NATO reaffirms its support for kyiv after Russia fires an intermediate-range ballistic missile on Ukrainian soil

Russia confirmed on Tuesday that it had been targeted again by two Ukrainian strikes carried out using American ATACMS missiles, a weapon against which Moscow has promised a severe response. The defense ministry said “prepare a response” in the face of these attacks, which Russia considers to cross a red line.

The British government has supplied kyiv with dozens of Storm Shadow cruise missiles, Bloomberg reports. It is the first time since he became prime minister that Keir Starmer, who has promised continued support for Ukraine, has authorized these deliveries.

“Last night, the Russian army launched 4 Iskander-M missiles and 188 drones into Ukraine”Anton Gerashchenko, former Ukrainian deputy interior minister, said this morning on Telegram. “Essential infrastructure has been affected. In Ternopil [????]the electricity is cut and we do not yet know when it will be restored”continues Mr. Gerashchenko.

Russian troops are advancing rapidly in Ukraine, occupying nearly 235 square kilometers of territory over the past week, writes Russia’s independent investigative media Agency. While the front line of around 1,000 km was largely static over the past two years, the Russians have captured around 600 to 667 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory since the beginning of November, Reuters said.

Moscow disseminated these explosive charges in “cities, farms, public transport stations”accused the Ukrainian defense ministry. At the international summit in Siem Reap, Cambodia, Oleksandr Riabtsev said these threats concern regions where some six million Ukrainians reside. kyiv announces that it has renounced 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.

NATO ambassadors reaffirmed their support for kyiv on Tuesday after Russia fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile on Ukrainian soil. This attack “is seen as another attempt by Russia to terrorize the civilian population in Ukraine and intimidate those who support Ukraine” in its war against Russia, according to a press release from the Atlantic Alliance. She “will not prevent allies from supporting Ukraine.” For their part, the foreign ministers of the G7 countries denounced the« escalade » from Moscow with this launch of a ballistic missile.

A court in the Kursk region examined the case behind closed doors on Monday, November 26, and decided to incarcerate James Anderson, according to a statement from its press service published on Tuesday. Mr. Anderson is accused of crossing “illegally” the Russian border before taking part in the “hostilities” in the Kursk region on behalf of the Ukrainian army, according to the same source.

The Russian secret service (FSB) said it had found “signs of espionage and subversive activities carried out by this diplomat”Russian news agencies reported on Tuesday. The diplomat is also accused of having communicated “false” personal information to the authorities upon arrival in the country.

In an interview with the websiteEuropean Truth, Jan Lipavsky, the Czech Foreign Minister, believes that a possible suspension of American aid to Ukraine by Donald Trump will not have an immediate effect on the ground. “The Biden administration will now transfer the remaining support approved by Congress to Ukraine. Ukraine will be able to use these resources for a certain period of time. »

The Ukrainian Defense Ministry announced on Tuesday that it had suspended the use of defective 120 mm mortar shells used by the army. “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. Ukrainian war correspondent Yuri Boutoussov gave the same figure on Sunday, denouncing a “criminal negligence”.

Ukraine on Tuesday accused Russian forces of killing Ukrainian soldiers who had surrendered on November 13 in the village of Petrivka (????), near Pokrovsk. “Five Ukrainian servicemen retreated and hid in a house, which was then surrounded by the enemy”specified the Ukrainian General Prosecutor’s Office.