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The Israeli army has reportedly hired foreign mercenaries, including a notorious Spanish group, to use in its brutal war on the besieged Gaza Strip.
El Mundo, a major Spanish newspaper, interviewed Pedro Diaz Flores, a notorious Spanish mercenary, who said “many” mercenary groups have joined Israel’s army that pays them “very well.”
“So I came for economy, for money. They pay very well, they offer good equipment and the work is calm. It is 3,900 euros [$4,187] per week, complementary missions aside,” he said of his motives for joining the Israeli forces.
Pedro Diaz Flores previously fought alongside neo-Nazis in Ukraine after Russia began a special military operation in the country’s Donbas region last year.
“We only provide security support to arms convoys or the troops of the Israeli armed forces that are in the Gaza Strip. We do not fight Hamas directly, nor are we involved in assault operations,” he claimed.
“We are in charge of the security of the checkpoints and access control on the borders of Gaza and Jordan. There are many PMCs (private military companies) here and they share the work. Traditionally they have guarded border terminals between Eliat and Aqaba,” he added.
That came as speculations arose last month that mercenaries stationed in Ukraine had begun to join the Israeli military, as the focus of the West has also shifted from Ukraine to Israel.
“It’s clear that the war in the Middle East is taking away the focus” from Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday.
Israel waged the war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas carried out the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime’s decades-long crimes against Palestinians.
Tel Aviv has also blocked water, food, and electricity to Gaza, plunging the coastal strip into a humanitarian crisis.
According to the Gaza-based health ministry, at least 10,022 Palestinians have been killed in the strikes, 70 percent of whom are women and children.
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TThe meeting takes place in a warehouse in Kiev where medicines, emergency kits and other products are collected for Ukrainian soldiers fighting at the front. Taras, a 45-year-old volunteer who casts here all the free time his job leaves him, asks not to reveal the location so as not to give clues to the enemy. “Of course we are tired after almost two years of large-scale invasion,” he admits at one point in the conversation. “Many people ask me about war fatigue. And yes, of course there is. But in addition to fatigue, we are furious with the Russians and very proud of our resilience. To those who doubt, I ask only one thing: to step aside, not to stand in the way of our victory,” he concludes solemnly.
These words sum up quite well the mood of the dozen interviewees from the political, military and cultural world throughout this week, on a trip organized by the cultural NGO PEN Ukraine in the provinces of Kiev and Chernihiv attended by this newspaper. The certainty about the final victory – so common in the discourse of many Ukrainians since last February 24, 2022, when Russia launched all its fury against the southwestern neighbor – begins to show certain nuances in view of the problems detected on the horizon.
Taras, a volunteer with an NGO supplying medical supplies to the Ukrainian army, last Monday in Kiev.Luis Doncel
The much-heralded counteroffensive has not borne the expected fruits and the arrival of winter – palpable already this week in Kiev, where the first snows have begun – anticipates a stalemate on the front. No major changes are expected at least until after the summer of 2024, according to Ukrainian and U.S. military analysts. The capital suffered the heaviest Shahed drone bombing of the entire war on Saturday, a move authorities interpret as the signal of a new Russian bombing campaign to disrupt essential energy services during the winter. But almost worse is the news coming from abroad.
The Gaza war has robbed Ukraine of the attention of governments and world public opinion. After 21 months of war – on a large scale, a tagline that the Ukrainians add automatically, as if they had a spring in their step, to remind that the Kremlin’s aggression did not begin last year, but in 2014, with the illegal annexation of Crimea – the risk of exhaustion in Western capitals is palpable. According to Bild newspaper on Friday, the United States and Germany want to force Ukrainian leader Volodymir Zelensky into negotiations with the Russians as soon as possible. To this end, they plan to supply only the weaponry strictly necessary to keep Ukrainian defenses from collapsing, according to the German tabloid.
TThe meeting takes place in a warehouse in Kiev where medicines, emergency kits and other products are collected for Ukrainian soldiers fighting at the front. Taras, a 45-year-old volunteer who casts here all the free time his job leaves him, asks not to reveal the location so as not to give clues to the enemy. “Of course we are tired after almost two years of large-scale invasion,” he admits at one point in the conversation. “Many people ask me about war fatigue. And yes, of course there is. But in addition to fatigue, we are furious with the Russians and very proud of our resilience. To those who doubt, I ask only one thing: to step aside, not to stand in the way of our victory,” he concludes solemnly.
These words sum up quite well the mood of the dozen interviewees from the political, military and cultural world throughout this week, on a trip organized by the cultural NGO PEN Ukraine in the provinces of Kiev and Chernihiv attended by this newspaper. The certainty about the final victory – so common in the discourse of many Ukrainians since last February 24, 2022, when Russia launched all its fury against the southwestern neighbor – begins to show certain nuances in view of the problems detected on the horizon.
Taras, a volunteer with an NGO supplying medical supplies to the Ukrainian army, last Monday in Kiev.Luis Doncel
The much-heralded counteroffensive has not borne the expected fruits and the arrival of winter – palpable already this week in Kiev, where the first snows have begun – anticipates a stalemate on the front. No major changes are expected at least until after the summer of 2024, according to Ukrainian and U.S. military analysts. The capital suffered the heaviest Shahed drone bombing of the entire war on Saturday, a move authorities interpret as the signal of a new Russian bombing campaign to disrupt essential energy services during the winter. But almost worse is the news coming from abroad.
The Gaza war has robbed Ukraine of the attention of governments and world public opinion. After 21 months of war – on a large scale, a tagline that the Ukrainians add automatically, as if they had a spring in their step, to remind that the Kremlin’s aggression did not begin last year, but in 2014, with the illegal annexation of Crimea – the risk of exhaustion in Western capitals is palpable. According to Bild newspaper on Friday, the United States and Germany want to force Ukrainian leader Volodymir Zelensky into negotiations with the Russians as soon as possible. To this end, they plan to supply only the weaponry strictly necessary to keep Ukrainian defenses from collapsing, according to the German tabloid.
The US, the major military and economic supporter of Ukraine in these two years, now appears to be one of the weakest links in the chain. The aid packages to Kiev face increasing difficulties in getting through Congress. But even more dangerous is the sinking popularity of President Joe Biden. The Republicans, who make no secret of their willingness to cut off the billion-dollar transfers to Ukraine, have enough ballots to return to the White House after next November’s elections. Now, Zelenski’s worst nightmare is not Vladimir Putin, but Donald Trump.
In the face of all this, in Ukraine they say that the support of the West for their cause is firm, as demonstrated this week by the visits of the US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, and the President of the European Council, Charles Michel. And they vehemently deny that the time is approaching to face the harsh reality that it will be impossible to regain full control of their borders.
“When the time comes to negotiate a way out of this war, only Ukraine will be able to decide what peace it is willing to accept. I don’t think that neither the EU nor the US are thinking of forcing Zelenski to sign an agreement with painful concessions, peace for territories,” assures a European diplomatic source.
That possibility may not be on the table. But certain nuances are beginning to emerge in some conversations. Complete defeat of Russia is no longer the only option on the table for some in the military. “There is no one way to victory. The main thing is to save our culture and a significant part of our territory,” says Petro Yatsenko, a former writer and now a soldier, in a Tatar restaurant. He prefers not to put it that way, but when he speaks of saving “a significant part” of the territory, he opens the door to the possibility that it may not be its entirety.
Yatsenko is dealing with relations with Russian prisoners of war and the exchange between captives from one country and the other, programs that have been paralyzed since August. The writer and soldier warns of the terrible consequences of a Putin victory: “Europeans may be starting to forget us, but I would remind them that this fight matters because we are the gateway to Europe. If the Russians win here, the threat will continue to grow across the continent.”
Mikhail Savva, an expert who collects evidence on possible war crimes committed by Putin, assures that the allies are not going to forget Ukraine because this is a conflict “unprecedented” since World War II. “I cannot guess the future, but I do not rule out that we will have to make painful concessions. If this happens, it will not be because our allies forget us, but because their help will not have been enough,” he concludes.
This week marked 10 years since the start of the pro-European protests that changed Ukraine’s history. The Maidan marches began with a simple Facebook post. “Come on, guys. Don’t just put a ‘like’. Say you are ready and let’s try to do something,” wrote journalist Mustafa Nayyem on November 21, 2013. This message now hangs framed on a wall of the restaurant The Last Barricade, located in a basement a few meters from the square in the capital where, months after that post was published, more than a hundred people were killed by the security forces of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych.
Tamila Tasheva, representative of the Ukrainian president in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, on Tuesday, at her office in Kiev.
These events led to Yanukovych’s flight in February 2014 and, a few days later, to the Russian annexation of Crimea. Tamila Tasheva is Zelenski’s representative in that Black Sea peninsula. This Tatar woman left Crimea when the Kremlin troops entered. Since then she has not seen her parents again. This is not the first time that Tatars have been exiled. Stalin already expelled more than 191,000 members of this Muslim community from the region – among others, his parents and grandparents – in 1944. And now the curse is being repeated.
“The international community was unable in 2014 to prevent the Russians from taking our territory,” he says in the building in the center of Kiev from which he tries to imagine what a future Crimea in Ukrainian hands will look like. At that time – which no one knows when it will come, if ever – she assures, the 800,000 Russian citizens who in the last decade have entered the peninsula, which in 2014 had 2.3 million inhabitants, would have to be expelled. Tasheva sees this repopulation as a Russian “neo-colonial” initiative, aimed at uprooting Tatar and Ukrainian traces from the territory. “We understand that there will be complicated cases, such as marriages between members of the two communities,” she explains. Language would be another conflicting element in a future liberated Crimea, where the dominance of Russian is absolute. “We would have to gradually introduce Ukrainian and Tatar,” he adds.
Tasheva has no doubts. She is convinced that Zelensky will never accept a peace agreement that involves giving up even an inch of territory: “We are talking not only about land, but about people. We Crimean Tatars can only survive in Ukraine. Russia is destroying our cultural heritage.
The Gaza war has not only shifted the focus away from Ukraine. It has also slowed the pace of arms deliveries, as Zelenski himself has acknowledged. The Ukrainian leader – of Jewish origin – has shown unwavering support for Israel. The death of nearly 15,000 Palestinians threatens to alienate part of world public opinion. They are those who criticize the double standards of the West, which qualifies Russian attacks on the Ukrainian population as war crimes, but does not do the same when they come from Israel. A source in a cultural institution in Kiev admits that Biden did not do his country a favor by equating the Israeli and Ukrainian causes.
“This war will not be won with tanks alone. The Russian imperial project is impossible with a culturally powerful Ukraine. Victory will never be complete if it is not accompanied by a cultural victory,” says Volodymir Sheiko, director of the Ukrainian Institute.
Yuri Matsarskii and Max Kolesnikov, Ukrainian veterans of the war against Russia, on Thursday in Kiev.
Yuri Matsarskii, a former journalist and now a soldier in the reserve, also notices how the passage of time and the emergence of new conflicts fuels disinterest in Ukraine. “I used to receive constant messages from journalist friends from other countries asking me about the situation. Now, they are becoming rarer and rarer. For them, war has become normal,” confesses the 43-year-old, who replaced the radio microphones with a rifle. “Yes, the counteroffensive is proving more difficult than expected. But it was others who were relying on a lightning operation. We, the military, always knew that the advance was not going to be so fast,” he says.
At his side, Max Kolesnikov, 46, recalls the horrors of 10 months of captivity in a prison in the Russian province of Bryansk. After three weeks defending Kiev, his commander surrendered to the overwhelming superiority of the invaders. That day in March last year began an ordeal of beatings, starvation and humiliation. He lost 35 kilos. Some friends recognized his tattoo on his neck in some images of prisoners shown on television. That’s how his family found out he was alive. After months, his jailers let him send home a message of only four words. He wrote: “Alive”, “healthy” and “all well”. In prison, they memorized the phone numbers of fellow prisoners so they could contact the family if they were released.
He was released last February thanks to a prisoner exchange. He is now waiting for a court to assess whether he can return to war after the knee operation he underwent in May for muscle atrophy caused by beatings by prison guards.
Ivan Polhui on Wednesday in Yahidne, northern Ukraine. Polhui was a victim of the Russian occupation of his village in March 2022, which forced its more than 300 inhabitants to spend a month locked in a cellar.Artem Galkin (https://www.facebook.com/artem.g)
The wounds of Ivan Polhui, 63, are not physical, but they are no less obvious. This man spent a month locked in the basement of a kindergarten with the more than 300 inhabitants of Yahidne, a village near Chernihiv in northern Ukraine. They were all terrified of what was happening above their heads in those days of the Russian occupation in March 2022. More than a year later, a visit to the basement is awe-inspiring. In each room you can read the number of people who slept there, crammed together: 28 adults and five children for a room of 10 square meters. The youngest was a one-and-a-half-month-old baby; the oldest, a 93-year-old man. In another room are written the names of the ten people who died during that month of torture.
Polhui says that before the war he had good relations with the Russians, that many came to his village, a hundred kilometers from the border, to buy strawberries. But now he is convinced that the Russians are not like them. He says they came with envy, that they were furious because they saw that in Ukraine they lived better. And now, how does he hope all this will end? “The only thing I wish is that we can return to normal life. And that the Russians will rot in hell.”
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Ukrainian troops have dug in along the eastern front as Russian forces made minor gains in their attempts to take a key city along that line.
Under the Russian army chief Valery Gerasimov, a general known for his appetite for heavy, vehicle-driven assaults, Russian forces have been attempting to double-envelope the city of Avdiivka in Donetsk Oblast.
Footage posted by Ukrainian drone pilots two days ago confirmed that Russian troops had made advances seven kilometres northwest of Avdiivka.
But to the immediate west of Avdiivka, more footage showed at least 20 Russian armoured vehicles piled up after being struck by Ukrainian counter battery fire.
The Russian assault on the eastern Ukrainian city has been costly for the attacking forces.
Ukrainian General Valery Zaluzhny said last week that they believed Russia had lost over 100 tanks and 250 armoured vehicles in the past six weeks through their Avdiivka assault alone.
Ukraine targets Moscow in major drone assault
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12:00 , Tom Watling
Russian troops have made confirmed gains around a key Ukrainian city in the east, geolocated footage has shown.
Footage provided by Ukrainian first-person-view drone pilots showed Russian troops had advanced around seven kilometres northwest of Avdiivka.
16:45 , Maira Butt
The world’s attention must “stay on Ukraine” as the Russian invasion continues, a former Nato secretary-general has warned.
Lord George Robertson said Russian president Vladimir Putin would be emboldened to extend the attacks beyond Ukraine if foreign governments stop providing weaponry.
“We have got to keep the world’s attention focused on Ukraine because they are involved in a fight with Russia that has got huge implications for all of us as well.”
He added: “We cannot allow the Ukraine conflict to go down the attention span. That suits Vladimir Putin and nobody else.”
15:45 , Tom Watling
In audio intercepts from the front lines in Ukraine, Russian soldiers speak in shorthand of 200s to mean dead, 300s to mean wounded. The urge to flee has become common enough that they also talk of 500s — people who refuse to fight.
As the war grinds into its second winter, a growing number of Russian soldiers want out, as suggested in secret recordings obtained by The Associated Press of Russian soldiers calling home from the battlefields of the Kharkiv, Luhansk and Donetsk regions in Ukraine.
The calls offer a rare glimpse of the war as it looked through Russian eyes — a point of view that seldom makes its way into Western media, largely because Russia has made it a crime to speak honestly about the conflict in Ukraine. They also show clearly how the war has progressed, from the professional soldiers who initially powered Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion to men from all walks of life compelled to serve in grueling conditions.
Dead, wounded or AWOL: The voices of desperate Russian soldiers trying to get out of the Ukraine war
15:00 , Tom Watling
Heavy snowfall has started to fall in southern Ukraine, with other areas set to be affected across the country.
Oleg Kiper, head of the Odessa Regional State Administration, posted footage of the situation in the southern region to Telegram this morning. A video posted below shows the extreme conditions.
He wrote: “In view of the bad weather, I am asking you: please do not go out on the roads. Wait out adverse weather conditions at home.
“Currently, the roads are slippery, there are snowdrifts, impassable places, traffic jams, and road accidents.”
Oleksiy Kuleba, deputy head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, said they “expect snow, freezing rain and strong wind in most regions” in Ukraine from this evening.
While these conditions will prove difficult for civilians across the country, they will be especially felt by soldiers along the 600-mile frontline.
14:15 , Tom Watling
Slovakia’s new prime minister, Robert Fico, said on Friday he considers the war between Ukraine and Russia a frozen conflict that cannot be solved by sending arms to the Ukrainian armed forces.
Fico ended his country’s military aid for Ukraine after his new government was sworn in on Oct. 25.
After meeting his Czech counterpart, Petr Fiala, in Prague on Friday, he said he would prefer the Russian and Ukrainian sides sit at a negotiation table. He didn’t say how to achieve that.
Slovak leader calls the war between Russia and Ukraine a frozen conflict
13:30 , Tom Watling
Russia has “likely moved” air defence systems from the exclave of Kaliningrad to “backfill recent losses” on the mainland and in occupied Ukraine, the British Ministry of Defence has said.
— Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 (@DefenceHQ) November 26, 2023
12:30 , Tom Watling
Russia has put Meta Platforms’ spokesperson Andy Stone on a wanted list on unspecified charges, state-run TASS news agency reported on Sunday.
TASS said the Russian Interior Ministry had opened a criminal investigation against Stone but that the ministry had not disclosed the details of the investigation or charges.
Meta’s main social platforms – Facebook and Instagram – were both banned in Russia shortly after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February last year.
In March 2022 the Russian investigative committee said it has opened criminal investigation against the “illegal actions of Meta’s employees” and mentioned Stone, saying he had “lifted a ban on calls for violence against the Russian military on its platforms” and was thus inciting extremist activity.
Meta’s press office did not immediately respond to a Reuters request seeking comment from Stone and Meta out of normal business hours.
10:56 , Tom Watling
Vladimir Putin has reportedly pardoned two Russian men convicted of cannibalism after they deployed to the frontline in the war with Ukraine.
One of the men, Denis Gorin, was recruited into a private military company after signing a contract with the Russian ministry of defence but is known to have been convicted thrice for murdering at least four people between 2003 and 2022.
He was also convicted of eating the remains of his victims along with his brother, reported Sibir Realii, a news outlet aligned with Radio Free Europe.
Putin pardons two cannibals who joined Russia’s war in Ukraine – report
10:24 , Tom Watling
Ukraine has held a meeting with NATO officials to discuss “adopting standards” of the alliance and strengthen the Ukrainian army.
Ukrainian defence minister Rustem Umerov met with president of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly Michał Szczerba.
09:50 , Tom Watling
Secretly recorded calls of Russian soldiers speaking from the front lines in Ukraine with loved ones back home offer a rare glimpse of the war through Russian eyes.
As the war in Ukraine grinds into its second winter, a growing number of Russian soldiers want out, audio intercepts obtained and verified by The Associated Press indicate. Russian soldiers speak in shorthand of 200s to mean dead, 300s to mean wounded. The urge to flee has become common enough that they also talk of 500s — people who refuse to fight.
These conversations also show clearly how the war has progressed, from the professional soldiers who initially powered Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion to men from all walks of life compelled to serve in grueling conditions.
‘You’ll die in this pit’: Takeaways from secret recordings of Russian soldiers in Ukraine
09:22 , Tom Watling
One person was injured in Tula when an intercepted drone hit an apartment building, the region’s governor, Alexei Dyumin, has said.
08:48 , Tom Watling
Below are some more details about the Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia mainland overnight.
Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin said there had been an “attempted mass drone attack”. He said multiple regions on the outskirts of the Russian capital had been affected, mainly to the southwest of Moscow.
The Russian Ministry of Defence later claimed this morning that they had “destroyed four Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the territory of the Bryansk, Smolensk and Tula regions”.
Smolensk is by the Belarusian border north of Ukraine. Bryansk is 150 miles south, towards Ukraine. Tula is 111 miles directly south of Moscow.
The governor of the Moscow Region, Andrey Vorobyov, said the Podolsk district on the southern outskirts of Moscow and the Ramensky region to the southeast were also targeted. He claimed they were five drones downed.
He said: “In 3 cases there was damage to buildings on the ground; fortunately, there were no deaths or injuries.”
Multiple areas to the southwest of Moscow, including the Naro-Fominsk and Odintsovo urban districts, were affected, according to Mr Sobyanin.
08:15 , Tom Watling
The Ukrainian military destroyed eight of nine attack drones launched overnight by Russia, the air force said on Sunday.
There were no immediate reports of damage or about where the remaining drone had struck.
The attack, which the air force said was launched from the southeast, came a day after what Ukrainian officials said had been Russia’s largest drone attack of the war.
Ukraine has warned in recent weeks that Russia will target critical infrastructure in a winter aerial campaign, as it did last year.
08:00 , Anuj Pant
The world’s attention must “stay on Ukraine” as the Russian invasion continues, a former Nato secretary-general has warned.
Lord George Robertson said Russian president Vladimir Putin would be emboldened to extend the attacks beyond Ukraine if foreign governments stop providing weaponry.
It comes amid a four-day pause in the Israel-Hamas conflict, with the situation in the Middle East dominating much of the news agenda.
Read more below.
World’s attention must ‘stay on Ukraine’, warns ex-Nato chief
07:45 , Tom Watling
Footage has shown the moment Ukrainian drones struck across western Russia, including in the capital of Moscow.
Drones hit the Kaluga and Tula region around the capital as well as nearby Bryansk.
It comes 24 hours after Russia launched its largest drone assault on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in months, firing 75 Iranian-made kamikaze UAVs at the city.
The damage of those attacks was kept to a minimum – 74 out of 75 Shahed drones were shot down – but at least five people were nonetheless hospitalised.
👹 In Russia, they announced a mass attack by drones. Tula explodes. Kaluga explodes. Bryansk explodes. Moscow explodes. Airports were closed pic.twitter.com/DD8T6iVUUy
— 🇺🇦War in Ukraine🇺🇦 (@Rinegati) November 26, 2023
07:00 , Matt Mathers
Ukraine launched one of the biggest drone attacks on the Moscow-annexed Crimean Peninsula since the full-scale war that started with Russia’s invasion 21 months ago, Russian officials said Friday.
At the same time, Ukrainian officials reported that the Kremlin’s forces escalated their weekslong and costly attempt to storm Avdiivka, a strategically important city in eastern Ukraine.
Full report:
Ukraine aims a major drone attack at Crimea
06:12 , Anuj Pant
Ukrainian drones targeted four Russian regions, the country’s defence ministry said on Sunday.
It comes after Ukraine capital Kyiv faced Vladimir Putin’s biggest drone attack in the early hours of Saturday.
The drones targeted four regions: Moscow, Tula, Kaluga and Bryansk. At least 20 drones were intercepted in the Russian capital, said Moscow’s officials.
One person was left injured in Tula after an intercepted drone hit an apartment building, said the region’s governor Alexei Dyumin.
Flights were delayed or cancelled at Moscow’s main airports due to the attacks, reported the Kommersant newspaper.
One person was injured in Tula when an intercepted drone hit an apartment building, the region’s governor Alexei Dyumin said.
06:00 , Matt Mathers
The shelves at Moscow supermarkets are full of fruit and vegetables, cheese and meat. But many of the shoppers look at the selection with dismay as inflation makes their wallets feel empty.
Russia’s Central Bank has raised its key lending rate four times this year to try to get inflation under control and stabilize the ruble’s exchange rate as the economy weathers the effects of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine and the Western sanctions imposed as a consequence.
Full report:
Russian consumers feel themselves in a tight spot as high inflation persists
05:00 , Matt Mathers
Vladimir Putin has reportedly pardoned two Russian men convicted of cannibalism after they deployed to the frontline in the war with Ukraine.
One of the men, Denis Gorin, was recruited into a private military company after signing a contract with the Russian ministry of defence but is known to have been convicted thrice for murdering at least four people between 2003 and 2022.
He was also convicted of eating the remains of his victims along with his brother, reported Sibir Realii, a news outlet aligned with Radio Free Europe.
Arpan Rai reports:
Putin pardons two cannibals who joined Russia’s war in Ukraine – report
04:00 , Sam Rkaina
Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced a plan to endorse a national strategy for the development of artificial intelligence, claiming it’s essential to prevent a western ‘monopoly’.
Speaking at an AI conference in Moscow on Friday, Putin noted that “it’s imperative to use Russian solutions in the field of creating reliable and transparent artificial intelligence systems that are also safe for humans.”
“Monopolistic dominance of such foreign technology in Russia is unacceptable, dangerous and inadmissible,” Putin said.
He noted that “many modern systems, trained on western data are intended for the western market” and “reflect that part of western ethics, norms of behavior, public policy to which we object.”
During his more than two decades in power, Putin has overseen a multi-pronged crackdown on the opposition and civil society groups, and promoted “traditional values” to counter purported western influence — policies that have become even more oppressive after he sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022.
03:00 , Sam Rkaina
A Ukrainian soldier posthumously awarded a medal after a widely shared video showed him declaring “Glory to Ukraine“ before apparently being shot dead, has been commemorated with a statue in his hometown.
The video shared in March showed a man the military later named as Oleksandr Matsievskiy, a sniper with a unit from the region of Chernihiv, saying “Slava Ukraini,” a phrase more than a century old that has become a popular expression of resistance to Russia’s February 2022 invasion.
Standing smoking a cigarette in a wooded area, carrying no visible weaponry, Matsievskiy is then seen slumping to the ground, apparently struck repeatedly by unseen shooters.
Kyiv blamed “brutal and brazen” Russians for his death, as did his mother Paraska Demchuk, 68.
“He would have taken all of them with him if he had a grenade,” she said, as she proudly showed the medal President Volodymyr Zelenskiy bestowed on her son representing the “Hero of Ukraine“ honour.
“He would say to me, ‘Mum, I will never let them capture me’,” she said through tears. “He wouldn’t just bandy words about. It was on the inside, it was like a core inside him,” she said.
Kyiv has opened a criminal investigation into the death of Matsievskiy, who was quickly talked of as a hero on social media, where many supporters posted the words “Heroyam Slava,” or “Glory to the Heroes,” the traditional response to Slava Ukraini.
A new mural has appeared in Kyiv by French artist Christian Guemi honouring Oleksandr Matsievskiy, the Ukrainian soldier who defiantly declared “Glory to Ukraine” before being gunned down by Russian troops while unarmed and captive pic.twitter.com/yX4WV3ElEF
— Business Ukraine mag (@Biz_Ukraine_Mag) April 29, 2023
02:00 , Matt Mathers
The attack on Kyiv was carried out on the morning of Holodomor Memorial Day, which commemorates the manmade famine in Soviet Ukraine that killed millions of Ukrainians from 1932 to 1933. It is marked on the fourth Saturday in November.
Speaking at the Grain from Ukraine summit on Saturday, which saw leaders and parliamentary representatives from Belgium, Ireland, Finland, the Czech Republic, Poland and Estonia meet with Zelenskyy in Kyiv to discuss global food security, the Ukrainian president warned that “if (Russian President Vladimir) Putin could arrange another Holodomor for Ukraine, he would do it.
Besides Kyiv, the Sumy, Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv and Kirovohrad regions were also targeted.
Meanwhile, shelling killed one person and wounded three in the southern Kherson region, regional Gov. Oleksandr Prokudin said Saturday. According to Prokudin, the region had been shelled 100 times over the previous 24 hours.
01:00 , Matt Mathers
At least five civilians were wounded in the hourslong assault on Kyiv, which saw several buildings damaged by falling debris from downed drones, including a kindergarten.
The wounded included an 11-year-old child, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko. In the city’s Solomiansky district, debris left a crater in the courtyard of a residential area, and the windows of a nearby building were blown out.
Residents, most of them elderly, received medical attention at the scene. Others took shelter in a nearby subway station.
As people were clearing up debris and broken glass in the neighborhood, the hum of a fresh wave of drones could be heard nearby.
The assault on Kyiv began at 4 a.m. local time, continuing in waves for more than six hours, and caused power outages in 77 residential buildings and 120 institutions, according to Popko.
Ukraine‘s Energy Ministry said 17,000 people were without power in the Kyiv region as a result of the attack, noting that four power lines were damaged. Power was restored in the early afternoon.
“Our soldiers shot down most of the drones. Unfortunately, not all,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Telegram. “But we continue to work to strengthen our air defense and shoot down more.”
00:01 , Sam Rkaina
Russia on Saturday morning launched its most intense drone attack on Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion in 2022, targeting the Ukrainian capital, military officials said.
In total, Russia launched 75 Iranian-made Shahed drones against Ukraine, of which 74 were destroyed by air defenses, Ukraine‘s air force said.
“Kyiv was the main target,” Ukrainian Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk wrote on his Telegram channel.
The attack was “the most massive air attack by drones on Kyiv,” said Serhii Popko, head of the Kyiv city administration.
Ukrainian air force spokesman Yurii Ihnat confirmed later that the air defenses shot down 66 air targets over the capital and surrounding region throughout the morning.
Saturday 25 November 2023 23:00 , Sam Rkaina
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pledged support in a letter to Zelensky that she shared on X, saying the Commission would make available 50 million euros for “quick repairs and upgrades of infrastructure in Ukraine‘s ports.”
The Ukrainian president said Kyiv hoped to solve its air defence shortage through new supplies from partners and increasing its own production capacity, something on which he said there had been progress.
“As of today, I can’t say details what we are making and where, but there is progress,” he said.
Despite the war, Ukraine keeps feeding the world.In this effort, you can count on the EU.We continue enhancing our Solidarity Lanes and will provide €50 million to repair your port infrastructure.
Together we ship Ukrainian grain to the world.@ZelenskyyUa pic.twitter.com/2kEELoEKKD
— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) November 25, 2023
Saturday 25 November 2023 22:10 , Sam Rkaina
Ukraine, a major exporter of grain, has been exporting grain via unilateral corridors through the Black sea, after Russia withdrew in July from a UN-brokered deal to allow grain ships through its blockade.
Ukraine‘s current Black sea grain export corridors all start from ports in Ukraine‘s southern region of Odesa.
“There are certain air defence systems… we are asking for them,” Zelensky said. “We’ve already got an answer when those systems will start to guard that region. Because there, both the corridor and the people are important.”
Asked about the protests by Polish and Slovak truckers which have blocked much of Ukraine‘s road-based cargo supply in recent days, Zelensky blamed the problem on the internal politics of those countries.
“I believe that there are difficulties on the border first and foremost because of certain political steps by our neighbours,” he told a press conference after the summit.
Zelensky said he was confident the issue would be solved if Ukraine‘s neighbours were given “a bit of time” to deal with the dispute.
Saturday 25 November 2023 21:30 , Sam Rkaina
Ukraine needs more air defences to protect its grain export routes as well as regions bordering Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday, as he addressed an international summit on food security in Kyiv.
“There is a deficit of air defence – that is no secret,” Zelensky told the Grain from Ukraine summit, which was attended by senior officials from European countries, including Swiss President Alain Berset and Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte.
The president was speaking after Russia attacked Ukraine with 75 drones overnight, the biggest drone assault of the war. The joint press conference of the three leaders was cut short by another air raid siren.
Zelensky said Ukraine would be supplied by its foreign partners with vessels to accompany convoys of cargo ships from Ukraine‘s ports to guarantee their security.
“I have agreements with several countries about powerful accompaniment of convoys by Ukrainians, but using (foreign) equipment,” he said.
Saturday 25 November 2023 20:40 , Matt Mathers
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday announced a plan to endorse a national strategy for the development of artificial intelligence, emphasizing that it’s essential to prevent a Western monopoly.
Speaking at an AI conference in Moscow, Putin noted that “it’s imperative to use Russian solutions in the field of creating reliable and transparent artificial intelligence systems that are also safe for humans.”
Full report:
Putin to boost AI work in Russia to fight a Western monopoly he says is ‘unacceptable and dangerous’
Saturday 25 November 2023 20:00 , Matt Mathers
Russia has launched its most intense drone attack on Ukraine since its full-scale invasion in 2022, targeting Kyiv.
Moscow launched around 75 Iranian-made Shahed drones against Ukraine, of which 71 were destroyed by air defense, Ukraine’s armed forces said.
Full report:
Kyiv hit by biggest Russian drone attack since war began
Saturday 25 November 2023 19:04 , Matt Mathers
Swiss President Alain Berset pledged his long-term support for Ukraine on Saturday in a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart in Kyiv, where he also attended an international summit on food security, the Swiss government said.
Ukraine is hosting an international summit to promote its efforts to export grain despite an ongoing Russian blockade of the Black Sea, its main export route.
“In talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, President Berset stressed that Switzerland stands in solidarity with Ukraine for the long haul, even in times of multiple concurrent crises,” the Swiss government said. Zelenskiy said on X that mine clearing, peace proposals and the use of profits from frozen Russian assets were also discussed.
Switzerland has previously said it has frozen some 7.5 billion Swiss francs ($8.5 billion) in Russian assets.
Saturday 25 November 2023 18:16 , Matt Mathers
US secretary of state Antony Blinken will attend a meeting of NATO foreign ministers next week to highlight the alliance’s commitment to Ukraine in its war against Russia, the State Department said on Saturday.
NATO is actively supporting Ukraine and Kyiv hopes one day to join the military bloc. NATO itself is not at war with Russia, a situation that Western leaders say they want to avoid given Moscow’s vast nuclear arsenal.
In a statement, the State Department also said Blinken would emphasize US support for democracy and regional stability in the western Balkans. NATO is examining a more permanent ramp up of troop numbers in the region to keep tensions under control.
The meeting will take place from Nov 27-29 in Brussels.
Saturday 25 November 2023 17:00 , Matt Mathers
Ukraine needs more air defences to protect its grain export routes as well regions bordering Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday, as he addressed an international summit on food security in Kyiv.
“There is a deficit of air defence – that is no secret,” Zelensky told the Grain from Ukraine summit, which was attended by senior officials from European countries, including Swiss President Alain Berset and Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte.
Zelensky was speaking after Russia attacked Ukraine with 75 drones overnight, the biggest drone assault of the war. The joint press conference of the three leaders was cut short by another air raid siren.
He said Ukraine would be supplied by its foreign partners with vessels to accompany convoys of cargo ships from Ukraine’s ports to guarantee their security.
“I have agreements with several countries about powerful accompaniment of convoys by Ukrainians, but using (foreign) equipment,” he said.
The Ukrainian president also said Kyiv hoped to solve its air defence shortage through new supplies from partners and increasing its own production capacity, something on which he said there had been progress.
“As of today, I can’t say details what we are making and where, but there is progress,” he said.
Saturday 25 November 2023 16:15 , Tom Watling
Kyiv nursery destroyed by Russian drone strike
Saturday 25 November 2023 15:45 , Tom Watling
Footage has been released showing multiple air defences at work in Kyiv last night as Russia launched its largest attack on the city in months.
You can see the footage below.
Saturday 25 November 2023 14:54 , Tom Watling
Israel and Ukraine, two countries currently fighting wars, could face each other for a spot at next year’s European Championship.
The two national teams were put on the same qualifying path in Thursday’s playoff draw, with a possible deciding match in March.
Israel was paired with Iceland, while Ukraine will face Bosnia-Herzegovina in the playoff semifinals. The 12 playoff teams will play the six semifinal matches on March 21. All three finals are scheduled for March 26.
Neither Israel nor Ukraine can currently host games at home because the wars. If they both advance to the playoff final, they could meet in a neutral country.
Israel and Ukraine could face each other in a playoff final for a spot at soccer’s Euro 2024
Saturday 25 November 2023 14:20 , Tom Watling
A top adviser to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged during a recent visit to Washington that the days ahead “will be tough” as his country battles Russia while US support from Congress hangs in the balance, it has been revealed.
President Joe Biden’s nearly $106 billion aid package for Ukraine, Israel and other needs sits idle in Congress, neither approved nor rejected, but subjected to new political demands from Republicans who are insisting on U.S.-Mexico border policy changes to halt the flow of migrants.
When Congress returns this coming week from the holiday break, Biden’s request will be a top item on the to-do list, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.
Failure risks delaying U.S. military aid to Kyiv and Israel, along with humanitarian assistance for Gaza, in the midst of two wars, potentially undermining America’s global standing.
“It’s coming at a crucial time,” said Luke Coffey, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, which recently hosted Andriy Yermak, the Ukrainian president’s chief of staff, at the discussion in Washington.
Yermak, during his talk in Washington, was reportedly thankful for US support but nonetheless blunt about the need for more.
“I tell you the truth, this winter will be tough for us,” he said, urging Americans to back Ukraine at this “historical moment for all of us”.
Saturday 25 November 2023 13:47 , Tom Watling
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has hosted his Swiss counterpart Alain Berset for “fruitful talks on humanitarian mine clearing, the use of profits from frozen Russian assets, and the Peace Formula”.
You can view a brief video of their meeting below.
I hosted Swiss Confederation President @alain_berset for fruitful talks on humanitarian mine clearing, the use of profits from frozen Russian assets, and the Peace Formula.
I am grateful to Switzerland’s assistance in restoring our infrastructure and providing humanitarian aid. pic.twitter.com/ArEpRZzRRm
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) November 25, 2023
Saturday 25 November 2023 13:00 , Tom Watling
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday announced a plan to endorse a national strategy for the development of artificial intelligence, emphasizing that it’s essential to prevent a Western monopoly.
Speaking at an AI conference in Moscow, Putin noted that “it’s imperative to use Russian solutions in the field of creating reliable and transparent artificial intelligence systems that are also safe for humans.”
“Monopolistic dominance of such foreign technology in Russia is unacceptable, dangerous and inadmissible,” Putin said.
He noted that “many modern systems, trained on Western data are intended for the Western market” and “reflect that part of Western ethics, norms of behavior, public policy to which we object.”
Putin to boost AI work in Russia to fight a Western monopoly he says is ‘unacceptable and dangerous’
Saturday 25 November 2023 12:18 , Tom Watling
Slovakia’s new prime minister, Robert Fico, said on Friday he considers the war between Ukraine and Russia a frozen conflict that cannot be solved by sending arms to the Ukrainian armed forces.
Fico ended his country’s military aid for Ukraine after his new government was sworn in on Oct. 25.
After meeting his Czech counterpart, Petr Fiala, in Prague on Friday, he said he would prefer the Russian and Ukrainian sides sit at a negotiation table. He didn’t say how to achieve that.
Slovak leader calls the war between Russia and Ukraine a frozen conflict
Saturday 25 November 2023 11:30 , Tom Watling
Ukrainian civilians gathered in the underground bomb shelters beneath Kyiv have been enjoying some live music while Russian drones swirled above the capital.
Russia launched its most significant long range drone attack in months overnight, lasting roughly six hours.
Saturday 25 November 2023 11:00 , Tom Watling
Russia’s forces have halted their fighting at hotspots on the frontline as the war in Ukraine entered its 22nd month on Friday.
Russian forces continued to pound the battered Ukrainian town of Avdiivka but were unable to breach the defence of Ukraine’s troops as heavy fighting engulfed Bakhmut, military officials said.
“Basically, nothing has changed. Everything is very tough. As regards the city, there is an average number of eight to 16 to 18 attacks per day. Sometimes 30. We don’t have the time to count them,” said Vitaliy Barabash, head of Avdiivka’s military administration.
Russia pauses attacks across Ukraine frontline amid losses in battle for Avdiivka
Saturday 25 November 2023 10:30 , Tom Watling
Vladimir Putin has reportedly pardoned two Russian men convicted of cannibalism after they deployed to the frontline in the war with Ukraine.
One of the men, Denis Gorin, was recruited into a private military company after signing a contract with the Russian ministry of defence but is known to have been convicted thrice for murdering at least four people between 2003 and 2022. He was also convicted of eating the remains of his victims along with his brother, reported Sibir Realii, a news outlet aligned with Radio Free Europe.
He is the 17th person convicted for murder to be pardoned by the Russian president between 2022 and 2023. “At the trial, he (Gorin) admitted that they ate the murdered man who was their acquaintance,” said his neighbour Dmitry Vladimirovich.
Putin pardons two cannibals who joined Russia’s war in Ukraine – report
Saturday 25 November 2023 10:00 , Tom Watling
The president of Switzerland has arrived in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv to meet Volodymyr Zelensky and attend an international summit on food security as Russian drones were intercepted over the capital.
Alain Berset posted a picture of his arrival at Kyiv’s main train station this morning.
He had written earlier that he had arrived in the capital.
“Arrival in Kyiv where I will be attending the international summit on food security today and meeting President Zelensky,” he wrote.
“The focus is on the impact of Russia’s war of aggression on global food security and Switzerland’s long-term support for Ukraine.”
Saturday 25 November 2023 09:30 , Tom Watling
Ukraine launched one of the biggest drone attacks on the Moscow-annexed Crimean Peninsula since the full-scale war that started with Russia’s invasion 21 months ago, Russian officials said Friday.
At the same time, Ukrainian officials reported that the Kremlin’s forces escalated their weekslong and costly attempt to storm Avdiivka, a strategically important city in eastern Ukraine.
The stepped-up efforts came as both sides are keen to show they are not deadlocked as the fighting approaches 2024. Neither side has gained much ground despite a Ukrainian counteroffensive that began in June, and analysts predict the war will be a long one.
Ukraine aims a major drone attack at Crimea as Russia tries to capture a destroyed eastern city
Saturday 25 November 2023 08:55 , Tom Watling
Here are some of the latest photos from Kyiv after Russia’s six-hour drone attack.
Saturday 25 November 2023 08:26 , Tom Watling
The world’s attention must “stay on Ukraine” as the Russian invasion continues, a former Nato secretary-general has warned.
Lord George Robertson said Russian President Vladimir Putin would be emboldened to extend the attacks beyond Ukraine if foreign governments stop providing weaponry.
Lord Robertson, who was in the top Nato role between 1999 and 2003, said: “I think it is inevitable that because we’re seeing the television from Gaza every day, that people are paying less attention to Ukraine, but that must change.
“We have got to keep the world’s attention focused on Ukraine because they are involved in a fight with Russia that has got huge implications for all of us as well.
“Vladimir Putin is not simply interested in subjugating Ukraine. He has got a much bigger agenda in the future, and if he succeeds in Ukraine, who knows where he is going to stop.”
The conflict in Ukraine has now surpassed 640 days – the invasion began in February 2022 – and Lord Robertson urged Nato member states to continue to press Russia amid Mr Putin’s “miserable failure”.
Saturday 25 November 2023 07:58 , Tom Watling
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of being “proud of its ability to kill people” after it launched a significant drone attack against Kyiv this morning during the remembrance day for those killed in the Holodomor genocide.
As the fourth Saturday of November, today marks the Day of Memory for Victims of the Holodomor in Ukraine, honouring those killed in a famine in Ukraine manufactured by Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union in the 1930s.
Estimates suggest that more than three million people, many of whom were farmers and rural villagers, were killed by forced starvation.
Russia launched around 70 “Shahed” drones at Ukraine precisely on the eve of the Holodomor genocide commemoration day. Russia’s leadership appears to be proud of its ability to kill people.
Our warriors shot down the majority of the drones, but not all of them. We keep working…
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) November 25, 2023
Saturday 25 November 2023 07:48 , Tom Watling
At least five people have been injured as a result of Russian drone attacks on Kyiv, including an 11-year-old child, the local mayor has claimed.
Vitali Klitschko said all five were “receiving medical assistance on the spot or in the trauma centre, without further hospitalistion”.
He wrote on Telegram: “The enemy continues to terrorise. To intimidate us, sow panic and decay in our cities and towns.
“But it won’t be like that! We work for the livelihood of communities, we support each other, together we bring Victory closer!”
Saturday 25 November 2023 07:31 , Tom Watling
Russia has fired nearly 100 Iranian-made kamikaze drones overnight, mainly on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv.
Local reports suggested air raid sirens began at around 3am. Mayor Vilati Klitschko wrote at 3.25: “It’s loud in the capital. Several more groups of ‘Shaheeds’ (Iranian drones) are going to Kyiv. Stay in shelters!”
Ukrainian air force commander Mykola Oleschuk said roughly 75 Shahed-131 and 136s were launched overnight, with at least 71 “destroyed by air defence”.
“On this night, November 25, 2023, the enemy released a record number of strike UAVs over Ukraine!” he wrote on Telegram. “The main direction of the attack is Kyiv!”
Saturday 25 November 2023 07:11 , Anuj Pant
Drone engines and explosions were heard overnight in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv in what the country’s air force said was Vladimir Putin’s biggest drone attack yet.
The air force said Iran-made Shahed drones were used in the assault that mainly targeted Kyiv, and hit at least three of the capital’s districts.
The mass drone attack struck apartment complexes and falling drone fragments set fire to a children’s nursery, said Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko.
Two people were also injured in the attack due to the falling drone fragments.
Saturday 25 November 2023 07:00 , Alexander Butler
Ukraine’s National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NAZK) fully removed three Greek shipping companies from the international sponsors of war list after they stopped shipping Russian oil, the NAZK announced on 24 November.
Thenamaris Ships Management Inc., Minerva Marine, and TMS Tankers Ltd ceased transporting Russian oil in recent weeks amid tightening U.S. sanctions.
“The National Agency is open to cooperation with international business and is ready to consult on the steps necessary to de-list each individual company,” the NAZK said.
Saturday 25 November 2023 06:18 , Anuj Pant
A mass drone attack targeted many districts in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv on Saturday, reported Reuters, citing an eyewitness.
Mayor Vitali Klitschko on Telegram said two people were injured by fragments from downed drones that hit residential areas and other buildings in at least three Kyiv districts.
The fragments from one intercepted drone started a fire at a children’s nursery, said the mayor.
Philippine military officials say two Chinese fighter jets “orbited” an aircraft taking part in drills with Australia.
Lithuania must prepare for war with Russia and strengthen regional military cooperation, as Ukraine may not win the war, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis stated on Nov. 24, Polish outlet TVP reports.
Context changes everything
It comes after thirteen more Israeli hostages and four Thai captives were released last night
Ukraine and Russia both claim to have thwarted major drone attacks as a former NATO chief warned against world attention shifting from the ongoing conflict. The attack comes a day after what officials described as Russia’s largest drone offensive of the war. Ukraine has warned in recent weeks that Russia will target critical infrastructure in a winter aerial campaign, as it did last year.
No crew members were injured in the attack
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Hamas fighters on Sunday confirmed the handover of 17 hostages to the Red Cross – the third round of hostage-prisoner swaps on day three of a fragile four-day truce between Israel and the Palestinian militants. The hostages include 13 Israelis, three Thai nationals and one Russian.The move comes a day after Hamas released 13 Israeli and four Thai hostages in exchange for 39 Palestinian prisoners.In a sign of the fragility of the exchanges, the swap on Saturday was delayed for hours after Hamas a
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin planned to divide Ukraine into three parts, historian and Ukrainian Catholic University professor, Yaroslav Hrytsak, told NV Radio.
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Finland does not intend to negotiate with Russia at the state leadership level regarding the situation on the eastern border, Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said in an interview with the Finnish newspaper HS on Nov. 25.
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A NSW MP has slammed what she says is “appalling” Palestinian propaganda in her own electorate, after taking to the stage of a pro-Israel rally amid a week of highly-tense protests.
Vasyl Maliuk, head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), said the second of two major attacks in August had seriously disrupted operations on the 19-km (12-mile) bridge, Europe’s longest, and dented the notion of Russian invincibility. “We have practically overturned the philosophy of naval operations,” Maliuk said in the first of a series of televised documentaries entitled “SBU, the Special Operations of Victory.”
Rep. Jasmine Crockett knocked Republicans wanting to “bend the knee” to the former president on Saturday.
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Some students at St Andrews University are calling for their newly-elected rector to apologise or resign.
Ukrainian troops on the east bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson Oblast are approaching one of the highways connecting Crimea and Melitopol, Yevhen Dykyi, former company commander of the Aidar battalion, told Radio NV on Nov. 23.
The Chinese military said on Saturday that American naval destroyer USS Hopper entered China’s territorial waters without the approval of the Chinese government. According to a post on the official WeChat account of the Chinese People Liberation Army’s Southern Theatre Command, the Chinese military deployed its naval and air forces to “track, monitor and warn away” the vessel. It went on to say that the incident “proves that the United States is an out-and-out ‘security risk creator’ in the South China Sea.”
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The return of 39 women and teenagers is being seen by some as a symbolic victory over Israel.
STORY: The Israeli army on Sunday (November 26) released a video of Hand running into her father’s arms, as she was brought back to Israel after spending her ninth birthday as a captive in Gaza Strip the day before.Returned in the second group of hostages released by Hamas under a Qatari-brokered deal with Israel, she appeared in good health along with fellow hostage Hila Rotem-Shoshani, whose mother remains in Gaza.Amit Solvy, who is the chairman of Kibbutz Be’eri, where the Hand family lived, expressed relief that Emily was alive and back, having initially delivered news to her father that she was dead after the Oct. 7 raid by Hamas. Solvy and other community members were watching video of the release of the hostages at the Dead Sea resort, where most of the kibbutz residents were evacuated to after the raid.
Sara, 21, says she knows the ceasefire won’t bring back the loved ones that have been killed – but she hopes that this truce can be extended
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