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Putin/u2019s 2024 end-of-year presser: \u2018When everything is quiet and calm, we are getting bored\u2019<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//12//23//north-korea-to-send-more-troops-and-weapons-to-help-russia-in-its-war-against-ukraine/">Over 3000 North Korean troops killed and wounded in Russia\u2019s Kursk region, Zelenskyy says<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In October and November, Russia intensified aerial strikes against densely populated Ukrainian cities.<\/p>\n<p>According to figures from Ukraine's Air Force, Moscow deployed a total of 2,576 drones during November and dropped at least 100 guided bombs per day nearly every day between 1 and 20 November.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1734961631,"updatedAt":1734970328,"publishedAt":1734965293,"firstPublishedAt":1734965293,"lastPublishedAt":1734965293,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/88\/28\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_3bc027f5-c354-5f8b-bbda-d0a978aa031e-8928828.jpg","altText":"A car drives along a highway from Pokrovsk, Ukraine, Dec. 20, 2024","caption":"A car drives along a highway from Pokrovsk, Ukraine, Dec. 20, 2024","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Evgeniy Maloletka\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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UKRAINE KYIV STRIKES AFTERMATH","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":5},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Images of destruction in Kyiv after Russian missile strikes","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Images of destruction in Kyiv after Russian missile strikes","titleListing2":"Images of destruction in Kyiv after Russian missile strikes","leadin":"Several explosions were heard in the Ukrainian capital on Friday morning as Russia fired several ballistic missiles at the city, according to the Ukrainian Air Force.","summary":"Several explosions were heard in the Ukrainian capital on Friday morning as Russia fired several ballistic missiles at the city, according to the Ukrainian Air Force.","keySentence":"","url":"images-of-destruction-in-kyiv-after-russian-missile-strikes","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/12\/20\/images-of-destruction-in-kyiv-after-russian-missile-strikes","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"The attack left at least one person dead and eleven injured, some of whom were hospitalised.\n\nThe municipal administration said that the missile debris caused extensive damage and started fires in several Kyiv districts.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>The attack left at least one person dead and eleven injured, some of whom were hospitalised.<\/p>\n<p>The municipal administration said that the missile debris caused extensive damage and started fires in several Kyiv districts.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1734693867,"updatedAt":1734699243,"publishedAt":1734698930,"firstPublishedAt":1734698930,"lastPublishedAt":1734698930,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/37\/90\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_b4f9ceca-b507-5cbc-a64e-f664cdb50438-8923790.jpg","altText":"Cars destroyed following a Russian attack on Kiev in Ukraine, 20.12.2024","caption":"Cars destroyed following a Russian attack on Kiev in Ukraine, 20.12.2024","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Capture d'\u00e9cran d'une vid\u00e9o 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Residential and office buildings, a hotel, and the embassy of Portugal in Kyiv were damaged.","summary":"Russia launched five ballistic missiles against Ukraine's capital on Friday morning. Residential and office buildings, a hotel, and the embassy of Portugal in Kyiv were damaged.","keySentence":"","url":"kyiv-struck-by-missiles-hours-after-putins-speech","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/12\/20\/kyiv-struck-by-missiles-hours-after-putins-speech","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A series of powerful explosions rocked Kyiv on Friday morning, striking the city's embassy row and causing widespread damage across multiple districts in Ukraine's capital, as air defences intercepted the incoming missiles.\n\nPortugal's foreign ministry confirmed that its embassy in Kyiv was damaged alongside \"several diplomatic missions\".\n\n\"It is absolutely unacceptable that any attack should target or have an impact on diplomatic premises,\" Lisbon said in a written statement. \n\n\"The charg\u00e9 d'affaires of the Russian Embassy (in Portugal) has been summoned to the MFA so that a formal protest can be lodged with the Russian Federation,\" the statement added. \n\nPortugal's Foreign Minister later clarified that the damage was \u201crelatively minor\u201d: \u201cbroken windows, damaged doors\u201d. He also stressed that there are diplomatic representations from several countries in the same building, including Argentina, Albania and Montenegro.\n\nThe European Commission president issued a statement on X, calling the Russian attack 'heinous' and confirming that the building hosting the embassy of Portugal and \"several other diplomatic services\" have been damaged. \n\n\"Putin\u2019s disregard for international law reaches new heights,\" Ursula von der Leyen said. \n\nThe statement was echoed by the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas, who said, \"No diplomatic representation should ever be targeted or even impacted.\" Kallas also noted that this attack showed \"no willingness for peace.\"\n\nAccording to Mayor Vitali Klitschko, the strikes left debris in the Holosiivskyi, Solomianskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, and Dniprovskyi districts, causing fires on rooftops and damaging vehicles. \n\nThe Holosiivskyi district was the hardest hit, local media reported, with missile debris damaging office buildings, gas pipelines, and civilian vehicles.\n\nKyiv\u2019s Military Administration reported one fatality and three injuries in Holosiivskyi, while Mayor Klitschko later said there were seven injuries across the city but made no mention of deaths.\n\nThe city's authorities claim Russia used a combination of Kinzhal ballistic missiles and either Iskander-M or KN-23 systems.\n\nThe Russian defence ministry, meanwhile, claimed the attack was a response to Kyiv's strike on the Kamensky Combine in Russia's Rostov region and said Moscow forces had launched a strike with long-range precision weapons targeting the Ukrainian security service's command post and the Kyiv Luch design bureau, which develops various anti-aircraft and missile systems.\n\nEuronews could not independently verify these claims.\n\nThe missile strikes followed an overnight drone assault on Kyiv, where all drones were reportedly intercepted by Ukrainian forces. A separate drone attack in the Boryspil district of Kyiv region ignited a large warehouse fire.\n\nMeanwhile, heavy Russian artillery shelling in Kherson damaged apartment buildings, killing one person and injuring six. Ukrainian authorities also reported a missile strike on Kryvyi Rih, where five people were injured and residential buildings damaged. \n\n","htmlText":"<p>A series of powerful explosions rocked Kyiv on Friday morning, striking the city's embassy row and causing widespread damage across multiple districts in Ukraine's capital, as air defences intercepted the incoming missiles.<\/p>\n<p>Portugal's foreign ministry confirmed that its embassy in Kyiv was damaged alongside \"several diplomatic missions\".<\/p>\n<p>\"It is absolutely unacceptable that any attack should target or have an impact on diplomatic premises,\" Lisbon said in a written statement. <\/p>\n<p>\"The charg\u00e9 d'affaires of the Russian Embassy (in Portugal) has been summoned to the MFA so that a formal protest can be lodged with the Russian Federation,\" the statement added. <\/p>\n<p>Portugal's Foreign Minister later clarified that the damage was \u201crelatively minor\u201d: \u201cbroken windows, damaged doors\u201d. He also stressed that there are diplomatic representations from several countries in the same building, including Argentina, Albania and Montenegro.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission president issued a statement on X, calling the Russian attack 'heinous' and confirming that the building hosting the embassy of Portugal and \"several other diplomatic services\" have been damaged. <\/p>\n<p>\"Putin\u2019s disregard for international law reaches new heights,\" Ursula von der Leyen said. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1870078848986915211\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The statement was echoed by the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Kaja Kallas, who said, \"No diplomatic representation should ever be targeted or even impacted.\" Kallas also noted that this attack showed \"no willingness for peace.\"<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1870076315337892080\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>According to Mayor Vitali Klitschko, the strikes left debris in the Holosiivskyi, Solomianskyi, Shevchenkivskyi, and Dniprovskyi districts, causing fires on rooftops and damaging vehicles. <\/p>\n<p>The Holosiivskyi district was the hardest hit, local media reported, with missile debris damaging office buildings, gas pipelines, and civilian vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Kyiv\u2019s Military Administration reported one fatality and three injuries in Holosiivskyi, while Mayor Klitschko later said there were seven injuries across the city but made no mention of deaths.<\/p>\n<p>The city's authorities claim Russia used a combination of Kinzhal ballistic missiles and either Iskander-M or KN-23 systems.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian defence ministry, meanwhile, claimed the attack was a response to Kyiv's strike on the Kamensky Combine in Russia's Rostov region and said Moscow forces had launched a strike with long-range precision weapons targeting the Ukrainian security service's command post and the Kyiv Luch design bureau, which develops various anti-aircraft and missile systems.<\/p>\n<p>Euronews could not independently verify these claims.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8921454,8922222\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//12//19//ukraine-will-not-allow-transit-of-russian-gas-with-azeri-label-zelenskyy-says-dashing-slov/">Ukraine will not allow transit of Russian gas with Azeri label, Zelenskyy says, dashing Slovak hopes<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//12//20//zelenskyy-calls-putin-crazy-and-seeks-further-us-support-in-ukraine-radio-schuman/">Zelenskyy calls Putin 'crazy' and seeks further US support in Ukraine | Radio Schuman<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The missile strikes followed an overnight drone assault on Kyiv, where all drones were reportedly intercepted by Ukrainian forces. A separate drone attack in the Boryspil district of Kyiv region ignited a large warehouse fire.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, heavy Russian artillery shelling in Kherson damaged apartment buildings, killing one person and injuring six. Ukrainian authorities also reported a missile strike on Kryvyi Rih, where five people were injured and residential buildings damaged. <\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1734677297,"updatedAt":1734706544,"publishedAt":1734681610,"firstPublishedAt":1734681610,"lastPublishedAt":1734706544,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP\/AP","altText":"n this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters work on the site of a damaged building after a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 20,","callToActionText":null,"width":2000,"caption":"n this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters work on the site of a damaged building after a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Dec. 20,","url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/92\/29\/72\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_bf12d797-823e-56b0-930d-3ae602c8c373-8922972.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":1498}],"authors":{"journalists":[],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"urlSafeValue":"ballistic-missile","titleRaw":"Ballistic missile","id":12353,"title":"Ballistic missile","slug":"ballistic-missile"},{"urlSafeValue":"russia-ukraine-invasion","titleRaw":"Russia's invasion of Ukraine","id":26698,"title":"Russia's invasion of Ukraine","slug":"russia-ukraine-invasion"},{"urlSafeValue":"war-in-ukraine","titleRaw":"War in Ukraine","id":26692,"title":"War in Ukraine","slug":"war-in-ukraine"},{"urlSafeValue":"ukraine","titleRaw":"Ukraine","id":288,"title":"Ukraine","slug":"ukraine"},{"urlSafeValue":"russia","titleRaw":"Russia","id":239,"title":"Russia","slug":"russia"}],"widgets":[{"count":2,"slug":"twitter"},{"count":1,"slug":"related"}],"related":[{"id":2706820},{"id":2706524},{"id":2707924}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":{"youtubeId":"Q1PPnzudsLo","dailymotionId":"x9b3crk"},"hasExternalVideo":1,"video":1,"videos":[{"duration":40000,"editor":"","filesizeBytes":5457226,"format":"mp4","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/med\/EN\/E3\/SU\/24\/12\/20\/en\/241220_E3SU_57324951_57324979_40000_113706_en.mp4","expiresAt":0,"quality":"md"},{"duration":40000,"editor":"","filesizeBytes":8216906,"format":"mp4","type":"normal","url":"https:\/\/video.euronews.com\/mp4\/EN\/E3\/SU\/24\/12\/20\/en\/241220_E3SU_57324951_57324979_40000_113706_en.mp4","expiresAt":0,"quality":"hd"}],"liveStream":[{"endDate":0,"startDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":"","additionalReporting":"Euronews","freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"europe-news","urlSafeValue":"europe-news","title":"Europe News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/europe-news\/europe-news"},"vertical":"my-europe","verticals":[{"urlSafeValue":"my-europe","id":2,"title":"Europe","slug":"my-europe"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":2,"slug":"my-europe","urlSafeValue":"my-europe","title":"Europe"},"themes":[{"urlSafeValue":"europe-news","id":"europe-news","title":"Europe News","url":"\/my-europe\/europe-news"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":56,"urlSafeValue":"europe-news","title":"Europe News"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":104,"urlSafeValue":"europe","title":"Europe"},"country":{"id":288,"urlSafeValue":"ukraine","title":"Ukraine","url":"\/news\/europe\/ukraine"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":["80023001","84091001","84092030"],"slugs":["aggregated_all_moderate_content","hobbies_and_interests","hobbies_and_interests_social_networking"]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"path":"\/my-europe\/2024\/12\/20\/kyiv-struck-by-missiles-hours-after-putins-speech","lastModified":1734706544},{"id":2706222,"cid":8919056,"versionId":2,"archive":0,"housenumber":"241218_E3SU_57307912","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"UKRAINE POKROVSK MAP","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Russian troops close in on eastern Ukraine's Pokrovsk","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Russian troops close in on eastern Ukraine's Pokrovsk","titleListing2":"Russian troops close in on eastern Ukraine's Pokrovsk","leadin":"Russian troops are closing in on Pokrovsk from the east and south. According to different sources, Russian forces are between 1-3 km away from the city's logistics hub on the western edge of Ukraine's Donetsk region.","summary":"Russian troops are closing in on Pokrovsk from the east and south. According to different sources, Russian forces are between 1-3 km away from the city's logistics hub on the western edge of Ukraine's Donetsk region.","keySentence":"","url":"russian-troops-close-in-on-eastern-ukraines-pokrovsk","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/news\/2024\/12\/18\/russian-troops-close-in-on-eastern-ukraines-pokrovsk","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Russian troops are closing in on Pokrovsk, a major logistics hub on the western edge of Ukraine's Donetsk region. \n\nAccording to different sources, Russian troops are between 1-3 km away from the city, which has been Moscow's primary target for months.\u00a0\n\nThe UK Ministry of Defence has stated that Russia's troops are approaching the south of Pokrovsk after the capture of Shevchenko village, just south of the city, around 4-5 km away. Shevchenko itself lies at an intersection of two routes leading into Pokrovsk.\n\nThe ministry's assessment is that Russia will likely continue to make gains towards Pokrovsk, while also continuing to advance westwards to the city's centre. \n\nThe Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has reported that according to Russian military bloggers, Russian forces drove Ukrainian troops out of Novotroitske southwest of Pokrovsk and advanced in the areas south, southeast and southwest of Pokrovsk.\n\nSince early September, Ukraine has transferred additional forces to the area, while Russia has moved none of its own away. It is currently threatening to encircle a large grouping of Ukrainian forces south of the main area.\n\nWhy is Pokrovsk so important?\n\nIt is hard to overestimate the importance of Pokrovsk, both for Ukraine and for Russia.\u00a0\n\nPokrovsk has been one of the strongholds of Ukraine's eastern front. Its geographic location not only makes it arguably one of the most important logistics hubs, but it is also extremely close to the rear of Ukraine's fight against the Russian invasion.\n\nDnipro, one of the biggest cities in Ukraine with a population of around 1 million, is only a 2.5-hour drive to Prokovsk. For Kyiv, losing Pokrovsk would also potentially mean conducting the war closer to central Ukraine and deeper into its better protected areas.\u00a0\n\nPokrovsk is also just 20 km away from the administrative border of the Donetsk region \u2014 an area the Kremlin has been trying to reach since 2014, as Russian forces look to seize all of Donetsk and Luhansk. \n\nCurrently, Moscow controls around 60% of the Donetsk region.\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Russian troops are closing in on Pokrovsk, a major logistics hub on the western edge of Ukraine's Donetsk region. <\/p>\n<p>According to different sources, Russian troops are between 1-3 km away from the city, which has been Moscow's primary target for months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The UK Ministry of Defence has stated that Russia's troops are approaching the south of Pokrovsk after the capture of Shevchenko village, just south of the city, around 4-5 km away. Shevchenko itself lies at an intersection of two routes leading into Pokrovsk.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry's assessment is that Russia will likely continue to make gains towards Pokrovsk, while also continuing to advance westwards to the city's centre. <\/p>\n<p>The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has reported that according to Russian military bloggers, Russian forces drove Ukrainian troops out of Novotroitske southwest of Pokrovsk and advanced in the areas south, southeast and southwest of Pokrovsk.<\/p>\n<p>Since early September, Ukraine has transferred additional forces to the area, while Russia has moved none of its own away. It is currently threatening to encircle a large grouping of Ukrainian forces south of the main area.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why is Pokrovsk so important?<\/strong><\/h2><p>It is hard to overestimate the importance of Pokrovsk, both for Ukraine and for Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pokrovsk has been one of the strongholds of Ukraine's eastern front. Its geographic location not only makes it arguably one of the most important logistics hubs, but it is also extremely close to the rear of Ukraine's fight against the Russian invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Dnipro, one of the biggest cities in Ukraine with a population of around 1 million, is only a 2.5-hour drive to Prokovsk. For Kyiv, losing Pokrovsk would also potentially mean conducting the war closer to central Ukraine and deeper into its better protected areas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pokrovsk is also just 20 km away from the administrative border of the Donetsk region \u2014 an area the Kremlin has been trying to reach since 2014, as Russian forces look to seize all of Donetsk and Luhansk. <\/p>\n<p>Currently, Moscow controls around 60% of the Donetsk region.\u00a0<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1734523919,"updatedAt":1734555790,"publishedAt":1734549742,"firstPublishedAt":1734549742,"lastPublishedAt":1734549840,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo","altText":"A woman walks in front of Druzhba hotel destroyed by Russian airstrikes in Pokrovsk, Monday, Nov. 11, 2024","callToActionText":null,"width":4376,"caption":"A woman walks in front of Druzhba hotel destroyed by Russian airstrikes in Pokrovsk, Monday, Nov. 11, 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frontline deployment (web only)","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"'They can just take you': Ukrainian soldier faces redeployment to frontlines as Russians advance","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Ukrainian soldier faces redeployment to frontlines as Russians advance","titleListing2":"'They can just take you': Ukrainian soldier faces redeployment to frontlines as Russians advance","leadin":"Ukrainian soldier Mykola reveals forced redeployments to the frontlines, highlighting a lack of training, strained resources, and dwindling morale.","summary":"Ukrainian soldier Mykola reveals forced redeployments to the frontlines, highlighting a lack of training, strained resources, and dwindling morale.","keySentence":"","url":"ukraine-soldier-russia-war","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/12\/17\/ukraine-soldier-russia-war","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"In early December, Ukrainian soldier Mykola* discovered he could be among those from his unit redeployed to the frontlines in eastern Ukraine to help resist Russian advances. \n\n\"The focus of the deployment lies on those who have joined the air defence forces and air forces in 2022 voluntarily,\" said Mykola, who is part of the logistics personnel of an air defence unit. His real name and current location have been withheld for his safety.\n\n\"My commander told me the General Staff (of Ukraine's Armed Forces) needs a certain amount of men on the frontlines but didn\u2019t provide any further details\", he told Euronews. Mykola said his unit had received an order requiring 30% of its troops to be sent to the frontlines in the Russian-occupied Donetsk region, where fighting is intensifying.\n\nMilitary analysts say that Russian troops in Ukraine's east are advancing at the fastest pace since the early days of the February 2022 full-scale invasion.\n\nThere is a limited pool of people who can be sent to the frontlines, as women, older men and soldiers with health issues are generally exempt from redeployment. Mykola recalled that the commanders in his unit first asked if anyone wanted to go voluntarily. \n\n\"Then, they select those who are unmotivated to do their tasks and or skip their work. Some commanders use this opportunity to get rid of people who they don\u2019t like,\" he said.\n\nMykola said he has received no information on any sort of training he would receive if he is sent to the east. He heard that, in some cases, soldiers only receive a small amount of combat training. If the redeployment is urgent, however, there will most likely be no training at all. This is a worry for Mykola, who only joined the military last year.\n\nWhen Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Mykola said he felt guilty for not supporting his country and decided to join the military in the summer of 2023. Lacking any prior combat or military experience, Mykola knew the chances of sustaining serious injuries or being killed on the battlefield were high. \n\nBack then, men who signed up voluntarily could, to some degree, choose their unit. \n\nMykola decided to join the air force, wanting to contribute in protecting his fellow citizens from Russian missile attacks. \n\nAlongside his comrades, he received basic training relevant for air defence. Some soldiers were sent to NATO countries to receive training in the operation of said systems, but since Mykola doesn't operate them directly, he was not among those trained. \n\nRedeployment of rear units\n\nWith the situation at the frontlines in the Russian-occupied Donetsk Oblast growing ever more critical, Ukraine is forced to send more men to its infantry units in the region.\n\nThe Ukrainian military seems to have shifted to redeploying soldiers from other units, such as rear and air defence units. Rear units provide vital logistical and operational support from behind the frontlines, ensuring frontline forces are equipped with supplies, ammunition, repairs, medical care, and communication systems.\n\nMykola told Euronews that he's not been told any further details about when he might be redeployed to Donetsk or which infantry unit he might have to join. He explained that his commander is still negotiating, trying to convince higher-ranking officials to lower the number of men deployed to the front lines from their air defence brigade. In recent negotiations, the commander highlighted the importance of the rear units, Mykola said.\n\nThis isn't the first time the General Staff has made such a request, according to Mykola. Earlier this year, around 10% of men in his unit were redeployed to the frontlines. Mykola said that they were either killed in action or came back severely wounded. Shortly after, another wave of men was taken to the frontlines, he explained. \n\n\"They have a need for people, so they take them from any unit,\" Mykola said, adding that those soldiers had spent years learning to operate these air defence systems or FPV-drones and were therefore not easily replaceable. \n\nHe worries that Ukraine's army doesn\u2019t value human life any more, which is why, he believes, so many Ukrainian men are deserting the military or fleeing the country.\n\nMykola joined the air force with the aim of serving with his unit until the war is over. But soldiers can be sent to infantry brigades regardless of their level of training and experience, or what they signed up for. \"They can just take you\", he repeated anxiously.\n\nWhen asked about the mood among him and his comrades, Mykola said there's no positivity, and that soldiers don\u2019t feel valued. \n\n\"Back in 2022, you had a choice, which unit or brigade you wanted to join, and they focused on your skills,\" he explained. \"They valued people who could bring along something useful.\" This is no longer the case, Mykola added. \n\nDefending all fronts\u00a0\n\nIn the early months of the full-scale invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked Western allies to create a no-fly zone over Ukraine, in which these partners would deploy their fighter jets to prevent Russian forces from bombing Ukrainian cities. \n\nDue to the fear of crossing one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's threatened \"red lines,\" NATO has staunchly opposed closing the sky over Ukraine but promised to support the country\u2019s war efforts with military assistance instead. Since then, Zelenskyy has repeatedly pleaded for air defence systems such as Patriots or IRIS-Ts.\n\nDefending the sky isn't Ukraine\u2019s only challenge, as Russia is advancing on the ground in Donetsk. Russian troops are steadily gaining ground towards strategic strongholds, such as the city of Pokrovsk, which also acts as a logistical hub for Ukrainian forces. \n\nAccording to local media, Russian forces are intensifying efforts to strengthen their positions and launch attacks on the southeastern outskirts of Pishchane, a village located just over 9 kilometres from Pokrovsk. \n\n\"Currently, units of our troops are taking measures to improve the tactical position,\" the Khortytsia Military District reported on Telegram.\n\nIn a statement on 29 November, the Ukrainian army's Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky said that forces stationed near Pokrovsk and Kurakhove would be supplied with additional reserves, ammunition, weapons and equipment. He did not specify what kind of reserves would be deployed.\n\nLosses on Ukraine\u2019s eastern frontlines have partly been attributed to a shortage of manpower, raising concerns about the strain on its forces amid intensifying battles. Zelenskky lowered the conscription age from 27 to 25 this year, but has resisted lowering the draft age to 18, as proposed by the US recently, citing the need to protect lives. \n\nAccording to a recent interview with The World, Olena Tregub, executive director of the Independent Anti-Corruption Commission in Kyiv, said recruitment has slowed to 15,000\u201320,000 troops monthly, with many experienced soldiers having been killed or wounded.\n\n'These transfers are very painful'\n\nOn 2 November, controversial Ukrainian politician Mariana Bezuhla claimed in a Telegram post that personnel from airfield cover, artillery crews, and even Patriot units were being deployed to infantry units. She also claimed that the downing of Shahed drones had decreased, which she blamed on \"air defence forces being transferred to the infantry.\"\n\nBezuhla has faced criticism for her harsh comments about Ukraine's military leadership and her controversial bill proposing prison sentences for unauthorised representation of Ukraine abroad. She was dismissed from her role on the parliamentary committee on national security and defence and resigned from Zelenskyy's ruling party.\n\nBezuhla\u2019s statements have been criticised by Yurii Ihnat, the head of the public relations service of the air force command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.\n\nOn Facebook, he confirmed the redeployment of personnel from the air force and other units to the infantry. \n\n\"Yes, I can confirm that they do! Not from good times ... and a lot of them, and these transfers are very painful for the air forces, and of course, this has a certain impact on the overall picture. But there are appropriate decisions, we have to implement them, and you understand why,\" Ihnat posted on Facebook.\n\nIhnat also criticised Bezuhla's claims about decreased drone interceptions. He clarified that all defence forces \u2014 air force, ground forces, navy, and border guards \u2014 are involved in shooting down drones, highlighting the accuracy of Ukraine's daily air force reports.\n\n'Ukraine will survive'\n\nUkraine\u2019s Western partners have supplied the country with military aid, but many of these deliveries have been accompanied by lengthy debates over the fear of crossing one of the many \"red lines\" raised as threats by Putin during the conflict.\n\n\"In Ukraine, we don\u2019t believe in these red lines\", Mykola said.\n\nIn Germany, for example, the debate around the Taurus cruise missile keeps resurfacing, especially now during election campaigning for the upcoming snap elections. \n\nAt a recent government meeting, Chancellor Olaf Scholz reportedly said: \"Ukraine will survive and will be alive and strong - and there must be a peace that puts an end to the killing\". According to Bild Zeitung, he again reiterated his refusal to supply long-range weapons that can hit targets deep inside Russian territory. \n\n\"It would be wrong to say that we now want the war to be waged in such a way that the weapons we supply go deep into the hinterland. That's why I'm making it very clear here: I won't do that,\" he said.\n\nRecently, Zelenskyy stated that frontline rotations are hindered by a lack of equipment for reserve brigades, forcing Ukrainian soldiers to retreat due to exhaustion. \n\nHighly qualified and experienced soldiers are being redeployed to reserve units but these brigades are not being equipped quickly enough, which is due to delays in Ukraine receiving military aid from its Western partners, Zelenskyy said. When that changes, and equipment arrives, Russia's advances in the east could be thwarted, the president said.\n\nEuronews has contacted the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to enquire about air defence forces being sent to the front lines but has not received a response until publication.\n\n* Name changed for security reasons.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>In early December, Ukrainian soldier Mykola* discovered he could be among those from his unit redeployed to the frontlines in eastern Ukraine to help resist Russian advances. <\/p>\n<p>\"The focus of the deployment lies on those who have joined the air defence forces and air forces in 2022 voluntarily,\" said Mykola, who is part of the logistics personnel of an air defence unit. His real name and current location have been withheld for his safety.<\/p>\n<p>\"My commander told me the General Staff (of Ukraine's Armed Forces) needs a certain amount of men on the frontlines but didn\u2019t provide any further details\", he told Euronews. Mykola said his unit had received an order requiring 30% of its troops to be sent to the frontlines in the Russian-occupied Donetsk region, where fighting is intensifying.<\/p>\n<p>Military analysts say that Russian troops in Ukraine's east are advancing at the fastest pace since the early days of the February 2022 full-scale invasion.<\/p>\n<p>There is a limited pool of people who can be sent to the frontlines, as women, older men and soldiers with health issues are generally exempt from redeployment. Mykola recalled that the commanders in his unit first asked if anyone wanted to go voluntarily. <\/p>\n<p>\"Then, they select those who are unmotivated to do their tasks and or skip their work. Some commanders use this opportunity to get rid of people who they don\u2019t like,\" he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8914898,8913868\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//12//16//north-korean-soldiers-killed-and-wounded-in-skirmishes-with-ukrainian-forces-kyiv-claims/">North Korean soldiers killed and wounded in skirmishes with Ukrainian forces, Kyiv claims<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//news//2024//12//17//last-chance-the-story-of-harrowing-evacuations-of-ukrainian-civilians/">Last chance: The story of harrowing evacuations of Ukrainian civilians <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Mykola said he has received no information on any sort of training he would receive if he is sent to the east. He heard that, in some cases, soldiers only receive a small amount of combat training. If the redeployment is urgent, however, there will most likely be no training at all. This is a worry for Mykola, who only joined the military last year.<\/p>\n<p>When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Mykola said he felt guilty for not supporting his country and decided to join the military in the summer of 2023. Lacking any prior combat or military experience, Mykola knew the chances of sustaining serious injuries or being killed on the battlefield were high. <\/p>\n<p>Back then, men who signed up voluntarily could, to some degree, choose their unit. <\/p>\n<p>Mykola decided to join the air force, wanting to contribute in protecting his fellow citizens from Russian missile attacks. <\/p>\n<p>Alongside his comrades, he received basic training relevant for air defence. Some soldiers were sent to NATO countries to receive training in the operation of said systems, but since Mykola doesn't operate them directly, he was not among those trained. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//91//50//48//808x539_cmsv2_3b95a560-db98-5769-b926-c9af6456b22e-8915048.jpg/" alt=\"A serviceman of the 24th Mechanised Brigade improves his tactical skills at the training field in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/50\/48\/384x256_cmsv2_3b95a560-db98-5769-b926-c9af6456b22e-8915048.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/50\/48\/640x427_cmsv2_3b95a560-db98-5769-b926-c9af6456b22e-8915048.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/50\/48\/750x500_cmsv2_3b95a560-db98-5769-b926-c9af6456b22e-8915048.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/50\/48\/828x552_cmsv2_3b95a560-db98-5769-b926-c9af6456b22e-8915048.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/50\/48\/1080x720_cmsv2_3b95a560-db98-5769-b926-c9af6456b22e-8915048.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/50\/48\/1200x800_cmsv2_3b95a560-db98-5769-b926-c9af6456b22e-8915048.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/50\/48\/1920x1281_cmsv2_3b95a560-db98-5769-b926-c9af6456b22e-8915048.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A serviceman of the 24th Mechanised Brigade improves his tactical skills at the training field in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Oleg Petrasiuk\/Ukrainian 24 Mechanised brigade<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2><strong>Redeployment of rear units<\/strong><\/h2><p>With the situation at the frontlines in the Russian-occupied Donetsk Oblast growing ever more critical, Ukraine is forced to send more men to its infantry units in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian military seems to have shifted to redeploying soldiers from other units, such as rear and air defence units. Rear units provide vital logistical and operational support from behind the frontlines, ensuring frontline forces are equipped with supplies, ammunition, repairs, medical care, and communication systems.<\/p>\n<p>Mykola told Euronews that he's not been told any further details about when he might be redeployed to Donetsk or which infantry unit he might have to join. He explained that his commander is still negotiating, trying to convince higher-ranking officials to lower the number of men deployed to the front lines from their air defence brigade. In recent negotiations, the commander highlighted the importance of the rear units, Mykola said.<\/p>\n<p>This isn't the first time the General Staff has made such a request, according to Mykola. Earlier this year, around 10% of men in his unit were redeployed to the frontlines. Mykola said that they were either killed in action or came back severely wounded. Shortly after, another wave of men was taken to the frontlines, he explained. <\/p>\n<p>\"They have a need for people, so they take them from any unit,\" Mykola said, adding that those soldiers had spent years learning to operate these air defence systems or FPV-drones and were therefore not easily replaceable. <\/p>\n<p>He worries that Ukraine's army doesn\u2019t value human life any more, which is why, he believes, so many Ukrainian men are deserting the military or fleeing the country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8882508\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//11//30//tens-of-thousands-of-soldiers-have-deserted-from-ukraines-army/">Tens of thousands of soldiers have deserted from Ukraine's army<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Mykola joined the air force with the aim of serving with his unit until the war is over. But soldiers can be sent to infantry brigades regardless of their level of training and experience, or what they signed up for. \"They can just take you\", he repeated anxiously.<\/p>\n<p>When asked about the mood among him and his comrades, Mykola said there's no positivity, and that soldiers don\u2019t feel valued. <\/p>\n<p>\"Back in 2022, you had a choice, which unit or brigade you wanted to join, and they focused on your skills,\" he explained. \"They valued people who could bring along something useful.\" This is no longer the case, Mykola added. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//34//80//22//808x539_cmsv2_fe4253dc-6ef7-5a94-817c-618743ac5f34-8348022.jpg/" alt=\"Newly recruited soldiers shout slogans as they celebrate the end of their training at a military base close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Sept. 25, 2023.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/34\/80\/22\/384x256_cmsv2_fe4253dc-6ef7-5a94-817c-618743ac5f34-8348022.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/34\/80\/22\/640x427_cmsv2_fe4253dc-6ef7-5a94-817c-618743ac5f34-8348022.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/34\/80\/22\/750x500_cmsv2_fe4253dc-6ef7-5a94-817c-618743ac5f34-8348022.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/34\/80\/22\/828x552_cmsv2_fe4253dc-6ef7-5a94-817c-618743ac5f34-8348022.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/34\/80\/22\/1080x720_cmsv2_fe4253dc-6ef7-5a94-817c-618743ac5f34-8348022.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/34\/80\/22\/1200x800_cmsv2_fe4253dc-6ef7-5a94-817c-618743ac5f34-8348022.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/34\/80\/22\/1920x1281_cmsv2_fe4253dc-6ef7-5a94-817c-618743ac5f34-8348022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Newly recruited soldiers shout slogans as they celebrate the end of their training at a military base close to Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Sept. 25, 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Efrem Lukatsky\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2><strong>Defending all fronts<\/strong><\/h2><p>In the early months of the full-scale invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked Western allies to create a <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2022//03//09//why-doesn-t-nato-impose-a-no-fly-zone-over-ukraine/">no-fly zone over Ukraine<\/strong><\/a>, in which these partners would deploy their fighter jets to prevent Russian forces from bombing Ukrainian cities. <\/p>\n<p>Due to the fear of crossing one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's threatened \"red lines,\" NATO has staunchly opposed closing the sky over Ukraine but promised to support the country\u2019s war efforts with military assistance instead. Since then, Zelenskyy has repeatedly pleaded for air defence systems such as Patriots or IRIS-Ts.<\/p>\n<p>Defending the sky isn't Ukraine\u2019s only challenge, as Russia is advancing on the ground in Donetsk. Russian troops are steadily gaining ground towards strategic strongholds, such as the city of Pokrovsk, which also acts as a logistical hub for Ukrainian forces. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8848800,8744044\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//news//2024//11//13//russian-forces-advance-on-kurakhove-and-pokrovsk-in-ukraines-donetsk-region/">Russian forces advance on Kurakhove and Pokrovsk in Ukraine's Donetsk region<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//09//19//battle-for-pokrovsk-why-is-russia-so-focused-on-the-eastern-ukrainian-town/">Battle for Pokrovsk: Why is Russia so focused on the eastern Ukrainian town? <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>According to local media, Russian forces are intensifying efforts to strengthen their positions and launch attacks on the southeastern outskirts of Pishchane, a village located just over 9 kilometres from Pokrovsk. <\/p>\n<p>\"Currently, units of our troops are taking measures to improve the tactical position,\" the Khortytsia Military District<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////t.me//Khortytsky_wind//3346/"> <\/a>reported<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////t.me//Khortytsky_wind//3346/"> <\/a>on<a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////t.me//Khortytsky_wind//3346/"> <\/a>Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on 29 November, the Ukrainian army's Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrsky said that forces stationed near Pokrovsk and Kurakhove would be supplied with additional reserves, ammunition, weapons and equipment. He did not specify what kind of reserves would be deployed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//91//50//48//808x539_cmsv2_cc6e8ad1-4761-5e36-9fb0-82aab5f4137c-8915048.jpg/" alt=\"Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine General Oleksandr Syrskyi speaks to parliamentarians at Verkhovna Rada in Kyiv, Ukraine\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/50\/48\/384x256_cmsv2_cc6e8ad1-4761-5e36-9fb0-82aab5f4137c-8915048.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/50\/48\/640x427_cmsv2_cc6e8ad1-4761-5e36-9fb0-82aab5f4137c-8915048.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/50\/48\/750x500_cmsv2_cc6e8ad1-4761-5e36-9fb0-82aab5f4137c-8915048.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/50\/48\/828x552_cmsv2_cc6e8ad1-4761-5e36-9fb0-82aab5f4137c-8915048.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/50\/48\/1080x720_cmsv2_cc6e8ad1-4761-5e36-9fb0-82aab5f4137c-8915048.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/50\/48\/1200x800_cmsv2_cc6e8ad1-4761-5e36-9fb0-82aab5f4137c-8915048.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/50\/48\/1920x1281_cmsv2_cc6e8ad1-4761-5e36-9fb0-82aab5f4137c-8915048.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine General Oleksandr Syrskyi speaks to parliamentarians at Verkhovna Rada in Kyiv, Ukraine<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP\/Copyright 2020 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Losses on Ukraine\u2019s eastern frontlines have partly been attributed to a shortage of manpower, raising concerns about the strain on its forces amid intensifying battles. Zelenskky lowered the conscription age from 27 to 25 this year, but has resisted lowering the draft age to 18, as proposed by the US recently, citing the need to protect lives. <\/p>\n<p>According to a recent interview with The World, Olena Tregub, executive director of the Independent Anti-Corruption Commission in Kyiv, said recruitment has slowed to 15,000\u201320,000 troops monthly, with many experienced soldiers having been killed or wounded.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>'These transfers are very painful'<\/strong><\/h2><p>On 2 November, controversial Ukrainian politician Mariana Bezuhla claimed in a Telegram post that personnel from airfield cover, artillery crews, and even Patriot units were being deployed to infantry units. She also claimed that the downing of Shahed drones had decreased, which she blamed on \"air defence forces being transferred to the infantry.\"<\/p>\n<p>Bezuhla has faced criticism for her harsh comments about Ukraine's military leadership and her controversial bill proposing prison sentences for unauthorised representation of Ukraine abroad. She was dismissed from her role on the parliamentary committee on national security and defence and resigned from Zelenskyy's ruling party.<\/p>\n<p>Bezuhla\u2019s statements have been criticised by Yurii Ihnat, the head of the public relations service of the air force command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>On Facebook, he confirmed the redeployment of personnel from the air force and other units to the infantry. <\/p>\n<p>\"Yes, I can confirm that they do! Not from good times ... and a lot of them, and these transfers are very painful for the air forces, and of course, this has a certain impact on the overall picture. But there are appropriate decisions, we have to implement them, and you understand why,\" Ihnat posted on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Ihnat also criticised Bezuhla's claims about decreased drone interceptions. He clarified that all defence forces \u2014 air force, ground forces, navy, and border guards \u2014 are involved in shooting down drones, highlighting the accuracy of Ukraine's daily air force reports.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//64//49//72//808x539_cmsv2_24655843-4d24-5bc6-9771-ae73c65094b4-7644972.jpg/" alt=\"Ukrainian air defence intercepts a Shahed drone mid-air in the third Russia aerial attack on the capital in the last 24 hours in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 30, 2023.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/64\/49\/72\/384x256_cmsv2_24655843-4d24-5bc6-9771-ae73c65094b4-7644972.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/64\/49\/72\/640x427_cmsv2_24655843-4d24-5bc6-9771-ae73c65094b4-7644972.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/64\/49\/72\/750x500_cmsv2_24655843-4d24-5bc6-9771-ae73c65094b4-7644972.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/64\/49\/72\/828x552_cmsv2_24655843-4d24-5bc6-9771-ae73c65094b4-7644972.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/64\/49\/72\/1080x720_cmsv2_24655843-4d24-5bc6-9771-ae73c65094b4-7644972.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/64\/49\/72\/1200x800_cmsv2_24655843-4d24-5bc6-9771-ae73c65094b4-7644972.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/64\/49\/72\/1920x1281_cmsv2_24655843-4d24-5bc6-9771-ae73c65094b4-7644972.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Ukrainian air defence intercepts a Shahed drone mid-air in the third Russia aerial attack on the capital in the last 24 hours in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 30, 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Evgeniy Maloletka\/Copyright 2020 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2><strong>'Ukraine will survive'<\/strong><\/h2><p>Ukraine\u2019s Western partners have supplied the country with military aid, but many of these deliveries have been accompanied by lengthy debates over the fear of crossing one of the many \"red lines\" raised as threats by Putin during the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\"In Ukraine, we don\u2019t believe in these red lines\", Mykola said.<\/p>\n<p>In Germany, for example, the debate around the Taurus cruise missile keeps resurfacing, especially now during election campaigning for the upcoming snap elections. <\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8891072,8890070\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//12//04//german-foreign-minister-open-to-sending-peacekeeping-troops-to-ukraine/">Germany open to sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine, foreign minister says<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//12//05//war-and-peace-will-germanys-election-shape-ukraines-future/">War and peace: Will Germany's election shape Ukraine's future?<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>At a recent government meeting, Chancellor Olaf Scholz reportedly said: \"Ukraine will survive and will be alive and strong - and there must be a peace that puts an end to the killing\". According to Bild Zeitung, he again reiterated his refusal to supply long-range weapons that can hit targets deep inside Russian territory. <\/p>\n<p>\"It would be wrong to say that we now want the war to be waged in such a way that the weapons we supply go deep into the hinterland. That's why I'm making it very clear here: I won't do that,\" he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//57//33//34//808x539_cmsv2_b34f3966-f162-570f-80ce-8f417faaf612-7573334.jpg/" alt=\"Ukrainian servicemen ride atop by an APC towards frontline positions near Vuhledar, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, May 1, 2023.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/33\/34\/384x256_cmsv2_b34f3966-f162-570f-80ce-8f417faaf612-7573334.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/33\/34\/640x427_cmsv2_b34f3966-f162-570f-80ce-8f417faaf612-7573334.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/33\/34\/750x500_cmsv2_b34f3966-f162-570f-80ce-8f417faaf612-7573334.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/33\/34\/828x552_cmsv2_b34f3966-f162-570f-80ce-8f417faaf612-7573334.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/33\/34\/1080x720_cmsv2_b34f3966-f162-570f-80ce-8f417faaf612-7573334.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/33\/34\/1200x800_cmsv2_b34f3966-f162-570f-80ce-8f417faaf612-7573334.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/57\/33\/34\/1920x1281_cmsv2_b34f3966-f162-570f-80ce-8f417faaf612-7573334.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Ukrainian servicemen ride atop by an APC towards frontline positions near Vuhledar, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, May 1, 2023.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Libkos\/Copyright 2023 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Recently, Zelenskyy stated that frontline rotations are hindered by a lack of equipment for reserve brigades, forcing Ukrainian soldiers to retreat due to exhaustion. <\/p>\n<p>Highly qualified and experienced soldiers are being redeployed to reserve units but these brigades are not being equipped quickly enough, which is due to delays in Ukraine receiving military aid from its Western partners, Zelenskyy said. When that changes, and equipment arrives, Russia's advances in the east could be thwarted, the president said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Euronews has contacted the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to enquire about air defence forces being sent to the front lines but has not received a response until publication.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>* Name changed for security reasons.<\/em><\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1734422761,"updatedAt":1734532628,"publishedAt":1734427902,"firstPublishedAt":1734427902,"lastPublishedAt":1734532628,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Oleg Petrasiuk\/AP","altText":"Servicemen of the 24th Mechanised Brigade fire a 2s1 self-propelled 122mm howitzer towards Russian positions near Chasiv Yar town, in Donetsk region, Ukraine, 13\/11\/24.","callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"caption":"Servicemen of the 24th Mechanised Brigade fire a 2s1 self-propelled 122mm howitzer towards Russian positions near Chasiv Yar town, in Donetsk region, Ukraine, 13\/11\/24.","url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/50\/48\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_8d0744eb-637e-5ea9-8ffd-ccbc24961d1c-8915048.jpg","captionUrl":null,"height":683}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"urlSafeValue":"urbancik","twitter":"johannaurbancik","id":2922,"title":"Johanna Urbancik"}],"producers":[],"videoEditor":[]},"keywords":[{"urlSafeValue":"armed-forces-of-ukraine","titleRaw":"Armed Forces of Ukraine","id":27540,"title":"Armed Forces of Ukraine","slug":"armed-forces-of-ukraine"},{"urlSafeValue":"war-in-ukraine","titleRaw":"War in Ukraine","id":26692,"title":"War in Ukraine","slug":"war-in-ukraine"},{"urlSafeValue":"russia-ukraine-invasion","titleRaw":"Russia's invasion of Ukraine","id":26698,"title":"Russia's invasion of Ukraine","slug":"russia-ukraine-invasion"},{"urlSafeValue":"ukraine","titleRaw":"Ukraine","id":288,"title":"Ukraine","slug":"ukraine"},{"urlSafeValue":"soldier","titleRaw":"soldier","id":14194,"title":"soldier","slug":"soldier"}],"widgets":[{"count":5,"slug":"image"},{"count":4,"slug":"related"}],"related":[{"id":2702344},{"id":2705914}],"technicalTags":[],"externalPartners":[],"hasExternalVideo":0,"video":0,"videos":[],"liveStream":[{"endDate":0,"startDate":0}],"scribbleLiveId":0,"scribbleLiveRibbon":0,"isLiveCoverage":0,"sourceId":1,"sources":[],"externalSource":null,"additionalSources":null,"additionalReporting":null,"freeField1":null,"freeField2":"","type":"normal","displayType":"default","program":{"id":"europe-news","urlSafeValue":"europe-news","title":"Europe News","online":1,"url":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/europe-news\/europe-news"},"vertical":"my-europe","verticals":[{"urlSafeValue":"my-europe","id":2,"title":"Europe","slug":"my-europe"}],"primaryVertical":{"id":2,"slug":"my-europe","urlSafeValue":"my-europe","title":"Europe"},"themes":[{"urlSafeValue":"europe-news","id":"europe-news","title":"Europe News","url":"\/my-europe\/europe-news"}],"primaryTheme":{"id":56,"urlSafeValue":"europe-news","title":"Europe News"},"advertising":0,"advertisingData":{"startDate":0,"endDate":0,"type":null,"slug":null,"title":null,"disclaimerLabelKey":null,"sponsor":null,"sponsorName":null,"sponsorUrl":null,"sponsorLogo":"","sponsorLogoReverse":"","isDfp":0},"geoLocation":{"lat":0,"lon":0},"location":1,"continent":{"id":104,"urlSafeValue":"europe","title":"Europe"},"country":{"id":288,"urlSafeValue":"ukraine","title":"Ukraine","url":"\/news\/europe\/ukraine"},"town":[],"contextualSignals":{"doubleVerify":{"ids":["80023001","80122009","80222009","84081001","84082001","84091001","84092025","84111001","84112005","84211001","84212001"],"slugs":["aggregated_all_moderate_content","health_and_fitness","health_and_fitness_general","hobbies_and_interests","hobbies_and_interests_radio","human_made_disasters_high_and_medium_risk","human_made_disasters_high_medium_and_low_risk","law_gov_t_and_politics_legal_politics","law_government_and_politics","society","society_general"]}},"grapeshot":null,"versions":[],"programDeliverable":{"slug":"sujet-web","format":"default"},"showOpinionDisclaimer":0,"allViews":0,"allViewsMeta":{"pointOfView":[],"survey":[],"tweetId":0,"tweet2NdId":0,"displayOverlay":0},"storyTranslationMethod":[],"localisation":[],"path":"\/my-europe\/2024\/12\/17\/ukraine-soldier-russia-war","lastModified":1734532628},{"id":2704672,"cid":8914898,"versionId":1,"archive":0,"housenumber":"241217_E3SU_57291368","owner":"euronews","isMagazine":0,"isBreakingNews":0,"daletEventName":"UKRAINE: CIVILIAN EVACUATIONS by Sasha","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Last chance: The story of harrowing evacuations of Ukrainian civilians ","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Last chance: The story of harrowing evacuations of Ukraine's civilians","titleListing2":"Last chance: The story of harrowing evacuations of Ukrainian civilians ","leadin":"A TV host, a YouTube blogger and a showman. Denys Khrystov had a very different life before Russia\u2019s invasion. Now a volunteer evacuating civilians from the most dangerous places on the frontline, Denys says he doesn\u2019t know how many he rescued, but he remembers everyone he did not evacuate.","summary":"A TV host, a YouTube blogger and a showman. Denys Khrystov had a very different life before Russia\u2019s invasion. Now a volunteer evacuating civilians from the most dangerous places on the frontline, Denys says he doesn\u2019t know how many he rescued, but he remembers everyone he did not evacuate.","keySentence":"","url":"last-chance-the-story-of-harrowing-evacuations-of-ukrainian-civilians","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/news\/2024\/12\/17\/last-chance-the-story-of-harrowing-evacuations-of-ukrainian-civilians","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"With almost 200,000 followers on Instagram, one has to scroll down through hundreds of videos and photos of destroyed Ukrainian cities to see what Denys Khrystov\u2019s life was like before Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion.\u00a0\n\nA showman and a TV and YouTube host, Khrystov used to entertain people. He now saves them from the most dangerous places on the frontlines.\u00a0\n\nEuronews met Khrystov in Brussels to talk about his work amid Moscow's ongoing war and what he calls the new wartime \"travel show\".\u00a0\n\nKhrystov signed up to volunteer from the very early days of the full-scale invasion in February 2022. He says he doesn\u2019t know how many people he rescued; instead, he calculated the distance he covered across Ukraine in almost three years \u2014 adding up to over 1 million kilometres.\n\nWhen asked if he remembers how many people he didn\u2019t evacuate, Khrystov says he remembers each and every one. \u201cTheir faces and the information about them are stored both in my phone and graved in my memory,\u201d he pondered.\u00a0\n\nThe places he travels to are so close to the frontlines that often, there is no mobile phone coverage or internet connection. Khrystov is regularly contacted by family members, who find his phone number and call, begging to evacuate their loved ones from the town and villages where hardly anything is left.\u00a0\n\nHe has had to return a few times when those few people who stayed after the organised mass evacuations still refuse to leave what\u2019s left of their houses and homes.\n\nUsually, these people don\u2019t leave the basement, which serves as a bomb shelter from constant shelling, and they are not even aware of the scorched earth around them, Khrystov says.\n\nWhy do they stay, and why don\u2019t they leave when it is still relatively safe?\u00a0\n\nThe story of a \u2018stubborn grandpa\u2019\u00a0\n\nThese people, Khrystov says, have no connection to the outside world and their families, and they don\u2019t even comprehend the scale of danger and destruction.\u00a0\n\nWhen Denys and volunteers like him come to help while risking their own lives, people actually often say no. This means volunteers must repeatedly return, trying to persuade people to evacuate. When the Russian forces close in, there might be days, if not hours, left to escape.\u00a0\n\n\u201cI went twice to evacuate an old man, he said no both times. I called him \u2018my stubborn grandpa\u2019. When I came for the third time he finally agreed to evacuate,\" Khrystov recalls. \n\n\"That was late. He should have evacuated earlier, but at least he managed to evacuate somehow on time.\"\n\nThe settlement of Kyslivka, in Kharkiv region's Kupyansk district, where Khrystov went three times, has since been destroyed and fully occupied by Russian troops.\u00a0\n\nWhy do people refuse to evacuate? Khrystov says the old man explained it to him: \u201cI asked him why he didn\u2019t agree to leave the first two times. And he said he didn\u2019t want to be a burden for his children. That\u2019s it.\u201d\u00a0\n\nKhrystov says that people usually notice the war when it\u2019s too late, and at first, they simply don\u2019t believe it is real, \"don\u2019t believe it is possible to die on the way to the local shop.\"\n\nIn the first days and weeks of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion in 2022, Khrystov saw lots of Russian claims that the footage of the missile attacks and the shelling against civilians was not real.\u00a0\n\n\u201cThey wrote that this is all fake, that it had been staged. This is when I decided to film and document everything I see,\u201d Khrystov explains.\n\nThis is why he believes it is crucial to produce documentaries about the war as soon as possible. \n\n\u201cThey are going to give lots of answers and will put in question lots of content of the Russian propaganda machine,\u201d Khrystov explains, even if his team is \"trying to put themselves together to get to editing and producing it, because it is very hard emotionally even to work on it.\u201d\u00a0\n\n'One Percent of War'\n\nKhrystov doesn\u2019t have a crew; everything is filmed on his phone, and a GoPro camera is on his tactical helmet. There is no filtering or censorship either. He says the idea is to show the raw reality of civilian evacuation at war.\u00a0\n\nHundreds of hours of footage are now being turned into a documentary, \"One Percent of War\".\n\nThe film tells a story of evacuations from Avdiivka, the town in the Donetsk region, which Russia occupied in mid-February of this year.\n\nOne Percent of War shows stories of the evacuation of a severely wounded Ukrainian soldier, a villager who was the only one left in the street, the body of a deceased Ukrainian civilian and her caretaker and even animals.\u00a0\n\nKhrystov says when some of these people finally agreed to evacuate, there was only one road and few days or even hours left to make it through.\u00a0\n\nOn camera, one of the evacuated civilians rescued by Khrystov from Avdiivka told him he wanted to go to Pokrovsk to see his family.\u00a0\n\nHalf a year since that story was filmed, Pokrovsk is now the most dangerous part of the frontlines as Russian forces are closing in on the settlement after months of constant shelling.\u00a0\n\nOut of a population of 60,000 before the war, most of the civilians have evacuated from here. However, Ukrainian officials say that about 11,000 people still remain in Pokrovsk, which, just like Avdiivka, is being turned into scorched earth. In contrast, many civilians probably realise there is almost no time or roads left to evacuate. \n\nThis means Khrystov and volunteers like him are risking their lives yet again for the last chance to evacuate the remaining civilians.\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>With almost 200,000 followers on Instagram, one has to scroll down through hundreds of videos and photos of destroyed Ukrainian cities to see what Denys Khrystov\u2019s life was like before Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A showman and a TV and YouTube host, Khrystov used to entertain people. He now saves them from the most dangerous places on the frontlines.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Euronews met Khrystov in Brussels to talk about his work amid Moscow's ongoing war and what he calls the new wartime \"travel show\".\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Khrystov signed up to volunteer from the very early days of the full-scale invasion in February 2022. He says he doesn\u2019t know how many people he rescued; instead, he calculated the distance he covered across Ukraine in almost three years \u2014 adding up to over 1 million kilometres.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he remembers how many people he didn\u2019t evacuate, Khrystov says he remembers each and every one. \u201cTheir faces and the information about them are stored both in my phone and graved in my memory,\u201d he pondered.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The places he travels to are so close to the frontlines that often, there is no mobile phone coverage or internet connection. Khrystov is regularly contacted by family members, who find his phone number and call, begging to evacuate their loved ones from the town and villages where hardly anything is left.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He has had to return a few times when those few people who stayed after the organised mass evacuations still refuse to leave what\u2019s left of their houses and homes.<\/p>\n<p>Usually, these people don\u2019t leave the basement, which serves as a bomb shelter from constant shelling, and they are not even aware of the scorched earth around them, Khrystov says.<\/p>\n<p>Why do they stay, and why don\u2019t they leave when it is still relatively safe?\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The story of a \u2018stubborn grandpa\u2019<\/strong><\/h2><p>These people, Khrystov says, have no connection to the outside world and their families, and they don\u2019t even comprehend the scale of danger and destruction.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When Denys and volunteers like him come to help while risking their own lives, people actually often say no. This means volunteers must repeatedly return, trying to persuade people to evacuate. When the Russian forces close in, there might be days, if not hours, left to escape.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went twice to evacuate an old man, he said no both times. I called him \u2018my stubborn grandpa\u2019. When I came for the third time he finally agreed to evacuate,\" Khrystov recalls. <\/p>\n<p>\"That was late. He should have evacuated earlier, but at least he managed to evacuate somehow on time.\"<\/p>\n<p>The settlement of Kyslivka, in Kharkiv region's Kupyansk district, where Khrystov went three times, has since been destroyed and fully occupied by Russian troops.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Why do people refuse to evacuate? Khrystov says the old man explained it to him: \u201cI asked him why he didn\u2019t agree to leave the first two times. And he said he didn\u2019t want to be a burden for his children. That\u2019s it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Khrystov says that people usually notice the war when it\u2019s too late, and at first, they simply don\u2019t believe it is real, \"don\u2019t believe it is possible to die on the way to the local shop.\"<\/p>\n<p>In the first days and weeks of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion in 2022, Khrystov saw lots of Russian claims that the footage of the missile attacks and the shelling against civilians was not real.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey wrote that this is all fake, that it had been staged. This is when I decided to film and document everything I see,\u201d Khrystov explains.<\/p>\n<p>This is why he believes it is crucial to produce documentaries about the war as soon as possible. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are going to give lots of answers and will put in question lots of content of the Russian propaganda machine,\u201d Khrystov explains, even if his team is \"trying to put themselves together to get to editing and producing it, because it is very hard emotionally even to work on it.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><strong>'One Percent of War'<\/strong><\/h2><p>Khrystov doesn\u2019t have a crew; everything is filmed on his phone, and a GoPro camera is on his tactical helmet. There is no filtering or censorship either. He says the idea is to show the raw reality of civilian evacuation at war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of hours of footage are now being turned into a documentary, \"One Percent of War\".<\/p>\n<p>The film tells a story of evacuations from Avdiivka, the town in the Donetsk region, which Russia occupied in mid-February of this year.<\/p>\n<p>One Percent of War shows stories of the evacuation of a severely wounded Ukrainian soldier, a villager who was the only one left in the street, the body of a deceased Ukrainian civilian and her caretaker and even animals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Khrystov says when some of these people finally agreed to evacuate, there was only one road and few days or even hours left to make it through.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On camera, one of the evacuated civilians rescued by Khrystov from Avdiivka told him he wanted to go to Pokrovsk to see his family.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Half a year since that story was filmed, Pokrovsk is now the most dangerous part of the frontlines as Russian forces are closing in on the settlement after months of constant shelling.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Out of a population of 60,000 before the war, most of the civilians have evacuated from here. However, Ukrainian officials say that about 11,000 people still remain in Pokrovsk, which, just like Avdiivka, is being turned into scorched earth. In contrast, many civilians probably realise there is almost no time or roads left to evacuate. <\/p>\n<p>This means Khrystov and volunteers like him are risking their lives yet again for the last chance to evacuate the remaining civilians.\u00a0<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1734364664,"updatedAt":1734459137,"publishedAt":1734427013,"firstPublishedAt":1734427013,"lastPublishedAt":1734427013,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/91\/48\/98\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_b7353ab4-f510-5c2a-9cfd-d44260f7ae10-8914898.jpg","altText":"Denys Khrystov, Ukrainian volunteer ","caption":"Denys Khrystov, Ukrainian volunteer ","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Viktor Holikov ","sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"callToActionText":null,"width":2400,"height":1597}],"authors":{"journalists":[{"id":598,"urlSafeValue":"vakulina","title":"Sasha 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NORTH KOREA TROOPS ZELENSKYY","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"North Korean soldiers killed and wounded in skirmishes with Ukrainian forces, Kyiv claims","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Ukraine reports North Korean troop losses in Russia's Kursk region","titleListing2":"North Korean soldiers killed and wounded in skirmishes against Ukrainian forces, Kyiv claims","leadin":"North Korean units fighting for Russia sustained losses of at least 30 soldiers killed or wounded in Russia's Kursk region over the weekend, Ukraine\u2019s military intelligence HUR said on Monday.","summary":"North Korean units fighting for Russia sustained losses of at least 30 soldiers killed or wounded in Russia's Kursk region over the weekend, Ukraine\u2019s military intelligence HUR said on 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released images and videos of killed Russian and North Korean soldiers in the Kursk region.\n\nEuronews could not independently verify these claims.\u00a0\n\nHUR reported the losses following President Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s statement that a \"significant number\" of North Korean soldiers have begun fighting alongside Russian forces in assault operations in Kursk. \"The Russians include them in combined units and use them in operations in the Kursk region,\" he said.\n\nNorth Korean troops have not yet joined Russian forces in any other areas of the front, but Zelenskyy said this could change. \"And if this is not escalation, then what is the escalation that so many have been talking about,\" he asked.\n\nThe first clashes between North Korean and Ukrainian troops in Russia\u2019s Kursk were reported in early November. Zelensky stated on 1 December that North Korean soldiers had already been killed fighting for Russia but did not specify figures.\n\nUkrainian and Western officials estimate that over 10,000 North Korean troops had been amassed in Kursk, intended to help Russian forces in their push to kick Ukrainian forces out of Russia\u2019s territory.\u00a0\n\nNorth Korean troops opened fire on Russian unit, HUR claims\n\nHUR further reported on Saturday that North Korean forces operating in Kursk recently fired at Chechen \"Akhmat\" Spetsnaz battalion vehicles and killed eight Chechen personnel in a friendly fire incident, likely caused by the language barrier between the two units.\n\nHUR noted that the lack of ability to communicate effectively hinders combat coordination between the two troops.\n\nUkraine's Main Military Intelligence Directorate also said that the Russian military has established\u00a0special protection protocols in places where North Korean personnel are located. \n\nAccording to those, Russian soldiers must undergo inspections before entering these areas, and their phones and electronic devices are confiscated.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>North Korean units fighting for Moscow sustained losses of at least 30 soldiers killed or wounded in Russia's Kursk region over the weekend, Ukraine\u2019s main military intelligence directorate (HUR) said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time that Kyiv reported North Korean losses of this scale and in some detail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"Due to the losses, the assault groups are being replenished with fresh personnel, in particular from the 94th separate brigade of the DPRK army, to continue active combat operations in the Kursk region,\" the Ukrainian intelligence agency said in a statement, without providing evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Following massive assaults over the past weekend, Ukrainian forces have also released images and videos of killed Russian and North Korean soldiers in the Kursk region.<\/p>\n<p>Euronews could not independently verify these claims.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>HUR reported the losses following President Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s statement that a \"significant number\" of North Korean soldiers have begun fighting alongside Russian forces in assault operations in Kursk. \"The Russians include them in combined units and use them in operations in the Kursk region,\" he said.<\/p>\n<p>North Korean troops have not yet joined Russian forces in any other areas of the front, but Zelenskyy said this could change. \"And if this is not escalation, then what is the escalation that so many have been talking about,\" he asked.<\/p>\n<p>The first clashes between North Korean and Ukrainian troops in Russia\u2019s Kursk were reported in early November. Zelensky stated on 1 December that North Korean soldiers had already been killed fighting for Russia but did not specify figures.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian and Western officials estimate that over 10,000 North Korean troops had been amassed in Kursk, intended to help Russian forces in their push to kick Ukrainian forces out of Russia\u2019s territory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><strong>North Korean troops opened fire on Russian unit, HUR claims<\/strong><\/h2><p>HUR further reported on Saturday that North Korean forces operating in Kursk recently fired at Chechen \"Akhmat\" Spetsnaz battalion vehicles and killed eight Chechen personnel in a friendly fire incident, likely caused by the language barrier between the two units.<\/p>\n<p>HUR noted that the lack of ability to communicate effectively hinders combat coordination between the two troops.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine's Main Military Intelligence Directorate also said that the Russian military has established\u00a0special protection protocols in places where 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escalates counterattacks with drone strike in Chechnya","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Ukraine ramps up counter-attacks against Russia with drone strike on Chechnya","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Ukraine ramps up counter-attacks with drone strike on Chechnya","titleListing2":"Ukraine ramps up counter-attacks against Russia with drone strike on Chechnya","leadin":"Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov vowed retaliation for the attack, amid an escalation in drone and missile attacks betwen Kyiv's and Moscow's forces.","summary":"Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov vowed retaliation for the attack, amid an escalation in drone and missile attacks betwen Kyiv's and Moscow's forces.","keySentence":"","url":"ukraine-ramps-up-counter-attacks-against-russia-with-drone-strike-on-chechnya","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/12\/16\/ukraine-ramps-up-counter-attacks-against-russia-with-drone-strike-on-chechnya","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"A Ukrainian drone struck a facility belonging to Russia\u2019s National Guard in Chechnya on Sunday, as Kyiv continues to fight back after a large-scale air attack by Moscow.\n\nFootage shared on social media captured the drone flying over the Chechen capital, Grozny, located 800 kilometres southeast of the front line in Ukraine, before exploding. No casualties were reported.\u00a0\n\nChechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov confirmed that the drone hit a site belonging to the Akhmat Grozny riot police battalion. Two other drones were intercepted by air defences, he said. \u00a0\n\nKadyrov vowed retaliation against Ukrainian forces, and said he had ordered a missile strike on military facilities in Kharkiv.\u00a0This claim could not be independently verified.\u00a0\n\nMeanwhile, Russia\u2019s defence ministry on Sunday reported shooting down 15 Ukrainian drones overnight in the country's Kursk and Belgorod regions, and over the Black Sea, although it did not mention the Grozny incident.\u00a0\n\n\u200b\u200bAn official from Ukraine's security service said on Sunday that Ukrainian intelligence had carried out a special mission to disrupt Russia\u2019s fuel supply routes from annexed Crimea to occupied Zaporizhzhia.\n\nThe mission, conducted on Saturday, destroyed a locomotive and 40 tanker cars, according to the security official.\n\nA sabotage mission blew up railway tracks while the train was in motion, with HIMARS rocket launch systems later joining the attack, the official said.\n\n\"As a result, a key railway branch used to supply Russian troops was put out of service for an extended period,\" said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. \n\nKyiv\u2019s recent strikes follow a massive Russian bombardment on Friday, during which Moscow launched 93 cruise and ballistic missiles and nearly 200 drones, targeting Ukraine\u2019s energy infrastructure.\u00a0\n\nRussian forces continue to make advances in eastern Ukraine. The Institute for the Study of War think tank reported on Sunday that geolocated footage showed Russian troops inside Kurakhove, a settlement they have besieged for weeks.\u00a0\n\nThese developments come amid uncertainty about the future of Washington's support for Ukraine, as US President-elect Donald Trump has indicated he may limit Kyiv\u2019s use of American-supplied weapons to strike Russian territory. In an interview with TIME magazine on Thursday, Trump reiterated his opposition to such attacks.\u00a0\n\nOver the weekend, Ukraine\u2019s air force said it had intercepted 56 out of 108 drones launched by Russia, while others failed to reach their targets or returned to Russian territory.\u00a0\n\nVitalii Kim, the governor of Ukraine's Mykolaiv oblast, said two people were injured in the region's capital during the attack, which also caused damage to local infrastructure.\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>A Ukrainian drone struck a facility belonging to Russia\u2019s National Guard in Chechnya on Sunday, as Kyiv continues to fight back after a large-scale air attack by Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Footage shared on social media captured the drone flying over the Chechen capital, Grozny, located 800 kilometres southeast of the front line in Ukraine, before exploding. No casualties were reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov confirmed that the drone hit a site belonging to the Akhmat Grozny riot police battalion. Two other drones were intercepted by air defences, he said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kadyrov vowed retaliation against Ukrainian forces, and said he had ordered a missile strike on military facilities in Kharkiv.\u00a0This claim could not be independently verified.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Russia\u2019s defence ministry on Sunday reported shooting down 15 Ukrainian drones overnight in the country's Kursk and Belgorod regions, and over the Black Sea, although it did not mention the Grozny incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u200b\u200bAn official from Ukraine's security service said on Sunday that Ukrainian intelligence had carried out a special mission to disrupt Russia\u2019s fuel supply routes from annexed Crimea to occupied Zaporizhzhia.<\/p>\n<p>The mission, conducted on Saturday, destroyed a locomotive and 40 tanker cars, according to the security official.<\/p>\n<p>A sabotage mission blew up railway tracks while the train was in motion, with HIMARS rocket launch systems later joining the attack, the official said.<\/p>\n<p>\"As a result, a key railway branch used to supply Russian troops was put out of service for an extended period,\" said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. <\/p>\n<p>Kyiv\u2019s recent strikes follow a massive Russian bombardment on Friday, during which Moscow launched 93 cruise and ballistic missiles and nearly 200 drones, targeting Ukraine\u2019s energy infrastructure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8911342,8909378\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//12//14//zelenskyy-slams-russian-attacks-on-ukrainian-energy-facilties-as-cynical/">Zelenskyy slams Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy facilties as 'cynical'<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//12//13//russia-targets-ukraines-power-grid-with-massive-aerial-attack/">Russia targets Ukraine's power grid in massive aerial attack <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Russian forces continue to make advances in eastern Ukraine. The Institute for the Study of War think tank reported on Sunday that geolocated footage showed Russian troops inside Kurakhove, a settlement they have besieged for weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These developments come amid uncertainty about the future of Washington's support for Ukraine, as US President-elect Donald Trump has indicated he may limit Kyiv\u2019s use of American-supplied weapons to strike Russian territory. In an interview with TIME magazine on Thursday, Trump reiterated his opposition to such attacks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, Ukraine\u2019s air force said it had intercepted 56 out of 108 drones launched by Russia, while others failed to reach their targets or returned to Russian territory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Vitalii Kim, the governor of Ukraine's Mykolaiv oblast, said two people were injured in the region's capital during the attack, which also caused damage to local infrastructure.\u00a0<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1734343178,"updatedAt":1734347558,"publishedAt":1734345910,"firstPublishedAt":1734345910,"lastPublishedAt":1734346613,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Andrew Kravchenko","altText":"File photo: Ukrainian soldiers of the 3rd assault brigade fly an FPV exploding drone over Russian positions in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Aug. 25, 2024","callToActionText":null,"width":1024,"caption":"File 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Most of the world condemned the move, and it is still internationally recognised as Ukrainian territory. \n\nMoscow used Crimea to help launch its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and has since declared unilateral annexation of four other Ukrainian regions \u2014 although Russia does not fully control them. These claims have also been denounced as illegal by the international community.\n\nAfter the 2026 World Cup qualifying draw on Friday, Ukraine foreign ministry spokesman Heorhii Tykhyi said that the country expected \"a public apology\", while the Ukrainian Football Association (UFA) wrote to FIFA to complain about the \"unacceptable error\".\n\nIn response, FIFA said it had removed the map and was conducting an internal review. \n\n\"We fully understand the delicate sensitivity of this nature and while the incident was unintentional, we sincerely regret any concern it may have caused,\" it wrote in a letter to the UFA.\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview last month that Crimea would have to be restored to Ukraine through diplomacy rather than military means because his country could not afford to lose \"tens of thousands of our people\". \n\nZelenskyy again rejected the idea of ceding any territory to Moscow during the interview with Fox News, emphasising that Ukraine \"cannot legally acknowledge any occupied territory of Ukraine as Russian\". There are concerns that the incoming administration of US President-elect Donald Trump may ask Kyiv to give up some of its land as part of a peace deal.\n\nThe 2026 World Cup is set to take place across the US, Canada, and Mexico from 11 June to 19 July that year. Ukraine is in qualifying Group D, with Iceland, Azerbaijan, and the winners of the France vs Croatia quarter-final in the Nations League.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>FIFA has apologised for displaying a map during the qualifying draw for the 2026 World Cup that excluded Crimea from Ukraine's territory, which Kyiv had criticised as an \"unacceptable error\".<\/p>\n<p>During last week's draw, world football's governing body showed a map of countries that cannot be drawn to face each other for geopolitical reasons, such as Spain and Gibraltar, Kosovo versus either Bosnia and Herzegovina or Serbia, and Ukraine and Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>The map highlighted Ukraine but did not include the Crimea peninsula as part of the country. <\/p>\n<p>Russia occupied and unilaterally annexed Crimea from Ukraine during its initial invasion in 2014. Most of the world condemned the move, and it is still internationally recognised as Ukrainian territory. <\/p>\n<p>Moscow used Crimea to help launch its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and has since declared unilateral annexation of four other Ukrainian regions \u2014 although Russia does not fully control them. These claims have also been denounced as illegal by the international community.<\/p>\n<p>After the 2026 World Cup qualifying draw on Friday, Ukraine foreign ministry spokesman Heorhii Tykhyi said that the country expected \"a public apology\", while the Ukrainian Football Association (UFA) wrote to FIFA to complain about the \"unacceptable error\".<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1867904707982946605\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In response, FIFA said it had removed the map and was conducting an internal review. <\/p>\n<p>\"We fully understand the delicate sensitivity of this nature and while the incident was unintentional, we sincerely regret any concern it may have caused,\" it wrote in a letter to the UFA.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8911342,8909378\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//12//14//zelenskyy-slams-russian-attacks-on-ukrainian-energy-facilties-as-cynical/">Zelenskyy slams Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy facilties as 'cynical'<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2024//12//13//russia-targets-ukraines-power-grid-with-massive-aerial-attack/">Russia targets Ukraine's power grid in massive aerial attack <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in an interview last month that Crimea would have to be restored to Ukraine through diplomacy rather than military means because his country could not afford to lose \"tens of thousands of our people\". <\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy again rejected the idea of ceding any territory to Moscow during the interview with Fox News, emphasising that Ukraine \"cannot legally acknowledge any occupied territory of Ukraine as Russian\". There are concerns that the incoming administration of US President-elect Donald Trump may ask Kyiv to give up some of its land as part of a peace deal.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 World Cup is set to take place across the US, Canada, and Mexico from 11 June to 19 July that year. Ukraine is in qualifying Group D, with Iceland, Azerbaijan, and the winners of the France vs Croatia quarter-final in the Nations League.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1734339610,"updatedAt":1734345050,"publishedAt":1734343623,"firstPublishedAt":1734343623,"lastPublishedAt":1734344523,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Martin Meissner\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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UKRAINE PEACE PLAN ECFR","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Peace in Ukraine needs more than a plan","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Peace in Ukraine needs more than a plan","titleListing2":"Opinion | If Europe wants to sit at the table on European security affairs rather than only being the subject of it, it needs a European Peace Plan that includes forceful diplomacy backed by the force of arms and money, Nicu Popescu and Gustav Gressel write.","leadin":"If Europe wants to sit at the table on European security affairs rather than only being the subject of it, it needs a European Peace Plan that includes forceful diplomacy backed by the force of arms and money, Nicu Popescu and Gustav Gressel write.","summary":"If Europe wants to sit at the table on European security affairs rather than only being the subject of it, it needs a European Peace Plan that includes forceful diplomacy backed by the force of arms and money, Nicu Popescu and Gustav Gressel write.","keySentence":"","url":"peace-in-ukraine-needs-more-than-a-plan","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2024\/12\/13\/peace-in-ukraine-needs-more-than-a-plan","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"As the Trump administration is preparing an attempt to stop the war in Ukraine, Europe fears, for good reason, that it won\u2019t have a place at the table where decisions are made. \n\nIt also fears a deal done at the expense of not just Ukraine but also the EU itself. No amount of pleading is likely to change that unless Europe itself brings itself something tangible to that table: a European Peace Plan of sorts that is designed to support but also guard-rail Trump\u2019s own peace plan. \n\nTo begin with, the likelihood of a peace deal next year remains modest. As long as Russia continues to make advances on the front, there is little reason for Moscow to seek a deal that is minimally respectful not just of Ukraine\u2019s territorial integrity but also of Ukraine\u2019s future sovereignty and freedom of action. \n\nIt may sound like \u201cproposals\u201d will amount to turning Ukraine into another vassal state like Belarus, posing even greater security problems for the rest of Europe. As long as Russia has a realistic chance of achieving its aims through war, why should it give up in negotiations what it can achieve unilaterally on the battlefield?\n\nWhat should Europe do? \n\nThe road to peace and the negotiating table needs several pit stops. And Europe has to prepare them well.\n\nFirst, the road to peace needs to see the Russians stop advancing. For this, Ukraine needs to stop them. \n\nEven the current amount of military aid is insufficient to achieve this. The most urgent need is an increase in military support to Ukraine. \n\nOnce the Russian army is stopped, one must send credible signals that squash Moscow\u2019s hopes for a renewed offensive after adapting to new Ukrainian capabilities. \n\nSo, a credible commitment to finance and help Ukrainian defence in the long term is needed. And this commitment needs to be made less vulnerable to political change and electoral vagaries inside the EU. \n\nTherefore, a long-term commitment should take the form of long-term binding contracts with European and Ukrainian defence enterprises to produce relevant goods in quantity and a long-term financial framework for aid to Ukraine that cannot be vetoed every few months (like the European Peace Facility). \n\nOn-paper guarantees not enough\n\nSecond, all of the above require funds. The EU should put together a European Peace Fund, which will be Europe\u2019s second contribution to the table. Like the US lend-lease during World War II, it needs to be quick, substantial and long-term. \n\nThe \u20ac800 billion post-COVID recovery fund can inspire a European Peace Fund. Europeans should explore ways to use existing money \u2013 from cohesion funds, NextGenEU, or the financial capacities of development banks, and possibly new loans - to boost the EU's defence industrial production and infrastructure upgrades needed because there is a war, but also commit 20% of those to strengthening Ukraine\u2019s defence capacity with the possibility of reimbursing that in 50 or even 100 years. \n\nBy the way, the UK reimbursed the last tranche of the US World War II lend-lease in 2006, 69 years after the end of the war.\n\nThird, Europe needs to propose something that credibly prevents a large-scale attack on Ukraine in one or two years after a truce. NATO membership would certainly be a credible guarantee. But even if and when there is a positive decision, ratification could take time if Sweden\u2019s recent experience of any guide. \n\nBesides NATO membership, paper security guarantees are no longer credible. After the failure of the US and UK to sustain the Budapest Memorandum, paper guarantees won\u2019t deter Russia\u2019s next war and, therefore, won\u2019t convince Ukraine now. \n\nTherefore, if one is to hold an unrecognised frontline, Korea-style, for the long term, on-paper guarantees won\u2019t suffice. \n\nIf peace on the Korean peninsula for the last 60+ years is any indication, frontlines are frozen by trenches, artillery and tanks, and US military presence in South Korea, not agreements on paper. \n\nTherefore, a European conversation about troop deployments in Ukraine is a logical discussion to be had. But in what form?\n\nA tall order for Europe?\n\nOne form is peacekeepers, and another is a presence without peacekeeping status. It is not very likely that EU peacekeepers will significantly deter Russia. UNIFIL in Lebanon has not been able to deter Israel either. \n\nIndian, Chinese or Kazakh peacekeepers would not do any better. Any peacekeeping mission bound to a mandate by either the UN or OSCE could be terminated at Russia\u2019s convenience before it attacks. \n\nPreviously, Russia terminated or incapacitated OSCE missions in both Ukraine and Georgia on various occasions. Therefore, only an autonomous military presence supporting Ukraine\u2019s defence capabilities, like the enhanced forward presence with NATO, would be a more credible factor of stability and peace.\n\nThis package \u2014 arms, defence funds, long-term loans, and boots on the ground \u2014 sounds like a tall order for Europe. \n\nBut if Europe wants to sit at the table on European security affairs, rather than only being the subject of it \u2014 and receive a deal that would only set the stage for Russia\u2019s next and possibly larger war \u2014 it needs a European Peace Plan that includes forceful diplomacy backed by the force of arms and money.\n\nNicu Popescu is a distinguished policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and former foreign minister of Moldova. Gustav Gressel is a security and defence specialist.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>As the Trump administration is preparing an attempt to stop the war in Ukraine, Europe fears, for good reason, that it won\u2019t have a place at the table where decisions are made. <\/p>\n<p>It also fears a deal done at the expense of not just Ukraine but also the EU itself. No amount of pleading is likely to change that unless Europe itself brings itself something tangible to that table: a European Peace Plan of sorts that is designed to support but also guard-rail Trump\u2019s own peace plan. <\/p>\n<p>To begin with, the likelihood of a peace deal next year remains modest. As long as Russia continues to make advances on the front, there is little reason for Moscow to seek a deal that is minimally respectful not just of Ukraine\u2019s territorial integrity but also of Ukraine\u2019s future sovereignty and freedom of action. <\/p>\n<p>It may sound like \u201cproposals\u201d will amount to turning Ukraine into another vassal state like Belarus, posing even greater security problems for the rest of Europe. As long as Russia has a realistic chance of achieving its aims through war, why should it give up in negotiations what it can achieve unilaterally on the battlefield?<\/p>\n<h2>What should Europe do?<\/h2><p>The road to peace and the negotiating table needs several pit stops. And Europe has to prepare them well.<\/p>\n<p>First, the road to peace needs to see the Russians stop advancing. For this, Ukraine needs to stop them. <\/p>\n<p>Even the current amount of military aid is insufficient to achieve this. The most urgent need is an increase in military support to Ukraine. <\/p>\n<p>Once the Russian army is stopped, one must send credible signals that squash Moscow\u2019s hopes for a renewed offensive after adapting to new Ukrainian capabilities. <\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">A credible commitment to finance and help Ukrainian defence in the long term is needed. And this commitment needs to be made less vulnerable to political change and electoral vagaries inside the EU. <\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//90//97//02//808x539_cmsv2_59d87e02-d38e-51f2-8147-01529b4b4892-8909702.jpg/" alt=\"A Ukrainian police officer takes cover in front of a burning building that was hit in a Russian airstrike in Avdiivka, March 2023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/97\/02\/384x256_cmsv2_59d87e02-d38e-51f2-8147-01529b4b4892-8909702.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/97\/02\/640x427_cmsv2_59d87e02-d38e-51f2-8147-01529b4b4892-8909702.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/97\/02\/750x500_cmsv2_59d87e02-d38e-51f2-8147-01529b4b4892-8909702.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/97\/02\/828x552_cmsv2_59d87e02-d38e-51f2-8147-01529b4b4892-8909702.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/97\/02\/1080x720_cmsv2_59d87e02-d38e-51f2-8147-01529b4b4892-8909702.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/97\/02\/1200x800_cmsv2_59d87e02-d38e-51f2-8147-01529b4b4892-8909702.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/97\/02\/1920x1281_cmsv2_59d87e02-d38e-51f2-8147-01529b4b4892-8909702.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A Ukrainian police officer takes cover in front of a burning building that was hit in a Russian airstrike in Avdiivka, March 2023<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Evgeniy Maloletka<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>So, a credible commitment to finance and help Ukrainian defence in the long term is needed. And this commitment needs to be made less vulnerable to political change and electoral vagaries inside the EU. <\/p>\n<p>Therefore, a long-term commitment should take the form of long-term binding contracts with European and Ukrainian defence enterprises to produce relevant goods in quantity and a long-term financial framework for aid to Ukraine that cannot be vetoed every few months (like the European Peace Facility). <\/p>\n<h2>On-paper guarantees not enough<\/h2><p>Second, all of the above require funds. The EU should put together a European Peace Fund, which will be Europe\u2019s second contribution to the table. Like the US lend-lease during World War II, it needs to be quick, substantial and long-term. <\/p>\n<p>The \u20ac800 billion post-COVID recovery fund can inspire a European Peace Fund. Europeans should explore ways to use existing money \u2013 from cohesion funds, NextGenEU, or the financial capacities of development banks, and possibly new loans - to boost the EU's defence industrial production and infrastructure upgrades needed because there is a war, but also commit 20% of those to strengthening Ukraine\u2019s defence capacity with the possibility of reimbursing that in 50 or even 100 years. <\/p>\n<p>By the way, the UK reimbursed the last tranche of the US World War II lend-lease in 2006, 69 years after the end of the war.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-quotation\n widget--size-fullwidth\n widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__content\">\n <blockquote class=\"widget__quote\">\n <span class=\"widget__quoteText\">Besides NATO membership, paper security guarantees are no longer credible. After the failure of the US and UK to sustain the Budapest Memorandum, paper guarantees won\u2019t deter Russia\u2019s next war and, therefore, won\u2019t convince Ukraine now. <\/span>\n <\/blockquote>\n <cite class=\"widget__author\">\n <\/cite>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//90//97//02//808x539_cmsv2_18a19d79-d5e2-5fe8-b5d5-d47fb430ca54-8909702.jpg/" alt=\"Ukrainian servicemen of the 28th Separate Mechanised Brigade take their position in a trench at the front line, near Bakhmut, March 2024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/97\/02\/384x256_cmsv2_18a19d79-d5e2-5fe8-b5d5-d47fb430ca54-8909702.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/97\/02\/640x427_cmsv2_18a19d79-d5e2-5fe8-b5d5-d47fb430ca54-8909702.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/97\/02\/750x500_cmsv2_18a19d79-d5e2-5fe8-b5d5-d47fb430ca54-8909702.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/97\/02\/828x552_cmsv2_18a19d79-d5e2-5fe8-b5d5-d47fb430ca54-8909702.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/97\/02\/1080x720_cmsv2_18a19d79-d5e2-5fe8-b5d5-d47fb430ca54-8909702.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/97\/02\/1200x800_cmsv2_18a19d79-d5e2-5fe8-b5d5-d47fb430ca54-8909702.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/90\/97\/02\/1920x1281_cmsv2_18a19d79-d5e2-5fe8-b5d5-d47fb430ca54-8909702.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Ukrainian servicemen of the 28th Separate Mechanised Brigade take their position in a trench at the front line, near Bakhmut, March 2024<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo\/Efrem Lukatsky<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Third, Europe needs to propose something that credibly prevents a large-scale attack on Ukraine in one or two years after a truce. NATO membership would certainly be a credible guarantee. But even if and when there is a positive decision, ratification could take time if Sweden\u2019s recent experience of any guide. <\/p>\n<p>Besides NATO membership, paper security guarantees are no longer credible. After the failure of the US and UK to sustain the Budapest Memorandum, paper guarantees won\u2019t deter Russia\u2019s next war and, therefore, won\u2019t convince Ukraine now. <\/p>\n<p>Therefore, if one is to hold an unrecognised frontline, Korea-style, for the long term, on-paper guarantees won\u2019t suffice. <\/p>\n<p>If peace on the Korean peninsula for the last 60+ years is any indication, frontlines are frozen by trenches, artillery and tanks, and US military presence in South Korea, not agreements on paper. <\/p>\n<p>Therefore, a European conversation about troop deployments in Ukraine is a logical discussion to be had. But in what form?<\/p>\n<h2>A tall order for Europe?<\/h2><p>One form is peacekeepers, and another is a presence without peacekeeping status. It is not very likely that EU peacekeepers will significantly deter Russia. UNIFIL in Lebanon has not been able to deter Israel either. <\/p>\n<p>Indian, Chinese or Kazakh peacekeepers would not do any better. Any peacekeeping mission bound to a mandate by either the UN or OSCE could be terminated at Russia\u2019s convenience before it attacks. <\/p>\n<p>Previously, Russia terminated or incapacitated OSCE missions in both Ukraine and Georgia on various occasions. Therefore, only an autonomous military presence supporting Ukraine\u2019s defence capabilities, like the enhanced forward presence with NATO, would be a more credible factor of stability and peace.<\/p>\n<p>This package \u2014 arms, defence funds, long-term loans, and boots on the ground \u2014 sounds like a tall order for Europe. <\/p>\n<p>But if Europe wants to sit at the table on European security affairs, rather than only being the subject of it \u2014 and receive a deal that would only set the stage for Russia\u2019s next and possibly larger war \u2014 it needs a European Peace Plan that includes forceful diplomacy backed by the force of arms and money.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nicu Popescu is a distinguished policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and former foreign minister of Moldova. 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UKRAINE MASSIVE ATTACK","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Russia targets Ukraine's power grid in massive aerial attack ","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Russia targets Ukraine's power grid in massive aerial attack ","titleListing2":"Russia targets Ukraine's power grid in massive aerial attack ","leadin":"Friday\u2019s attack is the latest in a series that has heightened fears that the Kremlin aims to cripple the country\u2019s power generation capacity before the cold winter sets in.","summary":"Friday\u2019s attack is the latest in a series that has heightened fears that the Kremlin aims to cripple the country\u2019s power generation capacity before the cold winter sets 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It said Russia also used air-launched ballistic Kinzhal missiles against Ukraine\u2019s western regions.\n\nFriday\u2019s attack is the latest in a series of such raids that have sparked fears that the Kremlin is targeting Ukraine's power grid as a cold winter is about to set in. \n\nRussia has relentlessly pummeled Ukraine\u2019s electricity system since launching its invasion in 2022. \n\nIts attacks have resulted in the repeated shutdown of critical heating and drinking water supplies during the bitter winter months in an apparent attempt to break Ukrainian spirits and resolve. \n\nMoscow argues that the attacks aim to target Ukraine\u2019s defence industry, producing missiles, drones, armoured vehicles and artillery, among other weapons.\n\nThe previous massive attack on 28 November involved about 200 missiles and drones and left more than a million households without power until emergency teams restored supplies.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Russia launched a massive aerial attack against Ukraine on Friday, lobbing dozens of rockets and drones, including the Kinzhal ballistic missile.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine's Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko said Russia targeted the country's energy grid. \u201cThe enemy continues its terror,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Halushchenko said energy workers were working to \u201cminimise negative consequences for the energy system,\u201d promising to release more details on damages once the security situation allows it.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine\u2019s air force reported swarms of strike drones were launched at Ukraine overnight, followed by multiple cruise missiles in the country\u2019s air space. It said Russia also used air-launched ballistic Kinzhal missiles against Ukraine\u2019s western regions.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s attack is the latest in a series of such raids that have sparked fears that the Kremlin is targeting Ukraine's power grid as a cold winter is about to set in. <\/p>\n<p>Russia has relentlessly pummeled Ukraine\u2019s electricity system since launching its invasion in 2022. <\/p>\n<p>Its attacks have resulted in the repeated shutdown of critical heating and drinking water supplies during the bitter winter months in an apparent attempt to break Ukrainian spirits and resolve. <\/p>\n<p>Moscow argues that the attacks aim to target Ukraine\u2019s defence industry, producing missiles, drones, armoured vehicles and artillery, among other weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The previous massive attack on 28 November involved about 200 missiles and drones and left more than a million households without power until emergency teams restored supplies.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1734075433,"updatedAt":1734533605,"publishedAt":1734079660,"firstPublishedAt":1734079660,"lastPublishedAt":1734533605,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"sourceUrl":null,"sourceCredit":null,"callToActionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Efrem Lukatsky\/Copyright 2024 The AP. 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And, of course, we also spoke at a meeting with members of the European Parliament about the Danish model of deploying joint production with Ukrainian defence industry - is the model that should be applied by other countries too.\"\n\nThe \u201cDanish model,\u201d initiated by Denmark, funds Ukraine\u2019s defence industry to bolster its self-reliance in arms production for its military. The funding mechanism aims to strengthen Ukraine\u2019s industrial base in Europe.\n\nContinued military and financial support for Ukraine is expected to be one the main priorities of Poland for the next rotating EU presidency. But this won\u2019t necessarily mean Ukraine\u2019s EU accession.\u00a0\n\n\"Basically, the Polish Presidency relies on the work of the European Commission,\" Stefanishyna told Euronews, \"So far, I have only heard that the Polish presidency will focus on security issues. I have no specifics unfortunately, as a result of this conversation.\"\n\nPoland has been one of the strongest supporters of Ukraine since the start of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion and a vocal supporter of Ukraine on the world stage, campaigning for Kyiv to receive all the required weaponry to win the war that Moscow unleashed.\n\nYet, bilateral relations are far from perfect, with the two countries sharing long-standing disputes over Ukrainian agricultural imports and\u00a0grievances over\u00a0the exhumations of victims of the 1943 Volyn Massacre. 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And, of course, we also spoke at a meeting with members of the European Parliament about the Danish model of deploying joint production with Ukrainian defence industry - is the model that should be applied by other countries too.\"<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cDanish model,\u201d initiated by Denmark, funds Ukraine\u2019s defence industry to bolster its self-reliance in arms production for its military. The funding mechanism aims to strengthen Ukraine\u2019s industrial base in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Continued military and financial support for Ukraine is expected to be one the main priorities of Poland for the next rotating EU presidency. But this won\u2019t necessarily mean Ukraine\u2019s EU accession.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"Basically, the Polish Presidency relies on the work of the European Commission,\" Stefanishyna told Euronews, \"So far, I have only heard that the Polish presidency will focus on security issues. I have no specifics unfortunately, as a result of this conversation.\"<\/p>\n<p>Poland has been one of the strongest supporters of Ukraine since the start of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion and a vocal supporter of Ukraine on the world stage, campaigning for Kyiv to receive all the required weaponry to win the war that Moscow unleashed.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, bilateral relations are far from perfect, with the two countries sharing long-standing disputes over Ukrainian agricultural imports and\u00a0grievances over\u00a0the exhumations of victims of the 1943 Volyn Massacre. 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The women were able to contact rescuers using their mobile phones.\n\nDeadly strikes on civilian areas have been a hallmark of the nearly three-year war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the attack, reiterating the urgent need for more air defence systems from Western allies.\u00a0\n\n\u201cWe currently do not have enough systems to protect our country from Russian missiles. But partners have these systems,\u201d Zelenskyy said in his daily address.\u00a0\n\nHe urged allies to deploy air defence weaponry from their arsenals, stating these systems \u201cshould save lives, and not gather dust in storage bases.\u201d\u00a0\n\nMeanwhile, Ukraine continued its long-range strikes on Russian-held areas.\n\nA Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire at an industrial facility in Russia\u2019s Bryansk region, where air defences reportedly intercepted 14 drones early on Wednesday, according to Russian authorities\n\nAdditionally, a Ukrainian missile strike damaged an industrial plant in Taganrog, in Russia\u2019s Rostov region, Governor Yuri Slusar said.\n\nZelenskyy expressed his willingness on Monday to consider the deployment of Western troops in Ukraine as part of efforts to secure the country and work towards ending the war with Russia.\n\nOn Telegram, he emphasised that such a move would align with Ukraine\u2019s aspirations to join NATO, but stressed the need for a clear timeline regarding the country\u2019s accession to both NATO and the European Union.\n\n\u201cBut before that, we must have a clear understanding of when Ukraine will be in the European Union and when Ukraine will be in NATO.\u201d\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Rescue crews in southern Ukraine worked overnight to save two women trapped beneath rubble for more than seven hours after a Russian missile struck a private medical clinic in Zaporizhzhia late Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The attack killed six people and injured 22 others, according to Ukraine\u2019s Emergency Services. The women were able to contact rescuers using their mobile phones.<\/p>\n<p>Deadly strikes on civilian areas have been a hallmark of the nearly three-year war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the attack, reiterating the urgent need for more air defence systems from Western allies.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe currently do not have enough systems to protect our country from Russian missiles. But partners have these systems,\u201d Zelenskyy said in his daily address.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He urged allies to deploy air defence weaponry from their arsenals, stating these systems \u201cshould save lives, and not gather dust in storage bases.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8902676\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//12//10//deadly-russian-strike-kills-at-least-three-in-ukraines-zaporizhzhia/">Deadly Russian strike kills at least three in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Ukraine continued its long-range strikes on Russian-held areas.<\/p>\n<p>A Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire at an industrial facility in Russia\u2019s Bryansk region, where air defences reportedly intercepted 14 drones early on Wednesday, according to Russian authorities<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, a Ukrainian missile strike damaged an industrial plant in Taganrog, in Russia\u2019s Rostov region, Governor Yuri Slusar said.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy expressed his willingness on Monday to consider the deployment of Western troops in Ukraine as part of efforts to secure the country and work towards ending the war with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>On Telegram, he emphasised that such a move would align with Ukraine\u2019s aspirations to join NATO, but stressed the need for a clear timeline regarding the country\u2019s accession to both NATO and the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut before that, we must have a clear understanding of when Ukraine will be in the European Union and when Ukraine will be in 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urges immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, suggests NATO and aid reforms","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Trump urges immediate ceasefire in Ukraine and suggests NATO role rethinking","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Trump urges ceasefire in Ukraine and suggests NATO role rethinking","titleListing2":"President-elect Trump pushes for an immediate Ukraine ceasefire, questions NATO commitments, and hints at reduced US military aid.","leadin":"Trump's remarks, including thoughts on reducing US military aid to Ukraine and reconsidering NATO membership, have sparked concern among allies and security experts.","summary":"Trump's remarks, including thoughts on reducing US military aid to Ukraine and reconsidering NATO membership, have sparked concern among allies and security 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This is his time to act. China can help. The World is waiting!\u201d\u00a0\n\nHis comments refer to Beijing\u2019s ongoing mediation efforts, which many in the West perceive as favouring Moscow.\n\nZelenskyy described his discussions with Trump, accompanied by French President Emmanuel\u00a0Macron as \u201cconstructive\u201d but reiterated the need for a \u201cjust and robust\u201d peace\u201d that would not collapse under future Russian aggression.\u00a0\n\n\u201cWhen we talk about an effective peace with Russia, we must talk first of all about effective peace guarantees. Ukrainians want peace more than anyone else. Russia brought war to our land,\u201d he said in a Telegram post on Sunday.\u00a0\n\nKremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov reiterated Moscow\u2019s willingness to negotiate but pointed to a Ukrainian decree from 2022 barring talks while Putin remains in power.\u00a0\n\nThe decree followed Putin\u2019s declaration that four occupied regions of Ukraine were now part of Russia, a move condemned by Kyiv and the West as a direct violation of Ukrainian sovereignty.\u00a0\n\nFurthermore, in the interview, Trump warned NATO allies that continued US participation in the alliance could impact their military spending commitments.\n\nWhile NATO members have increased their defence budgets partly due to pressure during Trump\u2019s first term, Trump suggested the US might withdraw from the alliance if these commitments fall short.\n\n\u201cIf they\u2019re paying their bills, and if I think they\u2019re treating us fairly, the answer is absolutely I\u2019d stay with NATO,\u201d Trump said.\u00a0\n\nTrump replied, \u201cAbsolutely. Yeah, absolutely,\u201d when asked if he would consider pulling the US out of the alliance if the commitments were not met.\u00a0\n\nWhen asked about cutting US aid to Ukraine, he responded, \u201cPossibly.\u201d\u00a0\n\nUS arms and military support are crucial to Ukraine\u2019s defence against invading Russian forces, with Biden ramping up assistance to Ukraine ahead of leaving office.\n\nOver the weekend, Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin announced nearly $1 (\u20ac945 million) billion in additional long-term weapons support.\u00a0\n\nScepticism over Trump\u2019s ceasefire proposal\u00a0\n\nTrump\u2019s call for an immediate ceasefire has been met with doubt.\n\nRetired Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster, Trump\u2019s former national security advisor, warned against expecting a quick resolution.\u00a0\n\n\u201cWhat I\u2019m worried about is this flawed idea that Putin can be placated, that Putin will come to some kind of a deal.\u201d McMaster told Fox News.\u00a0\n\n\u201cHow about giving them (Ukraine) what they need to defend themselves and telling Putin, \u2018You\u2019re going to lose this war\u2019?\u201d\u00a0\n\nBoth Trump and President Joe Biden highlighted Russia\u2019s reduced presence in Syria as evidence of how the war against Ukraine has drained its resources.\u00a0\n\nBiden noted that Ukrainian resistance had \u201cleft Russia unable to protect its main ally in the Middle East.\u201d\n\nWhile the Biden administration has avoided pressuring Ukraine for an immediate truce, fearing it could force damaging concessions and allow Russia to regroup, Trump positions himself as capable of arranging rapid deals to resolve conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.\u00a0\n\n","htmlText":"<p>US President-elect Donald Trump has called on Russian President Vladimir Putin for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, describing the move as part of his active efforts as president-elect to end the conflict, despite being weeks away from assuming office.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZelenskyy and Ukraine would like to make a deal and stop the madness,\u201d Trump wrote on his social media platform, Truth Social.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a televised interview aired on Sunday, Trump suggested he might reduce military aid to Ukraine and even reconsider US membership in NATO.<\/p>\n<p>These remarks have raised alarm among Ukraine, NATO allies, and US national security experts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When asked on NBC\u2019s Meet the Press if he was actively working to end the nearly three-year-long war, Trump confirmed, \u201cI am.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, he declined to reveal whether he had spoken to Putin since his November election victory, stating, \u201cI don\u2019t want to say anything about that, because I don\u2019t want to do anything that could impede the negotiation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s proposal, shared after meetings with French and Ukrainian leaders in Paris, urges an immediate end to hostilities and the start of negotiations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere should be an immediate ceasefire, and negotiations should begin,\u201d he wrote on social media, adding, \u201cI know Vladimir well. This is his time to act. China can help. The World is waiting!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His comments refer to Beijing\u2019s ongoing mediation efforts, which many in the West perceive as favouring Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy described his discussions with Trump, accompanied by French President Emmanuel\u00a0Macron as \u201cconstructive\u201d but reiterated the need for a \u201cjust and robust\u201d peace\u201d that would not collapse under future Russian aggression.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we talk about an effective peace with Russia, we must talk first of all about effective peace guarantees. Ukrainians want peace more than anyone else. Russia brought war to our land,\u201d he said in a Telegram post on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8896708,8896274\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//12//07//macron-to-meet-with-trump-and-zelenskyy-as-notre-dame-reopens-its-doors/">Macron to meet with Trump and Zelenskyy as Notre Dame reopens its doors<\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//12//07//emmanuel-macron-welcomes-trump-and-zelenskyy-for-a-meeting-ahead-of-notre-dames-reopening/">Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Paris talks with Trump and Macron were 'constructive' <\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov reiterated Moscow\u2019s willingness to negotiate but pointed to a Ukrainian decree from 2022 barring talks while Putin remains in power.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The decree followed Putin\u2019s declaration that four occupied regions of Ukraine were now part of Russia, a move condemned by Kyiv and the West as a direct violation of Ukrainian sovereignty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, in the interview, Trump warned NATO allies that continued US participation in the alliance could impact their military spending commitments.<\/p>\n<p>While NATO members have increased their defence budgets partly due to pressure during Trump\u2019s first term, Trump suggested the US might withdraw from the alliance if these commitments fall short.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they\u2019re paying their bills, and if I think they\u2019re treating us fairly, the answer is absolutely I\u2019d stay with NATO,\u201d Trump said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump replied, \u201cAbsolutely. Yeah, absolutely,\u201d when asked if he would consider pulling the US out of the alliance if the commitments were not met.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When asked about cutting US aid to Ukraine, he responded, \u201cPossibly.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>US arms and military support are crucial to Ukraine\u2019s defence against invading Russian forces, with Biden ramping up assistance to Ukraine ahead of leaving office.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin announced nearly $1 (\u20ac945 million) billion in additional long-term weapons support.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Scepticism over Trump\u2019s ceasefire proposal<\/h2><p>Trump\u2019s call for an immediate ceasefire has been met with doubt.<\/p>\n<p>Retired Lieutenant General H.R. 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","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"What\u2019s new on UNESCO\u2019s Intangible Cultural Heritage list? ","titleListing2":"From sake to Slovak painting, what\u2019s new on UNESCO\u2019s Intangible Cultural Heritage list? ","leadin":"Alongside Japanese sake and Brazilian cheese, Europe made a strong showing on the UNESCO list. Ukrainian 'pysanky' and Parisian roof restorers were just two of the continent\u2019s treasures to be added.","summary":"Alongside Japanese sake and Brazilian cheese, Europe made a strong showing on the UNESCO list. Ukrainian 'pysanky' and Parisian roof restorers were just two of the continent\u2019s treasures to be added.","keySentence":"","url":"from-sake-to-slovak-painting-whats-new-on-unescos-intangible-cultural-heritage-list","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2024\/12\/05\/from-sake-to-slovak-painting-whats-new-on-unescos-intangible-cultural-heritage-list","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"You might well have read about sake, the smooth rice wine that is arguably more Japanese than sushi, earning a spot on UNESCO\u2019s list of Intangible Cultural Heritage when the new entries were announced this week. But the traditional tipple was joined on the list by a number of European additions, spanning the French capital to the Baltics and Ukraine.\n\nParticularly poignant amidst attacks on Ukrainian culture in the context of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine, the colourful Ukrainian Easter eggs known as pysanky were added to the list. Long predating the advent of Christianity, the eggs are adorned with intricate patterns and dyed using a wax-resist technique.The colourful eggs are an internationally recognised symbol of Ukrainian culture.\n\n\u201cIn the fight for our homeland, our artists \u2013 bearers of living heritage \u2013 are perishing. ... We, however, are proving that even in the darkest times, we remain unbroken,\u201d Ukrainian Culture and Strategic Communications Minister Mykola Tochytskyi said.\n\nAlongside pysanky is ethnic Slovak na\u00efve art: a style characterised by its depiction of everyday scenes, landscapes, village life, and rural surroundings, often rendered with a childlike simplicity and innocence. The form came about when, close to a century ago, two farmers in the ethnic Slovak village of Kovacica in northern Serbia began painting to pass the time during the long winter months.\n\nThe self-taught na\u00efve painters of Kovacica have cultivated a distinctive tradition within the country\u2019s ethnic Slovak minority, known for their vibrant colours and folk-inspired motifs.\n\n\u201cNa\u00efve art in Kovacica began in 1939 when Martin Paluska and Jan Sokol started painting,\u201d explained Ana Zolnaj Barca, the head of the Gallery of Na\u00efve Art in the village. \u201cThey were farmers with only four grades of elementary school.\u201d\n\nThe village\u2019s na\u00efve art gallery, established in 1955, now holds the works of nearly 50 recognised artists and hosts some 20,000 visitors each year. Among its most acclaimed artists is Zuzana Chalupova, who often painted children and whose work was featured on millions of UNICEF postcards.\n\nThe craftsmanship of Parisian zinc roof restorers also earned itself a spot. According to UNESCO, the process involves removing old zinc, measuring and cutting new pieces using a traditional Parisian folding machine, and expertly assembling them onto the roof.\u00a0\n\n\u2033With nearly 80 percent of the roofs in Paris covered in zinc, the city is a living archive of these skills that shape the unique identity of its urban landscape,\u201d UNESCO said in its citation.\n\nThe profession, however, is facing a shortage of skilled workers capable of preserving the zinc roofs that have defined Paris since the 19th-century Haussmann era, from balconied apartment buildings along tree-lined boulevards to historic churches scattered throughout the city.\n\n\u2033It\u2019s a recognition for our trade, but for me, it\u2019s only useful if it is accompanied by a reflection on why there are so few roofers,\u2033 roofer Fantine Dekens, 21, told the Associated Press.\n\nEstonia\u2019s traditional dish potato and barley dish mulgi puder, consumed daily in the country\u2019s Mulgimaa region, is a further tasty (and hearty) addition to the UNESCO list, with Bosnia and Herzegovina\u2019s sevdalinka traditional urban singing providing a time-honoured aural accompaniment.\n\nThese European entries are joined on the list by (among others) Brazil's Minas cheese, China\u2019s Spring Festival and cassava bread from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Honduras and Venezuela.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>You might well have read about sake, the smooth rice wine that is arguably more Japanese than sushi, earning a spot on <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2023//12//07//italian-opera-and-55-other-practices-added-to-unesco-intangible-heritage-list/">UNESCO/u2019s list of Intangible Cultural Heritage<\/strong><\/a> when the new entries were announced this week. But the traditional tipple was joined on the list by a number of European additions, spanning the French capital to the Baltics and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Particularly poignant amidst <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//10//17//council-of-europe-declares-russian-destruction-of-ukrainian-cultural-heritage-genocide/">attacks on Ukrainian culture<\/strong><\/a> in the context of Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine, the colourful Ukrainian Easter eggs known as <em>pysanky<\/em> were added to the list. Long predating the advent of Christianity, the eggs are adorned with intricate patterns and dyed using a wax-resist technique.The colourful eggs are an internationally recognised symbol of Ukrainian culture.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"1.4997222222222222\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//89//21//40//808x1206_cmsv2_e2deee95-771a-5157-bc5c-9713afadefd4-8892140.jpg/" alt=\"A Ukrainian &#39;pysanka&#39;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/21\/40\/384x576_cmsv2_e2deee95-771a-5157-bc5c-9713afadefd4-8892140.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/21\/40\/640x960_cmsv2_e2deee95-771a-5157-bc5c-9713afadefd4-8892140.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/21\/40\/750x1125_cmsv2_e2deee95-771a-5157-bc5c-9713afadefd4-8892140.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/21\/40\/828x1242_cmsv2_e2deee95-771a-5157-bc5c-9713afadefd4-8892140.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/21\/40\/1080x1620_cmsv2_e2deee95-771a-5157-bc5c-9713afadefd4-8892140.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/21\/40\/1200x1800_cmsv2_e2deee95-771a-5157-bc5c-9713afadefd4-8892140.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/21\/40\/1920x2879_cmsv2_e2deee95-771a-5157-bc5c-9713afadefd4-8892140.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A Ukrainian &#39;pysanka&#39;<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Tim Mossholder \/ CC licence<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn the fight for our homeland, our artists \u2013 bearers of living heritage \u2013 are perishing. ... We, however, are proving that even in the darkest times, we remain unbroken,\u201d Ukrainian Culture and Strategic Communications Minister Mykola Tochytskyi said.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside pysanky is ethnic <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//12//02//department-head-resignations-rock-slovak-national-gallery-amid-growing-staff-protest/">Slovak na\u00efve art<\/strong><\/a>: a style characterised by its depiction of everyday scenes, landscapes, village life, and rural surroundings, often rendered with a childlike simplicity and innocence. The form came about when, close to a century ago, two farmers in the ethnic Slovak village of Kovacica in northern Serbia began painting to pass the time during the long winter months.<\/p>\n<p>The self-taught na\u00efve painters of Kovacica have cultivated a distinctive tradition within the country\u2019s ethnic Slovak minority, known for their vibrant colours and folk-inspired motifs.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//89//21//40//808x539_cmsv2_033b0ac8-2f74-5e14-a673-7e271ae2465f-8892140.jpg/" alt=\"Stefan Varga paints in his room in the village of Kovacica, Serbia.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/21\/40\/384x256_cmsv2_033b0ac8-2f74-5e14-a673-7e271ae2465f-8892140.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/21\/40\/640x427_cmsv2_033b0ac8-2f74-5e14-a673-7e271ae2465f-8892140.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/21\/40\/750x500_cmsv2_033b0ac8-2f74-5e14-a673-7e271ae2465f-8892140.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/21\/40\/828x552_cmsv2_033b0ac8-2f74-5e14-a673-7e271ae2465f-8892140.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/21\/40\/1080x720_cmsv2_033b0ac8-2f74-5e14-a673-7e271ae2465f-8892140.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/21\/40\/1200x800_cmsv2_033b0ac8-2f74-5e14-a673-7e271ae2465f-8892140.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/21\/40\/1920x1281_cmsv2_033b0ac8-2f74-5e14-a673-7e271ae2465f-8892140.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Stefan Varga paints in his room in the village of Kovacica, Serbia.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Darko Vojinovic\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cNa\u00efve art in Kovacica began in 1939 when Martin Paluska and Jan Sokol started painting,\u201d explained Ana Zolnaj Barca, the head of the Gallery of Na\u00efve Art in the village. \u201cThey were farmers with only four grades of elementary school.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The village\u2019s na\u00efve art gallery, established in 1955, now holds the works of nearly 50 recognised artists and hosts some 20,000 visitors each year. Among its most acclaimed artists is Zuzana Chalupova, who often painted children and whose work was featured on millions of UNICEF postcards.<\/p>\n<p>The craftsmanship of Parisian zinc roof restorers also earned itself a spot. According to UNESCO, the process involves removing old zinc, measuring and cutting new pieces using a traditional <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//culture//2024//10//24//french-culture-minister-wants-people-to-pay-to-visit-notre-dame-de-paris/">Parisian folding machine, and expertly assembling them onto the roof.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2033With nearly 80 percent of the roofs in Paris covered in zinc, the city is a living archive of these skills that shape the unique identity of its urban landscape,\u201d UNESCO said in its citation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//89//21//40//808x539_cmsv2_30425551-fddf-5b96-8a96-0557967de5aa-8892140.jpg/" alt=\"A roofer carries zinc roof sheets in Paris.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/21\/40\/384x256_cmsv2_30425551-fddf-5b96-8a96-0557967de5aa-8892140.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/21\/40\/640x427_cmsv2_30425551-fddf-5b96-8a96-0557967de5aa-8892140.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/21\/40\/750x500_cmsv2_30425551-fddf-5b96-8a96-0557967de5aa-8892140.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/21\/40\/828x552_cmsv2_30425551-fddf-5b96-8a96-0557967de5aa-8892140.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/21\/40\/1080x720_cmsv2_30425551-fddf-5b96-8a96-0557967de5aa-8892140.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/21\/40\/1200x800_cmsv2_30425551-fddf-5b96-8a96-0557967de5aa-8892140.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/21\/40\/1920x1281_cmsv2_30425551-fddf-5b96-8a96-0557967de5aa-8892140.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A roofer carries zinc roof sheets in Paris.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Louise Delmotte\/Copyright 2024 The AP. All rights reserved.<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The profession, however, is facing a shortage of skilled workers capable of preserving the zinc roofs that have defined Paris since the 19th-century Haussmann era, from balconied apartment buildings along tree-lined boulevards to historic churches scattered throughout the city.<\/p>\n<p>\u2033It\u2019s a recognition for our trade, but for me, it\u2019s only useful if it is accompanied by a reflection on why there are so few roofers,\u2033 roofer Fantine Dekens, 21, told the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Estonia\u2019s traditional dish potato and barley dish <em>mulgi puder,<\/em> consumed daily in the country\u2019s Mulgimaa region, is a further tasty (and hearty) addition to the UNESCO list, with <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//2022//07//22//fractured-state-why-old-tensions-die-hard-in-bosnia-and-herzegovina/">Bosnia and Herzegovina<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s <em>sevdalinka<\/em> traditional urban singing providing a time-honoured aural accompaniment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-youtube-embed\nwidget--size-fullwidth\nwidget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"auto widget__ratio widget__ratio--16x9\">\n <iframe type=\"text\/html\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.youtube.com//embed//KtUEXrSGhFE/" width=\"100%\" loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" seamless>\n <\/iframe>\n <\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>These European entries are joined on the list by (among others) Brazil's Minas cheese, China\u2019s Spring Festival and cassava bread from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Honduras and 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DEPORTATION OF UKR CHILDREN","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Detained, deported and brainwashed: How Moscow \u2018Russifies\u2019 Ukrainian children","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Taken away and brainwashed: How Moscow \u2018Russifies\u2019 Ukrainian children","titleListing2":"Detained, deported and brainwashed: How Moscow \u2018Russifies\u2019 Ukrainian children","leadin":"The Yale Humanitarian Research Lab released a new report on Russia's coerced adoption of Ukrainian children. According to it, Moscow launched the programme together with its all-out invasion, pointing to crimes against humanity.","summary":"The Yale Humanitarian Research Lab released a new report on Russia's coerced adoption of Ukrainian children. According to it, Moscow launched the programme together with its all-out invasion, pointing to crimes against humanity.","keySentence":"","url":"detained-deported-and-brainwashed-how-moscow-russifies-ukrainian-children","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/news\/2024\/12\/05\/detained-deported-and-brainwashed-how-moscow-russifies-ukrainian-children","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Taken from homes, detained for months and subjected to intense propaganda before coerced adoption\u00a0\u2014 a new report by Yale's School of Public Health has shed light on Russia\u2019s forceful deportation of Ukrainian children and revealed information and details unknown until now.\u00a0\n\nThe researchers were able to track down how exactly Moscow is removing children from their homes, forcefully re-educating them and then placing them with Russian families under coerced adoption schemes in a \"systematic\" way. \n\nThe documented operation, research shows, was initiated by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his subordinates with the intent to \u201cRussify\u201d children from Ukraine.\n\nAccording to Ukrainian authorities, Russia has forcefully deported over 19,500 Ukrainian children. Yale HRL identified 314 Ukrainian children who have been adopted by Russian families and placed into institutions across 21 regions in Russia.\u00a0\n\nMost critically, children taken from Ukraine are fundamentally presented in Russia\u2019s databases as if they were from Russia. \n\nFor this, Russia\u2019s officials amended the federal law to simplify the process of conferring Russian citizenship to children from Ukraine who were allegedly orphaned or left without parental care. \n\nThis fast-tracked the issuing of Russian citizenship to children from Ukraine, which, according to law, is required for children to be placed under the guardianship of \u2014 or adopted by \u2014 families in Russia.\n\nNone of the databases analysed by Yale HRL include information suggesting that the child is from Ukraine and or acknowledging their Ukrainian nationality or place of origin.\n\nApproximately half (46.6%) of the children identified have siblings also listed in the databases. In at least one case, three children from a family of four were placed with a citizen of Russia without their fourth, eldest sibling who remained listed for adoption on Russia\u2019s databases.\n\nMoscow\u2019s coerced adoption scheme\n\nIn September 2022, seven months into the full-scale invasion, Russia declared its unilateral annexation of four Ukrainian regions: Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, without fully controlling those territories.\u00a0\n\nBy that time, Russian forces had already taken Ukrainian children to what Yale HRL calls \"midpoints\" and listed them on Russia\u2019s child placement databases.\u00a0\n\n\u201cThe way it works is there's three interconnected databases, one of which is directly run by the Ministry of Education. After the September annexation of the area occupied by Russia, they move the children from midpoints points, basically safe houses where they had held them for six months and then placed them in the database,\" Nathaniel Raymond, Executive Director of Yale's Humanitarian Research Lab told Euronews. \n\n\"At that point, about over 140 entered into the database and were then we know that many of them were placed with Russian families following their placement in the database,\u201d he added.\u00a0\n\nWhile in those midpoints, Ukrainian children had to undergo forced re-education, Raymond explained. There are multiple aspects to Russia\u2019s\u00a0reeducation process, which amounts to indoctrination, he said. \n\n\u201cThat includes, for older boys, military training, including vehicle and weapons operations. It also includes other types of military training, including parachute jumping,\" Raymond said.\n\n\"And then for younger children, it includes indoctrination in Russian narratives, singing Russian songs and being prohibited from speaking in Ukrainian.\u201d\u00a0\n\nAt least 67 of the 314 children from Ukraine have been \"naturalised\" as Russian citizens since being taken to Russia, although Yale HRL can reasonably assume that the number of formally naturalised children is significantly higher.\u00a0\n\nBut what happened to those who resisted the indoctrination and yet got into Russian databases and were forcefully moved to Russia?\u00a0\n\nRaymond said that many of the older children have tried to leave Russia. \n\n\u201cOnce they get citizenship or just before citizenship is forced upon them, often because they don't want to engage in military service,\" he pointed out. \n\n\"We also know that for older kids, many of them who went into this program with 17 or now 20 or 21, and so they are the age of majority. And many have tried to get back to Ukraine or elsewhere in Western Europe.\u201d\u00a0\n\nPartaking in invasion, deportation and forced adoption\u00a0\n\nIn its new report, Yale HRL also tracked down the very first cases of Russia\u2019s coerced adoption strategy to prove it was an essential part of the full-scale invasion and was as important to Moscow as the military aspect. \n\nThe Kremlin launched this program in the first weeks of 2022, in tandem with its preparation for its all-out invasion of Ukraine. Russia had already held parts of the Donbas after its limited invasion in 2014, when Moscow also occupied and unilaterally annexed Ukraine's Crimea.\n\nMoscow started to systematically transport children, including some of those children identified in the Yale HRL study, from two schools in the occupied Donetsk oblast into Russia as early as 18 February 2022, six days before Russia\u2019s troops first entered Ukraine.\n\nThe heads of Russia-controlled so-called DPR and LPR ordered the evacuation within hours before children were moved under the pretence of what they called \"an imminent threat of attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces\".\n\nRaymond says this was not a coincidence. \n\n\u201cIt was directly connected and calibrated to both the military invasion and, as we saw, with the annexation actions, as it related to the placement of the children in the database,\u201d he explained.\u00a0\n\n\"Both the military actions and the political actions and the treatment of the children all were synchronised intentionally by design.\"\n\nPutin\u2019s plane and presidential money, all to deport Ukrainian children\u00a0\n\nAnother evidence of how important the deportation and coerced adoption of Ukrainian children is for Moscow is the fact that Russian presidential aircraft and funds were used in the endeavour, the report found.\u00a0\n\nBetween May and October 2022, Russia\u2019s Aerospace Forces and aircraft under the direct control of President Vladimir Putin\u2019s office transported multiple groups of children from Ukraine on Russian flag-bearing military transport planes.\n\n\u201cNot only did he (Putin) have a direct command and control role as the head of state, but he also had a very unique, specific logistical relationship by, in the early phase, using the available resources of his office,\" Raymond said. \n\n\"Both funds, buildings and planes to facilitate this program and it implicates his office not simply in the command and control program, but in actually logistically running it.\"\n\n\"And that makes sense given Maria Lvova-Belova\u2018s role as child rights commissioner sitting in the Kremlin using the resources available to her before the program was formalized with the Duma. And those resources were from the president's office,\u201c\u00a0he added.\n\nCan anyone be held responsible?\n\nAccording to Kyiv officials, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Moscow has forcefully deported over 19,500 Ukrainian children. However, in reality, the number is likely much greater, given Ukraine's lack of access to occupied areas of the country.\n\nRussia\u2019s Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Lvova-Belova revealed in July of last year that around 700,000 Ukrainian minors have been \"transferred\" to the country since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.\u00a0\n\nThe situation might get even worse, as around 1.5 million Ukrainian children who still live in occupied areas of Ukraine remain at high risk of being deported to Russia.\u00a0\n\nIn March of last year, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague issued an arrest warrant for Putin and\u00a0Lvova-Belova for their actions and involvement in the unlawful deportation of children and the unlawful transfer of children from occupied areas of Ukraine to Russia. \n\nThe US, EU, and UK have all sanctioned Lvova-Belova for her alleged role in the scheme. Lvova-Belova herself said that she personally \"adopted\" a teenage boy from Mariupol, a Ukrainian city destroyed and captured by Russia in the spring of 2022.\u00a0\n\nThe new Yale HRL report states the coerced deportation, re-education, adoption and fostering of children from Ukraine documented in this report may constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, and the findings have been transferred to the ICC.\u00a0\n\nThe expectation is that the new information might not only strengthen the case against Putin and Lvova-Belova, but also bring further charges against the duo.\n\n\u201cThe evidence that we provide in this report we provided through direct transfer to the International Criminal Court is clear evidence of alleged crimes against humanity,\" Raymond said. \n\n\"And now it is up to the ICC in other jurisdictions to decide whether they want to charge. We've given them all the information we have, and we believe the case is clear.\u201d\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Taken from homes, detained for months and subjected to intense propaganda before coerced adoption\u00a0\u2014 a new report by Yale's School of Public Health has shed light on Russia\u2019s forceful deportation of Ukrainian children and revealed information and details unknown until now.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The researchers were able to track down how exactly Moscow is removing children from their homes, forcefully re-educating them and then placing them with Russian families under coerced adoption schemes in a \"systematic\" way. <\/p>\n<p>The documented operation, research shows, was initiated by Russian President Vladimir Putin and his subordinates with the intent to \u201cRussify\u201d children from Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>According to Ukrainian authorities, Russia has forcefully deported over 19,500 Ukrainian children. Yale HRL identified 314 Ukrainian children who have been adopted by Russian families and placed into institutions across 21 regions in Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Most critically, children taken from Ukraine are fundamentally presented in Russia\u2019s databases as if they were from Russia. <\/p>\n<p>For this, Russia\u2019s officials amended the federal law to simplify the process of conferring Russian citizenship to children from Ukraine who were allegedly orphaned or left without parental care. <\/p>\n<p>This fast-tracked the issuing of Russian citizenship to children from Ukraine, which, according to law, is required for children to be placed under the guardianship of \u2014 or adopted by \u2014 families in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>None of the databases analysed by Yale HRL include information suggesting that the child is from Ukraine and or acknowledging their Ukrainian nationality or place of origin.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately half (46.6%) of the children identified have siblings also listed in the databases. In at least one case, three children from a family of four were placed with a citizen of Russia without their fourth, eldest sibling who remained listed for adoption on Russia\u2019s databases.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Moscow\u2019s coerced adoption scheme<\/strong><\/h2><p>In September 2022, seven months into the full-scale invasion, Russia declared its unilateral annexation of four Ukrainian regions: Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, without fully controlling those territories.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By that time, Russian forces had already taken Ukrainian children to what Yale HRL calls \"midpoints\" and listed them on Russia\u2019s child placement databases.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way it works is there's three interconnected databases, one of which is directly run by the Ministry of Education. After the September annexation of the area occupied by Russia, they move the children from midpoints points, basically safe houses where they had held them for six months and then placed them in the database,\" Nathaniel Raymond, Executive Director of Yale's Humanitarian Research Lab told Euronews. <\/p>\n<p>\"At that point, about over 140 entered into the database and were then we know that many of them were placed with Russian families following their placement in the database,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While in those midpoints, Ukrainian children had to undergo forced re-education, Raymond explained. There are multiple aspects to Russia\u2019s\u00a0reeducation process, which amounts to indoctrination, he said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat includes, for older boys, military training, including vehicle and weapons operations. It also includes other types of military training, including parachute jumping,\" Raymond said.<\/p>\n<p>\"And then for younger children, it includes indoctrination in Russian narratives, singing Russian songs and being prohibited from speaking in Ukrainian.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6665\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//89//05//30//808x539_cmsv2_5673f99e-9957-56df-a8bb-7f280592b016-8890530.jpg/" alt=\"Ukrainian teenager Bohdan Yermokhin, right, holds the Ukraine flag on the Ukraine-Belarus border in Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023. \" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/05\/30\/384x256_cmsv2_5673f99e-9957-56df-a8bb-7f280592b016-8890530.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/05\/30\/640x427_cmsv2_5673f99e-9957-56df-a8bb-7f280592b016-8890530.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/05\/30\/750x500_cmsv2_5673f99e-9957-56df-a8bb-7f280592b016-8890530.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/05\/30\/828x552_cmsv2_5673f99e-9957-56df-a8bb-7f280592b016-8890530.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/05\/30\/1080x720_cmsv2_5673f99e-9957-56df-a8bb-7f280592b016-8890530.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/05\/30\/1200x800_cmsv2_5673f99e-9957-56df-a8bb-7f280592b016-8890530.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/05\/30\/1920x1280_cmsv2_5673f99e-9957-56df-a8bb-7f280592b016-8890530.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Ukrainian teenager Bohdan Yermokhin, right, holds the Ukraine flag on the Ukraine-Belarus border in Ukraine, Sunday, Nov. 19, 2023. <\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP\/Ukrainian Presidential Press Office<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>At least 67 of the 314 children from Ukraine have been \"naturalised\" as Russian citizens since being taken to Russia, although Yale HRL can reasonably assume that the number of formally naturalised children is significantly higher.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But what happened to those who resisted the indoctrination and yet got into Russian databases and were forcefully moved to Russia?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Raymond said that many of the older children have tried to leave Russia. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce they get citizenship or just before citizenship is forced upon them, often because they don't want to engage in military service,\" he pointed out. <\/p>\n<p>\"We also know that for older kids, many of them who went into this program with 17 or now 20 or 21, and so they are the age of majority. And many have tried to get back to Ukraine or elsewhere in Western Europe.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Partaking in invasion, deportation and forced adoption<\/strong><\/h2><p>In its new report, Yale HRL also tracked down the very first cases of Russia\u2019s coerced adoption strategy to prove it was an essential part of the full-scale invasion and was as important to Moscow as the military aspect. <\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin launched this program in the first weeks of 2022, in tandem with its preparation for its all-out invasion of Ukraine. Russia had already held parts of the Donbas after its limited invasion in 2014, when Moscow also occupied and unilaterally annexed Ukraine's Crimea.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow started to systematically transport children, including some of those children identified in the Yale HRL study, from two schools in the occupied Donetsk oblast into Russia as early as 18 February 2022, six days before Russia\u2019s troops first entered Ukraine.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6669921875\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//72//49//80//808x539_cmsv2_247a7e31-edce-5d03-99cc-16e7aa024432-7724980.jpg/" alt=\"Boys said to be from an orphanage in the Donetsk region sit in beds at a camp in Zolotaya Kosa, Rostov region, southwestern Russia, 8 July 2022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/72\/49\/80\/384x256_cmsv2_247a7e31-edce-5d03-99cc-16e7aa024432-7724980.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/72\/49\/80\/640x427_cmsv2_247a7e31-edce-5d03-99cc-16e7aa024432-7724980.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/72\/49\/80\/750x500_cmsv2_247a7e31-edce-5d03-99cc-16e7aa024432-7724980.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/72\/49\/80\/828x552_cmsv2_247a7e31-edce-5d03-99cc-16e7aa024432-7724980.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/72\/49\/80\/1080x720_cmsv2_247a7e31-edce-5d03-99cc-16e7aa024432-7724980.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/72\/49\/80\/1200x800_cmsv2_247a7e31-edce-5d03-99cc-16e7aa024432-7724980.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/72\/49\/80\/1920x1281_cmsv2_247a7e31-edce-5d03-99cc-16e7aa024432-7724980.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Boys said to be from an orphanage in the Donetsk region sit in beds at a camp in Zolotaya Kosa, Rostov region, southwestern Russia, 8 July 2022<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP Photo<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The heads of Russia-controlled so-called DPR and LPR ordered the evacuation within hours before children were moved under the pretence of what they called \"an imminent threat of attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces\".<\/p>\n<p>Raymond says this was not a coincidence. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was directly connected and calibrated to both the military invasion and, as we saw, with the annexation actions, as it related to the placement of the children in the database,\u201d he explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"Both the military actions and the political actions and the treatment of the children all were synchronised intentionally by design.\"<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Putin\u2019s plane and presidential money, all to deport Ukrainian children<\/strong><\/h2><p>Another evidence of how important the deportation and coerced adoption of Ukrainian children is for Moscow is the fact that Russian presidential aircraft and funds were used in the endeavour, the report found.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Between May and October 2022, Russia\u2019s Aerospace Forces and aircraft under the direct control of President Vladimir Putin\u2019s office transported multiple groups of children from Ukraine on Russian flag-bearing military transport planes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" 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<\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cNot only did he (Putin) have a direct command and control role as the head of state, but he also had a very unique, specific logistical relationship by, in the early phase, using the available resources of his office,\" Raymond said. <\/p>\n<p>\"Both funds, buildings and planes to facilitate this program and it implicates his office not simply in the command and control program, but in actually logistically running it.\"<\/p>\n<p>\"And that makes sense given Maria Lvova-Belova\u2018s role as child rights commissioner sitting in the Kremlin using the resources available to her before the program was formalized with the Duma. And those resources were from the president's office,\u201c\u00a0he added.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Can anyone be held responsible?<\/strong><\/h2><p>According to Kyiv officials, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Moscow has forcefully deported over 19,500 Ukrainian children. However, in reality, the number is likely much greater, given Ukraine's lack of access to occupied areas of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights Lvova-Belova revealed in July of last year that around 700,000 Ukrainian minors have been \"transferred\" to the country since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The situation might get even worse, as around 1.5 million Ukrainian children who still live in occupied areas of Ukraine remain at high risk of being deported to Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In March of last year, the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague issued an arrest warrant for Putin and\u00a0Lvova-Belova for their actions and involvement in the unlawful deportation of children and the unlawful transfer of children from occupied areas of Ukraine to Russia. <\/p>\n<p>The US, EU, and UK have all sanctioned Lvova-Belova for her alleged role in the scheme. Lvova-Belova herself said that she personally \"adopted\" a teenage boy from Mariupol, a Ukrainian city destroyed and captured by Russia in the spring of 2022.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new Yale HRL report states the coerced deportation, re-education, adoption and fostering of children from Ukraine documented in this report may constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity, and the findings have been transferred to the ICC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The expectation is that the new information might not only strengthen the case against Putin and Lvova-Belova, but also bring further charges against the duo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe evidence that we provide in this report we provided through direct transfer to the International Criminal Court is clear evidence of alleged crimes against humanity,\" Raymond said. <\/p>\n<p>\"And now it is up to the ICC in other jurisdictions to decide whether they want to charge. We've given them all the information we have, and we believe the case is clear.\u201d<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1733321319,"updatedAt":1733408473,"publishedAt":1733395237,"firstPublishedAt":1733395237,"lastPublishedAt":1733397318,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/05\/30\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_33c9f983-8fdf-5886-806e-5eca7e6623b7-8890530.jpg","altText":"The children of medical workers warm themselves in a blanket as they wait for their relatives in a hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, Friday, March 4, 2022.","caption":"The children of medical workers warm themselves in a blanket as they wait for their relatives in a hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine, Friday, March 4, 2022.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Evgeniy Maloletka\/Copyright 2022 The AP. 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warns NATO membership for Ukraine could escalate conflict","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":3},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Hungary's foreign minister warns Ukrainian NATO membership could escalate conflict","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Hungarian FM warns Ukrainian NATO membership could escalate war","titleListing2":"Hungarian Foreign Minister P\u00e9ter Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 has declared there is \u2018no consensus\u2019 on Ukraine's NATO membership, warning it could spark \"World War III\" if the country joined the alliance.","leadin":"Although NATO leaders have declared Ukraine\u2019s path to membership \u201cirreversible\u201d, Secretary-General Mark Rutte avoided questions about the specifics of its potential accession.","summary":"Although NATO leaders have declared Ukraine\u2019s path to membership \u201cirreversible\u201d, Secretary-General Mark Rutte avoided questions about the specifics of its potential accession.","keySentence":"","url":"hungarys-foreign-minister-warns-ukrainian-nato-membership-could-escalate-conflict","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/12\/04\/hungarys-foreign-minister-warns-ukrainian-nato-membership-could-escalate-conflict","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"Hungary\u2019s foreign minister, P\u00e9ter Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3, announced on Wednesday that a NATO meeting in Brussels had reached \u201cno consensus\u201d on Ukraine\u2019s potential accession to the alliance, a step that Kyiv considers critical to ending Russia\u2019s invasion.\n\nSzijj\u00e1rt\u00f3, a critic of Ukraine and an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, warned that welcoming Ukraine into NATO \u201cwould be tantamount to initiating World War III\u201d.\u00a0\n\n\u201cWe believe that Ukraine would not be able to add to European security in its present situation, but rather, as a country at war, inviting Ukraine into NATO we would risk the threat of war, namely, the threat of a NATO-Russian war,\u201d Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 said at a press conference.\u00a0\n\nThe meeting of NATO foreign ministers coincides with Russian advances in Ukraine, with Western nations ramping up military aid to strengthen Ukrainian forces' position before Donald Trump is inaugurated as US president in January.\u00a0\n\nTrump has criticised the Biden administration\u2019s support for Ukraine and suggested he could end the war within 24 hours, hinting that he might pressure Ukraine to cede territory currently occupied by Russia.\u00a0\n\nWhile NATO leaders have affirmed that Ukraine is on an \u201cirreversible\u201d path to membership, Secretary-General Mark Rutte avoided questions regarding Ukraine\u2019s potential membership, focusing instead on strengthening Ukraine\u2019s position in future peace negotiations with Russia through continued arms shipments.\u00a0\n\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has proposed that extending NATO membership to territory currently under Kyiv\u2019s control could help end \u201cthe hot stage\u201d of the nearly three-year war.\n\nHowever, Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 expressed doubt that increased Western support could shift the conflict in Ukraine\u2019s favour.\n\n\u201cIn spite of the arms shipments pouring there, Ukraine\u2019s situation on the battlefield gets worse every day,\u201d Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 said.\n\n\u201cIf someone talks about the improvement of the situation of the Ukrainians as an easily achievable goal on the battlefield, they do nothing but deceive themselves and the Ukrainians as well.\u201d\n\nConsensus among all 32 NATO members is required to admit new members, meaning Hungary\u2019s objections could prove decisive to Ukraine's future accession.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Hungary\u2019s foreign minister, P\u00e9ter Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3, announced on Wednesday that a NATO meeting in Brussels had reached \u201cno consensus\u201d on Ukraine\u2019s potential accession to the alliance, a step that Kyiv considers critical to ending Russia\u2019s invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3, a critic of Ukraine and an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, warned that welcoming Ukraine into NATO \u201cwould be tantamount to initiating World War III\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that Ukraine would not be able to add to European security in its present situation, but rather, as a country at war, inviting Ukraine into NATO we would risk the threat of war, namely, the threat of a NATO-Russian war,\u201d Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 said at a press conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The meeting of NATO foreign ministers coincides with Russian advances in Ukraine, with Western nations ramping up military aid to strengthen Ukrainian forces' position before Donald Trump is inaugurated as US president in January.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump has criticised the Biden administration\u2019s support for Ukraine and suggested he could end the war within 24 hours, hinting that he might pressure Ukraine to cede territory currently occupied by Russia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While NATO leaders have affirmed that Ukraine is on an \u201cirreversible\u201d path to membership, Secretary-General Mark Rutte avoided questions regarding Ukraine\u2019s potential membership, focusing instead on strengthening Ukraine\u2019s position in future peace negotiations with Russia through continued arms shipments.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8887304\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//12//03//nato-must-focus-on-military-aid-for-ukraine-not-peace-deal-says-alliance-chief-mark-rutte/">NATO must focus on military aid for Ukraine, not peace deal, says alliance chief Mark Rutte<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has proposed that extending NATO membership to territory currently under Kyiv\u2019s control could help end \u201cthe hot stage\u201d of the nearly three-year war.<\/p>\n<p>However, Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 expressed doubt that increased Western support could shift the conflict in Ukraine\u2019s favour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn spite of the arms shipments pouring there, Ukraine\u2019s situation on the battlefield gets worse every day,\u201d Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf someone talks about the improvement of the situation of the Ukrainians as an easily achievable goal on the battlefield, they do nothing but deceive themselves and the Ukrainians as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Consensus among all 32 NATO members is required to admit new members, meaning Hungary\u2019s objections could prove decisive to Ukraine's future accession.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1733325117,"updatedAt":1733327225,"publishedAt":1733327109,"firstPublishedAt":1733327109,"lastPublishedAt":1733327132,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/89\/07\/80\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_b9a02c7a-0ae4-5c70-917f-607aca585e59-8890780.jpg","altText":"Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov shakes hands with Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto on Thursday, 30 November 2023.","caption":"Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov shakes hands with Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto on Thursday, 30 November 2023.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP, 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ELECTRONIC WARFARE","channels":[{"id":1},{"id":2},{"id":4},{"id":5},{"id":10},{"id":12},{"id":14}],"status":2,"title":"Lost and spoofed: How Ukraine redirects Russian drones to Belarus","titleSeo":null,"titleListing1":"Lost and spoofed: How Ukraine redirects Russian drones to Belarus","titleListing2":"Lost and spoofed: how Ukraine redirects Russian drones to Belarus","leadin":"Ukraine has a new way of countering Moscow's increased use of Shahed drones in mass attacks \u2014 redirecting them back to Russia or into the airspace of Kremlin-friendly Belarus.","summary":"Ukraine has a new way of countering Moscow's increased use of Shahed drones in mass attacks \u2014 redirecting them back to Russia or into the airspace of Kremlin-friendly Belarus.","keySentence":"","url":"lost-and-spoofed-how-ukraine-redirects-russian-drones-to-belarus","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/12\/04\/lost-and-spoofed-how-ukraine-redirects-russian-drones-to-belarus","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"While Moscow might have been producing more drones to attack Ukraine, Kyiv has found a way to crash them or send them back where they came from.\u00a0\n\nOn\u00a0Sunday night, Russian forces launched 110\u00a0Shahed drones and other decoys against Ukraine. Some 52 of them were shot down by Ukraine's air defence forces, while 50 were deemed \"lost\" \u2014 not shot down deliberately by the air defence, and they did not reach their intended targets.\u00a0\n\nSo where did more than four dozen drones disappear to? \n\n\u201cBasically, what Ukraine is doing is spoofing. Meaning they are feeding in false GPS targets to these Shahed \u2014 or in Russian terms, Geran-2 drones \u2014 to make them veer off course,\" John Hardie, deputy director of the Russia Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, explained.\n\n\"The drones have a system that's supposed to prevent jamming. But what these are doing is kind of sneaking in and not letting the drone know that the targets are being changed. It's tricking it to going in the wrong direction,\" Hardie told Euronews.\n\nThis is possible because of improved electronic warfare interference tactics. The number of Shahed or decoy drones reported \"lost\" due to Ukrainian electronic warfare (EW) interference increased significantly between October and November, the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War think tank (ISW) said.\n\nDuring the Russian attack on 2 October, Ukraine directly shot down 78 drones while 23 were reported as \"lost,\" representing 22% of the total 105 launched by Russia against Ukraine during the overnight strike.\u00a0\n\nTwo months later, on Monday, 45% of Russian drones went missing due to Ukrainian EW interference. Some of it is down to an electronic defence system the Ukrainian army calls Pokrova, meaning \"veil of protection\", first mentioned by former top general Valerii Zaluzhny.\n\n\"In the Orthodox tradition, Pokrova\u00a0refers to a 10th-century event where the Virgin Mary is said to have cast her protective veil over the city of Constantinople. So you can see the symbolism there,\" Hardie said.\u00a0\n\n\"I think the system is probably improved since then,\u00a0as the percentage of these Russian drones that Ukraine claims to be spoofing has increased over time.\"\n\nBut this is not the only system Ukraine is using, Hardie explained. \n\n\"Kyiv also has systems of distributed sensors that feed into tablets that belong to these mobile anti-Shahed teams, often trucks with machine guns mounted on them that are able to destroy these Shahed drones on the cheap,\" he said.\n\nWhat goes around comes around\u00a0\n\nApart from getting them grounded or \"lost,\" Ukrainian EW can also redirect Russian drones back to Russia or, in some cases \u2014 the Kremlin-friendly Belarus.\u00a0\n\nThe Belarusian Hajun Project independent monitoring group told Euronews that \"systematic flights of UAVs into Belarus\" began on 11 July, and since then, the number of Russian drones redirected into Belarus\u2019 airspace has increased each month.\u00a0\n\n\u201cAn increase in the number of drone flights into Belarus is gradual,\" the Belarusian Hajun Project said. \n\n\"For example, this is monthly data:\u00a0July \u2014 nine\u00a0drones,\u00a0August \u2014 12\u00a0drones,\u00a0September \u2014 27\u00a0drones, October \u2014 49 drones, November \u2014 151 drones.\u00a0148 of them were Shahed drones.\u201d\u00a0\n\nThe Belarusian Hajun Project reported on 25 November that as many as 38 Russian Shahed drones entered Belarusian airspace on that day and the day before \u2014 a record number.\n\nBelarus scrambled jets to respond to the airspace violation, suggesting that Minsk was unprepared to receive errant Russian drones and that Moscow had not anticipated the impacts of Ukrainian interference or communicated them to Belarus in advance, according to the ISW.\n\nSupporting this suggestion, the Belarusian Hajun Project\u00a0added that the duty aviation of the Belarusian Air Force occasionally but not always flies to the southeast of the country when the drones are flying into Belarus massively.\u00a0\n\nHowever, the details and information on these cases are not public knowledge and often remain unreported.\u00a0\n\n\u201cOn October 3, one of the drones crashed in Kalinkavichy. It was caught on a surveillance camera, and the video was distributed in local chat rooms. The next day, (Alyaksandr) Lukashenka\u2019s enforcers detained the owner of the house whose camera had caught the drone falling,\" the Belarusian Hajun Project said. \n\n\"This case is another example of how the 'authorities' in Belarus are trying to cover up the topic of the Shahed drones by means of repression so that there is as little information as possible,\" they added.\n\n\"Therefore, there is every reason to believe that there were more drone crashes in Belarus, but there is just no data on it.\"\n\nBut why are Russian drones being spoofed and redirected to Belarus and not to Russia, where they were launched from? \n\n\u201cWhen you spoof these drones, you kind of do it gradually. You don't want to say, you know, the target is diametrically opposite of where it's going. You kind of gradually veer them off course,\" Hardie explained. \n\n\"So I think that could be a reason why they're heading into Belarus rather than, say, back to Russia.\u201d\n\nSpoofing civilians\u2019 smartphones\n\nIn recent weeks, Ukrainian social media users have posted screenshots of their location on map apps showing up inside Russian or Belarusian territory.\u00a0\n\nIn response, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces issued a warning that electronic warfare used to repel Russian air attacks may disrupt smartphone clocks and geolocation. \n\n''It is advisable to disable the automatic time update mode in the phone and take into account that the accuracy of satellite navigation systems may be disturbed during the announcement of air alerts,\" the statement said.\n\nIt has become more common for Russian forces to launch between 80 to 100 or even more Shahed and decoy drones as part of their larger strike packages.\n\nIn November alone, Russia launched a total of 347 missiles as well as over 2,500 Shahed-type attack drones at Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.\u00a0\n\nThe attacks have been more massive because Russia has ramped up its domestic production of Shahed-type drones, the ISW explained. \n\nHardie added that Moscow has also made significant modifications to its UAVs in an attempt to avoid jamming and spoofing by Ukrainian electronic warfare. \n\n\"Since starting their own production within Russia, they have made a lot of different modifications to the guidance and to the warhead. With regard to guidance that they installed, the system called the Kometa M, which is a jam-resistant GNSS receiver,\" he explained.\n\n\"But whereas this system can detect\u00a0attempted jamming, spoofing is more subtle.\"\n\n","htmlText":"<p>While Moscow might have been producing more drones to attack Ukraine, Kyiv has found a way to crash them or send them back where they came from.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0Sunday night, Russian forces launched 110\u00a0Shahed drones and other decoys against Ukraine. Some 52 of them were shot down by Ukraine's air defence forces, while 50 were deemed \"lost\" \u2014 not shot down deliberately by the air defence, and they did not reach their intended targets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So where did more than four dozen drones disappear to? <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBasically, what Ukraine is doing is spoofing. Meaning they are feeding in false GPS targets to these Shahed \u2014 or in Russian terms, Geran-2 drones \u2014 to make them veer off course,\" John Hardie, deputy director of the Russia Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, explained.<\/p>\n<p>\"The drones have a system that's supposed to prevent jamming. But what these are doing is kind of sneaking in and not letting the drone know that the targets are being changed. It's tricking it to going in the wrong direction,\" Hardie told Euronews.<\/p>\n<p>This is possible because of improved electronic warfare interference tactics. The number of Shahed or decoy drones reported \"lost\" due to Ukrainian electronic warfare (EW) interference increased significantly between October and November, the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War think tank (ISW) said.<\/p>\n<p>During the Russian attack on 2 October, Ukraine directly shot down 78 drones while 23 were reported as \"lost,\" representing 22% of the total 105 launched by Russia against Ukraine during the overnight strike.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two months later, on Monday, 45% of Russian drones went missing due to Ukrainian EW interference. Some of it is down to an electronic defence system the Ukrainian army calls Pokrova, meaning \"veil of protection\", first mentioned by former top general Valerii Zaluzhny.<\/p>\n<p>\"In the Orthodox tradition, Pokrova\u00a0refers to a 10th-century event where the Virgin Mary is said to have cast her protective veil over the city of Constantinople. So you can see the symbolism there,\" Hardie said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\"I think the system is probably improved since then,\u00a0as the percentage of these Russian drones that Ukraine claims to be spoofing has increased over time.\"<\/p>\n<p>But this is not the only system Ukraine is using, Hardie explained. <\/p>\n<p>\"Kyiv also has systems of distributed sensors that feed into tablets that belong to these mobile anti-Shahed teams, often trucks with machine guns mounted on them that are able to destroy these Shahed drones on the cheap,\" he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//08//88//81//54//808x539_cmsv2_4027f69f-8d1d-5c24-8c4f-434b6eaee134-8888154.jpg/" alt=\"A Ukrainian serviceman of the 126th brigade air-defense unit fires by a machine gun during the training in Kherson region, Ukraine, Oct. 4, 2024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/81\/54\/384x256_cmsv2_4027f69f-8d1d-5c24-8c4f-434b6eaee134-8888154.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/81\/54\/640x427_cmsv2_4027f69f-8d1d-5c24-8c4f-434b6eaee134-8888154.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/81\/54\/750x500_cmsv2_4027f69f-8d1d-5c24-8c4f-434b6eaee134-8888154.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/81\/54\/828x552_cmsv2_4027f69f-8d1d-5c24-8c4f-434b6eaee134-8888154.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/81\/54\/1080x720_cmsv2_4027f69f-8d1d-5c24-8c4f-434b6eaee134-8888154.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/81\/54\/1200x800_cmsv2_4027f69f-8d1d-5c24-8c4f-434b6eaee134-8888154.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/81\/54\/1920x1280_cmsv2_4027f69f-8d1d-5c24-8c4f-434b6eaee134-8888154.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">A Ukrainian serviceman of the 126th brigade air-defense unit fires by a machine gun during the training in Kherson region, Ukraine, Oct. 4, 2024<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">Marko Ivkov\/Copyright 2020 The AP. All rights reserved<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2><strong>What goes around comes around<\/strong><\/h2><p>Apart from getting them grounded or \"lost,\" Ukrainian EW can also redirect Russian drones back to Russia or, in some cases \u2014 the Kremlin-friendly Belarus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Belarusian Hajun Project independent monitoring group told Euronews that \"systematic flights of UAVs into Belarus\" began on 11 July, and since then, the number of Russian drones redirected into Belarus\u2019 airspace has increased each month.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn increase in the number of drone flights into Belarus is gradual,\" the Belarusian Hajun Project said. <\/p>\n<p>\"For example, this is monthly data:\u00a0July \u2014 nine\u00a0drones,\u00a0August \u2014 12\u00a0drones,\u00a0September \u2014 27\u00a0drones, October \u2014 49 drones, November \u2014 151 drones.\u00a0148 of them were Shahed drones.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Belarusian Hajun Project reported on 25 November that as many as 38 Russian Shahed drones entered Belarusian airspace on that day and the day before \u2014 a record number.<\/p>\n<p>Belarus scrambled jets to respond to the airspace violation, suggesting that Minsk was unprepared to receive errant Russian drones and that Moscow had not anticipated the impacts of Ukrainian interference or communicated them to Belarus in advance, according to the ISW.<\/p>\n<p>Supporting this suggestion, the Belarusian Hajun Project\u00a0added that the duty aviation of the Belarusian Air Force occasionally but not always flies to the southeast of the country when the drones are flying into Belarus massively.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, the details and information on these cases are not public knowledge and often remain unreported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn October 3, one of the drones crashed in Kalinkavichy. It was caught on a surveillance camera, and the video was distributed in local chat rooms. The next day, (Alyaksandr) Lukashenka\u2019s enforcers detained the owner of the house whose camera had caught the drone falling,\" the Belarusian Hajun Project said. <\/p>\n<p>\"This case is another example of how the 'authorities' in Belarus are trying to cover up the topic of the Shahed drones by means of repression so that there is as little information as possible,\" they added.<\/p>\n<p>\"Therefore, there is every reason to believe that there were more drone crashes in Belarus, but there is just no data on it.\"<\/p>\n<p>But why are Russian drones being spoofed and redirected to Belarus and not to Russia, where they were launched from? <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you spoof these drones, you kind of do it gradually. You don't want to say, you know, the target is diametrically opposite of where it's going. You kind of gradually veer them off course,\" Hardie explained. <\/p>\n<p>\"So I think that could be a reason why they're heading into Belarus rather than, say, back to Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Spoofing civilians\u2019 smartphones<\/strong><\/h2><p>In recent weeks, Ukrainian social media users have posted screenshots of their location on map apps showing up inside Russian or Belarusian territory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-tweet widget--size-fullwidth widget--align-center\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio\u2014auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <div class=\"widget__tweet\" data-tweet-id=\"1836284885402538439\"><\/div>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>In response, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces issued a warning that electronic warfare used to repel Russian air attacks may disrupt smartphone clocks and geolocation. <\/p>\n<p>''It is advisable to disable the automatic time update mode in the phone and take into account that the accuracy of satellite navigation systems may be disturbed during the announcement of air alerts,\" the statement said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget widget--type-image widget--size-fullwidth widget--animation-fade-in widget--align-center\" data-ratio=\"0.726530612244898\">\n <div class=\"widget__wrapper\">\n <div class=\"widget__ratio widget__ratio--auto\">\n <div class=\"widget__contents\">\n <figure class=\"widget__figure\">\n <img class=\"widgetImage__image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////static.euronews.com//articles//stories//07//12//69//66//808x586_cmsv2_95213859-3cde-5563-ac6e-61a88f2e063a-7126966.jpg/" alt=\"Russia is unleashing successive waves of the Iranian-made Shahed drones over Ukraine.\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/12\/69\/66\/384x279_cmsv2_95213859-3cde-5563-ac6e-61a88f2e063a-7126966.jpg 384w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/12\/69\/66\/640x465_cmsv2_95213859-3cde-5563-ac6e-61a88f2e063a-7126966.jpg 640w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/12\/69\/66\/750x545_cmsv2_95213859-3cde-5563-ac6e-61a88f2e063a-7126966.jpg 750w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/12\/69\/66\/828x602_cmsv2_95213859-3cde-5563-ac6e-61a88f2e063a-7126966.jpg 828w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/12\/69\/66\/1080x785_cmsv2_95213859-3cde-5563-ac6e-61a88f2e063a-7126966.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/12\/69\/66\/1200x872_cmsv2_95213859-3cde-5563-ac6e-61a88f2e063a-7126966.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/07\/12\/69\/66\/1920x1395_cmsv2_95213859-3cde-5563-ac6e-61a88f2e063a-7126966.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 95vw, (max-width: 1024px) 80vw, (max-width: 1280px) 55vw, 728px\"\/>\n <figcaption class=\"widget__caption\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionWrap\">\n <span class=\"widget__captionText\">Russia is unleashing successive waves of the Iranian-made Shahed drones over Ukraine.<\/span>\n <span class=\"widget__captionCredit\">AP\/AP<\/span>\n <\/span>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It has become more common for Russian forces to launch between 80 to 100 or even more Shahed and decoy drones as part of their larger strike packages.<\/p>\n<p>In November alone, Russia launched a total of 347 missiles as well as over 2,500 Shahed-type attack drones at Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The attacks have been more massive because Russia has ramped up its domestic production of Shahed-type drones, the ISW explained. <\/p>\n<p>Hardie added that Moscow has also made significant modifications to its UAVs in an attempt to avoid jamming and spoofing by Ukrainian electronic warfare. <\/p>\n<p>\"Since starting their own production within Russia, they have made a lot of different modifications to the guidance and to the warhead. With regard to guidance that they installed, the system called the Kometa M, which is a jam-resistant GNSS receiver,\" he explained.<\/p>\n<p>\"But whereas this system can detect\u00a0attempted jamming, spoofing is more subtle.\"<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1733236023,"updatedAt":1733314654,"publishedAt":1733304980,"firstPublishedAt":1733304980,"lastPublishedAt":1733314654,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/81\/54\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_41a67266-21d1-5184-b78e-e55f24dcd20f-8888154.jpg","altText":"Ukrainian air defenses fire to stop drones in a relentless wave of bombardments targeting Kyiv early Tuesday morning in Kyiv, Ukraine, May 30, 2023.","caption":"Ukrainian air defenses fire to stop drones in a relentless wave of bombardments targeting Kyiv early Tuesday morning in Kyiv, Ukraine, May 30, 2023.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Evgeniy Maloletka\/Copyright 2020 The AP. 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membership.","keySentence":"","url":"german-chancellor-scholz-defends-decision-not-to-deliver-long-range-missiles-to-ukraine","canonical":"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2024\/12\/02\/german-chancellor-scholz-defends-decision-not-to-deliver-long-range-missiles-to-ukraine","masterCms":"v2","plainText":"German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited Ukraine for the first time in more than two years on Monday and vowed to keep supporting Kyiv in its fight against Russia.\n\nHowever, he stood firm on his decision not to supply Taurus long-range missiles.\n\nWhile Germany has been one of Ukraine\u2019s strongest allies, Scholz has resisted two of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's key demands: the delivery of German- and Swedish-made Taurus missiles and an expedited path to NATO membership.\n\nFacing early elections in February, Scholz defended his cautious approach, framing it as a balance between robust support for Ukraine and minimising the risk of escalating the conflict into a direct 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He has emphasised the importance of finding a path to peace, which he insists \"must not be chosen over Ukraine's head\".\n\n\"Germany, a leader in providing Ukraine with air defence systems, has already supplied five IRIS-T systems, three Patriot systems and over 50 Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft guns,\" Scholz said. \n\nAnother batch of military aid being delivered this month will include another IRIS-T system and more Gepards, he added. Further deliveries are planned for 2025.\n\nZelenskyy highlighted the ongoing Russian attacks on Ukraine\u2019s civilian areas and energy infrastructure, saying that 347 missiles of various types have been launched in recent months.\n\nHe called for increased support from Western nations, stressing the need for additional air defence systems. Zelenskyy mentioned that around 20 critical sites remain unprotected, though he did not provide further details.\n\nScholz's visit follows recent tensions after Zelenskyy criticised him for holding a phone conversation with Putin.\n\nUkraine remains wary of any potential fractures in the united front of its Western allies supporting its fight against Russia, as Putin relies on outlasting that resolve.\n\nWith the war soon to enter its fourth year, Zelenskyy said he disagreed with Scholz\u2019s call with the Russian president. He said it could prompt phone calls with other leaders, possibly reducing Putin\u2019s international isolation and legitimising his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.\n\nScholz defended the call, saying that he aimed to remind Putin that Ukraine is a sovereign nation with the right to determine its own future. He also stressed that he conveyed to Putin that Ukraine is not alone and its partners will continue their support.\n\nDuring the visit, Zelenskyy also took Scholz to a military hospital, where they met with wounded soldiers. The German Chancellor was also shown an exhibition showcasing drones produced domestically in Ukraine, as well as those developed in collaboration with German companies.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited Ukraine for the first time in more than two years on Monday and vowed to keep supporting Kyiv in its fight against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>However, he stood firm on his decision not to supply Taurus long-range missiles.<\/p>\n<p>While Germany has been one of Ukraine\u2019s strongest allies, Scholz has resisted two of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's key demands: the delivery of German- and Swedish-made Taurus missiles and an expedited path to NATO membership.<\/p>\n<p>Facing early elections in February, Scholz defended his cautious approach, framing it as a balance between robust support for Ukraine and minimising the risk of escalating the conflict into a direct NATO-Russia confrontation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis doesn\u2019t lessen our support, which is very wide-ranging and it is important for me to say \u2014 will remain wide-ranging,\u201d Scholz said in Kyiv.<\/p>\n<h2>Ukraine's path to NATO<\/h2><p>In a major shift, Zelenskyy signalled on Friday that an offer of NATO membership to territory under Kyiv\u2019s control could end \u201cthe hot stage of the war\u201d in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Some Western nations granted permission in November for Kyiv to carry out long-range strikes with the weapons they have supplied. <\/p>\n<p>Following the decision, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia launched a strike on Ukraine with an unstoppable intermediate-range ballistic missile, dubbed the Oreshnik, that he claimed can't be intercepted.<\/p>\n<p>It marked the first time that such a missile was used in the war or in any other conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Scholz has been cautious about talk of fast-tracking NATO membership for Ukraine. He has emphasised the importance of finding a path to peace, which he insists \"must not be chosen over Ukraine's head\".<\/p>\n<p>\"Germany, a leader in providing Ukraine with air defence systems, has already supplied five IRIS-T systems, three Patriot systems and over 50 Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft guns,\" Scholz said. <\/p>\n<p>Another batch of military aid being delivered this month will include another IRIS-T system and more Gepards, he added. Further deliveries are planned for 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenskyy highlighted the ongoing Russian attacks on Ukraine\u2019s civilian areas and energy infrastructure, saying that 347 missiles of various types have been launched in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>He called for increased support from Western nations, stressing the need for additional air defence systems. Zelenskyy mentioned that around 20 critical sites remain unprotected, though he did not provide further details.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-widget-related\" data-stories-id=\"8884496,8855178\" data-event=\"widget_related\">\n <div class=\"c-widget-related__title\">\n <b class=\"c-widget-related__title__text\" lang=\"en\">Related<\/b>\n <\/div>\n <ul class=\"c-widget-related__list\">\n <li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//news//2024//11//15//volodymyr-zelenskyy-putin-scholz-phone-call-risks-opening-a-pandoras-box/">Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Putin-Scholz call risks opening a 'Pandora's box' <\/a><\/li><li class=\"c-widget-related__item\"><a class=\"c-widget-related__article\" href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//12//02//germanys-scholz-makes-surprise-visit-to-kyiv-at-crucial-timing/">Germany's Scholz makes surprise visit to Kyiv weeks before no-confidence vote<\/a><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Scholz's visit follows recent tensions after Zelenskyy criticised him for holding a phone conversation with Putin.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine remains wary of any potential fractures in the united front of its Western allies supporting its fight against Russia, as Putin relies on outlasting that resolve.<\/p>\n<p>With the war soon to enter its fourth year, Zelenskyy said he disagreed with Scholz\u2019s call with the Russian president. He said it could prompt phone calls with other leaders, possibly reducing Putin\u2019s international isolation and legitimising his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Scholz defended the call, saying that he aimed to remind Putin that Ukraine is a sovereign nation with the right to determine its own future. He also stressed that he conveyed to Putin that Ukraine is not alone and its partners will continue their support.<\/p>\n<p>During the visit, Zelenskyy also took Scholz to a military hospital, where they met with wounded soldiers. The German Chancellor was also shown an exhibition showcasing drones produced domestically in Ukraine, as well as those developed in collaboration with German companies.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1733159471,"updatedAt":1733207014,"publishedAt":1733175015,"firstPublishedAt":1733175015,"lastPublishedAt":1733176062,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/60\/58\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_6dd4d5ee-88d3-5ae1-9419-3227f32a7b4d-8886058.jpg","altText":"Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attend a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Dec.2, 2024.","caption":"Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attend a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Dec.2, 2024.","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"AP Photo\/Evgeniy 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Budapest is reliant on Moscow for the majority of its gas and crude oil imports, and says EU sanctions on Russia are hurting Hungary and the bloc.\n\nAt the meeting between the ministers on Monday, Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 said that the conflict was having a negative impact on neighbouring countries, including Hungary, and that Budapest was \"on the side of peace\".\n\nHungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban held talks on a potential Ukrainian peace deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in July, which caused a backlash from many EU leaders. In September, EU foreign and finance ministers boycotted meetings in Budapest, reportedly due to rising concerns over Hungary's close relations with Russia.\n\n\"Just when the threat of escalation is especially great, we consider it important to promote peace,\" Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 said at the beginning of the talks on Monday. \"This war has no solution on the battlefield, a solution can only be found at the negotiating table. And for negotiations to take place, there must be open diplomatic channels,\" he added.\n\nLavrov said Russia agreed that \"those who advocate peace are taking the right position\" but expressed Moscow's concern about what he called \"talk of a ceasefire\" in the West.\n\nReports of negotiations for a ceasefire or a peace deal in the conflict have intensified following Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election last month. During his election campaign, Trump repeatedly vowed to end the war in Ukraine \"in a day\" \u2014 but without providing any details on how this would be achieved. \n\nPutin last month warned the US and the UK over an \"escalation of aggressive actions\" after the two nations granted Ukraine permission for the first time to use American and British made missiles to strike targets in Russia. \n\nSzijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 also held talks on Monday with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak and major Russian energy companies to discuss oil and gas imports. While most Western European nations are trying to cut their reliance on Russian energy, Hungary still gets at least 80% of its oil and gas supplies from its former communist ally. \n\nSzijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 said that US sanctions on Gazprombank \u2014 which is one of the biggest banks in Russia and partially owned by Gazprom \u2014 had put countries including Hungary \"that use Russian energy resources in a difficult situation\".\n\nThe US last month hit Gazprombank with new sanctions as outgoing President Joe Biden seeks to deter Moscow further in its war in Ukraine before his term ends in January.\n\n\"The good news is that our Russian partners have assured us that they are fully committed and interested in maintaining cooperation and continuity of supplies,\" Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 said.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Hungary's Foreign Minister P\u00e9ter Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 met with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Monday to discuss the Kremlin's war in Ukraine and energy supplies, marking the Hungarian minister's twelfth visit to Moscow since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Hungary is one of the only NATO and EU countries that has maintained strong ties with Russia since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, and has refused to join other Western nations in sending arms to Kyiv. Budapest is reliant on Moscow for the majority of its gas and crude oil imports, and says EU sanctions on Russia are hurting Hungary and the bloc.<\/p>\n<p>At the meeting between the ministers on Monday, Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 said that the conflict was having a negative impact on neighbouring countries, including Hungary, and that Budapest was \"on the side of peace\".<\/p>\n<p>Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban held talks on a potential Ukrainian peace deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in July, which caused a backlash from many EU leaders. In September, EU foreign and finance ministers boycotted meetings in Budapest, reportedly due to rising concerns over Hungary's close relations with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\"Just when the threat of escalation is especially great, we consider it important to promote peace,\" Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 said at the beginning of the talks on Monday. \"This war has no solution on the battlefield, a solution can only be found at the negotiating table. And for negotiations to take place, there must be open diplomatic channels,\" he added.<\/p>\n<p>Lavrov said Russia agreed that \"those who advocate peace are taking the right position\" but expressed Moscow's concern about what he called \"talk of a ceasefire\" in the West.<\/p>\n<p>Reports of negotiations for a ceasefire or a peace deal in the conflict have intensified following Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election last month. During his election campaign, Trump repeatedly vowed to end the war in Ukraine \"in a day\" \u2014 but without providing any details on how this would be achieved. <\/p>\n<p>Putin last month warned the US and the UK over an \"escalation of aggressive actions\" after the two nations granted Ukraine permission for the first time to use American and British made missiles to strike targets in Russia. <\/p>\n<p>Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 also held talks on Monday with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak and major Russian energy companies to discuss oil and gas imports. While most Western European nations are trying to cut their reliance on Russian energy, Hungary still gets at least 80% of its oil and gas supplies from its former communist ally. <\/p>\n<p>Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 said that US sanctions on Gazprombank \u2014 which is one of the biggest banks in Russia and partially owned by Gazprom \u2014 had put countries including Hungary \"that use Russian energy resources in a difficult situation\".<\/p>\n<p>The US last month hit Gazprombank with new sanctions as outgoing President Joe Biden seeks to deter Moscow further in its war in Ukraine before his term ends in January.<\/p>\n<p>\"The good news is that our Russian partners have assured us that they are fully committed and interested in maintaining cooperation and continuity of supplies,\" Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 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Zelenskyy insisted that a proposal to join the military alliance should be extended to all parts of the country under internationally recognised borders. \n\nHis proposals are at odds with those of Putin, who has said that any peace deal should acknowledge Russia\u2019s territorial gains and security demands, including that Kyiv renounces joining NATO.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Germany's Olaf Scholz arrived in Ukraine on Monday for his second trip to the region during his tenure as chancellor. <\/p>\n<p>His visit comes both at a time of escalated Russian attacks on Ukraine and as his government faces a political crisis at home that looks likely to remove him from power during elections in February next year. <\/p>\n<p>Scholz promised an additional aid package to Ukraine during his visit, saying that Germany would deliver \"further armaments worth \u20ac650 million\" to the war-torn country. <\/p>\n<p>The German leader has come under criticism for his approach to Ukraine, primarily due to his refusal to send powerful Taurus cruise missiles for Kyiv to use in its war efforts, which he has long argued would risk Germany becoming directly involved in the conflict. <\/p>\n<p>Oleksiy Makeev, Ukraine's ambassador to Germany, previously called Scholz's refusal to send the weapons a \"blank cheque for the Russians\".<\/p>\n<p>Scholz drew further criticism in November after he spoke on the telephone with Russian President Vladimir Putin -- a call that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said opened a \"Pandora's box\" and undermined international efforts to isolate Russia.<\/p>\n<h2>Pivotal moment<\/h2><p>Scholz's visit comes both as he starts his own election campaign at home and as Ukraine struggles to fend off Russian forces in the conflict entering its third year. <\/p>\n<p>The German leader has been keen to keep Ukraine on his domestic agenda as he kicked off his centre-left SPD party's campaign over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p>\"When I talk about it, I am accused of instrumentalising the war,\" Scholz <a href=https://www.euronews.com/"https:////www.euronews.com//my-europe//2024//11//30//scholz-and-spd-kick-start-election-campaign-offensive-in-germany/">said during his party's first campaign conference in Berlin on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>\"This war in Europe is an issue \u2013 whether the chancellor talks about it or not,\" Scholz said in an attempt to criticise the leader of the country's biggest opposition party, the Christian Democratic Union's Friedrich Merz.<\/p>\n<p>Merz, for his part, accused Scholz of deliberately playing on the population's fears over the war between Russia and Ukraine for his own electoral success. <\/p>\n<p>In Ukraine, increased Russian airstrikes have damaged the country's infrastructure, and its forces are facing increasing pressure along the frontline. <\/p>\n<p>In its latest report, Washington-based think tank the Institute for the Study of War said Saturday that Russian forces had recently advanced near Kupiansk, in Toretsk, and near Pokrovsk and Velyka Novosilka, a key logistics route for the Ukrainian military.<\/p>\n<p>Scholz's visit also comes amid widespread speculation about what a second term for US President-elect Donald Trump would mean for the conflict. <\/p>\n<p>Trump has said he would withdraw US military aid to Ukraine and has repeatedly promised to end the conflict -- although without giving information on how. <\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Zelenskyy said an offer of NATO membership to territory under Kyiv's control would end the \"hot stage of the war\u201d in Ukraine. Zelenskyy insisted that a proposal to join the military alliance should be extended to all parts of the country under internationally recognised borders. <\/p>\n<p>His proposals are at odds with those of Putin, who has said that any peace deal should acknowledge Russia\u2019s territorial gains and security demands, including that Kyiv renounces joining NATO.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1733121676,"updatedAt":1733136549,"publishedAt":1733123910,"firstPublishedAt":1733123910,"lastPublishedAt":1733128473,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/44\/96\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_50fe57d5-c231-555f-af76-d33356c112f4-8884496.jpg","altText":"Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks at the SPD conference in Berlin, Saturday Nov. 30, 2024","caption":"Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks at the SPD conference in Berlin, Saturday Nov. 30, 2024","captionUrl":null,"captionCredit":"Kay Nietfeld\/(c) Copyright 2024, dpa (www.dpa.de). 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Nine months later, a Ukrainian counteroffensive recaptured western areas of the region, including the regional capital.\n\nRussia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which began in February 2022, has drained resources on both sides in what is Europe\u2019s biggest war since World War II.\n\n","htmlText":"<p>Defence authorities in Russia say they have occupied two settlements in Ukraine's Donetsk region just as President Vladimir Putin approved plans to raise military spending to record levels as Moscow seeks to prevail in the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, the ministry released footage of what it said was its military personnel striking alleged camouflaged dugouts of the Ukrainian troops with FPV drones.<\/p>\n<p>Russia's defence ministry said a Starlink communication unit was also destroyed in the raid. Euronews could not independently verify the footage.<\/p>\n<p>The video, which showed drones in flight striking targets on the ground, comes as top EU officials visiting Ukraine promised more sanctions against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>On the battlefront, Ukrainian officials said Moscow sent 78 drones into Ukraine overnight into Sunday. Some 32 drones were intercepted, and a further 45 drones were lost, likely having been electronically jammed, Ukraine\u2019s air force said.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian strikes killed at least 11 civilians across Ukraine and injured at least 51 people, regional authorities reported on 1 December.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, three of those deaths were in the southern city of Kherson when a Russian drone struck a minibus on Sunday morning. 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Nine months later, a Ukrainian counteroffensive recaptured western areas of the region, including the regional capital.<\/p>\n<p>Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which began in February 2022, has drained resources on both sides in what is Europe\u2019s biggest war since World War II.<\/p>\n","hashtag":null,"createdAt":1733048304,"updatedAt":1733153346,"publishedAt":1733079100,"firstPublishedAt":1733079100,"lastPublishedAt":1733153346,"expiresAt":0,"images":[{"url":"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/articles\/stories\/08\/88\/35\/70\/{{w}}x{{h}}_cmsv2_c4614d01-bfe9-56c5-96e7-1b9e86473d56-8883570.jpg","altText":"In this photo provided by Ukraine's 24th Mechanised Brigade press service, a serviceman of the 24th Mechanised Brigade improves his tactical skills at the training field in Do","caption":"In this photo provided by Ukraine's 24th Mechanised Brigade press service, a serviceman of the 24th Mechanised Brigade improves his tactical skills at the training field in 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