[Korrespondent] 23:08 The IAEA Council adopted the third resolution since the beginning of a full-scale war in Ukraine, in which it called on Russia to stop all actions at Ukrainian nuclear facilities. In it, the organization "expresses its grave concern that the Russian Federation has not heeded the Council's calls to immediately cease all actions against and at nuclear facilities in Ukraine, and asks the Russian Federation to do so immediately."
Also in the resolution, the IAEA called on Russia to immediately withdraw its forces from the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and expressed "serious concern over unacceptable pressure on Ukrainian operational personnel" and their detentions, as well as repeated interruptions in external power supply as a result of shelling of the adjacent territory.
Of the 35 countries, 24 voted in favor of the resolution, two - China and Russia - voted against, seven (Kenya, Namibia, India, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Vietnam) abstained, and two more were absent during the voting.
22:49 Zelensky said that he had a conversation with UN Secretary General António Guterres: "I thanked him for his leadership in continuing the Black Sea Grain Initiative. I am also grateful for the support of the humanitarian initiative of Ukraine - Grain from Ukraine. Ukraine will remain the guarantor of world food security. Grateful for participating in the work Coordinating Council of Ukraine for the Protection and Safety of Children.
22:47 Germany, Poland, Belgium, Japan, Turkey, the United States have already joined the Ukrainian initiative Grain from Ukraine, Zelensky said. According to him, these are only those who have already made a decision, and there will be more participating countries. "The meaning is very simple and as specific as possible. All countries of the world, together with Ukraine, can provide food supplies for those in the world who suffer most from food shortages. We will soon provide more details on how this will work," the president added.
22:24 Zelensky said that today more than 10 million Ukrainians are left without electricity. Most of all - in Vinnitsa, Odessa, Sumy regions and in Kyiv. “Over and over again we repeat to our partners that only the complete protection of the Ukrainian skies will save both Ukraine and Europe from many possible escalations of Russian aggression and will definitely induce Russia to truly end the war. to win some time and gather strength for new strikes, but for real peace," the President stressed.
22:19 Zelensky said in an evening video message that today's decision of the Hague court provides the basis to condemn the perpetrators and the highest level: "Those who bear full personal responsibility for the crime of aggression against Ukraine is the primary crime that gave rise to all the others committed by rashists since 2014 year. This is something without which it is impossible to secure the world from a repetition of such wars as Russian aggression against our state. When all the murderers and executioners are convicted, when Russia compensates for all the losses caused by Russian aggression, this will be a very strong foundation for a long-term peace."
21:48 The political groups of the European Parliament have agreed on the text of a resolution recognizing Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, which is scheduled to be voted on next week, MEP Andrius Kubilius said: "After four hours of negotiations between the political groups of the EP, an agreement was reached on the text." According to him, the resolution will contain the following line: "The European Parliament ... recognizes Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism and a state using terrorist means." The resolution is expected to be discussed and put to a vote in the European Parliament during the November 21-24 session.
21:10 Kuleba said that he had a telephone conversation with his Polish colleague Zbigniew Rau about the missile fall in Poland: "Ukraine and Poland will openly and constructively interact over the incident caused by Russian missile terror against Ukraine. Our experts are already in Poland. We are expecting an early access, in cooperation with Polish law enforcement officers, to the scene of the incident."
20:33 Berlusconi said that it is he who can convince his friend Putin to sit down at the negotiating table and end the war in Ukraine, and intends to do this before Christmas.
20:22 Russia cannot be excluded from the G20, despite the calls of some Western politicians, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said: "The G20 is a wider group of countries working on the principle of consensus. Thus, it is impossible to exclude Russia from this group in the same way as from the G7 ".
19:48 CNN reports, citing several US officials, that the United States is running out of some high-tech weapons systems and ammunition that can be transferred to Ukraine. In particular, 155 mm artillery ammunition and Stinger man-portable air defense missiles are of particular concern. Also among the "scarce" types of weapons are anti-radar missiles HARM, missiles for HIMARS and Javelin missiles.
19:17 The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the course and results of the MH17 trial show that it was based on "a political order to reinforce the version of Russia's involvement." Moscow regrets that the court in The Hague "neglected the principles of impartial justice in favor of political expediency."
18:59 The Swedish Parliament approved the provision of previously announced military assistance to Ukraine for a record $287 million.
18:53 According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, over the past week, about 650 prisoners were recruited in correctional institutions of the Russian Federation - they were sent to the Rostov region for training. In case of injury, medical care of this category will be provided exclusively in hospitals in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.
In some settlements of the Lugansk region, the enemy has tightened administrative and police measures. In particular, the entrances to Rubizhne from the directions of Kremennaya and Varvarovka are closed. The movement of civilians has been restricted in the city and filtration measures have been strengthened. In Mariupol, the occupying authorities plan to deploy units of the National Guard, special forces and rapid response units with a total number of up to 400 people.
The Russians continue the forced evacuation of the population of Ukraine and the removal of property from the temporarily occupied territories of the Kherson region. In particular, on the night of November 16, the invaders forcibly removed the population from Novokievka. In addition, the central city hospital in Nova Kakhovka ceased to function, because all medical equipment and ambulances were stolen and taken in the direction of Crimea.
18:30 The European Commission announced that this month it is coordinating a new delivery of more than 1,800 tons of emergency aid to Ukraine, including in the energy sector, through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism. Thus, the total amount of material assistance sent to Ukraine is 74 thousand tons worth more than 450 million euros, it is supplemented by 523 million euros in the form of financial humanitarian assistance already provided after Russia's illegal invasion.
The latest support comes from Belgium, Finland, Germany, Slovakia, Luxembourg and Sweden. It includes power equipment, shelter items, first aid kits, protective clothing, fire fighting equipment, water carriers and buses, etc.
European Commissioner for Anti-Crisis Management Janez Lenarczych said that the damage to the Ukrainian energy system is approaching critical.
18:21 After a nighttime missile attack on a residential building in Volnyansk, Zaporozhye region, the bodies of seven dead were pulled out from the rubble, search and rescue operations continue, the President's Office reported.
17:47 Today, the Russian Federation again launched air strikes on Ukraine. A gas production facility in the east and a rocket plant in the Dnieper came under fire. Details are in the material A new goal?
17:39 Duda said he understands Zelensky, who spoke about Ukraine's innocence in the fall of a rocket in Poland: "I talked with President Zelensky. This is an extremely difficult situation for Ukraine, and there are great emotions, there is great stress. We remind you that in recent days Ukraine is under extremely heavy rocket fire from Russia."
17:15 Zelensky said that in the MH17 case it is necessary to punish not only the perpetrators, but also the customers: "An important decision of the court in The Hague. The first sentences for those responsible for the downing of MH17. But it is necessary that the customers also find themselves in the dock, because the feeling of impunity leads to new crimes. We must dispel this illusion. Punishment for all Russian atrocities - both then and now - will be inevitable."
17:13 Polish President Andrzej Duda said that no traces of the second fallen rocket were found. Initially, local publications wrote that two rockets fell on the territory of the country.
17:09 Israel, under pressure from the United States, acquired strategic equipment for Ukraine worth millions of dollars and allowed NATO countries to supply Ukraine with their weapons, including optoelectronic equipment and fire control systems, writes Haaretz.
16:45 The Hague court sentenced Girkin, Dubinsky and Kharchenko in absentia to life imprisonment. The court estimated the total amount of compensation for the relatives of the victims of the MH17 crash at more than 16 million euros.
16:36 During a morning missile attack on a critical infrastructure facility in the Izyumsky district of the Kharkiv region, four employees of the enterprise were injured, and during the inspection of the scene, the Russian military repeatedly launched a missile attack on the Izyum region, as a result of which four policemen were injured, the regional prosecutor's office said.
16:33 Finland is transferring the largest package of military assistance to Ukraine since the beginning of the war in the amount of 55.6 million euros, Defense Minister Antti Kaikkonen said. He did not provide details.
16:22 The Hague court found Igor Girkin, Sergey Dubinsky and Leonid Kharchenko guilty of destroying the MH17 aircraft and killing 298 of its passengers. At the same time, the court found Oleg Pulatov not guilty.
The judge stated that the defendants in the MH17 case were not a single group, as the prosecutor's office claimed, but were related to the use of the Buk air defense system. The court also stated that the Buk air defense system, from which MH17 was shot down, was brought from Russia to Ukraine, and then taken back to hide the traces of the crime. At the same time, the court noted that it was impossible to establish the actions of the SAM crew, and it is also unclear who gave the command to launch the missile.
15:50 The Armed Forces of Ukraine control the territory near Crimea, Deputy Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Aleksey Gromov said: "Our servicemen have really reached the coast of the Dnieper River, which allows us to control the territory close to the temporarily occupied peninsula of Crimea. Artillery soldiers and servicemen of the Armed Forces in general Ukraine is doing everything possible to hit the enemy at the maximum range of our weapons."
15:46 Ukrainian experts were allowed to the site of the missile crash in Poland , the Office of the Polish President reported.
15:44 Blinken said that the United States does not see any evidence that would refute Warsaw's conclusions about the fall of a Ukrainian missile in Poland.
15:37 The Hague court approved the decision that the MH17 plane was shot down from the Buk air defense system from the territory of the village of Pervomayskoye, which at that time was controlled by the "DPR" militants. The court considered the version of the prosecution proven and will soon announce the verdict. Russians Igor Girkin (Strelkov), Sergei Dubinsky, Oleg Pulatov, and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko are accused of attacking a civilian aircraft.
Dutch legal expert Marieke de Hoon said that the Hague court recognized Russian control over the actions of the "DPR" from mid-May 2014 and from that moment qualifies the war in the "DPR" as an international armed conflict under the general control of Russia.
15:31 The number of wounded as a result of today's Russian strike on the Dnieper has increased to 23 , of which 15 were hospitalized, one injured in serious condition, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko. The strike was carried out on city blocks at the beginning of the day. An industrial plant, houses, trolleybuses and a busy street were damaged.
15:27 The authorities of Belarus are looking for the possibility of establishing the production of components for shells of 152-mm and 122-mm calibers in the country and plan to switch to a closed cycle of ammunition production in the future. The possibility of organizing a technological process for collecting rockets of 122-mm, 220-mm and 300-mm calibers from imported components is also being clarified, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reports.
In this regard, a visit of the Belarusian delegation to Iran is scheduled for November 20-23. The list of issues for discussion with the Iranian side concerns the entire production cycle - from the technology of steel smelting for ammunition components to the coloring of shells and containers used for their packaging.
15:21 Russian strategic aircraft launched 18 Kh-101 and Kh-555 cruise missiles across Ukraine today. Four missiles were shot down - all of them were eliminated in the sky over the Kiev region, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported. The invaders also launched five Shahed-136 kamikaze drones from Belarus - all of them were also shot down in the Kyiv region. The Russians attacked the south of Ukraine from ships in the Black Sea, launching Caliber missiles, as well as two Su-30 fighters. The latter fired at least six X-59 missiles - two were shot down.
15:05 NATO does not expect large-scale operations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the winter, Deputy Secretary General Mircea Geoana said: "We do not expect great success in the next few months, since the season does not allow for large-scale operations. In the spring, perhaps we will see a more dynamic situation on the ground."
14:57 Kuleba said that he had a telephone conversation with Blinken right during another massive missile strike on Ukraine this morning: "We share the opinion that Russia bears full responsibility for its missile terror and its consequences on the territory of Ukraine, Poland and Moldova. I thanked United States for their vital defense assistance and stressed that the delivery of air defense systems to Ukraine needs to be accelerated. NASAMS has already proven its effectiveness. I am also convinced that the time for Patriot has come."
14:48 The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that in Pavlograd, Dnepropetrovsk region, the workshops of a defense enterprise for the production of fuel and rocket engines for the Ukrainian army were allegedly destroyed, and in Zaporozhye, the workshops of the Iskra research and production complex, which allegedly produced electronic components for the repair of radar stations and jet salvo fire systems.
14:46 Peskov, commenting on Zelensky's statement about the negotiations, said that there are no public negotiations: "And even more so public negotiations to such an extent. But one thing is clear - the Ukrainian side does not want any negotiations. The special military operation continues, and its goals should be achieved."
14:42 The Russians fired at Chasov Yar in the Donetsk region from MLRS in the morning, as a result of which three people were injured. A kindergarten, a boiler room and at least nine houses were damaged, Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA, said.
14:26 In Ukraine, due to Russian attacks, 40% of consumers remain without electricity, said Dmitry Sakharuk, Executive Director of DTEK. According to him, the Kyiv region needs to be prepared for the fact that there will be no electricity for several days. Because of this, there will be not planned outages, but planned inclusions - for a maximum of 2-3 hours.
13:42 Russian troops, after retreating from the right bank of the Kherson region, can transfer their forces to the Donbass. Also, the Zaporozhye direction or the pulling up of reserves for a second invasion from Belarus is not ruled out, said Alexei Gromov, deputy head of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to him, it is now extremely important for the enemy to establish control over the Donetsk region.
13:39 There are 16 checkpoints in Kherson where they are looking for collaborators, Interior Minister Denis Monastyrsky said. According to him, the National Police has lists of traitors who helped the Russians. They were transferred to checkpoints. According to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 763 people have already been checked in the Kherson region, five of them were detained and handed over to the SBU on suspicion of collaborating activities.
13:36 Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that Ukraine's preconditions for the start of negotiations are unacceptable, "Russia's position on protecting its territorial integrity is unshakable."
13:33 Zelensky said at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum conference that there is no more corruption in Ukraine - all corrupt officials have left the country, "and we will do everything so that they stay where they are now."
He also admitted that Ukraine could resume the transit of Russian ammonia in the event of an "all for all" exchange of prisoners of war. The President once again stated that Kyiv would negotiate with Russia if it withdraws its troops and admits that what it has done is a tragedy.
13:27 Since November 11, Russia has launched 148 missile strikes on Ukraine, 111 of them on November 15, said Alexei Gromov, deputy chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff. In particular, on Thursday, November 17, Russia fired 16 cruise missiles and five drones at Ukraine (including gas production infrastructure). In total, since November 11, 102 air targets have been shot down.
Gromov also said that during the counter-offensive, the Armed Forces of Ukraine reached the line along the right bank of the Dnieper, freed up to 5580 square meters. km of territory and 198 settlements.
12:50 Belarusian border guards reported that the Ukrainian military began construction of a reinforced concrete fence on the border, barbed wire was installed on top in two rows.
12:38 In the Kiev region, air defense forces today shot down several enemy targets that were aiming at critical infrastructure. There were no strikes in the region, but there were hits in other regions of Ukraine, which also affects the energy system of the Kyiv region, said OVA head Oleksiy Kuleba. According to him, the situation with electricity in the region remains difficult, emergency shutdowns continue.
12:33 The Russians today massively fired at the gas production infrastructure of Ukrgasdobycha JSC in eastern Ukraine , said Oleksiy Chernyshev, chairman of the board of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine. According to him, at present it is known about several destroyed objects, others received damage of varying degrees. Information about the consequences and scale of the attack, as well as the victims, is being specified.
12:29 Ukrainian specialists will participate in the investigation of the missile fall in Poland, Zelensky said at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum conference: “Yesterday we received confirmation that our specialists will take part in the investigation. Until the investigation is completed, we cannot say exactly which missiles or parts of them fell on the territory of Poland. But we saw pictures of the diameter of the funnel. It could not be just the remnants of anti-missile systems."
12:24 In the Odessa region, the enemy fired Caliber from the Black Sea today, and using tactical aircraft from two Su-30s sent six air-launched missiles. In Odessa, an infrastructure facility was hit, one person was injured, the buildings of neighboring enterprises were damaged by the blast wave. All six missiles were destroyed by the air defense forces over the sea, said Serhiy Bratchuk, spokesman for the UVA.
12:17 Erdogan said that after the contacts between the heads of intelligence of Russia and the United States in Ankara, he received information from the head of Turkish intelligence that the parties would refrain from using nuclear weapons: "The information that I received from my intelligence chief about whether Russia and the United States will use nuclear weapons here is that for the time being both sides will not make any attempt to use nuclear weapons."
Erdogan also said that he was counting on the continuation of meetings between the heads of Russian and American intelligence in Turkey.
12:02 Lithuanians have purchased a marine drone for Ukraine for $250,000, journalist Andrius Tapinas said. The drone was named PEACE Dec - this name got 12,000 votes. Now Lithuania is raising funds for another drone for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
11:55 During the air raid, which lasted about three hours, four missiles and five Shahed UAVs were destroyed over Kiev, the KGVA reported.
11:32 Certain evidence has already been collected at the site of the missile crash in Poland, demonstrating the sequence of events, the head of the Bureau of International Policy under the President of the country, Jakub Kumoch, told TVN24: “Today there is a lot of evidence that one of the missiles that was supposed to shoot down the Russian missile , did not hit the target, the self-destruct system did not work, and this rocket, unfortunately, led to a tragedy."
According to him, there are no objections from the American side of the Polish-American investigative team regarding the participation of Ukrainians in the investigation, so "such access may be provided in the near future."
11:28 Zelensky said on Bloomberg Global Financial News that he does not know 100% whose rocket fell in Poland: "I don't know what happened this time, we don't know 100%, I think the world doesn't either knows 100% But I am sure that there was a Russian missile and that we used air defense missiles... But we must be fair and honest, until the investigation is completed, we cannot say what type of missile was the fragments of which fell on the territory Poland".
11:25 The number of wounded as a result of the Russian missile attack on the Dnieper has increased to 14 people , said the head of the OVA Valentin Reznichenko.
11:22 The Russians launched rocket attacks on the critical infrastructure of the Izyumsky district, three people were injured, the head of the Kharkiv OVA Oleg Sinegubov said.
11:15 Zelensky showed the moment of today's missile attack on the Dnieper:
10:48 The number of victims of attacks on the Dnieper has increased to eight, Mayor Boris Filatov said.
10:36 UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said he welcomes the agreement of all parties to extend the grain deal. He also said that the UN is fully committed to removing the remaining obstacles to the export of food and fertilizer from Russia.
10:33 The death toll from a nighttime strike on a residential building in Volnyansk, Zaporozhye region, has risen to four, the President's Office reported. Rescue and search work continues.
10:29 Shmyhal said at the Kiev International Economic Forum that Russia had attacked the Southern Machine-Building Plant in Dnipro: "Now missiles are flying over Kiev. Now our gas production is being bombed, our enterprises in Dnipro, Yuzhmash are being bombed ."
10:25 Russian missiles hit two districts of the Dnieper. In particular, there was a hit in an industrial enterprise, a strong fire broke out there, residential buildings nearby were damaged. Previously, five wounded, among them a 15-year-old girl. All the wounded are in a state of moderate severity, said the head of the OVA, Valentin Reznichenko.
10:23 Two Iranian drones were shot down over the Kiev reservoir, the Kiev city military administration said. In just the last hour, the air force shot down two cruise missiles and one Shahed UAV in the capital area. In addition, three Shahed drones were destroyed by air defense forces.
10:12 On Thursday, November 17, schedules of hourly power outages are applied throughout Ukraine throughout the day, as well as emergency shutdowns. As reported by Ukrenergo, due to a sharp cold snap, electricity consumption has increased in those regions of Ukraine where electricity supply has already been restored after massive missile strikes on November 15. This further aggravated the situation in the power system.
09:44 According to preliminary information, two cruise missiles were shot down over Kiev. There are no data on casualties and destruction, the information is being specified, the KGVA said.
09:40 The grain agreement has been extended for another 120 days - a corresponding decision has just been made in Istanbul, said Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov. The UN and Turkey remained the guarantors of the implementation of the initiative.
Since August 1, when the grain initiative began, to date, Ukraine has exported more than 11 million tons of agricultural products to 38 countries of the world. Ukraine has officially approached the partners in the initiative with a proposal to extend the initiative for at least one year and to add the port of Nikolaev to it. Now Kyiv is waiting for a response.
09:37 Western allies of Kiev held the seventh meeting in the Ramstein format. This time the meeting took place against the backdrop of a massive missile attack on Ukraine and the fall of missiles on Polish territory. All the main results and statements following the meeting are in the material What weapons will Ukraine receive .
09:35 British intelligence predicts that a decrease in power in the energy system of Ukraine will affect the population's access to communications, heating and water supply. The degradation of Ukraine's national infrastructure has become a key element of Russia's strategic approach to the campaign, analysts say.
09:32 The General Staff announced the approximate losses of the enemy on the morning of November 17th.
- personnel - about 83,110 (+400) people liquidated,
- tanks - 2878 (+7),
- armored combat vehicles - 5804 (+7),
- artillery systems - 1860 (+0),
- MLRS - 393 (+0),
- air defense systems - 209 (+0),
- aircraft - 278 (+0),
- helicopters - 261 (+0),
- UAV operational-tactical level - 1531 (+6),
- cruise missiles - 474 (+0),
- ships/boats - 16 (+0),
- automotive equipment and tankers - 4362 (+2),
- special equipment - 160 (+0).
09:23 The Russians have just shelled the Dnieper, there are several hits on two infrastructure facilities. According to preliminary data, one person was injured, the President's Office said.
09:21 The head of the Odessa OVA announced a missile attack on an infrastructure facility in the region during the morning air raid. According to him, there is a threat of a massive missile strike across the entire territory of Ukraine.
09:19 At night, the Russians launched a missile attack on one of the settlements in the Volnyanshchina of the Zaporozhye region. As a result of the rocket hit, in particular, a two-story residential building was destroyed. Under the rubble were people, according to preliminary data, two of them died, said the head of the OVA Alexander Starukh.
09:17 Air defense works in the Kiev region, said the head of the OVA Alexei Kuleba.
09:15 The past day, the enemy fired at the cities of Kupyansk and Volchansk and other settlements of the Kupyansky and Chuguevsky districts of the Kharkiv region, located not far from the collision line. In the Kupyansky district, three people were hospitalized with injuries, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the regional police department.
09:11 In the Donetsk region over the past day, as a result of Russian shelling, four civilians were injured - three in Bakhmut and one in Pereezdnoy. In addition, law enforcement officers found the body of one civilian killed during the occupation in Sosnovoe, said Pavel Kirilenko, head of the OVA.
08:56 According to preliminary estimates, more than 130 thousand square meters are contaminated with explosive objects. km of the territory of Ukraine is almost a third of the territory of the state. According to the Directorate of Engineering Troops of the Command of Support Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, since February, sappers have checked for the presence of explosive objects more than 841 hectares of terrain, 32 km of power lines, 28 km of gas pipelines, 82 km of roads, 57 thousand square meters. m of buildings, detected and neutralized more than 31 thousand units of explosive objects.
08:41 The American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) writes that Russia has begun to openly campaign for the forced removal and adoption of Ukrainian children. Thus, a propaganda "series" about several Ukrainian children from Donbass, who were forcibly adopted into Russian families, began to be distributed in the Russian Federation. Analysts point out that in the videos they filmed, they present data that more than 150,000 minors were "evacuated" from the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Earlier, Zelensky stated that the invaders illegally deported at least 11,000 children from Ukraine to the Russian Federation - these are only those whose names are already known.
08:35 Emergency blackouts have been introduced in Kyiv, emergency shutdown schedules that were drawn up earlier are not yet in effect, DTEK said.
08:13 Over the past day, units of the Defense Forces of Ukraine repelled attacks by invaders in the areas of the settlements of Stelmakhovka and Belogorovka in the Luhansk region and Verkhnekamenskoye, Soledar, Nevelskoye, Maryinka and Pervomayskoye in the Donetsk region, the General Staff said in the morning report .
06:26 Canada will allocate additional military assistance to Ukraine for 34 million Canadian dollars (25.5 million US dollars) and extend its mission to train the Ukrainian military in the UK as part of Operation Unifier until the end of 2023, the Canadian Ministry of Defense announced. The money will be used to provide the Armed Forces with satellite imagery, as well as high-resolution drone cameras, winter equipment, including portable heaters, thermal blankets and sleeping bags.
04:02 Khmelnitsky and Rivne nuclear power plants suffered from a massive shelling of the Russians on November 15, said IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi. According to him, this indicates the potential nuclear safety risks that all nuclear facilities in Ukraine face during the war, and not just the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. "The situation with nuclear safety and security in Ukraine could suddenly worsen, increasing the risk of a nuclear accident," he added.
00:15 Zelensky said that until Ukrainian air defense shoots down at least 90% of missiles, the authorities will not call on Ukrainians to return from abroad: "Now we have statistics - we shoot down 70%. If we shoot down 90-95%, we would tell people: this is a risk, but we tell you frankly - the economy of the state cannot and will die without you. Indeed, it does not exist without people who work. But I cannot say this, because I cannot provide guarantees today, that our Air Force will protect our skies by 90-95%, preferably 100%".