More than 500 Ukrainian localities were still without electricity on Sunday, following Russian strikes in recent weeks which have largely damaged the national electricity grid, said a representative of the Ministry of the Interior. “Currently, 507 localities in eight regions of our country are cut off from the power supply”, First Deputy Interior Minister Yevgeniy Yenin told Ukrainian television. In details, “the Kharkiv region is the most affected, where 112 villages are isolated ; in the Donetsk and Kherson regions : more than 90 ; the Mykolaiv region: 82; Zaporizhia region : 76 ; the Lugansk region : 43″, he specified. Follow our live.
OPEC+ oil producers meet. Representatives of the 13 members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, led by Riyadh, and their ten allies led by Moscow, are expected to maintain the current Russian oil cuts on Sunday, before the entry into force on Monday of new sanctions against Moscow, pillar with Ryad of the alliance. They meet at noon (Paris time) in an electric climate: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky deemed insufficient, on Saturday, the cap on the price of a barrel of Russian oil at 60 dollars, decided the day before by the EU countries, of the G7 and Australia. For its part, Russia has asserted that it “would not accept” this ceiling.
Emmanuel Macron will speak to the boss of the IAEA, then with Vladimir Poutine. The head of state announced on Saturday in an interview with Parisian that he would speak “shortly” with the Russian President, on security issues around the “civilian nuclear” in Ukraine. Previously, he must first meet on Sunday with the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Vladimir Putin in the Donbass “in due time”. Vladimir Putin will go to the Donbass “on time”, the Kremlin said on Saturday. The Russian president has not yet visited this area of eastern Ukraine, which he annexed at the end of September, without however having his army fully control it.