2023-11-23 20:13:51
Did you miss the latest events on the war in Ukraine? 20 Minutes takes stock for you every evening at 7:30 p.m. Between the strong declarations, the advances on the front and the results of the battles, here are the main points of the day.
The fact of the day
The operator Ukrenergo reported a “difficult” situation on the Ukrainian electricity network, damaged last year by a Russian bombing campaign. “Today, electricity consumption continues to increase and the energy system is in deficit,” noted Ukrenergo on Telegram, indicating that he had to resort to “emergency assistance” on Wednesday from three neighboring countries: the Romania, Slovakia and Poland.
“The situation remains difficult” Thursday with still an electricity deficit, continued Ukrenergo, specifying that “repairs are underway in several blocks of thermal power plants”. This deficit is due to the fact that “consumption increased due to cold weather, which caused an additional load on power plants,” said the Ukrainian national operator.
Sentence of the day
This is a hysterical falsification unleashed by the Ukrainian special services and their Western manipulators. »
These are the words of Sergei Mironov, leader of a pro-Kremlin party, who denied having adopted a 2-year-old Ukrainian girl transferred to Russia, after press reports to this effect, accusing Kiev and the West of being behind this “informational attack”.
The number of the day
50. This is the number of officials deployed “from next week” to the Finnish border with Russia by the European coast and border guard agency Frontex. As a reminder, Finland, which is facing an increase in illegal entries into its territory via its eastern border, decided on Wednesday to close all of its border crossings except one, with its Russian neighbor.
Today’s trend
After the failure of the armored assaults, the Russian army now sent its men “in waves” to try to surround Avdiïvka, with massive losses. “All the fields are just littered with corpses. They (the Russians) are trying to exhaust our lines through constant waves of attacks” from fighters on foot, assured Oleksandr, deputy of a Ukrainian battalion of the 47th mechanized brigade.
At the beginning of October, Moscow forces launched a major offensive aimed at encircling and then conquering Avdiïvka. According to a Western official interviewed recently by AFP, the Russian army lost more than 200 armored vehicles in these attacks. And the Ukrainian general staff indicated this Thursday morning that in 24 hours, the defenders of the “Avdiïvka axis” had repelled “thirty attacks”. “Our artillery strikes, a little closer they are mortars, even closer other types of weapons”, such as small explosive drones or grenade launchers, or the very mobile American Bradley infantry fighting vehicles. and equipped with a 25 mm cannon, he adds.
“Some die, others continue to move forward. It’s like in zombie films,” continues the young man, adding that it looks “a lot like Bakhmout.” Remember that Bakhmout, located 50 km further north, was taken by the Russians in May after months of bloody fighting. Yevgeny Prigozhin, the late leader of the Wagner paramilitary group which was in charge of the offensive, called the city a “meat grinder”. In Avdiïvka it is therefore again, according to Ukrainian soldiers. The Russians “see many corpses (of comrades), but do not give up,” according to Oleksandr.
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