More than ten million Ukrainians are without electricity on Friday, November 18, the day after new Russian strikes in several cities, including kyiv. These repetitive bombardments occurred during the first snowfalls, when the mercury could drop to -10°C in the coming days. They have been targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure since October.
The Ukrainian president, whose country will enter its tenth month of war on November 24, denounced “another Russian terrorist attack”. “Civilian sites are the main target. Russia is waging war on electricity and heat for people by blowing up power plants and other energy facilities”he said. Follow our live.
“This war is also your problem.” Emmanuel Macron invited, on Friday, economic leaders of Asia-Pacific countries participating in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit to join the “growing consensus” against the war in Ukraine. He counts “to work very closely with China, India, the whole region, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, to create a growing consensus saying, ‘This war is also your problem.'”
Cases of torture denounced in Kherson. In Kherson, Dmytro Loubynets, in charge of the Parliament of Human Rights, affirms to have “not seen yet” torture “on such a scale”. “After visiting all the torture chambers in various regions of Ukraine”he said on national television, that “the extent of the phenomenon” in Kherson, liberated on Wednesday November 9 after weeks of occupation, was “horrible”.
Ukrainian grain deal extended. On the diplomatic and economic level, the agreement allowing the export of Ukrainian cereals from the ports of Ukraine was renewed on Thursday for the four winter months, raising concerns about a possible worsening of the world food crisis.