Vladimir Putin must have “fought for his life” after Kherson’s humiliating withdrawal from Russia last week, one of President Zelensky’s aides.
Russian troops fled Kherson in an effort to save the aircraft and infantrymen from the Ukrainian counteroffensive, but continued to lose both.
“[Putin] is very afraid that in Russia there will be no forgiveness for tsars who lose wars,” said Oleksiy Arestovich, an adviser to the Ukrainian president’s chief of staff.
“He’s fighting for his life now. If he loses the war, at least in the minds of the Russians, this is the end. The end of him as a political figure. And in the physical sense. “
This comes as Russian casualties reportedly topped 85,000 yesterday, according to reports from Ukraine’s Defense Ministry.
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Three former British Army Sea King helicopters will travel to Ukraine, Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said.
With the first plane arriving in Ukraine, it will be the first time since February that Britain will take the plane to the besieged nation.
Wallace also showed that 10,000 artillery shells will be sent to the newly liberated regions of Ukraine.
A newborn baby died after a Russian missile hit a maternity hospital in Ukraine, local officials said.
The regional governor, Oleksandr Starukh, the rockets hit the Vilnianska hospital in the southern Zaporizhzhia region overnight.
Rescuers said there was a woman working hard with a newborn and a doctor inside the two-story building.
“As a result of the attack, a baby born in 2022 died,” rescuers said.
“He and the doctor were rescued from the rubble. “
Boris Johnson’s claim that Germany sought Ukraine to “bend” temporarily after Russia’s invasion was dismissed as “total nonsense” in Berlin.
The former prime minister, who was at the workplace when Vladimir Putin’s troops invaded in February, said Germany sought to get Ukraine to lose quickly, rather than have a protracted war, for “all sorts of clever economic reasons. “
But German spokesman Steffen Hebestreit flatly refuted his comment on Wednesday.
“We know that the entertaining former prime minister has an exclusive relationship with the truth; This case is no exception,” he said, according to German media.
Berlin temporarily sent weapons to Ukraine after Moscow introduced its invasion, Chancellor spokesman Olaf Scholz said, noting that “the facts contradict (Mr. Johnson’s) claims. “
Switching to English, Hebestreit added, “This is nonsense in general. “
The United States on Wednesday announced $400 million in new aid to Ukraine to combat the Russian invasion.
The package includes weapons, ammunition and air defense apparatus from U. S. stockpiles and one of the goals is to protect Ukraine from normal Russian attacks on energy infrastructure, the State Department said.
The total aid of the U. S. military The U. S. government in Ukraine since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021 now amounts to about $19. 7 billion, the branch added.
He pointed to recent multibillion-dollar aid packages for Ukraine that have been presented through U. S. allies such as Britain, France and Sweden.
“We will continue to assist Ukraine for as long as it takes, so that it can continue to protect itself and be in the most powerful position imaginable at the negotiating table when the time comes,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in delivering the new assistance.
The European Parliament’s online page was targeted Wednesday through a cyberattack claimed by pro-Russian hackers shortly after lawmakers approved a solution calling Moscow a “state sponsor of terrorism. “
“The European Parliament is a complicated cyberattack. A pro-Kremlin organization has claimed responsibility,” Parliament Speaker Roberta Metsola said on Twitter.
“Our IT experts oppose it and our systems. This, after we proclaimed Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. My answer: #SlavaUkraini (Glory to Ukraine). “
Spokesman Jaume Duch said the parliament’s online page had been subjected to a “DDOS attack” designed to force maximum levels of outside traffic on the site’s server, disrupting the network.
Another parliamentary source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the attack was “the most complicated in recent history” against the institution.
The parliament’s online page shut down shortly after European lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to recognize Russia as a “state sponsor of terrorism” following its attacks on Ukraine.
European Pirate Party MEP Mikulas Peksa said “there are reports that pro-Russian hacker Killnet claimed duty for the attack. “
“If these data are true, this is an attack on European democracy that will require additional action,” he said.
A Russian court on Wednesday extended the pre-trial detention of Ilya Yashin, one of the few opposition figures in the country as a crackdown on dissent intensifies.
He was arrested in June in a Moscow park and later charged with spreading false facts about the Russian military, a new fraud offense for which he faces up to 10 years of fraud if convicted.
The law opposes discrediting the army enacted after Russia sent troops to Ukraine in February.
Yashin’s fees are believed to be similar to a video streamed live on YouTube in which he talks about the Ukrainians killed in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha. It dismisses the accusations as politically motivated.
A new punitive bombardment of Russian moves on Ukrainian infrastructure on Wednesday led to outages in large parts of the country and neighboring Moldova, further shutting down Ukraine’s power grid and adding to civil unrest early in winter.
Several regions reported attacks in immediate succession and Ukraine’s Energy Ministry said the vast majority of electricity consumers were cut off. Authorities in Kyiv said another 3 people were killed and nine wounded in the capital after a Russian strike hit a two-story building.
Russia has been pounding the force network and services with explosive missiles and drones for weeks and the force formula is breaking faster than can be repaired.
The day after the attacks, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy tweeted that he had Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations to request an urgent meeting of the Security Council.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will face a pressing U. N. Security Council assembly on Wednesday over Russian strikes that triggered blackouts in neighboring Moldova, diplomats said.
Zelensky will speak at the emergency debate, requested through Kyiv and which begins at 16:00 (21:00 GMT) in New York, via video link, two diplomats told AFP.
The Ukrainian leader said in a tweet that he had his country’s ambassador to the world body, Sergiy Kyslytsya, to request the meeting.
“The killing of civilians, the destruction of civilian infrastructure are acts of terror. Ukraine continues to call for a resolute reaction of the network to these crimes,” Zelensky said.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said the most recent attacks in Ukraine turn out to be a terrorist state.
Commenting on the Nov. 23 attack, Zelensky said: “Today, the European Parliament Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.
“Finally, thank you to all the deputies. And then Russia proved to the world that this claim is true by launching 67 missiles at our infrastructure, our formula of power and our people. “
Following the most recent attacks on Ukraine’s force network, Ukraine’s force ministry said the “vast majority” had power outages and blackouts.
It occurs when all nuclear power plants and maximum thermal and hydroelectric power plants have been temporarily shut down.
In the statement, the ministry said: “But Russia will not intimidate Ukrainians. Ukrainians are not afraid of cold. Ukrainians are not afraid of the dark. Ukrainians are not afraid of terrorists. “
According to Kyiv Oblast Police Leader Andrii Nebytov, four other people were killed and 27 wounded as a result of the November 23 attacks.
Among the injured were six electrical workers.
The White House announced that the United States would send another $400 million worth of munitions and turbines to Ukraine.
The United States is seeking to provide aid to Kyiv as temporarily as possible as Russia continues to target Ukraine’s energy sources.
US President Joe Biden announced the new package in a memo.
National police leader Ihor Klymenko showed that Russia’s attack in Ukraine killed six other people and wounded 36 others.
He also added that the number of patients is expected to be higher.
According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia fired 70 missiles through Ukraine, 51 of which were shot down.
In today’s attack, civilians were killed and residential buildings were hit.
The Ukrainian Air Force expressed its deepest condolences to today’s victims.
President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, announced that 36 prisoners of war have been released from Russian captivity.
According to the Prisoner of War Coordination Headquarters, 20 defenders of Mariupol, totaling nine evacuees from the Azovstal metallurgical plant, were among those released in today’s prisoner exchange.
Andriy Yermak tweeted: “Thank you for the paintings of the Coordination Headquarters for the remedy of prisoners of war. We will bring everyone back. “
At least one user was killed by a Russian missile strike in Kyiv oblast, officials said.
Kyiv Oblast police chief Andriy Nebytov also showed that more than 20 other people were wounded in the attack that affected critical infrastructure and apartment buildings in the city of Vyshgorod, as well as houses in the city of Shabany.
Kyiv Oblast is separated from the city of Kyiv.
Today, the Swiss Embassy in Poland announced that Switzerland has delivered cleaning and firefighting equipment to Ukraine.
A third vehicle arrived in the country amid reports of Russian strikes today.
Kyiv Oblast police chief Andriy Nebytov shared a video showing the aftermath of today’s Russian missile attack.
As a result, a residential construction in Vyshgorod, a northern suburb of Kyiv, was affected.
More than 20 others were injured in the attack.
The Kyiv city army government has shown that the death toll from today’s strike in Kyiv has risen to three.
Kyiv Mayor Vitaly Klitschko also said nine other people were wounded as a result of the Russian attack.
The mayor of Kyiv reported that the source of running water has suspended the city after the Russian attacks.
Vitaly Klitschko showed the news in a post on Telegram.
Residents have been asked to “get their water supplies” while engineers work to repair the power.
After the reported movements in Ukraine, neighboring Moldova also reported that it was also facing “massive” force cuts, not directly affected.
Speaking to Twitter, Moldova’s Deputy Prime Minister Andrei Spuni wrote: “Massive blackout in Moldova after today’s Russian attack on electricity infrastructure.
“Moldelectrica, TSO is running to reconnect more than 50% of the country to electricity. “
The news comes after the entire city of Lviv in western Ukraine also reported staff cuts.
According to BBC reports, the entire city of Lviv in western Ukraine has become an electrified city after reports of strikes.
Due to the existing conditions, the mayor of Lviv, Andriy Sadovy, suggested to the citizens that they take refuge.
The head of the Greater Kyiv region said infrastructure and residential buildings were hit by the missiles.
Russia has recently stepped up attacks on Ukraine’s power grids after a series of war setbacks.
Earlier in the day, an air strike alert was issued in Ukraine when Russia introduced other bombings.
Once again, the Ministry of Defense shared a look at the battlefield in Ukraine.
Russian troops have been driven out of Kherson in weeks and the Kremlin has since moved much of its forces to Luhansk.
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The European Parliament called Russia a “state sponsor of terrorism and a state that uses the means of terrorism” in a symbolic statement Wednesday morning.
The resolution adopted because of “deliberate attacks and atrocities committed through Russian forces and their proxies against civilians in Ukraine, destruction of civilian infrastructure and other serious violations of foreign and humanitarian law amount to acts of terror and constitute war crimes. “
This comes hours after the announcement of a bomb attack that killed a newborn baby.
According to reports from The Independent, an airstrike alert was heard in Ukraine this morning, when Russia introduced other bombings.
The Kremlin has focused on destroying Ukraine’s critical infrastructure in recent weeks as Putin seeks to destroy the country’s ability to generate electricity before winter.
This morning, a Russian missile hit a maternity hospital and killed a 2-day-old baby.
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