic is changing its defense plans because of the Russian war against Ukraine in order to be prepared for a possible escalation. One must primarily prepare for a large-scale war against a highly developed opponent, says Chief of Staff Karel Rehka, according to the CTK agency in Prague. Most recently, the training had focused more on participation in anti-terrorist and peacekeeping operations abroad, such as in Mali. Rehka warns that the potential for the war in Ukraine to escalate is increasing. Even the “serious scenarios” of further development could no longer be ruled out.
+++ 21:08 Cuba’s President criticizes sanctions of the “Yankee Empire” in Moscow +++
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Cuban counterpart Miguel Diaz-Canel have jointly criticized Western sanctions against their respective countries. “We have always opposed restrictions, embargoes, blockades and so on,” Putin said in the Kremlin. Diaz-Canel noted that both countries are the target of “unfair and arbitrary sanctions” and have a “common enemy manipulating much of the world” in the “Yankee Empire.” The two heads of state unveiled a bronze statue of the late Cuban revolutionary leader and longtime President Fidel Castro in Moscow. Putin praised decades of friendship with Cuba and called for even closer cooperation between the two countries. Diaz-Canel sided with Russia in the confrontation with the West and encouraged Moscow to stand firm.
You can read earlier developments in the Ukraine war here.