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NATO warns that Russia is prepared to make great efforts in this war
Wars tend to last longer than expected, NATO’s secretary general told CNBC, warning that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine showed Moscow has no intention of surrendering.
“What we have seen is that Russia is ready to put a lot of effort into this war. They intensify.” [weapons] production and they also sacrifice soldiers in large numbers,” Jens Stoltenberg told CNBC’s Silvia Amaro in Brussels on Monday.
“We have to be prepared for the long term,” he added. “Yes, it has a price, but the price of not supporting Ukraine is much higher than the price of supporting Ukraine.”
– Holly Ellyatt
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A Putin victory would be a “tragedy” for Ukrainians, says NATO chief
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told CNBC it would be a “tragedy” for Ukrainians if Russian President Vladimir Putin won the war.
A victory would also send a dangerous message to other authoritarian leaders, he warned.
As NATO foreign ministers meet on Monday to discuss developments in the war and the further support Ukraine needs, Stoltenberg said it would be “a tragedy for Ukrainians if President Putin wins, but also dangerous for us.” .”
“The message to authoritarian leaders in Moscow, but also in Beijing, would be that if they use military force and invade another country, they will get what they want. That’s why we will be more vulnerable if President Putin wins, so it is in our security interest to support Ukraine,” he told CNBC’s Silvia Amaro in Brussels.
Recently, there has been growing concern that public support for further military financing of Ukraine has waned. Political changes in Europe have also led to new leadership in a number of countries that is more skeptical about further support for Kiev.
Stoltenberg said bipartisan support for Ukraine remains strong in the U.S. despite some talk of Republican discontent over military aid. The US has pledged around $44.2 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since Russia’s unprovoked invasion began in February 2022.
“I am absolutely confident that the United States understands that if President Putin wins in Ukraine, it is dangerous for the United States,” he said.
– Holly Ellyatt
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Three dead in storm that hits Crimea and Russian Black Sea coast
Waves crash against a seafront promenade in the Black Sea resort of Sochi during a storm on November 27, 2023. (Photo by Mikhail Mordasov / AFP) (Photo by MIKHAIL MORDASOV/AFP via Getty Images)
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Three people died and hundreds were evacuated in violent storms on Monday on Russia’s Black Sea coast and Crimea.
The state news agency TASS reported that one person was killed in the resort town of Sochi, another on the Russian-controlled Crimean peninsula and a third person aboard a ship in the Kerch Strait, which separates Crimea from mainland Russia.
Storms have been raging in the Black Sea since Friday.
A video posted online showed large waves sweeping across the coast of Sochi, sweeping away cars. Streets were flooded in the Crimean city of Yevpatoria.
The Russian-appointed governors of Crimea and Sevastopol, both of which Moscow captured in 2014 and unilaterally annexed from Ukraine, declared a state of emergency.
The Russian Emergencies Ministry said it had evacuated more than 350 people. And the Energy Ministry said bad weather left about 1.9 million people without power on Monday morning in the southern Russian regions of Dagestan, Krasnodar and Rostov, as well as in Crimea and regions of Ukraine that Russia unilaterally annexed last year.
In the Russian port of Novorossiysk, the Caspian Pipeline Consortium and the Russian state oil pipeline company Transneft announced a weather-related loading stop.
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The storm chaos continues in Ukraine, with the south being hardest hit
A municipal worker cleans the snow at the monument to the Maidan activists, also known as the “Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred,” referring to the people killed in the 2013-2014 anti-government demonstrations, November 22, 2023 in Kyiv.
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Heavy snowstorms continue to rage in Ukraine, with the southern port of Odessa struggling with extreme weather conditions and 1.5 meters of snow.
The Kiev-Odessa highway is closed, a 100-meter-long boiler house pipe collapsed in the city and 71 car accidents occurred in the region in the last 24 hours, NBC News reported.
In the last 24 hours, the State Emergency Service of Ukraine reported the following:
- 892 vehicles had to be towed away
- 103 fallen trees were removed
- Traffic is closed on 14 highways
- There are currently power outages in 2,019 settlements
- There are around 1,370 trucks in temporary parking spaces
- 1,525 rescuers and 402 devices are on site
– Holly Ellyatt
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The high death toll reported for Russian forces is “plausible,” Britain says
Britain’s Ministry of Defense said the high daily number of Russian casualties that Ukraine is said to have inflicted on Russian forces recently was “plausible.”
“The last six weeks have probably seen some of the highest Russian casualty rates of the war so far. The heavy losses were largely caused by Russia’s offensive against the city of Avdiivka in Donbass,” the Defense Ministry said.
Ukrainian forensic experts carry the body of a Russian soldier exhumed in the village of Zavalivka, west of Kiev, before being stored in a refrigerated wagon containing the Russian dead, May 11, 2022.
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Ukraine’s General Staff reported throughout November that Russia was suffering an average of 931 casualties per day, the ministry noted in its latest intelligence assessment on Monday.
“Previously, the deadliest reported month for Russia was March 2023, with an average of 776 casualties per day, at the height of the Russian attack on Bakhmut,” the ministry said on X, formerly known as Twitter.
“Although Defense Intelligence cannot verify the methodology, the overall figures, including dead and wounded, are plausible,” it said.
Both Russia and Ukraine are very secretive about their own losses, while both regularly claim to have inflicted heavy losses on each other. The chaotic nature of the war and the number of dead and injured, as well as attempts at propaganda and disinformation, make it impossible to determine an accurate number of actual casualties on both sides.
– Holly Ellyatt
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Bad weather causes power outages and traffic chaos in Ukraine
Severe weather in Ukraine has made conditions “extremely difficult” across much of the country as snowstorms led to widespread power outages.
Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said on Sunday that 386 settlements in 10 regions were devastated by extreme weather conditions, including snowstorms that blocked motorists, cars and trucks and toppled trees on major roads.
An aerial view of Podol district after fresh snowfall on November 22, 2023 in Kiev, Ukraine.
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday evening that “weather conditions in a large part of our country are extremely difficult” and that the southern regions are facing significant problems, Zelensky said in his evening address.
“I ask all citizens of Ukraine in areas where bad weather prevails: please be as careful as possible… As soon as possible, our power engineers will restore power to all cities and villages that are currently experiencing one due to bad weather “Temporary power outage is coming.” Weather,” he said.
Bad weather is already impacting battlefield conditions, but fighting remains intense, Zelenskyy said.
“In the Donetsk direction, in the Kharkiv region – in the Kupyansk direction, intense fighting does not stop for an hour. Our soldiers also hold positions in the south of the country: this is the Zaporizhia region, this is our Kherson region,” he said.
– Holly Ellyatt
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Putin says Western globalization model has ‘lost its usefulness’
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks after signing bilateral documents with his Kazakh counterpart Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in Astana, Kazakhstan, November 9, 2023.
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The globalization model created by Western countries has lost its usefulness, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Monday
“It is obvious that the model of globalization, which was largely shaped by Western states – of course in their own interests – has lost its usefulness and is in deep crisis,” Putin said in a message to participants at the Primakov meeting. Readings International Forum, which will take place on Monday in Moscow.
“A well-known group of countries used to dominating the world will stop at nothing to maintain their dwindling influence, using outright blackmail and violent pressure,” Putin added in comments reported by the Interfax news agency became.
“Such a destabilizing line provoked both the crisis situation surrounding Ukraine and the tragic escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict,” he said.
Russia has blamed the West for the war in Ukraine and for creating the conditions for war between Israel and Hamas, despite the Russian invasion in 2022.
– Holly Ellyatt
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After a mass attack on Kiev, Russia says it shot down dozens of Ukrainian drones on the way to Moscow
An explosion from a drone is seen in the sky above the city during a Russian drone strike during the Russian attack on Ukraine on November 25, 2023 in Kiev, Ukraine.
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Russian authorities claimed on Sunday that Ukraine tried to attack Moscow with dozens of drones overnight, just a day after Russia launched its worst drone attack on Kiev since its all-out war began in 2022, according to Ukrainian officials.
Russian air defenses shot down at least 24 drones over the Moscow region – which surrounds but does not include the capital – and four other provinces to the south and west, the Russian Defense Ministry and Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin reported in a series of Telegram updates. Nobody mentioned any losses.
Andrei Vorobyev, governor of the Moscow region, wrote on Telegram that the drone strikes damaged three unspecified buildings there, adding that no one was injured.
Ukrainian officials have not acknowledged or commented on the attacks, which came a day after Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital with over 60 Iranian-made Shahed drones.
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