kyiv denounces the largest Russian drone attack – L’Express

⇒ The city of kyiv suffered the most massive Russian drone attack since the start of the war

⇒ A former Russian Prime Minister classified as a “foreign agent”

⇒ More than 13,500 Ukrainians have left Russia since July, according to kyiv

Ukraine accused Russia this Saturday of having carried out its largest drone attack on Kiev during the night since the start of the invasion of the country in February 2022. This morning, the Ukrainian air force claimed to have shot down 71 Shahed attack drones launched overnight by Russia. “Most of them were destroyed in the kyiv region,” she said.

An attack which lasted six hours, injuring five people including an 11-year-old child, local authorities said. Falling debris from drones caused fires: nearly 80 residential buildings and more than 100 buildings in kyiv were without power on Saturday morning, according to Ukrainian authorities.

This offensive comes on the day Kiev commemorates the “crimes” committed by the Soviets during the Stalin era against the Ukrainians during the great famine of the 1930s, which caused the death of millions of people. “It is impossible to forget, understand and above all forgive the horrible crimes of genocide that Ukrainians endured in the 20th century,” declared the head of state in a press release.during the day of commemoration of this event called Holodomor.

Nearly 90 years ago, Ukraine lost four to eight million inhabitants in the great famine of 1932-1933, against a backdrop of land collectivization, orchestrated according to historians by Stalin. Volodymyr Zelensky also thanked the countries which officially recognized this famine as a “deliberate crime” of genocide.

Canada and the European Union have reaffirmed their “unwavering” support for Ukraine to fight the Russian invasion. A joint declaration made on the occasion of a Canada-EU summit on Canadian soil, Friday, November 24. “We will work to meet Ukraine’s immediate military and defense needs” and ensure that its “long-term” security needs are met, the two sides added in a joint statement.

Ottawa also took the opportunity to increase its aid to Kiev: “Canada will donate more than 11,000 assault rifles and more than nine million cartridges,” declared Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a conference of press in the town of Saint-Jean, on the Atlantic coast.

Russian justice on Friday classified former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasianov, who was the first head of Vladimir Putin’s government in the early 2000s, as a “foreign agent”. The man ultimately became an opponent of Russian power. autocrat and left Russia denouncing the offensive in Ukraine.

The name of this former Prime Minister therefore now appears in the Ministry of Justice’s register of “foreign agents”. The ministry accuses Mikhail Kasianov of having “opposed the special military operation in Ukraine” and of being “a member of the Russian Anti-War Committee, an association whose activities aim to discredit Russian foreign and domestic policy”.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico on Friday called for the launch of peace negotiations in Ukraine where the war, according to him, “could last until 2030”. This left-wing populist politician became the new head of government of Slovakia after the legislative elections at the end of September, promising in particular to put an end to the military aid programs to Ukraine of previous administrations.

He thus estimated that “it is better to have ten years of negotiations in peace or with a ceasefire, rather than to sit at the negotiating table in ten years, with 500,000 or 600,000 more dead “. Robert Fico, however, stressed that he would not prevent other countries from continuing to help Ukraine militarily.

More than 13,500 Ukrainian civilians have managed to leave Russia since July via a humanitarian corridor, kyiv announced on Friday November 24. A corridor established in the border region of Sumy, in northeastern Ukraine. “Since the resumption of operation [de ce couloir] in July 2023, more than 13,500 Ukrainians returned to Ukraine from Russian territory,” said the Ukrainian Ministry of Reintegration, cited by the Interfax-Ukraine agency. Among them are 1,653 children, said the Ukrainian ministry.