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The overseas ministers of 7 Nordic and Baltic counties vowed Monday to supply much military, economical and humanitarian assistance to assistance Ukraine withstand Russian attacks not lone connected the battlefield but against civilian targets, which account for astir of the Kremlin's aims.
With wintertime approaching and temperatures already dipping beneath freezing successful galore parts of the country, Ukraine is facing an vigor situation aft weeks of Russia pummeling its powerfulness facilities with aerial strikes. About 40% of Ukraine's vigor assemblage has been damaged oregon destroyed.
"We person agreements connected further practice successful the defence and vigor spheres, successful the reconstruction projects of our authorities and successful the sanctions sphere,'' Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said aft gathering successful Kyiv with the ministers from Sweden, Finland, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Iceland.
Sweden said it had provided a astir $280 million package of aerial defence systems, ammunition, all-terrain vehicles and idiosyncratic wintertime cogwheel for troops. Finland pledged to instrumentality successful much Ukrainian refugees. In Washington, White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said the U.S. is moving with partners and allies to supply vigor and h2o replacement equipment.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba asked for more air defenses "to interruption this vicious cycle” of Russia destroying infrastructure and Ukraine rebuilding it.
Of the much than 16,000 missiles Russia has fired astatine Ukraine successful the war, 97% person been aimed astatine civilian targets, Ukraine's Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov tweeted. "We are warring against a violent state,'' Reznikov said. "Ukraine volition prevail and volition bring the warfare criminals to justice."
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►Zelenskyy acknowledged the concern astatine the beforehand remains "very difficult," particularly successful the Donetsk province, portion of the eastbound Donbas portion that Russia has claimed to annex. Donetsk Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said residents "have been surviving successful catastrophic conditions without powerfulness oregon heating.”
►Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov denied that Russian forces volition leave the occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. Petro Kotin, caput of Ukraine’s authorities atomic vigor relation Energoatom, said past week that the institution saw signs Russia was preparing to permission the battered plant.
►After retreating from the confederate metropolis of Kherson this month, Russian troops person continued to bombard it from crossed the Dnieper River. Britain’s Defense Ministry reported a record-high 54 strikes Sunday.
►Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei, a longtime state of Kremlin-friendly President Alexander Lukashenko, died abruptly implicit the play astatine property 64. The ministry announced his death but did not disclose a cause.
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Putin utilizing 'winter arsenic a weapon'
Russian President Vladimir Putin is intent connected using frost, snowfall and crystal to his vantage connected the battlefield and against Ukrainian civilians facing a wintertime of unreliable vigor for vigor amid unrelenting Russian bombings, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Monday.
That is wherefore NATO’s allies are stepping up their enactment for Ukraine, Stoltenberg said connected the eve of NATO overseas ministers gathering successful Bucharest, Romania.
“President Putin is present trying to usage the wintertime arsenic a limb of warfare against Ukraine," Stoltenberg said. "This is horrific, and we request to beryllium prepared for much attacks.”
The 7 overseas ministers who visited Kyiv connected Monday pledged to nonstop generators, cold-weather covering and nutrient to assistance the Ukrainians, who are bracing for temperatures successful the teens adjacent week.
Zelenskyy warned that Russian troops were preparing caller strikes.
"As agelong arsenic they person missiles, they won’t stop, unfortunately," Zelenskyy warned. “The upcoming week tin beryllium arsenic hard as the 1 that passed."
Kyiv prepares for evacuations arsenic bombings intensify
Some of Kyiv's 3 cardinal radical mightiness request to beryllium evacuated to places wherever indispensable services would beryllium little prone to shutdowns caused by Russia's intensifying rocket attacks, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Monday. Russia has pounded vigor facilities astir Kyiv with a barrage of rocket and drone strikes, resulting successful powerfulness outages and disruption successful h2o supplies to the city. Klitschko said the "worst-case scenario" can't beryllium ruled retired and preferred the word "relocation" arsenic opposed to evacuation.
"There volition not beryllium a implicit evacuation. Perhaps a partial one," Klitschko told the Ukraine media outlet RBC. "This is simply a impermanent relocation of definite categories of radical to the suburbs, wherever determination whitethorn beryllium services."
Ukraine brings backmost rolling outages, citing request due to the fact that of cold weather
Ukraine’s authorities grid relation Ukrenergo resumed emergency cutoffs crossed the state Monday, citing the request to equilibrium the powerfulness strategy and ease network emergencies. The institution said successful a connection that consumption continues to emergence due to the fact that of deteriorating upwind conditions. The power shortage was at 27%. The institution described harm to its strategy from Russian rocket attacks arsenic "massive," but added that repairs are continuing astir the clock.
"Once the causes of exigency outages are resolved, the blocs volition instrumentality to work, reducing powerfulness shortages and user limitations," the institution said.
Pentagon whitethorn nonstop Ukraine weapons with astir 100-mile range, study says
The U.S. is pondering whether to supply Ukraine with tiny precision bombs with a scope of astir 100 miles that could onslaught beyond Russian lines, Reuters reported Monday.
Ukraine has had large occurrence destroying Russian weapons depots and disrupting their proviso lines with Pentagon-provided HIMARS launchers, whose rockets tin question up to 45-50 miles.
The caller limb nether consideration, based connected a Boeing proposal, is known arsenic the Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb. Its 94-mile scope whitethorn alteration Ukraine to proceed making inroads successful its counteroffensive by hitting more-distant Russian targets, the study said. Delivery would beryllium targeted for aboriginal successful the spring.
Ukraine archetypal lady: Russians utilizing rape arsenic 'another weapon' successful war
Russian troops person been “systematically and openly” committing rape and different acts of intersexual unit against Ukrainian women arsenic portion of Moscow's warfare effort, Ukraine's archetypal woman said Monday successful London.
Speaking astatine an planetary league connected preventing intersexual unit successful conflicts, Olensa Zelenska said Russia indispensable beryllium held accountable for intersexual aggression truthful brazen, its soldiers person been heard connected telephone recordings openly talking astir it with relatives astatine home.
“Sexual unit is the astir cruel, astir animalistic mode to beryllium mastership implicit someone,'' Zelenska said. “This is different limb successful (Russia's) arsenal successful this war.''
Zelenska is expected to code British lawmakers Tuesday arsenic portion of her U.K. visit.
Contributing: The Associated Press
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