Russia expels British diplomat for 'espionage'
Russia announced on Tuesday that it would expel a British diplomat, accused of spying and having communicated “false” personal information to the authorities upon his arrival in the country, and subsequently summoning the British ambassador Nigel Casey, a new diplomatic incident between the two countries in the midst of the conflict in Ukraine. The Russian secret service (FSB) said it had found “signs of espionage and subversive activities carried out by this diplomat”, Russian news agencies reported, specifying that he had “two weeks” to leave Russian territory. The diplomat in question, presented by the FSB as being “Second Secretary of the Political Department of the British Embassy in Moscow”, a “deliberately presented false information [sur son activité] when he obtained permission to enter our country, thereby violating Russian law.” London denounces accusations of espionage “unfounded”. Russia announced on the same day that it was banning around ten British ministers from entering its territory, presenting this decision as a response to the policies “Russophobes” of the United Kingdom. Those targeted include Finance Minister Rachel Reeves, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and more than a dozen other senior politicians in the new Labor government.
Russia attacked Ukraine overnight with 'record' number of 188 drones
Ukraine announced on Tuesday, November 26, that it had been the target of a Russian attack on a record scale overnight with 188 combat drones. According to Kyiv, they damaged residential buildings as well as “essential infrastructure”. The Ukrainian Air Force revealed, in a statement published on Telegram, that “In several regions, houses and residential buildings were damaged.” She also revealed that four ballistic missiles had also been launched by Russia.
Moscow reports two new Ukrainian strikes using American AtacMS missiles
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 «installations» in the Russian border region of Kursk on November 23 near the village of Lotarevka, 37 kilometers northwest of the city of Kursk, and on November 25 against the Kursk-Vostochny airfield. The ministry acknowledged, a rare occurrence, that several missiles “hit their targets” and reported two injured Russian soldiers and a damaged radar. “The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is monitoring the situation and preparing a response,” he said in a press release.
Kyiv accuses Russia of carrying out 'genocidal activities' with anti-personnel mines
Russia is leading “genocidal activities” using antipersonnel mines in Ukraine, a representative of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said Tuesday during an international summit in Cambodia. Moscow disseminated these explosive charges in “cities, farms, public transport stations”, accused Oleksandr Riabtsev, saying that these threats concerned regions where some six million Ukrainians reside.
Earlier today, Kyiv announced that it was abandoning its commitment to destroy the remaining stockpile of nearly six million antipersonnel mines inherited from the Soviet era, made under the Convention on 'Ottawa.
Ukraine accuses Russia of executing five surrendered soldiers
Ukraine accused Russian forces on Tuesday of shooting dead five Ukrainian soldiers who had gone to the Donetsk region on the Eastern Front. The events occurred on November 13 in the village of Petrivka, near Pokrovsk, the Donetsk regional prosecutor's office said in a press release. “Five Ukrainian servicemen retreated and hid in a house, which was then surrounded by the enemy,” said the prosecution. Russian soldiers “took them prisoner and forced them, without weapons, to come out of the shelter and lie on the ground” before executing them “with automatic weapons”, he continued.
Ukrainian authorities have opened an investigation into “war crime” et “premeditated murder”, indicated the general prosecutor’s office. Russia did not immediately respond to these accusations.
Russian court orders arrest of France 24 journalist who entered Kursk region
A Russian court has ordered the arrest of Catherine Norris Trent, a senior reporter for the France 24 news channel, accused of illegally entering Russia's Kursk region, partly controlled by Ukraine, it has been reported. learned this Tuesday, November 26 via the Russian press agency Tass, cited by Reuters.
On October 7, the Russian security services announced that they had opened an investigation against the Franco-British journalist and her Swiss counterpart Kurt Pelda (CH Media) for having “illegally crossed the border of the Russian Federation in the Kursk region”. The journalist, based in Paris, entered the region in September with the Ukrainian army in order to produce a report.
