2023-12-16 12:11:50
The Russians announced Friday evening that they had shot down 26 Ukrainian drones in the space of two hours over annexed Crimea, claiming to have repelled a “terrorist attack” from Kiev. Follow the latest information.
14:34
MACRON EXPECTS ORBAN TO “BEHAVE AS A EUROPEAN”
After Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced on Friday that he had vetoed, during a summit of the Twenty-Seven, the adoption of new budgetary support from the European Union to Ukraine to the tune of 50 billion euros, Emmanuel Macron spoke at a press conference, an extract of which was broadcast on LCI this Saturday. “Hungary was respected during this Council. It has a voice, carried by its Prime Minister, that’s normal. He defends its 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 responsibilities”he then said, before adding: “I expect from Viktor Orban in the coming months that his legitimate interests, as well as his duties, being taken into account, he will behave like a European and that he will not take political progress hostage.”
Orban: Ukraine’s number 1 adversary? Source: TF1 Info
13:11
CONCERNS ABOUT THE FATE OF AN OPPONENT PRISONED IN RUSSIA
A former Moscow municipal deputy, Alexeï Gorinov, sentenced to seven years in prison for having denounced the attack in Ukraine, has disappeared from his prison, his supporters reported on Friday, who are concerned about the deterioration of his state of health. “Alexei Gorinov’s lawyers have been trying all week to get certain information about his health and whereabouts. We can say that Alexei is not in penal colony No. 2 in Pokrov.”said his support group.
“We assume and hope that Alexei Gorinov has been transferred to the hospital because he absolutely needs to receive hospital care”, continued this group, in a message on Telegram. Alexei Gorinov, 62, is serving his sentence in Pokrov, in the Vladimir region, about 200 km east of Moscow. On December 8, still according to his supporters, one of his lawyers was able to visit him and noted that he was in a “very poor state of 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 overnight from Friday to Saturday by shooting down 30 of the 31 devices launched 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 others, the capital, kyiv, the southern region of Kherson and the western region of Khmelnytsky, all regularly struck by Russia.
Russian authorities have reported the death of one person in nighttime Ukrainian bombings on the occupied part of the Kherson region, in the south of the country. The governor of the Russian region of Belgorod, Vyacheslav Gladkov, for his part reported 41 Ukrainian strikes in the last 24 hours on this territory bordering Ukraine and regularly targeted.
07:26
ROBOTYNE’S UKRAINIAN HELL
Faced with pressure from the Russians, Ukrainian soldiers took refuge, exhausted, in secret underground shelters. Our special correspondent, Michel Scott, went to the front in Robotyne, a town recaptured last August by Ukrainian forces, who now find themselves running out of steam.
International Posted yesterday at 8:32 p.m. 07:21
MACRON RESPONDS PUTIN: “I HAVE NOT CHANGED MY NUMBER”
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday that he had “not changed his phone number” and that he could still be reached if his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, had “serious proposals” to make 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 is to say respectful of international law and therefore of Ukrainian interests and sovereignty, I will take the “call”, he said during a press conference following a European summit which took place in Brussels.
In this case, France will always be “a power which will help and which will not spare its efforts to obtain a result”, he continued, recalling its own efforts to try to prevent the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February. 2022, then to stop it in the first months of the war.
07:19
ANY FOREIGN “INTERFERENCE” WILL BE “SEVERELY SUPPRESSED”
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned on Friday against any foreign “interference” during the campaign for the March 2024 presidential election in Russia, which will take place against a backdrop of conflict in Ukraine and repression of all opposition. “Any interference in the internal affairs of Russia will be repressed, and repressed severely, under Russian laws,” said the candidate for his re-election, during a televised meeting with party leaders present in the Duma, the chamber lower part of Parliament.
“We defend the freedom of our people, their sovereignty, their right to choose 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 Friday evening to have shot down 26 Ukrainian drones in the space of two hours above annexed Crimea, claiming to have repelled a “terrorist attack” from kyiv. “Russian anti-aircraft defenses destroyed 26 aerial drones over Crimea,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement, without mentioning any damage or casualties, and specifying that these aircraft had all been shot down “between 8:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. (between 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. in Paris).
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The Russian army claimed to have shot down 26 Ukrainian drones in the space of two hours over annexed Crimea, claiming to have repelled a “terrorist attack” of Kiev. “Russian anti-aircraft defenses destroyed 26 aerial drones over Crimea”the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Telegram, without mentioning any damage or casualties.
Crimea is regularly targeted by naval and aerial drone attacks, but the Russian army rarely claims to have destroyed so many in one go.
Earlier on Friday evening, the Russian Defense Ministry said it had also shot down six Ukrainian drones in the Russian region of Kursk, which borders Ukraine. The Russian ministry announced on Telegram that it had neutralized two then four drones using its anti-aircraft defenses. These devices aimed “facilities on Russian territory”, he said without providing further details. The governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoit, confirmed that a drone attack had been repelled by Russian forces, calling on Telegram residents to “stay calm”.
This type of drone attack has become almost daily in Russian regions bordering Ukraine, although group incursions like Friday’s are less frequent. The Russian capital Moscow and its surrounding areas have also been targeted by Ukrainian drones in recent months.
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