Did you miss the latest events on the war in Ukraine? 20 Minutes takes stock for you every evening. Between the strong declarations, the advances on the front and the results of the fighting, here is the essential part of this Tuesday, the 1007th day of the war.
Fact of the day
Russia reported on Tuesday that it had been targeted again in recent days by two Ukrainian strikes carried out using American ATACMS missiles, a weapon against which Moscow has promised a severe response. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Ukrainian forces struck “facilities” in the Russian border region of Kursk on November 23 near the village of Lotarevka and on November 25 against the Kursk-Vostochny airfield.
The ministry recognized, a rare occurrence, that several missiles “hit their targets” and reported two injured Russian soldiers and a damaged radar. According to him, three ATACAMS missiles out of the five fired were shot down by Russian anti-aircraft defense during the November 23 attack and seven projectiles out of eight fired during the November 25 attack.
These shots will not go unnoticed, Moscow is already warning. “The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is monitoring the situation and preparing a response,” it said in a statement.
Ukraine began using long-range ATACMS missiles in Russia on November 19, as well as British-made Storm Shadows two days later, after obtaining the green light from Western allies. The Kremlin, which presented this as a red line, responded by firing an intermediate-range ballistic missile on November 21 at a military factory in the city of Dnipro, in east-central Ukraine. On Thursday, the Russian president threatened the West to strike “military installations of countries which authorize the use of their weapons against our installations”.
Today's statement
« “Unfortunately, critical infrastructure sites have been affected and, in several regions, homes and residential buildings have been damaged” »
The lyrics are signed by the Ukrainian Air Force. The latter announced on Tuesday that it had been the target of a Russian attack during the night with a record number of 188 combat drones, with significant damage but without causing any casualties.
“During the night attack, the enemy launched a record number of Shahed-type and unidentified combat drones,” as well as four Iskander-M ballistic missiles, the Ukrainian Air Force said in a statement on Telegram.
Moscow and kyiv have stepped up their drone and missile attacks in recent weeks, with Ukraine recently firing long-range US missiles at Russia and the Kremlin launching an experimental hypersonic missile at a Ukrainian city, also threatening to hit the Europe and the United States.
The number of the day
Four. This is the number of people killed this Tuesday in a Ukrainian strike on a bus traveling in Nova Kakhovka, in the Russian-occupied part of the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson, announced the authorities installed by Moscow. During this bombing, “a bus carrying civilians was hit,” lamented Vladimir Saldo, responsible for the Russian occupation in this region, on Telegram. In addition to the four deaths recorded, “17 people were injured and are in hospital with serious injuries,” he said.
According to him, municipal employees were also targeted by Ukrainian drones while they were on their way to help the injured, this time without there being any casualties.
The town of Nova Kakhovka, where some 45,000 inhabitants lived before the conflict, is located along the Dnieper River, which in this area serves as a natural dividing line between the Russian and Ukrainian positions.
The trend
Russia is carrying out “genocidal activities” using antipersonnel mines in Ukraine, a representative of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said Tuesday during an international summit in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Moscow disseminated these explosive charges in “cities, farms, public transport stations”, accused Oleksandr Riabtsev, affirming that these threats concerned regions where some six million Ukrainians reside.
Earlier today, kyiv announced that it was abandoning its commitment to destroy what remains of the stockpile of nearly six million antipersonnel mines inherited from the Soviet era, made under the Convention on 'Ottawa. The Ministry of Defense justified this decision by the redeployment of financial resources for the war effort, the “constant” bombings and “occupation” of the Russian armed forces in certain territories where depots are located.
Our file on the war in Ukraine
The Ukrainian ministry did not refer to the American offer to supply kyiv with antipersonnel mines, intended according to Washington to slow the advance of Moscow's troops in eastern Ukraine. He also did not specify what the Ukrainian stockpile would become. The American proposal caused an outcry in the ranks of human rights associations.
