WHO fears winter. Visiting kyiv on Monday 21 November, the regional director of the World Health Organization (WHO) for Europe, Hans Kluge, warned that the coming winter “will endanger the lives of millions of people in Ukraine”. The series of Russian strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure “already have devastating effects on the health system and on the health of the population”, he added. Follow our live.
Four “torture sites” discovered in Kherson. The Ukrainian public prosecutor’s office announced on Monday that it had found four “torture sites” used by the Russians in Kherson (south) before their forced retreat from the region ten days ago. “Pieces of rubber truncheons, a wooden bat, a device used by the occupiers to electrocute civilians, an incandescent lamp and bullets (…) were seized”said the prosecution.
Emmanuel Macron is “concerned”. The head of state “said his deep concern” on the situation in Zaporizhia where the nuclear power plant has again been bombed. Shootings that accuse each other in Ukraine, that Moscow and kyiv accuse each other of having bombed. He had already discussed it on Sunday with the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, who had denounced strikes “absolutely deliberate, targeted”.
No return to “normal” in the world, according to the EBRD. The world won’t go back to normal “Like nothing ever happened” after the Covid-19 pandemic and the consequences of the war in Ukraine, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) warned on Tuesday. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine resulted in “the largest forced displacement of people in Europe since the 1940s”notes the EBRD in its report entitled “Business Unusual”.