The day after the largest drone attack in Ukraine, new drones were shot down in three regions by Ukraine last night and by Russia this Sunday, November 26, 2023. Russia also issued a wanted notice against Meta’s spokesman.
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The situation in Ukraine this Sunday, November 26, 2023. | INFOGRAPHIC SERVICE WEST FRANCE View in full screen mode
The situation in Ukraine this Sunday, November 26, 2023. | INFOGRAPHIC SERVICE WESTERN FRANCE
The Russian military is reportedly moving air defense systems from Kaliningrad to the Ukrainian front
In his latest bulletin published on the social network “probably relocated strategic air defense systems from its Kaliningrad enclave on the Baltic coast to offset losses on the Ukrainian front.” “.
The Russian army justifies this with this “Extraordinary Russian air transport movements until November 2023”.
Ukraine says it shot down eight Russian drones in a night attack
The Ukrainian Air Force announced on Telegram that it had destroyed eight of the nine drones launched by Russia overnight. There were no immediate reports of damage and the army did not provide information on the target area of the ninth drone.
Those attacks, which the air force said came from the southeast, came a day after a drone strike that Ukrainian authorities are calling the most significant since the start of the war, according to Portal.
Ukraine has warned in recent weeks that Russia will target critical infrastructure this winter, as it did last year.
Russia says it shot down Ukrainian drones in three regions
Russia claimed to have shot down Ukrainian drones in three Russian regions the day after a major drone strike by Moscow on the Ukrainian capital, which Kiev described as the largest since the conflict began in February 2022.
“Air defense destroyed four Ukrainian drones over Bryansk, Smolensk and Tula regions”said the Russian Defense Ministry in a press release consulted by AFP.
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The day before, Ukraine accused Moscow of launching 75 drone strikes on its territory, mostly in the direction of the capital Kiev, and claimed to have shot down 71. In that attack, five were injured, according to a report provided by authorities, and dozens were injured in apartment buildings and electricity buildings.
This bombing occurred on Ukraine’s commemoration day of the Holodomor, the great famine of the 1930s that killed millions of Ukrainians.
Andy Stone, the spokesman for American social media giant Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Whatsapp, is now on the wanted list for criminal code violations, AFP reports.
The Russian authorities do not specify what they accuse Meta’s communications director of. Russia officially designated the American group as an organization in October 2022. “Terrorist and extremist”This opens up the possibility of stricter legal action against its users in the country.
Since the start of the Russian offensive in Ukraine, Facebook and Instagram have also been blocked in the country and cannot be accessed without a virtual private network (VPN), as have Twitter and many media sites critical of the government.
Before the ban, millions of Russians used meta-applications, especially Instagram, a network that, despite its blocking, remains very popular among young people in the country. In April 2022, Russia also added Meta leader Mark Zuckerberg to the blacklist of people banned from entering its territory.