Did you miss the latest events on the war in Ukraine? 20 Minutes takes stock for you every evening. Between the strong declarations, the advances on the front and the results of the fighting, here is the essential part of this Friday, November 29, 2024, the 1010th day of the war.
Fact of the day
The fighting intensified this Friday. Ukraine announced that it had been targeted by 132 Russian drones during the night, an attack which left one dead and eight injured, the day after massive strikes targeting the country's energy infrastructure. “The enemy attacked Ukraine with 132 drones” of which 88 were shot down, the Ukrainian Air Force said in a statement. According to her, 41 other drones disappeared from radars, “probably” due to jamming by the Ukrainian army.
The devices destroyed were over around ten regions, notably those of Kherson and Odessa, in the south. In the city of Kherson, a woman was killed by one of the Russian drones. In kyiv, the capital, a medical center was hit and its guard injured, according to the city's military administration. The Ukrainian army, for its part, announced this morning that it had struck an oil depot in the Russian region of Rostov (south), without specifying what weapons had been used.
Today's statement
« The (Russian) strikes, the increased cooperation with North Korea, and the irresponsible rhetoric that accompanies them, are part of an unacceptable logic of escalation on the part of Russia, which continues to pursue a revisionist, brutal and imperialist design. . » »
The lyrics are signed Emmanuel Macron. The French head of state denounced the latest actions of Russian President Vladimir Putin during a telephone interview with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky this Friday. The French president also stressed that this logic of escalation “would not get the better of our determination to continue to help Ukraine as intensely and as long as necessary, so that it can exercise its right to self-defense and that Russia's war of aggression be defeated.
The number of the day
502. This is the number of bodies of Ukrainian soldiers that Russia handed over to the Ukrainian authorities, the latter announced this Friday, without specifying, however, whether it was an exchange. “The bodies of 502 fallen defenders have been repatriated to territory under the control of the Ukrainian government,” the coordinating body for prisoners of war said. This is the second repatriation of this type this month, kyiv having recovered the bodies of 563 soldiers in early November.
The trend
Russia is carrying out “an incredibly audacious campaign of sabotage in Europe”, British foreign intelligence chief Richard Moore warned on Friday in a speech at the British embassy in Paris. “We recently uncovered an incredibly audacious Russian sabotage campaign in Europe, even as (Russian President Vladimir) Putin and his cronies raise the nuclear threat to sow fear” among Ukraine's supporters, Richard Moore said. without giving details.
Our file on the war in Ukraine
“If Putin is allowed to reduce Ukraine to a vassal state, he will not stop there,” insisted the head of foreign intelligence. “We have not the slightest doubt about the will to win of our Ukrainian friends. The SIS and the DGSE (British and French foreign intelligence) are decisive in calibrating the risks and helping our respective governments to make appropriate decisions” in the face of Russian rhetoric mixing threats and aggression, he added.
