Cover Photo: Like Kherson, Kyiv is sometimes plunged into darkness, as this Sunday, November 6, when two pedestrians took advantage of the streetlights. Kyiv, November 6, 2022. Andrew Kravchenko / AP
- After two strikes for which Russians and Ukrainians blame each otherthe city of Kherson in southern Ukraine, still occupied by the Russian army despite a Ukrainian advance, was plunged into darkness. The Kakhovka Dam in the same region was damaged.
- Kyiv is preparing for a winter without heating, water and electricity. Alternating power outages were planned in some parts of the city today. The municipalities plan to use around 1,000 district heating stations, but this will probably not be enough for a city with 3 million inhabitants.
- “Every day it gets harder to live in Bakhmout”a city under siege by Russian forces, according to Deputy Mayor Oleksandr Marchenko. Donetsk Oblast has been without electricity, gas and running water for almost two months. The deputy mayor told Portal that Russian troops are “trying[ai]not to storm the city from several directions”, but that the inhabitants “hold on”.
- Iran first admitted to supplying drones to Russia on Saturday, November 5, before the start of the invasion of Ukraine. “Even with this confession they lied,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the evening. We shoot down at least ten Iranian drones every day, and the Iranian regime says there were few, even before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began. “Eleven Shaheds were destroyed on Friday alone.
- Washington on Friday, November 4, accused Moscow of trying to subjugate Ukrainians by “freezing” them. when winter approaches. The G7 countries should create a “coordination mechanism” to repair the infrastructure that enables the distribution of water and electricity. It will also be about delivering water pumps, heaters, accommodation containers, toilets, beds, blankets or tents.
- Still, Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Chmyhal assured on Friday that “almost half of the buildings across Ukraine have heating. These are schools, kindergartens, hospitals, apartment buildings (…). In Kyiv, 78% of buildings are currently heated.” According to him, gas supplies are enough to survive the winter.
- “During the day the Russian occupiers fired three rockets and carried out five airstrikes and two multiple rocket launchers” The employees of the Ukrainian armed forces reported on the regions of Lviv (west), Kharkiv (northeast), Dnipro (centre) and Zaporiya (south).
- Kyiv “strongly condemned” the “expulsions” of residents of Zaporizhia and Kherson Oblasts, where Russia is conducting “mass forced expulsions.”. Russia’s Defense Ministry announced on Friday that these population movements are continuing at a rate of “more than 5,000” people per day. Russian President Vladimir Putin justified these evacuations for the first time by saying that civilians must be “kept away” from the “most dangerous” combat zones.
- Given this situation, the United States will fund the modernization of T-72 tanks and HAWK surface-to-air missiles as part of a program worth around 400 million dollars (around 400 million euros), Jake Sullivan, the US president’s national security adviser, announced at a meeting in Kyiv with Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
- On Friday, November 4, in Red Square, on the occasion of National Unity Day, Vladimir Putin appreciated that this aid from Westerners promotes “geopolitical goals”.which have nothing to do with the interests of the Ukrainian people” but are aimed at “weakening, undermining, destroying Russia”.
- Grain exports from Ukrainian ports resumed on Thursdayafter Russia’s return to the Humanitarian Corridor Agreement.
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