The Russian army accelerates its advance in the east of the country.

Russia confirmed on Tuesday that it had again been the target of two Ukrainian attacks carried out with US ATACMS missiles, a weapon against which Moscow has promised a severe response. The Ministry of Defense said “prepare a response” in the face of these attacks, which Russia considers to cross a red line.

The British government has supplied kyiv with dozens of Storm Shadow cruise missiles, Bloomberg reports. It is the first time since he became prime minister that Keir Starmer, who has promised continued support for Ukraine, has authorized these deliveries.

“Last night, the Russian army launched four Iskander-M missiles and 188 drones against Ukraine”Anton Gerashchenko, former Deputy Minister of the Interior of Ukraine, said this morning on Telegram. “Essential infrastructure has been affected. In Ternopil [📍]The power goes out and we still don’t know when it will be restored.”Gerashchenko continues.

Russian troops are advancing rapidly into Ukraine, occupying almost 235 square kilometers of territory over the past week, Russia’s independent investigative media write. Agent. While the roughly 1,000-kilometer front line has been largely static for the past two years, the Russians have captured between 600 and 667 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory since early November, Reuters said.

Moscow spread these explosive charges in “cities, farms, public transportation stations”the Ukrainian Defense Ministry accused. During the International Summit held in Siem Reap, Cambodia, against antipersonnel mines, the representative of the ministry, Oleksandr Riabtsev, stated that these threats affect regions where about 6 million Ukrainians reside. kyiv announces that it has renounced its commitment to destroy what remains of the arsenal of almost 6 million antipersonnel mines inherited from the Soviet era, adopted within the framework of the Ottawa Convention.

NATO ambassadors reaffirmed their support for kyiv on Tuesday after Russia fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile on Ukrainian soil. this attack “It is considered another attempt by Russia to terrorize the civilian population of Ukraine and intimidate those who support Ukraine” in its war against Russia, according to a press release from the Atlantic Alliance. She “It will not stop allies from supporting Ukraine.” For their part, the foreign ministers of the G7 countries denounced the“escalation” from Moscow with this launch of a ballistic missile.

A court in the Kursk region examined the case behind closed doors on Monday, November 26, and decided to imprison James Anderson, according to a statement from its press service published on Tuesday. Mr. Anderson is accused of crossing “illegally” the Russian border before participating in the “hostilities” in the Kursk region on behalf of the Ukrainian army, according to the same source.

The Russian secret service (FSB) said it had found “Signs of espionage and subversive activities carried out by this diplomat”Russian news agencies reported Tuesday. The diplomat is also accused of having communicated “FAKE” personal information to the authorities upon arrival in the country.

In an interview with the website.European Pravda, Jan Lipavsky, Czech Foreign Minister, believes that a possible suspension of US aid to Ukraine by Donald Trump will not have an immediate effect on the ground. “The Biden administration will now transfer the remaining support approved by Congress to Ukraine. Ukraine will be able to use these resources for a certain period of time. »

Ukraine’s Defense Ministry announced on Tuesday that it had suspended the use of defective 120mm mortar shells used by the military. “At least 100,000 projectiles” The 120mm caliber produced by a Ukrainian factory was removed from the front, the influential Ukrainian news site reported on Tuesday. Dzerkalo Tyjnia. Ukrainian war correspondent Yuri Boutoussov gave the same figure on Sunday, denouncing a “criminal negligence”.

Ukraine on Tuesday accused Russian forces of killing Ukrainian soldiers who had surrendered on November 13 in the village of Petrivka (🚩), near Pokrovsk. “Five Ukrainian soldiers withdrew and hid in a house, which was then surrounded by the enemy”specified the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine.