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Ukrainian forces are said to have crossed the Dnieper
Ukrainian forces are reported to have crossed the Dnieper River at the now-liberated city of Kherson this weekend.
According to war analysts at the American think tank Institute for the study of war (ISW), they should have raised a Ukrainian flag on the eastern side.
The soldiers have also released pictures where they are seen crossing the river in boats.
According to ISW, a Russian military blogger predicts that the Ukrainian advance in the Kherson region will accelerate to the northeast as it becomes easier for vehicles to drive over the frozen fields. The Ukrainian governor of Luhansk, Serhiy Hajdaj, made a similar forecast on Friday.
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Russia seizes Ukrainian wheat – worth billions
According to Nasa, this year’s wheat harvest in Ukraine has been better than expected. But a large part of the harvest is in areas that Russia has occupied since the start of the war, TT reports.
With the help of satellite images, researchers have analyzed the harvest in Ukraine and found that it is 26.6 million tons of wheat.
22 percent of the harvest is on land occupied by Russia. This means that Ukraine lost almost six million tons of wheat worth one billion dollars (ten billion Swedish kronor).
Highest support for S in nine years – SD backs the most
The Social Democrats have great support among Swedes, according to a new voter barometer for December which SVT/Novus done.
The party gets 34.2 percent, which is the strongest rating in the survey since December 2013, writes the channel.
The Sweden Democrats fall behind the most in the survey with minus 1.6 percentage points compared to the election in September.
State of emergency in Peru after drought – danger for potatoes and alpacas
Residents of the Apurimac region harvest potatoes. Photo: Guadalupe Pardo/TT News Agency
An extensive drought in the Peruvian part of the Andes mountain range is causing major problems in the country, TT reports.
The situation has led to poor growth in the potato crop, dried up lakes and a difficult situation for the alpacas.
On Saturday, the government declared a state of emergency for 60 days in 100 districts due to water shortage.
Food shortages are also feared to become a reality in the coming months.
The drought is the worst in at least 50 years, according to the news agency.
Man beaten unconscious by gang
A man in his 30s was severely beaten in the western Swedish town of Vara just after midnight. He was jumped on by several people and had to receive several punches in the face. The man was unconscious when he was taken to hospital in an ambulance.
Read more in Aftonbladet’s article.
Steam triggered outbreaks in Stockholm
The emergency services were called at 01:35 to a building on Sveavägen by Tunnelgatan in central Stockholm. A caller thought he saw smoke coming from the roof, but half an hour after the alarm, no fire had been detected.
– We investigate for full mugs, but find no smoke or fire. Now the police will go to the home of the person who raised the alarm. She says she still sees smoke over the roof ridges. It may be a weather phenomenon, but we continue to investigate, said Tommy Wållberg, commanding officer of the rescue service, at 02:30.
Shortly after 03:00, the fire brigade announced that the mystery had been solved:
– It was water vapor from a restaurant. It looked like smoke in the cold weather.
Text updated 03.14
Israel bombed Gaza
During the night of Sunday, Israeli bombers carried out several attacks in Gaza.
According to Israel’s military, the raid was aimed at, among other things, a weapons factory and a tunnel controlled by Hamas.
On Saturday, a rocket was fired from Gaza and landed in a field in southern Israel.
The bombings were followed by air strikes across southern Israel for fear of new rockets, writes Haaretz.
Macron opens up to guarantees for Putin
President Macron is in the United States. Out here walking in New Orleans December 2nd. Photo: Gerald Herbert/AP/TT News Agency
In an interview with the French TV channel TF1 on Saturday, President Emmanuel Macron appeared open to concessions towards Russia.
Macron said according to Reuters that Europe must prepare for what a future security structure will look like.
– This means that one of the important things we have to address, as President Putin has always said, is the fear of NATO coming right up to his doors and the placement of weapons that could threaten Russia, said
Macron, who is in the US after meeting Joe Biden, said France and Europe must discuss “what they are ready to do”:
– How do we protect our allies and member states and how will Russia get guarantees the day they return to the negotiating table?
Building a new nuclear power plant
Iran has started building a new nuclear power plant, according to the country’s atomic energy authority, writes TT.
It is being built in the province of Khuzestan in southwestern Iran and should be completed in eight years.
The announcement comes less than two weeks after Iran stated that it has now enriched uranium up to 60 percent.
Believe in lower inflation going forward
Believe in better times. Photo: Christine Olsson/TT
Deputy Governor of the Riksbank Anna Breman believes that the worst of inflation may be behind us.
– I think we are back to around two percent around the turn of the year to 2024, says Deputy Governor of the Riksbank Anna Breman in SVT’s Economic Agency.
But she says that it can change quickly in a troubled environment and it can have an impact on the Swedish economy.
– It is a very worried world, anything can happen next year.
Thousands of passports left with the police: “Can be destroyed”
After the summer passport chaos, the police have new worries.
172,000 passports have not been retrieved, and now the police have had enough, reports SVT.
– Now we have to start getting tougher. After four months, we will destroy them, says police group leader Örjan Hvass to SVT.
The fact that the passports, which have already been paid for and cost SEK 400 each, have not been collected is something that puzzles the police.
– I think it feels crazy, says Örjan Hvass.
Ten thousand police surround criminal gangs
The government of El Salvador is trying to stop the criminal gangs’ control over the suburb of Soyapango in the capital San Salvador and ordered ten thousand police officers to surround the area on Saturday night, writes TT.
“As of now, Soyapango is completely circumscribed,” President Nayib Bukele wrote on social media.
El Salvador has been fighting the gangs intensively for nine months and so far 58,000 people have been arrested, but has been criticized for, among other things, brutality and summary arrests.
In this Plus article you can read more about the violent gangs in El Salvador and Honduras.
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