LIVE: Day 280 of Russian aggression against Ukraine

rl, mw 30.11.2022, 07:12 |updated: 21:13
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NATO allies promised more arms for Kyiv and equipment to help restore Ukrainian power and heat knocked out by Russian strikes, as Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Moscow's forces were attempting to advance in multiple regions.

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The spokesman of the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Yurii Ihnat, says that the fact Russia has not used Iranian suicide drones to attack Ukraine for about two weeks sugests it ran out of them.

"We haven't seen these Iranian UAVs for about two weeks now, maybe more," said Ihnat "It's likely that the first batch that came to them has finally ended. Because, it was more than 400 UAVs deployed in Ukraine of this type, I mean Shahed-136. Of them, approximately 340 were eliminated by air defense of these UAVs. There was information that Russia ordered a total of 1,740 of them" Ihnat said on the air of the information telethon.

He assumed that the Russian Federation probably does not have the opportunity to receive Iranian drones in the future. "Possibly, political processes are underway, the situation in the Middle East is not simple either. Iran is in very serious and difficult circumstances, and other countries can influence it," Ihnat said.

Source: Unian information agency

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“In order to replenish current losses of units of Russian occupation troops, early graduation of cadets from higher military training institutions of the Russian Federation is planned in the first quarter of 2023.

In addition, on the territory of the Russian Federation, preparatory measures are underway for the next wave of mobilisation, scheduled for January-February 2023.”

Source: Main Directorate of Intelligence (HUR), Ukrainian military intelligence

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Mykhailo Podoliak, adviser to the President of Ukraine, was responding to Russian Deputy FM Naryshkin’s claims that Poland has made plans to annex part of western Ukraine. Aside from how preposterous the claim is, it the irony of raising an alarm over purported Polish annexation plans as something bad while claiming to have annexed large part of Ukraine by holding illegal referendums has eluded Mr. Naryshkin.

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The Russians have shown no indication that they will stop or slow attacks on civilian infrastructure in Ukraine, and Washington believes military operations will persist through winter months, possibly curtailed by weather, White House national security spokesman John Kirby said on Wednesday.

Source: Reuters

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Ukraine needs the U.S. made Patriot missile defence systems to protect its civilian infrastructure, under heavy attack by Russia, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Wednesday, adding he would be working with the German government on this issue.

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The European Union will try to set up a specialised court, backed by the United Nations, to investigate and prosecute possible war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine, European Commision President Ursula Von Der Leyen said on Wednesday.

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The European Commission on Wednesday said proposed a plan to confiscate Russian assets that have been frozen to punish Moscow for the invasion of Ukraine.

"We have blocked EUR 300 bn of the Russian Central Bank reserves and we have frozen EUR 19 bn of Russian oligarchs' money," Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Union's executive said in a statement.

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Since February 24, when Russia invaded Ukraine, more than 8.07 million people have crossed the Polish-Ukrainian border into Poland, the Border Guard (SG) tweeted on Wednesday morning.

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Britain on Wednesday said it had agreed in principle a digital trade deal with Ukraine, the eastern European country's first such agreement as it seeks support for its economy following Russia's invasion.

source: TVP World