The variety of folks injured in a large-scale Russian assault on Kyiv on the night time of 13-14 November has risen to 36.
Supply: Kyiv Mayor Vitalii Klitschko
Quote: "Thirty-six folks had been injured in final night time's enemy assault on the capital. Six of them are in a reasonable situation. 5 are in a essential situation.
Six Kyiv residents had been killed."
Background:
On the night time of 13-14 November, Russian forces launched a large-scale mixed assault on town of Kyiv, utilizing numerous kinds of missiles and drones.
Twenty-seven residential buildings had been broken throughout the Desnianskyi, Dniprovskyi, Sviatoshynskyi, Podilskyi, Solomianskyi and Shevchenkivskyi districts.
Svitlana Vashchenko, a kindergarten instructor, was killed in a large-scale mixed Russian assault on Kyiv on the evening of 13-14 November.
Supply: the kindergarten on the Dominanta Lyceum, a faculty within the capital's Dniprovskyi district, on Fb
Particulars: Svitlana's colleagues have been expressing their condolences to her household and sharing their recollections of her.
Quote from Dominanta: "Svitlana was a devoted instructor, a form and delicate one who gave the youngsters care, consideration and love on daily basis.
Her smile, her form phrases and her boundless sense of duty for her younger expenses will stay perpetually within the reminiscence of her colleagues, the youngsters and their mother and father."
Background:
On the evening of 13-14 November, Russia launched a large-scale mixed strike on Ukrainian cities utilizing 430 assault UAVs and 19 missiles.
The strikes brought about energy outages in components of Donetsk, Kyiv and Odesa oblasts.
In Kyiv, six individuals have been killed and 36 injured.
The Saratov oil refinery, owned by Russian power big Rosneft, has stopped main oil processing after Ukrainian drone strikes on 11 November.
Supply: Reuters, citing two trade sources
Particulars: The sources instructed Reuters that the refinery might stay halted till the tip of the month.
Ukraine has intensified long-range drone assaults deep inside Russia in an effort to disable oil refineries, depots and pipelines that present one among Moscow's key sources of struggle funding.
Ukrainian forces reported on Tuesday that they’d struck the Saratov oil refinery, inflicting explosions and huge fires within the space.
The refinery was additionally attacked on Friday.
A big reservoir caught fireplace on the facility, in response to the sources and a video posted on social media that purportedly exhibits the strikes on the plant.
Quote: "The sources stated the crude distillation unit, CDU-6, the plant's single main processing unit, may very well be broken by the strikes. Its nameplate each day capability stands at round 20,000 metric tonnes, or 147,000 barrels of oil."
Particulars: In 2024, the Saratov oil refinery processed 5.8 million tonnes of crude, about 2.2% of Russia's whole refining quantity, and produced 1.9 million tonnes of diesel, 1.2 million tonnes of petrol and 1 million tonnes of gasoline oil.
Background: A drone assault additionally halted oil exports from Russia's Novorossiysk port on the Black Sea, which generally handles 2.2 million barrels per day, or 2% of world provide.
Andrii Yermak, Head of the Ukrainian President's Workplace, and Julie Davis, US chargé d'affaires in Ukraine, have met to debate Russia's newest large-scale assault on Ukraine and the struggle in opposition to corruption.
Supply: Yermak on Telegram
Quote from Yermak: "At a gathering with Julie Davis, the US chargé d'affaires in Ukraine, we mentioned the most recent large-scale Russian assault on Ukraine's essential infrastructure and residential areas in addition to the aftermath of the aggressor's systematic makes an attempt to destroy the Ukrainian power sector."
Photographs: Andrii Yermak on social media
Particulars: Yermak stated that in addition they mentioned Ukraine's efforts to extend long-range strikes on Russia in response to Russian crimes and the frontline state of affairs.
"Solely by power can the aggressor be pressured into actual negotiations," Yermak stated.
He famous that in the course of the assembly, the perimeters individually targeted on the problem of combating corruption.
"We expressed our shared conviction that investigations into the most recent high-profile circumstances have to be thorough, skilled and neutral and result in actual outcomes – fairly than be used to destabilise the state of affairs in Ukraine to the advantage of Russia's plans," Yermak stated.
Background:
On 10 November, the Nationwide Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) reported that that they had uncovered a large-scale corruption scheme within the power sector and launched audio recordings. Earlier, UP sources reported that NABU was conducting searches on the properties of Tymur Mindich and Justice Minister Herman Halushchenko (who has been suspended as of 12 November). UP sources additionally reported that Mindich left Ukraine hours earlier than the searches.
On 11 November, journalists named all of the suspects who had acquired notices of suspicion from NABU within the investigation into large-scale corruption inside Ukraine's state-owned nuclear power firm Energoatom. An investigative reporting mission by Skhemy discovered that the suspects have been Tymur Mindich (known as "Karlsson" on the NABU recordings), former adviser to the power minister Ihor Myroniuk ("Rocket"), Energoatom government director for security Dmytro Basov ("Tenor"), Oleksandr Tsukerman ("Sugarman"), Ihor Fursenko ("Roshyk"), Lesia Ustymenko and Liudmyla Zorina.
5 people on the listing of suspects have been detained. Two – Mindich and Tsukerman – have left Ukraine.
Basov, Myroniuk, Fursenko, Ustymenko and Zorina have been assigned pre-trial restrictions with the choice of bail. It was later reported that the Excessive Anti-Corruption Courtroom had acquired bail for Lesia Ustymenko and Liudmyla Zorina, the workers of the again workplace concerned in cash laundering round Energoatom.
On 12 November, Justice Minister Herman Halushchenko was suspended from workplace following the high-profile NABU investigation into corruption at Energoatom.
On 13 November, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy enacted a choice by the Nationwide Safety and Defence Council (NSDC) to impose sanctions in opposition to businessmen Tymur Mindich and Oleksandr Tsukerman.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, throughout a gathering with Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko, famous that the outcomes of the audit of state-owned firms, introduced after the Nationwide Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) investigation, could be adopted by personnel selections.
Supply: Zelenskyy on X (Twitter)
Quote: "The prime minister reported on the launch of audit processes in state-owned firms. We agreed that the audits have to be carried out promptly, and all outcomes have to be forwarded to regulation enforcement and anti-corruption companies for applicable motion.
Personnel selections will comply with based mostly on the findings."
Particulars: Zelenskyy additionally famous that the outcomes of the audit could be shared with Ukraine's key companions overseas.
"Transparency in state-owned firms and the elimination of any schemes have to be assured. We additionally mentioned personnel adjustments within the Authorities – the prime minister of Ukraine will suggest candidates for the posts of minister of power and minister of justice," Zelenskyy added.
Background:
On 13 November, Svyrydenko said that Ukraine would conduct an audit of all state-owned firms, together with these within the power sector.
She additionally submitted proposals to the Ukrainian parliament to dismiss Herman Halushchenko and Svitlana Hrynchuk from their posts as Minister of Justice and Minister of Vitality.
Tymofii Mylovanov – former adviser to Andrii Yermak, Head of Zelenskyy's Workplace (from 22 November 2020 to September 2021), former member of Energoatom's supervisory board and President of the Kyiv Faculty of Economics (KSE) – is stepping down from the supervisory board of Ukroboronprom.
The Nationwide Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) has launched the third a part of Operation Midas, its investigation right into a large-scale corruption scheme at Energoatom.
Prosecutors from the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Workplace (SAPO) said that the organiser of the money-laundering scheme round Energoatom – Tymur Mindich, a detailed affiliate of President Volodymyr Zelensky – constructed his affect over former Minister of Vitality and former Minister of Justice Herman Halushchenko by way of his connections with the president.
Prosecutors additionally mentioned that Mindich exerted affect over former Defence Minister Rustem Umierov.
A couple of hours earlier than NABU searches, Mindich managed to depart the nation.
Russian forces launched a large-scale mixed assault on the town of Kyiv on the evening of 13-14 November, utilizing numerous sorts of missiles and drones. One individual has been killed and 24 injured, together with a pregnant lady and a toddler. Widespread destruction and fires have been recorded in residential buildings and civilian infrastructure throughout nearly all districts of the capital.
Supply: State Emergency Service of Ukraine; Kyiv Metropolis Navy Administration
Particulars: Kyiv Metropolis Navy Administration reported that the variety of individuals injured within the in a single day assault had risen to 24, together with one little one. All of them are receiving acceptable medical remedy.
The State Emergency Service confirmed that one individual had been killed and reported that their items had rescued over 40 individuals whereas responding to the aftermath.
Essentially the most extreme penalties have been recorded within the Desnianskyi district. An individual died in a fireplace that broke out in a block of flats between the fourth and seventh flooring. The State Emergency Service employees rescued 14 residents from the constructing, together with a toddler, and freed one other individual from underneath the rubble. A fireplace broke out on the sixth ground at one other tackle in the identical district, the place 9 individuals have been rescued and an additional 50 have been evacuated.
Firefighters extinguished fires in two flats of a five-storey constructing within the Dniprovskyi district and rescued 17 individuals. The 18th and twentieth flooring of one other high-rise have been additionally broken and a fireplace overlaying 200 sq m broke out in wood buildings on the grounds of a sports activities complicated.
A missile struck a high-rise residential constructing within the Podilskyi district on the degree of the 14th ground, from which 13 individuals have been rescued.
Broken flats Photograph: State Emergency Service of Ukraine
Particles struck a nine-storey residential constructing within the Obolonskyi district, inflicting fires on the sixth to eighth flooring over an space of round 100 sq m. Emergency employees rescued one individual and extinguished the blaze.
Residential constructing hit by the Russians Photograph: State Emergency Service of Ukraine
Firefighters put out a fireplace on the roof and the fourth ground of a residential constructing within the Solomianskyi district. Twenty individuals have been rescued.
A residential constructing was hit on the degree of the sixth ground within the Sviatoshynskyi district. Residences on the 18th ground caught fireplace in a close-by 22-storey constructing.
Individuals being rescued from broken flats Photograph: State Emergency Service of Ukraine
Particles fell on the grounds of a hospital within the Holosiivskyi district. A 15-square-metre fireplace in a constructing was extinguished at one other tackle.
A fireplace broke out on faculty grounds within the Darnytskyi district and on an open space within the Shevchenkivskyi district.
Data is being confirmed and up to date.
Background:
Earlier than the assault, an air-raid warning was issued throughout Ukraine after Russian MiG-31K fighter jets – carriers of Kinzhal aeroballistic missiles – took off, together with many assault drones.
At 00:42, Ukraine's Air Pressure warned of high-speed targets heading in the direction of Kyiv. At 00:57, they reported launches of ballistic missiles from Russia's Bryansk Oblast in the direction of the Ukrainian capital.
The Russians are planning to allocate RUB 700 billion (about US$8,7 billion) for the Siberia Growth Programme, which includes mass eviction of residents of Ukraine's quickly occupied territories.
Particulars: Russia has already begun sending official letters to quickly occupied areas demanding to "determine staff for potential long-term enterprise journeys to the Far East". Faculties, hospitals and utility suppliers have obtained such notices.
Quote: "Managers are pressured to submit lists of 'staff not burdened by household circumstances' – a wording that, in essence, identifies essentially the most susceptible and people who may be most simply deported with out important public resonance."
Extra particulars: The NRC acknowledged that this reproduces Soviet-era "organised recruitment" practices, which had been beforehand employed to expel Crimean Tatars, Ukrainians, Chechens and different peoples.
Quote: "Siberia is devastated. Because the Russians don’t need to go, the Kremlin has determined to construct a brand new 'industrial empire' with the arms of Ukrainians."
Background:
Earlier, Russia relocated kids from the occupied city of Bilovodsk in Luhansk Oblast to a army camp in Russia's Novosibirsk Oblast.
In a tent camp that the Russians name the Younger Troopers camp, schoolchildren aged from 11 to 17 are being pressured to bear army coaching.
