2023-11-27 13:37:36
► The Russians continue their assaults on Avdiïvka, according to kyiv
Ukraine said on Monday, November 27, that the Russians continued to attack Avdiivka, a town that has become one of the hottest spots on the front and where, according to pro-Kremlin bloggers, Moscow’s army succeeded. progress over the weekend.
“The enemy continues to carry out offensives around Avdiïvka”, a spokesperson for the Ukrainian army said on television, without saying whether these attacks had been repelled or not. The day before, the army had however assured that the Russian raids had ” failed “.
For more than a month, this almost surrounded industrial city has faced incessant attacks from Russian forces. Briefly falling into the hands of pro-Russian separatists armed by Moscow in 2014, it has since marked the front line in this area and symbolizes Ukrainian resistance.
The Rybar Telegram channel, close to the Russian army and widely followed, declared that Russian soldiers had seized a Saturday evening “industrial zone southwest of Avdiïvka”.
► Russia suffers “heavy losses”, according to NATO chief
Ukraine continues to inflict “heavy losses” to Russia after fighting among “the most intense” since the start of the war in February 2022, Atlantic Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday.
“The Ukrainians were able to inflict heavy losses on the Russian invaders, both in terms of soldiers and combat capabilities”declared the head of NATO during a press conference, adding that these military losses had taken place in recent weeks.
► Ukraine and Russia hit by a violent storm
Nearly 2 million people are without electricity in Russia, annexed Crimea and occupied parts of Ukraine due to severe weather described as “megastorm”the Russian Energy Ministry reported on Monday.
In Sevastopol, November 27 was declared a non-working day for some organizations due to bad weather. The exceptions were medical institutions and operational services:https://t.co/bciQyjleYp
Video: Alexey Malashenko/TASS pic.twitter.com/DFKnrzSKXp
— TASS (@tass_agency) November 26, 2023
The most affected regions are Crimea, a peninsula annexed in 2014, southern Russia and the partially occupied regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia and Kherson in Ukraine, the ministry said, cited by the Tass news agency.
► Ukraine is worried about its electricity network
More than 2,000 localities were plunged into darkness by the storm which swept across Ukraine, the country’s authorities said on Monday, whose electricity system is already under pressure from Russian bombing.
Bad weather has caused power outages in more than 2,000 towns and villages in 16 regions of Ukraine and has also blocked road traffic.
I am grateful to all rescuers, utility workers, the National Police, local authorities, and engineers working around the clock to help people. pic.twitter.com/5Md8dzk5sl
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Volodymyr Zelensky (@ZelenskyyUa) November 27, 2023
Ukraine fears a new campaign of massive Russian strikes targeting its essential infrastructure this winter, as in 2022 when these attacks plunged millions of people into cold and darkness.
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