2023-11-29 13:06:30
► Russia claims the capture of a village near Bakhmut
Russia assured on Wednesday November 29 that it had captured a village near Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, an area ravaged by fighting where the Russian and Ukrainian armies have clashed for more than a year.
“Supported by aviation and artillery”Russian units “liberated the town of Artiomovskoye”in the Donetsk region, the defense ministry said in a statement, using the Russian name of the town of Khromove.
► Ukraine claims to have shot down 21 drones during nighttime attacks
The Ukrainian Air Force announced Wednesday that it had shot down 21 explosive drones and two missiles during nighttime air attacks launched by Russia across the country.
“In total, the strikes involved 21 Shahed-136/131 drones and three X-59 missiles”, she clarified on social networks, claiming to have shot down all the drones and two of the missiles. The third missile, which was not shot down, did not hit its target, she assured.
Ukrainian authorities accuse Russia of preparing a campaign of systematic strikes on the country’s energy infrastructure in the middle of winter, as it did last year.
On the Russian side, Moscow City Hall indicated that a Ukrainian drone had been shot down over the capital on Wednesday, indicating that no one had been injured and that the debris from the aircraft had caused no damage.
► kyiv “will not give in” and asks for support
L’Ukraine “will not give in”for itself and for the security of the entire Atlantic Alliance, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told NATO on Wednesday. “We must continue to fight, Ukraine will not give in”he told the press at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels before a meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Council.
Dmytro Kuleba also recalled that Ukraine was not asking for a commitment from the Americans or Europeans on the battlefield, but for their help to beat Russia. “Our deal is very simple, you give us what we need, and we get on with the fight. We are not asking you to sacrifice your lives”he further affirmed.
► kyiv asks NATO to continue its support
The Russian Interior Ministry is working on an obligation for foreigners traveling to Russia to sign a “loyalty agreement” prohibiting them from criticizing Kremlin policy, in the midst of repression of dissident voices since the offensive in Ukraine.
According to a document consulted by the public press agency TASS, a foreign citizen signing this agreement will not have the right during his stay to “discredit, in any form, Russia’s foreign and internal policy”.
Foreigners signing this document will also be prohibited from disseminating information making “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations” or aiming “to distort the historical truth about the exploit of the Soviet people” In “his contribution to the victory over fascism” during the Second World War.
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