The Russian army this morning bombed the Belopolye hospital in the north-eastern Sumy region, killing a teenager: reports Kyrylo Tymoshenko of Ukraine’s Presidential Office. “Sumy region, November 30, in the morning, the Russian Federation bombed a hospital in Belopolye. A teenager died. Nearby houses and cars were damaged.” Tymoshenko added that in the last 24 hours Russian troops launched 158 artillery and 28 mortar attacks in the border areas of the Sumy region: power lines, private houses, grain stores and buildings were damaged.
New director in Zaporizhia. Moscow: “We’re not going” – Yury Chernichuk, a former chief engineer at Ukraine’s Energoatom nuclear agency, has been appointed the new director of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant by the Russian authorities, which control the power plant in the city of Energodar. This was announced by Renat Karchaa, a consultant at Rosenergoatom, the Moscow nuclear power plant management agency. “There are no signs of our withdrawal from the Zaporizhia power plant or from Energodar,” Karchaa said in an interview with the Interfax TV channel Rossiya 24.
Kyiv, Russians riddle the Kherson Art Museum with bullets – In the morning, Russian troops riddled the Kherson regional art museum with bullets, said deputy chairman of the regional council Yuri Sobolevskyi, quoted by Ukrinform. “The Kherson Oleksiy Shovkunenko Regional Art Museum was hit this morning. The building was damaged: the windows were broken, the walls were punctured,” he said. The most valuable finds had previously been stolen from the museums in the southern Ukrainian city – the regional administrators revealed. In particular, about 80% of his collection was stolen from the art museum.
Russia will lose a hundred thousand soldiers this year and “God knows how many mercenaries”: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said so during his evening speech yesterday, UNIAN reports. Despite the losses, Russian forces are still trying to advance into the Donbass (east) and intend to advance south. “But we are holding the defense and, most importantly, we are not letting the enemy see his intentions – he continued -. They said they would conquer Donetsk: in spring, summer, autumn. Winter begins … everyone loses Hundreds of mobilized soldiers and mercenaries per day”.