Millions of Ukrainians without power, Euromaidan trial: last night's highlights
More than 10 million Ukrainians were left without electricity due to Russian strikes; the court completed the trial of the murders of people during the Revolution of Dignity. Here is what you may have missed from the previous night.
Millions of Ukrainians left without electricity
As of the evening of November 17, more than 10 million Ukrainians were without electricity due to scheduled and emergency power cuts caused by Russian strikes on critical infrastructure. Most people are without electricity in Vinnytsia, Odesa, Sumy and Kyiv oblasts.
Euromaidan trial
The jury of the Svyatoshynskyi District Court of Kyiv completed the trial of the case "Murders of people on February 20, 2014 during Euromaidan", which went on since May 2016. On November 17, the jury retired to deliberate to reach a verdict. Information on the approximate date of the announcement of the court decision is promised to be announced later, the expected period is September-November 2023.
Relations between Kyiv and Warsaw
The explosion near the Polish-Ukrainian border did not cause tension between Kyiv and Warsaw. There was not even a stormy exchange of views between the presidents or their advisers and teams, said Jakub Kumoch, Head of the International Policy Bureau in the Chancellery of the President of Poland.
Poland is inclined to the hypothesis of a Ukrainian air defense missile, but does not consider Ukraine guilty. The incident is called an accident.
Nancy Pelosi leaves the leadership of the Democratic Party
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi announced that she is stepping down and will not seek re-election as Democratic leader in the next Congress. However, she will continue to represent San Francisco.
Pelosi, 82, has been the Democratic leader in the U.S. House of Representatives for two decades and served as Speaker from 2007-2011 and from 2019 to the present day. She was the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
MH17 case
The head of the joint investigation team in the MH17 case, Digna van Boetzelaer, said that the new results of the investigation into the crash of the Malaysian flight MH17, which was shot down over Donbas in 2014, could be announced in the spring of 2023.