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This Tuesday marks 265 days since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began. Ukrainian President, Volodimir Zelenskyassured this Tuesday that he “is convinced” that “this is the moment in which Russia’s destructive war must and can be stopped”, in a videoconference intervention at the summit of leaders of the G20. The president, who had been invited to participate in person despite Ukraine not being a member of the G20, has finally intervened by videoconference at the start of the summit, in which the war in Ukraine garners much of the attention. “We will not allow Russia to take a breather, rebuild its forces and then start a new episode of terror and destabilization,” he said, according to a transcript of his closed-door speech.
Zelenski has carried out the intervention after returning from Kherson, where since this Saturday the Ukrainian forces have regained control of more than 60 settlements in that region after the withdrawal of the Russian Army. The Ukrainian president paid a surprise visit to Kherson on Monday, saying the recapture of the southern city marks “the beginning of the end of the war”.
Ukraine’s liberation of the southern city of Kherson has now shifted attention to other sectors of the front such as the region of Zaporizhia and the Donbaswhich have been the scene these last days of bloody combat between Ukrainian and Russian troops.
Robles affirms that Spain will be able to train 2,400 Ukrainian soldiers a year
The Spanish Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, has assured this Tuesday that Spain will be able to train 2,400 Ukrainian soldiers a year, within the framework of the European mission to train some 15,000 troops from the former Soviet republic. “We make an offer of a total of 400 soldiers every two months. I mean that the offer, the capacity we have, will be about 2,400 soldiers a year in Spain. This is the offer, the total capacity we have”, he assured Margarita Robles upon arrival at the meeting of defense ministers of the European Union which is held in Brussels. In this sense, he specified that the Toledo Academy has been “adapted” so that Ukrainian soldiers “can be housed and have adequate living conditions.” “The offer is an open offer with the possibility of increasing it if necessary and what is most important to me is that we are always very open to everything that the NATO as, in this case, the European Union”, he stated.
British Intelligence map of the situation in Ukraine
The illegal and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine is continuing.
The map below is the latest Defense Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine – 15 November 2022
Find out more about the UK government’s response: https://t.co/1WuwSJsOFh
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The Polish government takes control of Gazprom’s assets in the country
The Polish Executive has informed this Tuesday that it has assumed control of the assets and equipment of the Russian energy company Gazprom in Poland “to ensure the operation of critical infrastructures”. The Ministry of Development, in charge of Waldemar Buda, has said in an official statement that the operation has been carried out under the procedure of “compulsory and immediate change of administration” of 100% of the company, similar to expropriation. “The change of administration is necessary for the proper functioning of EuRoPol Gaz”, can be read in the statement, where this measure is justified to “avoid paralysis in decision-making in a critical infrastructure” for Poland.
Banksy paints seven murals in Ukraine
The British urban artist Banksy has confirmed that it has created seven murals in various places in Ukraine, which include the capital, kyiv, and some of the towns hardest hit by Russian bombing, as reported by the specialized media The Art Newspaper.
Russia systematically tortures Ukrainian prisoners of war, according to the UN
Russia has systematically tortured its captured prisoners of war since it began its aggression against Ukraine, while Ukrainian forces have done so in certain circumstances and places, but sporadically, the UN said on Tuesday. A mission of United Nations human rights monitors working on the ground has corroborated “with a considerable margin of certainty” a series of tortures by the Russian forces and their allies, through methods including electric shocks, beatings, burning and other forms of abuse. The head of the mission, Matilda Bogner, has informed the press in Geneva that the Ukrainian government gave her team confidential access to the Russian prisoners, while she was only able to interview the Ukrainian prisoners once they were released by Russia, usually through a prisoner exchange.
Kremlin Says Zelensky’s G20 Speech Confirms kyiv Doesn’t Want To Negotiate
Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky’s speech at the G20 summit confirms that kyiv does not want to negotiate the peace with Moscow, as the Kremlin said on Tuesday. “It absolutely confirms it,” said the spokesman for the Russian Presidency, Dmitri Peskov.
Ukraine claims to have killed more than 700 Russian soldiers in fighting over the past day
The Armed Forces of Ukraine have assured this Tuesday that they have killed more than 700 Russian soldiers in combats registered during the last day and have raised to more than 82,000 total Russian soldiers killed since the start of the invasion. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Army has indicated in a message on its Facebook social network account that “some 82,080” Russian soldiers have been “liquidated” since the start of hostilities, unleashed on February 24 by the invasion order given by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Likewise, he added that since the beginning of the war, 2,861 battle tanks, 1,850 artillery systems, 208 anti-aircraft defense systems and 393 self-propelled and armored multiple rocket launchers have been destroyed. Along these lines, he stressed that 278 aircraft, 261 helicopters, 1,511 drones, 399 cruise missiles, 4,351 vehicles and fuel tanks, and 160 pieces of “special equipment” have also been destroyed.
“The data they are being upgraded,” the General Staff of the Ukrainian Army stressed. “Strike the occupier. Let’s win together. Our strength is in the truth”, he has settled in his balance, published in the framework of the territorial advances of the last weeks by the kyiv forces.
The President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelensky, said last week in an interview with the that Moscow has lost “ten times” more military than kyiv since the start of the invasion, while the United States spoke of “more than 100,000” Russian casualties, between dead and wounded, before adding that the figures among the Ukrainian ranks “are probably similar.”
The Ukrainian Army continues its offensive in Mykolaiv
The Ukrainian Army continues its offensive to reconquer areas of the South of the country occupied by the Russians and has managed to recover almost 50 settlements in the Mykolaiv region, neighboring the southern Kherson, whose capital also already controls kyiv. “We can already say that these are 48 settlements that were under occupation; now we are delivering humanitarian aid there at full capacity,” the head of the Mykolaiv Regional Military Administration, Vitaliy Kim, said on Tuesday, according to local media reports.
The military official has said, however, that there is no water supply, electricity or communication systems in the recovered areas. However, it has advanced that in the next few days “the security forces will have time to finish the stabilization measures so that the engineers can restore communications, the television signal and the heating systems.” In addition, he added that five trucks with humanitarian aid were sent to the reconquered territory on Tuesday and predicted that these settlements will return to normality in the not too distant future.
Kim reported on Monday, according to the Ukrainian agency UNIAN, that practically the entire region had been liberated, with the exception of the so-called ‘kinburn’s tongue’a strip of sand in the northwestern part of the peninsula of the same name, between the Dnieper River estuary and the Black Sea.
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has reported on its Twitter account that the train linking kyiv and Mykolaivthe first since the beginning of the Russian invasion, which began on February 24.
Mykolaiv has been one of the Ukrainian regions that most attacks they have suffered from Russian troops in their attempt to control the entire southern fringe of Ukrainian territory.
The Kyiv-Mykolaiv train departs – the first one since the beginning of the large-scale Russian invasion. Mykolaiv repelled an attempted assault in the spring and endured 8 months of missile attacks.
Now, the front line has been pushed to the east.
Thanks to the #UAarmy. pic.twitter.com/JG4kT2R4Gs— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) November 14, 2022
Sánchez demands in the G20 and in the presence of Lavrov the Russian withdrawal from Ukraine
The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, has demanded this Tuesday at the G20 leaders’ summit and in the presence of the russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, the “immediate” withdrawal of Russia from Ukraine and the end of the war. In the first session of this forum of developed and emerging countries that is held on the Indonesian island of Bali, the Spanish president dedicated a large part of his speech to the situation caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Pedro Sánchez has in fact begun his words before the rest of the leaders, highlighting that the G20 is directly affected for the first time by the war because one of its members, Russia, is waging “a brutal and unjustified war of aggression against Ukraine”. A few words that the Russian Foreign Minister heard in the room, since he is in charge of representing his country at the summit after it was announced that the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, would not finally attend.
In addition to participating in the summit, the head of the Spanish government plans to hold several bilateral meetings on this day, including one with the Chinese president, Xi Jinpingwhom he will ask to use his ability to influence Vladimir Putin to end the conflict in Ukraine.
