16:12
Everyday life under the bombings in the Donbass
In Seversk, in the Donbass, life is interrupted by bombings.
“We’ve been living with the constant explosions for eight months,” says Svitlana, a resident of the city.
15:57
The mayor of Kiev is demanding “thousands” of additional generators
Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Monday he needed “thousands” of additional generators, three days after another massive Russian attack on power plants in Ukraine.
“We need more, thousands more. We got almost a thousand, but we have 500 kindergartens, 500 schools,” he told AFP in the Ukrainian capital.
Kiev is now “better armed against Russian attacks, against Russian missiles and drones than it was a few months ago,” he says, but he is “still worried about electricity and heating.”
15:20
NATO chief says Russia is sending ‘thousands’ of troops to Ukraine
The NATO Secretary General said at a press conference that the military alliance sees that “Russia is currently sending thousands and thousands more troops and is accepting a very high casualty rate”.
“Russia is trying to make up quantitatively what it lacks in quality,” added Jens Stoltenberg.
That is why “more weapons urgently need to be delivered to Ukraine,” said the NATO chief.
A little later, he claimed that NATO saw “no signs” that Russia “is preparing for peace or is ready to negotiate something that respects the territorial integrity or sovereignty of Ukraine.”
14:57
“Hostage-taking” and “attacks” on institutions: Moldova warns of the danger of a coup from Russia
Moldovan President Maia Sandu on Monday detailed alleged Moscow plans to overthrow the pro-European power in Chisinau, mentioned by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last week.
“The plan includes attacks on state buildings and kidnappings by saboteurs with a military background disguised in civilian clothes,” Maia Sandu told reporters.
“The goal is to overthrow the constitutional order and replace the legitimate power of Chisinau with an illegitimate one,” the head of state added.
In this context, Maia Sandu announced a draft law aimed at giving prosecutors and secret services “the necessary tools to effectively combat national security risks”.
14:39
Russian gas exports down 25.1% in 2022, oil exports up 7.6%
Russian gas exports collapsed 25.1% in 2022, weighed down by international sanctions, while oil exports rose 7.6% over the same period, the deputy prime minister said on Monday.
The slump in gas exports was due “to the refusal of European countries to buy Russian gas, as well as to the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines” against the background of the conflict in Ukraine, Alexander Novak said in an article published on the specialized Russian website “Energy Policy”.
You can read our article on these numbers here.
14:16
The head of Hungarian diplomacy in Belarus this Monday to maintain “channels of communication”.
The Hungarian foreign minister visited Belarus on Monday and said he wanted to maintain dialogue in hopes of peace in Ukraine.
“Of course, many will criticize me for this visit, but our position is clear: the communication channels must remain open,” said Peter Szijjarto in a Facebook post.
“If we hadn’t done that, I couldn’t be the messenger of a call for peace,” he adds.
14:04
According to Jens Stoltenberg, Ukraine uses more ammunition than NATO produces
Ukraine’s armed forces are consuming ammunition far in excess of what NATO allies are producing, which desperately need to increase their capacities, Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned on Monday.
“The current rate of ammunition consumption by Ukraine is much higher than our current production rate,” he said during a press conference on the eve of a meeting of NATO security and defense ministers.
“It puts pressure on our defense industry,” he added.
12:31
The Ukrainian Presidency reports a “complicated” situation north of Bakhmout
The Ukrainian presidency on Monday reported a “complicated” situation north of the town of Bakhmout, the most disputed region in eastern Ukraine, the day after it seized a location in that area claimed by the Russe Wagner group.
“The situation near Soledar is complicated: the village of Paraskoviïvka is facing heavy shelling and attacks,” the presidency said in its daily report.
9:59
British intelligence believes that in the last two weeks Russia has suffered “probably its heaviest casualties” since the beginning of the war
In its Daily Note published this Sunday, the British Ministry of Defense writes that “in the last two weeks Russia has suffered probably its heaviest casualties since the first week of the invasion of Ukraine”.
British intelligence relies on daily statistics on Russian casualties released by the Ukrainian General Staff and believes “the trends the data show are likely to be correct”.
According to this source, an average of 824 Russian soldiers have died every day for the past seven days. The UK notes that “Ukraine continues to suffer from a high turnover rate”.
9:29
NATO will change leadership in October
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who has been in office since 2014, does not want to extend his term of office again beyond the term planned for October, a spokeswoman for the Atlantic Alliance said on Sunday.
In March 2022, after Russia invaded Ukraine, the leaders of the alliance decided to extend the Norwegian official’s term in office until September 30, 2023.
8:41
Russia says it is building an aqueduct to supply Donbass
Specialists from the Russian Defense Ministry are building an aqueduct system to connect Russia’s Rostov region bordering Ukraine with the Donbass region in eastern Ukraine, Russia’s Interfax news agency reported Monday morning.
In late September, Moscow called for the annexation of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions that make up the Donbass.
The Russian Defense Ministry told Interfax that the project should be completed “as soon as spring” and that the aqueduct, consisting of two pipes of 200 kilometers each, can transport 300,000 cubic meters of water per day.
8:30
The IOC President assures that “it is not up to governments to decide on the participation of certain countries in the Olympic Games”.
Ukrainian athletes “know how much we share their suffering,” assured Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), on Sunday in Courchevel (France) in response to statements from Kiev accusing the body of being a “war sponsor”. be. in Ukraine.
“It is not up to governments to decide on the participation of certain countries in international competitions and in particular in the Paris Olympics in 2024,” Bach added, while Ukraine says it is considering a boycott of the Olympics in the event that it does Presence of Russian and Belarusian athletes.
You can read our article on the position of the IOC here.
8:26
The leader of the Wagner group claims the conquest of a location near Bakhmout
The leader of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner said on Sunday his troops had taken the Ukrainian town of Krasna Hora, a few kilometers north of Bachmout, a town where fighting has been going on for several months.
“Today Wagner’s assault units took the city of Krasna Hora,” said Yevgeny Prigoyine, quoted by his press service.
You can read our article on these declarations here.
8:19
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