- French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday he intended to call his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, to discuss Russian bombings and drone attacks in Ukraine. – “a good part of them are war crimes”he said –, as well as an agreement on the security of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.
- The sending of Patriot missiles to Ukraine by the United States might be considered a « escalade » Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. US channel CNN reported on Tuesday that Washington is seriously considering supplying kyiv with Patriot air defense missiles.
- Washington will develop its program with the Ukrainian military from January in order to train more soldiers and impart broader skills.
- A month following his release by kyiv, the city of Kherson was hit by Russian shelling “more than sixteen times ” Thursday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in the evening. These attacks killed two people and caused power cuts.
- The situation on the front in eastern Ukraine remains very tense, and fierce fighting continues. In the Donetsk region, “the directions of Bakhmout and Avdiivka remain the epicenter of the fighting”said Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar on Thursday.
- For their part, the pro-Russian separatist authorities reported a Ukrainian bombardment on Donetsk, “the most massive since 2014”the year in which this city fell under the control of these rebels supported by Moscow.
- The twenty-seven member states of the European Union agreed on Thursday evening to adopt a ninth package of sanctions once morest Russia. This notably provides for new restrictive measures for nearly 200 entities and personalities, the banning of drone exports to Russia, the placement of three additional banks on a blacklist and the end of new investments in the mining sector in Russia.
- The United States has announced that it will impose financial sanctions once morest Vladimir Potanin, former deputy prime minister of Vladimir Putin and one of Russia’s richest men, as well as once morest dozens of Russian government officials and financial sector companies.
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