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Kiev announced that it had destroyed “all” of Al-Shahed’s 21 drones and “two of the three missiles” fired by Russian forces during the night. He returns it Ukrainska Pravda. The Ukrainian Air Force explained on Telegram that “the main target of the attack was the Khmelnytskyi region in the south of the country.”

The Russian Defense Ministry said today, citing TASS, that a frigate from the Russian Black Sea Fleet fired four Kalibr cruise missiles at facilities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The ministry said: “During a mission in the Black Sea, the frigate’s crew received an urgent goal of hitting the enemy’s military infrastructure with Kalibr cruise missiles in the shortest possible time,” explaining that the missile launch “was successful” and the specified targets were hit.

Russian air defense systems shot down a Ukrainian drone in the Podolsk urban area of ​​the Moscow region. “On November 29, at 7.30 Moscow time (5.30 Italian time), an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack using a drone was foiled,” the press office of the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Wednesday. On-duty air defense forces destroyed the Ukrainian drone in the territory of the Podolsk urban district of the Moscow region.

The family of former US Marine Paul Whelan, imprisoned in Russia on espionage charges, said his cellmate had been attacked, adding they feared the man was a target because of his nationality. The 53-year-old has been behind bars since 2018, serving a 16-year prison sentence that the US government says is unjustified. His brother David Whelan said that on Tuesday afternoon he was “hit in the face” by a new prisoner who broke his glasses, explaining that the incident occurred in a clothing workshop in the Mordovia penal colony in central Russia. A family member added that guards do not enter this part of the prison, and that other prisoners eventually came to Whelan’s aid. He added: “Paul is targeted because he is American, and anti-American sentiment is not uncommon among other prisoners.” A State Department spokesman said the US Embassy in Moscow, which had been in contact with Whelan by phone, learned that the former Marine was receiving medical treatment following the incident, and urged the Russian government to keep him safe and return to demand Whelan’s release. . The former Marine was working in security for a US vehicle parts company when he was arrested in Moscow in 2018 and has always maintained that the evidence against him was false.

Russia announced its withdrawal from Expo 2025 in Osaka. The decision was communicated by the Moscow representative during the General Assembly of the Bureau International des Expositions (Bie) in Paris, explaining that his country decided to refrain from participating “due to insufficient communication with the organizing committee,” without providing further details about the reason for the withdrawal. Last week, the Japanese government mentioned the possibility of Russia not participating in the exhibition if there are no changes in the current situation with the war in Ukraine. The minister in charge of the exhibition, Hanako Jimmi, had told local media that the current course of events conflicts with the theme of the upcoming exhibition: “Designing a future society for our lives.” Moscow’s announcement comes in the wake of the decisions of Mexico and Estonia not to participate in the event in 2025 for economic reasons.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces said in a message on the Telegram application that two Russian submarines capable of launching Kalibr cruise missiles remain in active service in the Black Sea. Ukrainian media report that bad weather conditions caused by a winter hurricane forced Moscow to withdraw some of its naval assets in recent days. The Ukrainian military says the missile threat level in the region remains “high.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not make peace in Ukraine before knowing the results of the 2024 US elections. This is what a senior US State Department official said in reference to fears that a possible victory for former President Donald Trump would undermine the crisis in Western support for Russia. Kyiv. Trump, the most likely candidate to win the Republican presidential nomination, sharply criticized US support for Kiev. The senior official said in a press conference after a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels that the alliance reiterated its support for Ukraine, knowing that a peace agreement next year is unlikely. “I expect that Putin will not achieve peace or great peace before we see the results of our elections,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. When asked whether they were expressing a personal opinion or the opinion of the US government, the official replied that was a “widely shared premise.”