Cover photo: This photo taken and released by Ukrainian emergency services on November 25, 2023 shows rescuers working in a building hit by a Russian drone in Kiev. HANDOUT / AFP
- Kiev was attacked on Friday night by the “largest Russian drone attack” since the start of the conflict. “The air alert lasted six hours” and “five people, including an 11-year-old child, were injured,” said the mayor of the Ukrainian capital, Vitali Klitschko.
- Several parts of the city were affected and suffered damage. Dozens of buildings and buildings were cut off from power for several hours after the attack in Kiev. Power supply throughout the capital returned at midday, the city’s military administration said.
- The Ukrainian air force said it destroyed 71 of the 75 missiles fired by Russia against the entire Ukraine, with Kiev the main target. “The anti-aircraft defense functioned in at least six regions,” she said, referring to “Shahed-type drones.”[-136] », Iranian-made machines delivered from Tehran to Moscow.
- Paris condemned the Russian airstrike “with the utmost firmness” on Saturday.said the French foreign minister.
- “Russian leaders seem to be proud of their ability to kill people,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky responded. He made the connection between the occurrence of these massive night attacks and the “Holodomor Genocide Remembrance Day,” which took place on November 25th.
- Ukraine on Saturday remembered the victims of that great famine that struck the former Soviet country in 1932 and 1933. During this period, the country lost 4 to 8 million inhabitants, against the backdrop of land collectivization, which historians say was orchestrated by Stalin to suppress any nationalist and independence movements in the country, which was then a Soviet republic. In a statement, Volodymyr Zelensky said it was “impossible” for Ukrainians to forgive Soviet “crimes.”
- According to the city’s mayor, the Russian army is returning to the offensive in the Avdiivka sector. Russian forces have launched their third wave of attacks since October 10 in this city in eastern Ukraine, systematically bombing the center, Mayor Vitalii Barabash said on Friday. For more than a month, this almost surrounded industrial city has been under incessant attacks from Moscow’s forces, which have been trying to take it for years.
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