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Zelensky says over 10 mn Ukrainians without electricity

Kyiv, Ukraine | AFP | President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday that millions of Ukrainians had no electricity, as fresh Russian strikes hit cities across Ukraine and crippled the country’s energy infrastructure. “Currently, more than 10 million Ukrainians are without electricity,” he said, adding that the regions of Odessa, Vinnytsia, Sumy and Kyiv were most affected. “We are doing everything to normalise the supply,” Zelensky added. Ukraine has faced strikes against its power grid following battlefield […]

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New wave of Russian strikes batter Ukraine grid as first snow falls

by Ania TSOUKANOVA Agence France-Presse KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) — Fresh Russian strikes hit cities across Ukraine on Thursday, crippling the country’s energy infrastructure and plunging millions into darkness as winter sets in and temperatures drop. Repeated barrages have disrupted electricity and water supplies across Ukraine, but the Kremlin blamed civilians’ suffering on Kyiv’s refusal to negotiate, rather than on Russian attacks. AFP journalists in several Ukrainian cities said the latest assault coincided with the season’s […]

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One dead in Greece migrant dinghy sinking: coastguard

ATHENS, Greece (AFP) – Greece’s coastguard on Thursday said a man drowned and several more were rescued in the latest migrant boat sinking in the Aegean Sea. The coastguard said two of its patrol boats responded to a distress call near the island of Kos late on Wednesday. They found 11 men in the water, one of them unconscious. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Kos harbor, the coastguard said. Two weeks ago, two migrant […]

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UK orders Chinese-owned firm to sell most of chip maker

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – The UK government on Wednesday ordered a Chinese-owned company to divest most of Britain’s biggest semiconductor maker, in a move likely to antagonize Beijing. Business Secretary Grant Shapps was blocking the full takeover of Newport Wafer Fab by Nexperia following a “detailed national security assessment”, a government spokesperson said in a statement. Shapps was requiring Nexperia to sell at least 86 percent of the Wales-based chip fabricator “to prevent against potential […]

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Zelensky asks allies for ‘all data’ in Poland missile row

KYIV, Ukraine (AFP) – President Volodymyr Zelensky called Wednesday for Ukraine’s allies to share “all the data” held on the missile that landed in Poland, which Kyiv insists was fired by Russia, a claim contradicted by Warsaw. Two people were killed on Tuesday when at least one missile hit the village of Przewodow near the Ukrainian border, during a mass Russian bombardment aimed at civilian infrastructure inside Western-backed Ukraine. In the immediate aftermath of the incident […]

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Russia accuses Ukraine of Poland missile blast

© Agence France-Presse Russia on Wednesday accused Ukraine of a deadly blast in Poland, with Belgium saying it was probably caused by Kyiv’s air defences firing at Moscow’s incoming missiles. The explosion in a farm building on Tuesday killed two people, leaving the village of Przewodow in shock and sparking international concern over a possible further escalation of the conflict. Ambassadors from members of the NATO military alliance went into emergency talks in Brussels after […]

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Poland blast was likely caused by Ukraine air defense: Belgian defence minister

Brussels, Belgium | AFP | The explosion that killed two Polish civilians in a village near the Ukraine border was probably caused by Ukrainian air defence units firing at incoming Russian missiles, the Belgian defence minister said Wednesday. “The missile strikes in Poland last night are being fully investigated by our intelligence service, which is in close contact with NATO partner services,” Ludivine Dedonder said in a statement. “Based on the preliminary information available, the […]

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‘Unlikely’ Poland missile fired from Russia: President Biden

  Nusa Dua, Indonesia | AFP | by Sara HUSSEIN / Sebastian Smith US President Joe Biden said Wednesday it was “unlikely” a missile strike on Poland was launched from Russia, speaking after emergency talks with allies in Bali about the deadly attack. Biden huddled with G7 and NATO partners on Wednesday, hours after the strike that killed two people in a Polish village near the border with Ukraine. “We agreed to support Poland’s investigation […]

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Biden, Sunak call Russian bombing of Ukrainian civilians ‘barbaric’

NUSA DUA, Indonesia (AFP) — US President Joe Biden and his British counterpart Rishi Sunak called Russian President Vladimir Putin’s targeting of Ukrainian civilians “barbaric” on Wednesday at a G20 summit in Bali. “At a moment when world leaders here in Bali are seeking to make progress on world peace, Putin is striking civilian targets — children, women. I mean, it’s almost — my words, not yours — barbaric,” Biden said at a meeting with […]

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Polish president says no ‘unequivocal evidence’ of who fired missile

WARSAW, Poland (AFP) — Poland’s president said there was no clear evidence of who fired the missile that killed two people in a Polish village on Tuesday, adding that it was “most probably Russian-made”. “We do not for the moment have unequivocal evidence of who fired the missile. An investigation is ongoing. It was most probably Russian-made,” President Andrzej Duda told reporters on Wednesday. Duda said it was an “isolated” incident. “Nothing indicates to us […]

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Poland puts military on alert after reported Russia strike

    by Dario Thuburn with Dmytro Gorshkov in Kyiv Agence France-Presse WARSAW, Poland (AFP) — Poland put its military on heightened readiness Tuesday after Russian missiles reportedly landed inside the NATO member’s borders in a potentially major escalation of the war in Ukraine. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of firing the missiles into Poland, but there was no immediate confirmation from either Warsaw or Washington, and Moscow dismissed the reported strikes as a […]

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Ukraine’s Zelensky hails Kherson capture as ‘beginning of end of war’

by Dmitry ZAKS Agence France-Presse KHERSON, Ukraine (AFP) — President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday said Ukraine’s recapture of Kherson marked “the beginning of the end of the war” during a surprise visit to the newly liberated city. But the city’s “critical infrastructure” was destroyed while under the control of Russian troops, he said, leaving the population with no electricity, communications or internet. NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg cautioned that Ukraine was facing difficult months ahead and […]

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