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News about the Russia-Ukraine war: That happened on Monday night (November 28)

2022-11-28T03:51:01.390Z


President Zelenskyj sees Ukraine facing difficult months - with cold and shelling. Kiev's mayor does not want to be criticized. And: The SPD leader is addressing the armaments industry. The most important developments.


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Consequences of the war in the Kharkiv region (on November 24)

Photo: SERGIY KOZLOV / EPA

That says Kyiv

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has prepared his compatriots for a harsh winter with fierce Russian attacks.

"As long as they have missiles, they will not rest," said Zelenskyy in his video address on Sunday evening about the Russian soldiers.

The Ukrainian army is preparing to repel further shelling.

"Russia is trying to use the cold against the people this winter," said Zelenskyj, referring to Moscow's targeted attacks on Ukrainian power and thermal power plants.

He called on the Ukrainians to give special support to people in need during the cold season.

Now cohesion is required.

"Together we will get through everything," said the head of state.

More than nine months after the start of the Russian war of aggression, particularly fierce fighting is raging in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk.

The recently liberated city of Cherson in the south is also repeatedly shelled by the Russian army.

In freezing temperatures, many Ukrainian households are temporarily or even completely without heating, electricity and water.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has denied President Zelenskyy allegations that he is not doing enough to protect citizens in the face of power outages and wintry temperatures.

There are 430 so-called warming centers for the people of Kiev, and another hundred are planned if the situation worsens, Klitschko explained.

"I don't want to get involved in political disputes," he wrote in the short message service Telegram.

'It's pointless.

I have things to do in the city.« Zelenskyj had complained last week that he had received many complaints about the measures taken in the capital, given the damage to the infrastructure.

Ukraine has reported further progress in supplying electricity to the recently liberated regional capital, Kherson, in the south of the country.

In the meantime, around 17 percent of households have been connected to the electricity grid again, regional governor Yaroslav Yanuschevych announced on Sunday evening.

The deputy chief of the presidential office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, published a photo taken in the dark on Telegram, which shows individual illuminated house windows.

After several months under Russian occupation, the Ukrainian army recaptured the city of Cherson and other places in the region of the same name in mid-November.

Since then, the city, which once had 300,000 inhabitants, has not only been exposed to fierce Russian attacks, but has also been struggling with massive problems with the electricity, heat and water supply.

In view of the difficult situation, the Ukrainian government started driving civilians to other parts of the country to spend the winter a few days ago.

humanitarian situation

According to Ukrainian sources, Russia continues to restrict grain exports by delaying ship inspections.

"It used to be 40 inspections a day, now there are five times fewer inspections due to Russia's position," Ukraine's Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov wrote on his official Facebook page.

Around 4.2 million tons of grain left the Ukrainian ports in October, and according to Kubrakov, fewer than three million tons will be exported in November.

77 ships are waiting for the inspections in Turkey, although the three Black Sea ports are only half utilized.

In mid-November, Russia confirmed the extension of the grain agreement with Ukraine, which is important for global food exports.

International reactions

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak does not want to cut back on the aid given to Ukraine by his predecessors.

This emerges from an excerpt of a speech that the head of government intends to hold on Monday.

“We will stand by Ukraine for as long as it takes.

And we will maintain or increase the level of our military aid in the coming year.

And we will provide new help for air defense," Sunak will say, according to the excerpts.

According to national figures, Great Britain is the country with the largest armaments aid for Ukraine after the USA with 2.3 billion pounds (2.7 billion euros).

In view of the lack of equipment in the Bundeswehr, SPD leader Lars Klingbeil has called on the German defense industry to quickly build up production capacities.

Overall, the misconception that there are large cupboards somewhere with personal equipment for soldiers or tanks must be dispelled.

"All of this has to be produced," said Klingbeil on Sunday evening in the ARD program "Report from Berlin".

If the German armaments industry, which has been reducing more and more capacity over the past few years, cannot do this, one must also look for armaments abroad.

The USA or other NATO countries could be considered.

"One thing is clear: we need fast, good equipment for the Bundeswehr, and we have to work flat out on that," said Klingbeil.

Klingbeil said that after the Russian attack on Ukraine on February 24 or the government statement by Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) on February 27, he had expected industry to rebuild these capacities "at a tremendous speed".

"But to wait and say, first let's see what politics offers us, that's not an attitude with which we will now successfully reduce these deficits." On February 27, Scholz had a massive rearmament and a special program for the Bundeswehr Amount of 100 billion euros announced.

what is happening today

  • The Chancellery is advising experts from the armaments industry on the crisis in ammunition procurement for the Bundeswehr.

    The Bundeswehr suffers from a lack of ammunition, for example, because too little was ordered for years.

    The German industry had reduced their capacities because of the austerity measures or stopped production.

    Now there is also stronger demand from the ranks of the allies - among other things as a result of the Ukraine war.

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Source: spiegel

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