German assistance to Ukrainian energy sector and shelling of Sumy Oblast: last night's highlights
Germany allocates €56 million for the repair of Ukrainian energy facilities and will send 350 generators; Sumy Oblast again suffers from Russian shelling: houses, granaries, and infrastructure facilities are damaged. Here is what you may have missed from the previous night.
Assistance to the Ukrainian energy sector from Germany
Germany will provide Ukraine with 56 million euros to repair energy infrastructure, as well as more than 350 power generators, the German government reported.
Zelenskyy on the situation at the front
In his evening video address on November 29, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke about the situation at various parts of the frontline.
“The situation at the front is difficult. Despite extremely heavy Russian losses, the occupiers are still trying to advance in Donetsk Oblast, gain a foothold in Luhansk Oblast, move in Kharkiv Oblast, they are planning something in the south,” the President said.
At the same time, he emphasized that the Armed Forces were holding the defense and “most importantly, they do not allow the enemy to fulfill its intentions”.
Shelling of the regions
Russian occupation troops shelled the border of Sumy Oblast again on November 29. The occupiers fired 150 mines, shells, and other explosives at the region. As a result of the shelling, infrastructure was damaged, the Regional Military Administration reported.
Furthermore, on November 29, the occupiers shelled the Myrove community in Nikopol Raion of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast with heavy artillery. As a result, an elderly woman was injured.
Other news:
- Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations Sergiy Kyslytsya called on Ukrainian officials and parliamentarians to adopt a law according to which Ukraine will officially call the Russian Federation Muscovy;
- Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs said that Ukraine should have the right to strike military targets on the territory of Russia as it repels attacks on its critical infrastructure;
- Russian businessman and owner of the PMC Wagner Evgeny Pryzhin admitted that his military company recruited a student from Zambia, Lemekhani Nyirenda, who later died in the war against Ukraine, in a Russian colony;
- Vydavnytstvo Staroho Leva will republish a collection of poems "Daddy's Book" by Volodymyr Vakulenko, a children's writer and poet who was killed by Russians in Kharkiv Oblast during the occupation. All profits from the future reissue of the book will be transferred to the writer's family.
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