Cover image: During a bombardment on the last front line of an assault regimental unit, a Ukrainian machine gunner fires at Russian army positions facing him in the Donetsk region of Donbass on November 27. Photo Laurent Van der Stockt for Le Monde LAURENT VAN DER STOCKT FOR “THE WORLD”
- Vladimir Putin promised on Thursday to continue strikes against Ukrainian energy infrastructurea response, according to him, to the attacks of kyiv, in particular in Crimea.
- A drone was shot down by the Russian fleet in Sevastopol, Crimea on Thursday, announced the local authorities, a sign of the risks that continue to weigh on the annexed peninsula. The Russian security services (FSB) revealed on Thursday the arrest of two inhabitants of Sevastopol suspected of having transmitted to Ukraine information on military targets.
- Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russian forces of intensively mining and trapping the territories they are giving up during their withdrawals, ensuring that “Mine terrorism will be among the charges against Russia”.
- With front lines that risk congealing with winter, Ukrainians are increasingly turning to drones to strike Russian bases in the rearfar from the front, while the Russians bomb Ukrainian energy infrastructure, even if it means plunging civilians into the cold.
- On the sidelines of the Ukrainian file, Moscow and Washington carried out a major prisoner exchange on Thursday at Abu Dhabi airport, United Arab Emirates. Russia has recovered the arms dealer Viktor Boutdetained for more than ten years in the United States, while American basketball player Brittney Grinerimprisoned for several months in Russia for cannabis trafficking, returns to the United States.
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