This Sunday, November 17, several Ukrainian cities including kyiv were struck by Russia.
Faced with a “massive attack”, the Polish army announced that it would take off fighter planes to protect its territory.
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“ONE OF THE LARGEST AIR ATTACKS”
“Russia launched one of the largest air attacks: drones and missiles against peaceful cities, sleeping civilians and critical infrastructure. This is war criminal Putin’s true response to everyone who called him out and visited him recently. We need peace through force, not appeasement.”Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha reacted on X.
ON SITE
“We heard the first explosions at 6 a.m.”reports Guillaume Ptak, our correspondent in Ukraine.
Ukraine: missile attack on kyivSource : TF1 Info
THE TARGETED ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
Power cuts are announced in three regions during a Russian air attack this Sunday, according to the Ukrainian energy operator. “Emergency power cuts in kyiv, kyiv region, Donetsk region, Dnipropetrovsk region“, wrote DTEK on Telegram. Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko indicates on Telegram that a “massive attack on the electricity system is underway”and that the Russian forces “attack electricity generation and transmission facilities throughout Ukraine.”
NIGHT BOMBINGS
Local authorities and Ukrainian media reported numerous explosions across the country, notably in Zaporizhia, Odessa and Mykolaiv in the south, as well as in Cherniguiv in the north. The mayor of kyiv, Vitali Klitchko, reported one person injured when a drone fragment fell on an apartment building.
“MASSIVE” RUSSIAN ATTACK IN UKRAINE, WARSAW MOBILIZES
The Polish army announced on Sunday that it had taken off fighter planes and mobilized “all available forces and resources” to protect its territory for afrom “massive attack” Russian missiles and drones against Ukraine. “Due to a massive attack by the Russian Federation carrying out cruise missile, ballistic missile and drone strikes against facilities in, among other places, western Ukraine, Operations of Polish and allied aircraft in our airspace have begun”wrote the Polish Central Command on the social network
Towards an end to the conflict? Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he wanted “do everything” to obtain an end to the war in his country in 2025 by “diplomatic means”the recent victory of Donald Trump in the American presidential election having relaunched the debate on negotiations.
In an interview broadcast on Saturday, Volodymyr Zelensky also spoke of a situation “really complicated” on the eastern front, where the Russian army is advancing rapidly against fewer and less well-armed Ukrainian troops.
“We must do everything to ensure that this war ends next year. We must end it by diplomatic means”he said in an interview with Ukrainian radio.
He estimated that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin was trying to get out of his “political isolation” by talking to leaders. But “Putin doesn’t want peace at all”he said. The debate on possible peace negotiations, long swept aside by Volodymyr Zelensky, has intensified in recent weeks against a backdrop of rapid Russian advances in the Donbass (east) and Western procrastination on the military aid to be provided to kyiv.
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