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News of the day
His name was Andriï Korotky and he was “responsible for security” at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe. This man was killed this Friday morning in a car bomb attack, confirmed by both Ukraine and Russia. The Zaporizhia power station is occupied by Russian forces. And Ukrainian military intelligence (GRU) accused Andriï Korotky of having “voluntarily cooperated with the Russian invaders” and of having denounced “pro-Ukrainian” employees of the plant, thus participating in the “repression” of the personnel by the occupant.
In this context, the authorities of the Zaporizhia power station, subservient to Russia, denounced a “terrorist attack committed by the Kiev regime”. The director of the plant, Yuri Tchernitchouk, speaking of an “irresponsible” attack.
Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Ukrainian secret services have been behind several assassinations or assassination attempts in the occupied territories or in Russia itself, targeting those responsible for the occupation, soldiers or personalities supporting the invasion of Ukraine.
The number of the day
5 million euros. The sum found by Ukrainian police at the home and office of an official suspected of having helped resisters avoid military mobilization. The National Investigation Bureau (DBR) announced that it had discovered “nearly six million dollars” in various currencies, as well as jewelry and other valuables, in the apartment of this head of the medical commission of the Khmelnytsky region (in the west of the country), responsible for assessing the suitability of men for mobilization. The manager, identified by the media as Tetiana Kroupa, and her son, director of the regional branch of the state pension fund, were placed in pre-trial detention on Thursday, said the DBR spokesperson. During the searches, the suspect tried to get rid of part of the money by throwing two bags with the equivalent of more than 450,000 euros out the window.
This information caused a wave of indignation on social networks, while the structures in charge of mobilizing soldiers are widely considered corrupt and the Ukrainian army is cruelly lacking in recruits.
Sentence of the day
« Fuck Iran ! Fuck Russia ! » »
These explicit slogans were chanted and displayed on their bare breasts by two Femen activists who came this Friday to demonstrate in front of the Iranian embassy in kyiv.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized Iran in September at the UN for being involved in Russia’s war effort. After the Iranian-made Shahed explosive drones, which Russia widely uses to strike its neighbor, Tehran is also accused of having supplied short-range missiles to Russia,
Today’s trend
There is nothing better for the morale of the troops than to highlight the most resounding feats of arms. This is what Volodymyr Zelensky did this Friday by choosing, for his return to the front, to go to the Sumy region to meet the soldiers participating, on the other side of the border, in the offensive carried out since August in the Russian region of Kursk. “In a long war, it’s not just about motivating the troops. We need to motivate the whole world and [le] convince that the Ukrainians can be stronger than the enemy,” he told his troops according to a video.
The Ukrainian president saw the fighters of the 82nd Airborne Assault Brigade, engaged in the offensive on Russian territory, and listened to the report of the commander of this unit. In particular, he decorated soldiers, accompanied by the commander-in-chief of the army Oleksandr Syrsky, in an underground shelter.
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As a reminder, the offensive on Kursk aimed to force Russia to redeploy troops engaged in the fighting further south, in the Donetsk region, to this area. But it failed, the Russians still continuing to advance in the area.
