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This Thursday, the Ukrainian nuclear operator accused the new Ukrainian director of the Zaporozhye power plant of being a "traitor" while 40% of the Ukrainian electricity network remained out of order on Thursday, a week after the last Russian strikes on the energy infrastructure
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The fact of the day
The Ukrainian nuclear operator has accused the new Ukrainian director of the Zaporozhye power plant, appointed the day before by Russia, of being a “traitor” for having agreed to collaborate with Moscow.
"Yurii Chernichuk, [until then] deputy chief engineer of the plant, who served during the war, betrayed Ukraine and went over to the side of the enemy," the head of Energoatom lamented on Thursday. Petro Kotin in a statement.
"Instead of doing everything possible to free the plant as soon as possible, he decided to help the Russian occupiers to legalize their criminal appropriation [of the site] and is now inciting other employees to do so," he said. he still regretted.
Yuriï Tchernitchouk, a Ukrainian engineer who was already working in the plant, was immediately “dismissed”.
A decision that will have no impact in practice, the site being under the control of Russian forces.
sentence of the day
Regarding these attempts to create courts, they will have no legitimacy, we will not accept them and we will condemn them.
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These are the words of the spokesman of the Russian presidency.
Dmitri Peskov reacted on Thursday to the fact that Brussels declared itself in favor of the creation of a tribunal to judge "crimes of aggression by Russia" in Ukraine.
Dmitry Peskov also said that Russian investigators were carrying out “meticulous” work to document in Ukraine “all the crimes of the kyiv regime”.
The number of the day
40.
This is the percentage of the Ukrainian electricity network still out of order this Thursday in Ukraine, a week after the last Russian strikes on energy infrastructure.
A figure made public by the private operator DTEK, which highlighted the “day and night” efforts of electricians to repair it.
The trend of the day
More commitment for kyiv and less missiles for Moscow.
kyiv has once again called, through the voice of its head of diplomacy, on the European Union to sanction the Russian missile production industry.
“I thanked the EU for its continued defense assistance and underlined that future EU sanctions should include […] the Russian missile production industry: this production must be stopped”, urged Dmytro Kouleba, after a meeting with his European counterpart, on the sidelines of a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Lodz (Poland).
our file on the war in ukraine
On November 24, the latest massive Russian missile strikes left entire regions cold and dark, including the capital kyiv.
The Ukrainian authorities fear that new Russian bombardments will considerably worsen the energy situation.
And as severe power cuts affect millions of Ukrainians every day, Dmytro Kouleba hammered home on Twitter: "Josep Borrell and I agree: [Russia's] all-out war on Ukraine means full support to Ukraine.
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