War in Ukraine. Moscow claims to occupy the villages near Bakhmut

Moscow claims to have captured villages near Bakhmut, a bomb was sent to the Ukrainian embassy in Spain, Brussels in favor of a special tribunal, trying to.Russian crimes“… Le Figaro This Wednesday, November 30, summarizes the latest information related to the war in Ukraine.

Moscow claims to occupy the villages near Bakhmut

Russia on Wednesday claimed responsibility for seizing three villages near the now largely destroyed eastern Ukrainian town of Bakhmut, which Russian forces had been trying to capture since the summer. “As a result of offensive operations, Russian soldiers liberated Bilogorivka and Perche Travnya settlements.(Ukrainian: the village of Ozaryanivka), the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation informed in the afternoon. The first village is located about 25 kilometers north of Bakhmut, and the second – about twenty kilometers south. Later on Wednesday, he announced the capture of Andriivka, a third settlement south of the city.

Russia has also claimed the town of Vodiane in another part of the Donetsk region, moving a little closer to the town of Avdiivka, which is near the front line, since 2014. Since the summer, fighting has been raging for Bakhmut, which Moscow has been trying to conquer without success, despite the support of the Wagner paramilitary group. The battle took on all the more symbolic significance for Russian officials as the capture of the city would come after a series of humiliating defeats, retreating from Kharkov (in the northeast) in September and Kherson (in the south) in November.

A letter bomb hit the Ukrainian embassy in Spain, “slightly” injured

On Wednesday, an employee of the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid was slightly injured in a bomb intended for the ambassador, as a result of which Kiev ordered to strengthen security in all its diplomatic missions.

“The National Police was informed about the explosion at the Embassy of Ukraine in Madrid around 13:00. It happened when one of the embassy employees was handling a letterthe police source said. “This employee was initially slightly injured and went to the hospitalto pick up from there, he added. “The National Police has launched an investigation, in which the scientific police are participating“, this source said again.

After this letter bomb exploded, Ukraine ordered “enhanced securityfor all its embassies. According to the prefect of the Madrid region, the security officer of the embassy was offended by this letter.addressed to the ambassador“.

Accidental fires due to power outages are increasing in Ukraine. 9 people died in 24 hours

Nine people died in Ukraine on Tuesday in house fires caused by candles, generators and gas appliances that Ukrainians set up in their homes due to power outages, Ukrainian aid said on Wednesday.

Russia has been heavily bombing Ukrainian energy facilities since October, causing severe damage and causing blackouts that affect millions of Ukrainians every day. “Only yesterday (Tuesday) 131 fires were registered in Ukraine, 106 of which were in private houses. Nine people were killed and eight were injuredThis is stated in the Facebook message of the emergency service of Ukraine.

The relief specifically mentions:lit candles“, “gas cylinders in apartments” or “generators on balconies“as reasons”more frequent fires and explosions“. Ukrainians have to resort to these measures in order to have light or heat several times without electricity.

Brussels supports the creation of a special court investigating “Russian crimes”.

The European Commission proposed Wednesday to work on the creation of a special tribunal to try “Crimes of Russiain Ukraine and solutions for mobilizing frozen Russian assets to rebuild the country, two undertakings that, however, promise to be difficult.

“Continuing to support the International Criminal Court (ICC, based in The Hague), we propose the establishment of a special tribunal with the support of the United Nations to investigate and prosecute crimes of Russian aggression.Against Ukraine, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Executive, said in a video published on Twitter. These proposals should be submitted to the Member States for consideration. The creation of such a court has been demanded several times by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as by the Baltic states.

For the leader of Chechnya, Pope Francis is a “victim of propaganda”.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said Wednesday that Pope Francis “a victim of propaganda“After describing the lattercruel» Russian soldiers of minorities participating in the attack in Ukraine. In an interview with the American Jesuit newspaper America and published on his website on Monday, the Pope said that “much information about the brutality of the troopsRussians are coming to Ukraine. “The most cruel, perhaps, are those who come from Russia, but (who) are not from Russian traditions, for example, Chechens, Buryats;“, he specifically said.

Chechnya is a Muslim-majority republic in the Russian Caucasus, and Buryatia is a Buddhist region of Siberia, located between Lake Baikal and Mongolia. “The Pope presented the Chechens and Buryats as the most brutal of the Russian army“The authoritarian leader of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, responded on Wednesday. “How can we tell, just by looking, what ethnicity comes from a Russian soldier in such a unit, when our country is inhabited by more than 190 ethnic groups?asks Ramzan Kadyrov in a statement published on Telegram. “Of course, the head of the Vatican will not be able to answer this question. He simply became a victim of propaganda and ruthlessness of foreign media“, he assessed.