This Tuesday was the 1007th day of the war in Ukraine, which began at dawn on February 24, 2022, with a Russian offensive towards kyiv and several other major Ukrainian cities. Here is what you need to remember about the news related to the conflict on November 26, 2024.
Russian push into southern Donbass
On the front, the situation is still marked by Russian progress in southern Donbass, particularly around the towns of Kourakhové and Velyka Novosilka.
The Russian Defense Ministry also claimed on Tuesday to have taken control of a town in the Kharkiv oblast, in the northeast of the country.
Record drone attack
Ukraine announced on Tuesday that it had been the target of a Russian attack overnight with a record number of 188 combat drones which, according to kyiv, damaged residential buildings and “essential infrastructure”but did not cause any casualties.
For their part, the occupation authorities of the Kherson region indicated that a Ukrainian strike on a bus traveling in Nova Kakhovka left 4 dead and 17 injured.
Moscow and kyiv have stepped up their drone and missile attacks in recent weeks. Ukraine recently fired long-range US missiles at Russia and the Kremlin launched an experimental hypersonic missile at a Ukrainian city, also threatening to hit Europe and the United States.
kyiv denounces Moscow’s “genocidal activities”
A representative of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense denounced this Tuesday during an international summit organized in Cambodia the massive use of mines by the Russians. Moscow disseminated these explosive charges in “cities, farms, public transport stations”, accused Oleksandr Riabtsev, citing “genocidal activities” from Russia.
As noted byAgence France Pressekyiv had earlier announced that it was renouncing its commitment to destroy what remains of the stock of nearly six million antipersonnel mines inherited from the Soviet era, taken within the framework of the Ottawa Convention.
Defective shells fired by Ukraine
The Ukrainian Defense Ministry announced that it had suspended the use of defective mortar shells used by the army against Russian forces on the front and had launched an investigation into the matter, amid a scandal revealed by the press. “At least 100,000 shells” caliber 120 mm produced by a Ukrainian factory were thus withdrawn from the front, the influential Ukrainian news site said on Tuesday Dzerkalo Tyjnia.
According to private Ukrainian television 1+ 1, soldiers began to complain about these shells at the beginning of November, describing ammunition which did not explode, remained stuck in the mortar or even fell aside.
Ukraine accuses Russia of executing five prisoners
L’Agence France Presse reports that Ukraine accused Russian forces on Tuesday of shooting and killing five Ukrainian soldiers who had gone to the Donetsk region. The events occurred on November 13 in the village of Petrivka, near Pokrovsk, an important town 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.
A regional court in Siberia announced on Tuesday that it had sentenced a Russian journalist to four years in prison because of her work with a foreign media for which, according to the prosecution, she helped produce ” content “ Who “discredits” the Russian army. Russian security services accused the journalist, identified by media and activists as Nika Novak, of “cooperated confidentially with a representative of a foreign media”said the state agency Interfaxciting the press service of a court in Transbaikalia.
