Life is gradually regaining its rights in Kherson. The city has not been under Russian occupation since November 9 and its inhabitants celebrated on Saturday November 19 the arrival of the first train in the station since the start of the conflict on February 24. This train departed from kyiv and allowed family reunions, as shown by videos of a franceinfo journalist present on site. Follow our live.
Volodymyr Zelensky opposed to a “short truce” with Russia. According to the Ukrainian president, such a truce would allow Moscow to have “a respite to regain strength”the Ukrainian president said on Friday. “A truly real, lasting and honest peace can only come from the complete destruction of Russian aggression”he assured.
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.