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5 mins ago
Festive trees are installed in Kyiv, as the mayor says: "We can't let Putin steal our Christmas"
By Olga Voitovych
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko stands with troops at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 6.
(Photo: Genya Savilov/AFP/Getty Images)
The mayor of the Ukrainian capital has declared that Christmas trees will be installed throughout Kyiv to celebrate the holidays.
"We cannot let Putin steal Christmas from us," Vitali Klitschko told the Ukrainian media RBC-Ukraine.
Although mass events will be prohibited by martial law, "no one is going to cancel New Year and Christmas, and there must be a New Year atmosphere," he added.
The trees will be installed but without their lights on, according to the Ukrainian energy company YASNO.
Millions of Ukrainians are plunged into an energy crisis after Russian airstrikes against electrical infrastructure.
Christmas trees will be installed in different locations around the city, including the iconic Hagia Sophia square.
Klitschko said the trees will be installed "to remind our children of the New Year's mood. We don't want to take Saint Nicholas away from children."
9 mins ago
NATO will continue its "critical" and unprecedented support for Ukraine, says alliance chief
By Lauren Kent
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a joint press conference in The Hague, the Netherlands, on November 14.
(Photo: Piroschka Van de Wouw/Reuters)
NATO's unprecedented and "critical" support in Ukraine continues, the alliance chief said on Tuesday.
"Our relationship is a very close partnership, it is a relationship where NATO allies have shown their willingness to support Ukraine in an unprecedented way," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.
"When the invasion happened, NATO was not taken by surprise. Actually, we have been preparing, we have been ready to deal with situations like this since we started the great adaptation of NATO in 2014," Stoltenberg told reporters. in Bucharest, Romania.
Stoltenberg reiterated that the war started in 2014, referring to Moscow's annexation of Crimea, with Canadian, British and US NATO troops helping train Ukrainian forces that year.
"The war did not start in February of this year, the war started in the spring of 2014. And since then, NATO has implemented the biggest reinforcement, the biggest adaptation of our alliance since the end of the Cold War, with more presence in the eastern part of our alliance".
"So the reality was that when the invasion took place in February of this year — compared to 2014 — Ukrainian troops and armed forces were much better trained, much larger, much better equipped and much better led," Stoltenberg said. .
"That's one of the main reasons they were able to fight back."
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Of course, the gains and the victories that the Ukrainians have achieved, that belongs to the bravery, the courage of the Ukrainian troops and armed forces," Stoltenberg added. "But it has been fundamental that they have received the support of the partners of the NATO, and we will continue to do so."
"The main objective now is to support Ukraine, to ensure that President Putin does not win, but rather that Ukraine prevails as a sovereign and independent nation in Europe."
"It's a mix of, in part, more presence in the east, we've already doubled the number of groups, but we're also working on how to scale those battle groups from battalions to brigade size levels quickly."
"So the combination of more presence, assigned troops, more preparation, pre-positioned equipment, all of this will strengthen our ability to react and act.
"The goal of all of this, is every day, 24 hours a day, to provide credible deterrence and defense. And in doing so, we're not provoking conflict, we're preserving the peace, preventing conflict."
Stoltenberg added that the alliance is working to develop the agreement reached at the NATO summit held in Madrid earlier this year.
9 mins ago
Dnipro was hit by Russian missiles on Monday night, according to Ukrainian officials
By Josh Pennington
The Ukrainian city of Dnipro was the target of a Russian rocket attack on Monday night, according to Valentyn Reznichenko, the head of the Dnipropetrovsk regional military administration.
"Several rockets were launched into the city tonight. They targeted a private company. Manufacturing facilities were destroyed. A fire broke out," Reznichenko posted on Telegram.
He did not reveal the identity of the company.
Some background
: Dnipro is frequently the target of Russian missiles and other long-range weapons.
On Saturday, Reznichenko said at least 13 people were injured in a Russian rocket attack.
12 mins ago
More than half of the damaged heating installations in Ukraine have been restored, according to the state company
By Julia Kesaeva
People walk past damaged buildings in Borodyanka, Ukraine, on November 9.
(Photo: Ed Ram/Getty Images)
More than half of the damaged heating installations in Ukraine have been restored, according to the YASNO energy company, which supplies electricity and natural gas.
The general director of the company said that "316 heat supply installations have already been restored, which represents 53.3% of the total installations affected".
"Despite constant shelling, Ukraine has started the heating season: 99.7% of boilers have started working, 99.6% of residential buildings, 97.9% of kindergartens, 98 .9% of schools and 99.9% of sanitary facilities have been heated," said YASNO Director General Sergey Kovalenko.
"Special efforts are now being made to restore the operation of heat generating companies in the liberated territories of Kharkiv and Kherson regions, where the situation of access to communications remains difficult," he added.
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