Air alerts were issued across almost all of Ukraine on Monday morning due to the takeoff of a large number of Russian bombers.
During the night, a series of strikes left at least six people dead in the south of the country.
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A FOILED UKRAINIAN ATTEMPT
The Russian security services (FSB) claimed on Monday to have foiled a Ukrainian attempt to hijack a Russian military helicopter by recruiting a pilot. It was “a Mi-8MTPR-1 electronic warfare helicopter of the Russian Aerospace Forces,” the FSB said in a statement.
“Ukrainian military intelligence agents attempted to recruit a Russian military pilot in order to divert this aircraft to an area controlled by the Ukrainian armed forces,” according to the FSB, which does not give a date. The FSB added that intelligence obtained during the operation made it possible to carry out strikes on Ukrainian positions.
UPDATE ON THE SITUATION
- Air alerts are in place over most of Ukrainian territory this Monday morning, the Ukrainian Air Force announced after the takeoff of several Russian bombers. “Attention! Missile danger throughout Ukraine! MiG-31K taking off,” the Ukrainian Air Force said in a message on Telegram. She also announced that eight Tupolev Tu-95 strategic bombers were heading towards Ukraine.
- At least six people were killed and around twenty others injured in Russian attacks, which targeted the towns of Mykolaiv and Zaporizhia, in southern Ukraine, local authorities announced on Monday. In Mykolaiv, five people were killed and another was injured in a Russian drone attack, announced the governor of the region, Vitaly Kim, in his latest report. In the town of Zaporizhia, airstrikes left one dead and twenty injured during the night from Sunday to Monday, according to the authorities.
- Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday and asked him not to provoke an escalation in Ukraine, the American daily Washington Post reported on Sunday. This would be the first telephone conversation between the two men since Donald Trump won the US presidential election last Tuesday.
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Russia will have to answer for the war crimes committed in Ukraine and pay for the destruction committed whatever the future peace agreement, said the head of diplomacy of the European Union Josep Borrell on Sunday.
“Peace, for it to be peace and not just a ceasefire, must be just and lasting,” stressed the first senior European leader to visit Ukraine since the election in the United States of Donald Trump, whose promise of a rapid end to the war has made Ukrainians fear being forced to give in to the territorial demands of the Russia. “This is a warning to those who say that this war must end, and therefore we might as well end it as quickly as possible, no matter how,” he added during a trip to the Cherniguiv region (north).
A meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump
Drone attacks on an unprecedented scale targeted Ukraine and the region of the Russian capital Moscow during the night from Saturday to Sunday, both camps denounced, despite the interview between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, which would have asked not to provoke an escalation in Ukraine according to le Washington Post. They discussed the goal of peace on the European continent and Donald Trump said he hoped to have follow-up conversations to discuss “the resolution of the war in Ukraine soon”, according to anonymous sources from the American daily.
While the conflict between kyiv and Moscow still rages, the Kremlin said it saw “positive signals” coming from American President-elect Donald Trump.
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