After months of uncertainty, the Kremlin confirmed it on Thursday November 10: Vladimir Putin will not be going to the G20 summit in Indonesia on November 15 and 16. “I can confirm that Sergei Lavrov (the Minister of Foreign Affairs) will lead the Russian delegation to the G20”, said Yulia Tomskaya, chief of protocol of the Russian embassy in Indonesia. During this summit, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky could speak virtually. Follow our live.
More than 100,000 Russians are believed to have died since February. More than 100,000 Russian servicemen have been killed or injured since the start of the invasion of Ukraine, said US Chief of Staff General Mark Milley, adding that the losses were probably of the same order on the Ukrainian side. . The figures put forward by this senior officer, which could not be independently confirmed, are the most precise provided to date by Washington.
The Russian army withdraws from Kherson. Russian forces suffered a major setback on Wednesday with the withdrawal from Kherson, the regional capital of southern Ukraine, the target of a counter-offensive from kyiv. “This is proof that they have real problems, Russia, the Russian army”, US President Joe Biden said on Wednesday. It is the only regional capital conquered by Russian forces at the start of their offensive in Ukraine.
Volodymyr Zelensky calls on Ukrainians to be “extremely careful”. On Wednesday evening, the Ukrainian president called on his fellow citizens to “win everything”: “The enemy does not give us a gift, does not demonstrate a ‘goodwill gesture’. We must therefore exercise extreme caution, without emotions, without taking unnecessary risks, in order to liberate all our land with losses as minimal as possible”.