Cover photo: In Kherson, a Ukrainian flag hangs on the wall of the regional administration building one year after the Russian army withdrew from the city. Friday, November 10, 2023. Efrem Lukatsky / AP
- According to an investigation by The Washington Post and Der Spiegel, a Ukrainian army officer could be held responsible for the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines. Roman Tchervinsky, a 48-year-old senior officer in the Ukrainian army, is said to have played a central role in the sabotage of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea on September 26, 2022, the two media outlets reported on Saturday, citing Ukrainian sources . and anonymous Europeans with knowledge of the operation.
- An explosion derails a train southeast of Moscow. An “improvised explosive device” caused a freight train to derail on Saturday morning in Russia’s Ryazan Oblast, 200 kilometers southeast of Moscow, reports the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. Nineteen cars went off the track and fifteen were damaged.
- Volodymyr Zelensky congratulated Ukrainians on Saturday on the anniversary of the liberation of Kherson. “Kherson is a symbol of heroism and hope. It is the city of our people, who did not bow to the enemy and inspired all of us and the whole world with their resistance,” the President said.
- Two dead in Toretsk, eastern Ukraine. Russian artillery fire claimed two lives in Toretsk, Donetsk Oblast on Saturday. According to the district prosecutor’s office, it was “a 61-year-old woman who was walking on the street and…” [d’]a 65-year-old man on a bicycle.”
- The European Union must take responsibility if the United States reduces its aid to Ukraine, said Josep Borrell, the head of diplomacy of the Twenty-seven, on the occasion of the Congress of the Party of Socialists of Europe in Malaga (Spain). Budget debates in the House of Representatives have forced the United States to restrict the flow of military aid to Ukraine, and the Pentagon has only $1 billion to replenish weapons supplies sent to the country, a Defense Department spokesman announced today.
- According to Bild, German aid to Ukraine will have doubled by 2024. According to the German daily, the decision was approved this week and will be ratified next week. As part of the draft federal budget for 2024, Finance Minister Christian Lindner planned to provide 4 billion euros for Ukraine, but most of the sum will flow into projects that have already been started. Defense Minister Boris Pistorius had demanded an additional 5 billion euros.
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