The Russians said Friday evening they had shot down 26 Ukrainian drones over annexed Crimea in two hours, claiming they had repelled a “terrorist attack” from Kiev. Follow the latest information.
5:36 p.m
VLADIMIR PUTIN INDEPENDENT RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
Supporters of Vladimir Putin have officially nominated him as an independent candidate in Russia's 2024 presidential election, the Guardian reported on Saturday, citing Portal and Russian state news agencies. The Russian president, whose current six-year term ends next year, is almost certain to win these elections, which take place March 15-17, 2024.
As the British media reminds us, independent candidates must be nominated by at least 500 supporters and collect at least 300,000 signatures of support. Since a constitutional reform in 2020, Vladimir Putin has the opportunity to stay in the Kremlin until 2036.
3:48 p.m
TWO CIVILIANS KILLED IN UKRAINIAN MISSILE ATTACK
A Ukrainian rocket attack on a village in the Russian-occupied Kherson region of southern Ukraine killed two civilians and injured two others on Saturday, a local occupation official said. “Most of the missiles in the salvo were shot down by the air defense, but one HIMARS hit the ground and exploded while delivering humanitarian aid,” Vladimir Saldo, head of the salvo, said in the Russian Regional Occupation Administration Telegram.
According to him, Russian soldiers who were “helping to unload” humanitarian supplies were also injured in this attack on the village of Novaya Majachka. The Kherson region in southern Ukraine is partially occupied by Russia and the positions of the two camps are delimited by the Dnieper. Russians and Ukrainians each control one river bank.
2:34 p.m
Macron expects Orban to “behave like a European”
After Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced on Friday that he had vetoed the adoption of a new European Union budget aid for Ukraine worth 50 billion euros at a summit of twenty-seven, Emmanuel Macron made the comments at a press conference , an excerpt of which aired this Saturday on LCI. “Hungary was respected during this council. It has a voice that is carried by its prime minister, that is normal. He defended his interests, he was listened to, he asked for a strategic debate, we had it, his voice was respected,” assured the President of the Republic.
“This respect implies responsibility,” he then affirmed, adding: “I expect from Viktor Orban in the coming months that his legitimate interests as well as his duties are taken into account, that he behaves like a European and does not make political decisions.” Progress as Hostage.
Orban: Ukraine's biggest opponent? Source: TF1 Info
13:11
CONCERNS ABOUT THE FATE OF AN ENEMY IMMEDIATE IN RUSSIA
A former Moscow local deputy, Alexei Gorinov, who was sentenced to seven years in prison for reporting the attack in Ukraine, has disappeared from prison, his supporters reported on Friday, concerned about the deterioration of his health. “Alexei Gorinov's lawyers have been trying all week to obtain certain information about his health and whereabouts. We can say that Alexei is not in Penal Colony No. 2 in Pokrov,” his group said. Support.
“We assume and hope that Alexei Gorinov was transferred to the hospital because he urgently needs hospital care,” the group continued in a message on Telegram. Alexei Gorinov, 62, is serving his sentence in Pokrov, in the Vladimir region, about 200 km east of Moscow. According to his supporters, one of his lawyers was able to visit him on December 8th and found that he was in “very poor health” and no longer even had the strength to “stand on a chair and talk.”
10:01
NEW DRONE ATTACK IN UKRAINE
The Ukrainian Air Force claimed to have repelled a new Russian drone attack on Friday night, shooting down 30 of the 31 devices fired in several regions of the country. “A total of 31 Shahed-136/131 attack drones were used in the attack,” the air force said in a statement. The attack targeted, among other places, the capital Kiev, the southern Kherson region and the western Khmelnytsky region, all of which have been regularly attacked by Russia.
Russian authorities have reported the death of one person in overnight Ukrainian bombings in the occupied part of the Kherson region in the south of the country. For his part, the governor of the Russian region of Belgorod, Vyacheslav Gladkov, reported 41 Ukrainian attacks in the last 24 hours in this territory bordering Ukraine, which were regularly targeted.
07:26
ROBOTYNES UKRAINIAN HELL
Under pressure from the Russians, exhausted Ukrainian soldiers fled to secret underground bunkers. Our special correspondent Michel Scott went to the front lines in Robotyne, a town recaptured last August by Ukrainian forces who are now running out of strength.
07:21
MACRON ANSWERS PUTIN: “I DIDN’T CHANGE MY NUMBER”
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday he “has not changed his phone number” and would still be available if his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin made “serious proposals” for peace in Ukraine. “If President Putin has a desire for dialogue and serious proposals to move forward, end the conflict and build a lasting peace that respects international law and therefore Ukraine's interests and sovereignty, I will follow the call,” he said during a press conference following a European summit held in Brussels.
In this case, France will always be “a power that will help and will not shy away from its efforts to achieve a result,” he continued, recalling its own efforts to stop the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 it in the first months of the war.
07:19
Any foreign “interference” will be “strongly suppressed”
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Friday against any “interference” from abroad in the campaign for Russia's March 2024 presidential election, which will take place against the backdrop of the conflict in Ukraine and the suppression of any opposition. “Any interference in Russia's internal affairs is strictly suppressed under Russian law,” the re-election candidate said during a televised meeting with party leaders in attendance in the Duma, the lower part of parliament.
“We defend the freedom of our people, their sovereignty, their right to decide their future. It is the people and only the people of Russia who are the only source of power in our country,” he assured.
07:17
Drones shot down over annexed Crimea
The Russian army claimed on Friday evening that it shot down 26 Ukrainian drones over annexed Crimea within two hours, repelling a “terrorist attack” from Kiev. “Russian anti-aircraft forces destroyed 26 aerial drones over Crimea,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement, without mentioning damage or casualties and saying that these aircraft were all shot down “between 8:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m :30 and 8:30 p.m. in Paris).
06:53
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The Russian army claimed to have shot down 26 Ukrainian drones over annexed Crimea within two hours, repelling a “terrorist attack” from Kiev. “Russian anti-aircraft forces destroyed 26 aerial drones over Crimea,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Telegram, without mentioning damage or casualties.
Crimea is regularly attacked by sea and air drone strikes, but the Russian army rarely claims to have destroyed so many at once.
Previously, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday evening that it had also shot down six Ukrainian drones in Russia's Kursk region, which borders Ukraine. The Russian ministry announced on Telegram that it had neutralized two and then four drones using its anti-aircraft systems. These devices targeted “facilities on Russian territory,” he said, without giving further details. Kursk Region Governor Roman Starovoit confirmed that a drone attack had been repelled by Russian forces and urged residents on Telegram to “remain calm.”
These types of drone attacks have become almost daily in Russian border regions with Ukraine, although group incursions like Friday's are rarer. The Russian capital Moscow and its surrounding areas have also been attacked by Ukrainian drones in recent months.
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