► Diplomatic tensions between Moscow and London
Russia announced on Tuesday November 26 that it would expel a British diplomat accused of espionage, which London strongly rejected, and sanction around ten ministers in Keir Starmer’s government, a new episode of tensions between the two countries in the midst of the conflict in Ukraine. The British ambassador to Moscow, Nigel Casey, was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The expelled diplomat, presented by the Russian secret services (FSB) as being “Second Secretary of the Political Department of the British Embassy in Moscow”, “belonged to British intelligence services” et “carried out espionage and subversion activities” in Russia, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
According to the FSB, cited by Russian news agencies, this diplomat has now “two weeks” to leave Russia. British diplomacy denounced “malicious and unfounded accusations” and promised a reply “in due time”.
In the process, Russian diplomacy announced that it would ban numerous British ministers from entering Russia, presenting this decision as a response to the policies “Russophobes” from London.
► NATO reaffirms its support for Ukraine after the attempt to “ intimidation » Russian
NATO ambassadors reaffirmed their support for kyiv on Tuesday after Russia fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile on Ukrainian soil, denounced as an attempt to« intimidation »according to a press release from the Alliance.
Russia struck Ukraine on Thursday with a ballistic missile that it presented as experimental and of the latest generation, devoid of its nuclear warhead, and promised to increase this type of attacks if kyiv continued to use Western missiles to target its territory.
► kyiv accuses Moscow of having executed five Ukrainian soldiers
Ukraine has accused Russian forces of having shot and killed five Ukrainian soldiers who had gone to the Donetsk region, on the Eastern Front, yet another incident of this kind in recent months denounced by kyiv.
The events occurred on November 13 in the village of Petrivka, near Pokrovsk, a town of importance for the logistics of the Ukrainian army, 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 “automatic weapon”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.
► The G7 denounces Moscow’s “escalation”
The firing of a Russian ballistic missile on Ukrainian soil proves “reckless escalation” which Moscow is engaging in, denounced the heads of G7 diplomacy.
“The launch of an intermediate-range ballistic missile on November 21 is further proof of its reckless escalation”said the ministers of the G7 countries in the final communiqué published after a meeting near Rome.
► News with American missiles
Russia has promised a ” answer “ to two new Ukrainian strikes carried out using American ATACMS missiles against its territory in recent days, President Vladimir Putin having threatened last week to strike sites in Western countries.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Ukrainian forces struck « installations » in the Russian border region of Kursk partially occupied by the Ukrainian army since August. He recognized, a rare occurrence, that several missiles had “reached their targets” and reports two Russian soldiers injured and a radar damaged in these shots.
⚡️Russian Defense Ministry admits that Ukraine hit airbase in Kursk Oblast with ATACMS.
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— The Kyiv Independent (@kyivindependent.com) November 26, 2024 at 5:27 p.m.
“The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation is monitoring the situation and preparing a response”he said in a statement, accompanying his message with photos appearing to show missile debris, the authenticity of which cannot be independently confirmed.
► A Ukrainian strike leaves at least four dead
At least four people were killed and 17 injured in a Ukrainian strike on a bus traveling in Nova Kakhovka, in the Moscow-occupied part of the southern Kherson region, Russian-installed authorities said.
During this bombardment, “a bus carrying civilians was hit”lamented on Telegram Vladimir Saldo, responsible for the Russian occupation in this region. “Four people lost their lives at the same time, and 17 people were injured and are in hospital with serious injuries”he said, publishing the photo of a bus with blown windows.
► kyiv accuses Moscow of carrying out “genocidal activities”
Russia is leading “genocidal activities” using antipersonnel mines in Ukraine, a representative of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry said during an international summit in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Moscow disseminated these explosive charges in “cities, farms, public transport stations”said Oleksandr Riabtsev, asserting that these threats concerned regions where some 6 million Ukrainians reside.
At the same summit, Ukraine explained that it would not be able to respect its commitment, made within the framework of the Ottawa Convention, to destroy nearly 6 million anti-personnel mines from the Soviet era.
► A Briton detained by Russia
A Russian court has confirmed it has remanded a Briton accused of fighting for the Ukrainian army in Russia’s Kursk region, where kyiv launched a cross-border offensive in August.
A court in the Kursk region considered the case behind closed doors on Monday and decided to incarcerate James Anderson, who “crossed illegally” the Russian border in order to take part “to hostilities” in the area, according to a press release from its press service.
London had promised on Monday to bring all its ” support “ to this national, after the publication of a video presented as showing his capture and broadcast on social networks by pro-Kremlin accounts.
► Progress of the Russian army
The Russian army has claimed the capture of a village in the Kharkiv region, in northeastern Ukraine, with Moscow increasing its conquests in recent weeks in the face of a struggling Ukrainian army.
“Thanks to decisive actions, the units of the Western military groupliberated the village of Kopanky in the Kharkiv region » in northeastern Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said. This locality is located in an area which had been occupied by the Russians at the start of the conflict, but which kyiv had managed to recapture in the fall of 2022.
► Record night attack of 188 Russian drones, according to kyiv
Ukraine announced that it was the target during the night of Monday 25 to Tuesday 26 of a Russian attack with a record number of 188 combat drones hitting residential buildings and “essential infrastructure”.
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“During the night attack, the enemy launched a record number of Shahed and unidentified combat drones”as well as four Iskander-M ballistic missiles, the Ukrainian Air Force said. “Unfortunately, critical infrastructure sites have been affected”she added.
