The essentials from November 25 at 9 p.m.
- Ukraine carries out fourth strike with long-range missiles against Russia
On Monday, ATACMS targeted the Kursk-Skhidny (????) airfield near Kursk, Russian and Ukrainian Telegram channels say.
- Since Sunday evening, Russia has launched “around a hundred drones, aerial bombs and missiles” against Ukraine, denounces Volodymyr Zelensky
Russian bombings on the center of Kharkiv leave twenty-three injured, according to local authorities. In Odessa, head of the oblast military administration, Russian missile attacks caused “victims” and residential buildings had been damaged. “Dozens of attack drones attacked Zaporizhia; a child is injured. Odessa was attacked, there was damage from falling rocket fragments. And this is just one day of Russian terror against Ukraine,” described Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a morning report published on Telegram.
- Russian fuel depot hit by Ukrainian army in Kaluga region
Ukrainian drones struck a fuel depot in Russia’s Kaluga region overnight. “The target of the attack was the oil depot” du groupe Nefteprodukt, “who is involved in supporting Russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine”an anonymous Ukrainian military intelligence source told Agence France-Presse, saying the strike had caused “destruction” important. Vladislav Chapcha, the Russian governor of this region south of Moscow, said that Russian air defenses had shot down eight drones in the suburbs of Kaluga.
- Russia says it shot down eight ‘ballistic missiles’ fired by Ukraine
“Air defense downed eight ballistic missiles, six US-made JDAM guided aerial bombs as well as 45 drones”the Russian Defense Ministry said on Monday, without giving further details.
- The UN denounces the “renewed threat” of antipersonnel mines, a few days after Washington’s announcement that it will supply them to kyiv
The Secretary General of the United Nations denounced on Monday the “renewed threat” anti-personnel mines, days after the United States said it would provide the weapons to Ukrainian forces fighting the Russian invasion.
- UK says it provides “full support” for British volunteer in Ukrainian army captured by Russian army
A video has been circulating online since this weekend showing a Ukrainian army foreign fighter after he was captured in Kursk Oblast. The man, in military fatigues, introduces himself in this video as James Scott Rhys Anderson, 22, a British national. He claims he joined the Ukrainian International Legion, a unit made up of foreign volunteers, after serving in the British army from 2019 to 2023.
- London sanctions thirty additional ships from the Russian “ghost fleet”
The British government announced sanctions on Monday against thirty additional ships from the “ghost fleet” allowing Russia to export its oil and gas by circumventing Western restrictions imposed since the invasion of Ukraine.
North Korea expands ballistic missile factory for Russia
The site in question is known as the “February 11 Factory”. It is part of the Ryongsong Engineering Complex in Hamgyong, North Korea’s second-largest city. According to Ukrainian military officials and documents analyzed by CNN, Moscow is increasingly using North Korean ballistic missiles: since the start of the year, Russia has fired around sixty KN-23 missiles against Ukraine, or nearly a third of the 194 ballistic missile strikes recorded by the Ukrainian Air Force.
- Crash in Lithuania: Berlin discusses possible external intervention
Annalena Baerbock, German Foreign Minister, spoke about the crash, Monday morning near the airport in Vilnius, of a cargo plane linking Germany and Lithuania. “Recently, we have had several times in Europe hybrid attacks (…) on individual people, infrastructure underwater or on land”continued the head of German diplomacy.
- Germany draws up inventory of bunkers and shelters in case of attack
In a context of increased tensions with Russia, the Federal Office for Population Protection and Disaster Assistance (the equivalent of civil protection in France) announced on Monday that it was launching an inventory of bunkers and shelters where the German population could find refuge in the event of an attack.
