Cover photo: According to the Ukrainian government, “more than a hundred [projectiles] in several waves” were drawn on Thursday morning. SAMEER AL-DOUMY / AFP
- The army and the Ukrainian presidency denounce “Massive” strikesfrom “more than 120 Russian missiles”Thursday morning in several cities across the country, including the capital Kyiv.
- Lvivthe big city in the west of the country 90% free of electricity Thursday after these new Russian bombing raids on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure in the middle of winter.
- The deficit of the Ukrainian power grid has worsened because of the bombing of gas infrastructure in eastern Ukraine, operator Ukrenergo, national manager of the electricity transmission network, said on Facebook on Wednesday.
- “Only a few civilians” are still present in Bakhmout, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy complained on Facebook on Wednesday. “Last year there were 70,000 people living there,” he added, without specifying the number of civilians who are still there.
- Moscow’s February 1 ban on selling Russian oil abroad caps its price is not “pointless, but it has no practical meaning,” commented Berlin on Wednesday.
- Ukraine has bought almost 1,400 dronesmainly models for reconnaissance missions, and plans to develop combat models to be able to attack the explosive drones used by the Russians in the invasion of the country, announced the minister in charge of Ukraine’s technologies.
- The International Organization for Migration announced this in a statement on Wednesday to be able to help “more than 700,000 Ukrainians”. in winter thanks to humanitarian funds provided by the European Union.
- French Armed Forces Minister Sébastien Lecornu met the Ukrainian President in Kyiv on Wednesday. After the meeting, Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Telegram that he was “grateful to France for the military assistance already provided to protect the Ukrainian skies and strengthen the capabilities of the defense forces.”
- The head of Russian diplomacy said he was “confident” that with “patience” Russia would achieve its goals in Ukraine.. Provided “the four regions [Donetsk, Louhansk, Zaporijia, Kherson] belong to the Russian Federation,” Sergey Lavrov reiterated, specifying that Moscow “of course” needs to conquer all four of these areas, which are currently not fully controlled by the Russian army.
- The Institute for the Study of War believes that “the Russian offensive on Bakhmout has probably already peaked”.. In its December 28 daily bulletin, this American think tank judged that Russian forces “can no longer continue their offensive [à Bakhmout] and must take a defensive position or pause operations,” which does not mean the end of the fighting.
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