“A truly real, lasting and honest peace can only come from the complete destruction of Russian aggression.” Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, rejected Friday, November 18, the idea of a short truce with Russia. According to him, Moscow wants “a respite to regain strength”. “It could be seen as the end of the war, but such a respite will only make the situation worse”, he said in remarks broadcast at the international security forum in Halifax, Canada. Follow our live.
Half of Ukraine’s energy infrastructure is destroyed. Ukraine demanded from the European Union on Friday a “additional support” to get through the winter, when nearly half of its energy infrastructure has been “out of order” by the massive Russian strikes that have targeted them since early October.
Apec leaders “condemn” this conflict. Leaders in the Asia-Pacific region added their voice to international pressure on Russia on Saturday. “Most members strongly condemned the war in Ukraine and stressed that it was causing immense human suffering and exacerbating existing fragilities in the global economy”said the 21 leaders of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum.
Over a hundred Ukrainians missing in Kherson. A study from the American University Yale published a study on Friday according to which more over a hundred Ukrainians were detained and then disappeared in Kherson during the Russian occupation. She listed it 226 extrajudicial detentions and enforced disappearances. Half of those imprisoned “do not appear to have been released”according to the report, which stresses that their fate has been unclear since the withdrawal of Russian forces from the city on November 11.