Russia claims to have conquered a new village in the East and continues to attack the entire country with drones

After almost three years of Russian invasion of Ukraine, the conflict has experienced a new escalation for two weeks.

Russia continues to intensify its attacks in Ukraine. The Russian army claimed, on Friday, November 29, the capture of a new village in the south of Donbass, a region of eastern Ukraine that Moscow wants to conquer and where Russian troops have accelerated their advances this fall. Shortly before, Ukraine announced that it had been targeted by 132 Russian drones during the night, an attack which left one dead and eight injured.

The aircraft destroyed were over around ten regions, notably those of Kherson and Odessa, in the south of the country. After almost three years of Russian invasion, the conflict has been escalating for two weeks. On Thursday, Russia fired nearly 90 missiles targeting Ukrainian electrical installations, plunging more than a million people into darkness in temperatures close to 0°C.

Russian President Vladimir Putin assured that Thursday's massive strikes were his “answer” to the firing by the Ukrainian army of American ATACMS and British Storm Shadow missiles against Russian soil. The Ukrainian army, for its part, announced on Friday that it had struck an oil depot in the Russian region of Rostov, without specifying what weapons had been used.