MOSCOW, Dec 2 Russian President Vladimir Putin in a conversation with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that the political and financial support of Kyiv leads to the rejection of the idea of negotiations. IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi expressed hope that by the end of the year it would be possible to find a solution to ensure the safety of the Zaporozhye NPP.
Vladimir Zelensky approved a decree on the implementation of the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine on restrictive measures against representatives of religious organizations allegedly associated with Russia.
International situationPutin, in a conversation with Scholz, said that the political and financial support of Kyiv leads to the fact that he completely discards the idea of negotiations, the Kremlin press service reported. In addition, in a conversation between the heads of the two states, the Russian president informed the German chancellor that the strikes on targets in Ukraine were a forced response of the Russian Federation to the provocations of Kyiv, including the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge. Putin also told Scholz that the Nord Stream terrorist attack needs a transparent investigation with the participation of Russian specialized structures. In addition, Putin and Scholz discussed the grain deal: the parties emphasized the need for its conscientious implementation, with the removal of barriers to Russian supplies.
German Finance Minister Christian Lindner has refused Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht's request to provide urgently significant budgetary funds for the purchase of new ammunition, the newspaper Politico writes. In an attempt to address the ammunition shortage, Lambrecht wrote to Lindner on Tuesday urging him to «immediately allocate significant amounts of budgetary funds» to purchase new ammunition, according to the publication. However, the Minister of Finance on Thursday, in a response letter seen by Politico, denied this request.
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US President Joe Biden intends to avoid expanding the conflict in Ukraine, America does not want a war with Russia, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Friday. The United States, he said, wants peace in Ukraine to be not only on paper, but also on earth, and for it to be long-term. In addition, as Blinken also stated, the United States will not determine the terms of negotiations with Moscow for Kyiv, but will support the decision of the citizens of Ukraine. OPCW Alexander Shulgin. He noted that at the current session of the OPCW member countries, the Russian side provided information about «contract soldiers who help Ukrainian nationalists in these chemical preparations.» According to Shulgin, we are talking about contract soldiers from the state of Nevada.
The course of the special operationRussian military forces are knocking out the remnants of Ukrainian forces from the village of Novoselovskoye in the LPR, fighting is already taking place on the outskirts, a correspondent from the scene said. As the commander of the special forces unit of the Western Military District with the call sign «Zeus» told him, the third street was stormed the other day, and the outermost houses of the fourth street remained to be cleaned up. Novoselovskoye is of great importance for the continuation of the operation, since the railway and motor roads leading to Kupyansk pass through this settlement.
The air defense units of the Russian Armed Forces have received new software that makes it easy to shoot down HIMARS MLRS missiles, the commander of the air defense unit of the Russian Armed Forces told reporters.
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During the liberation of the village of Kurdyumovka in the DPR, Russian troops destroyed more than 60 Ukrainian military personnel, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday. As the department also said, three depots of weapons and ammunition of Ukrainian troops were hit in the Zaporozhye region, and MiG-29s and Su-25s of Ukraine were shot down in the DPR.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin visited the LPR, met with fighters mobilized from the capital of the Russian Federation, the Rossiya 24 TV channel reported. The mayor of the capital asked how the mobilized settled down and whether they were well fed. During his visit to the LPR, Sobyanin said that Moscow had purchased 800 units of medical equipment for Donetsk and Lugansk, and several hundred more units would be delivered by the new year. Also, as the mayor of Moscow said, in Luganka he met with the capital's doctors, for all the time they performed more than 4 thousand operations. year.
As he told in an interview with la Repubblica newspaper, now both sides have agreed on some fundamental principles, including the fact that they should come to an agreement that the Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant cannot be shot at and cannot be shot from its territory. In addition, according to him, the parties also recognized that the IAEA is the only possible way out of the current situation. According to Grossi, this was the main content of his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg on October 11.
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Grossi continues to negotiate the creation of a protective zone at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant at a high level with both Ukraine and Russia, the agency reported on Friday.
Kyiv attack on the church Russia. According to him, in Ukraine it is necessary to create such conditions in which any «persons dependent on the aggressor country will not be able to manipulate Ukrainians.»
He also stated that the Ukrainian authorities will check the legality of using the property on the territory of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, which is in the possession of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC).
Zelensky's appeal was published on Friday night, and already in the morning the Security Service of Ukraine announced the conduct of «counterintelligence activities» in the premises of the canonical UOC in the Zhytomyr, Rivne and Transcarpathian regions. Already in the afternoon, Zelensky approved a decree on the enactment of the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine on restrictive measures against representatives of religious organizations allegedly associated with the Russian Federation.
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The Investigative Committee of Russia is investigating data on the abductions of priests of the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) in order to exchange them for Ukrainian prisoners of war, according to the Telegram channel of the Russian Investigative Committee.
br>Later it became known that the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine imposed sanctions against the governor of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra Pavel (Lebed) and about ten more clergymen of the canonical UOC, as well as the former opposition deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Vadim Novinsky, the Ukrainian Pravda newspaper reported. , referring to sources close to Vladimir Zelensky.
The situation in Ukraine Graffiti by the British artist Banksy in the city of Gostomel in the Kyiv region was cut off by vandals from the wall of the building, the Ukrainian online edition Strana reported on Friday. The publication published a photo of the building, from which the attackers cut off a layer of heat-insulating coating, on which the drawing was applied. According to the site, the suspects have already been detained.
Ukrainian military actionsThe Ukrainian military uses the Starlink network of the American SpaceX, the costs of which due to the provision of communications in Ukraine were reported by the owner Elon Musk, not only for military purposes — through it they make personal calls and communicate on social networks, said Sergei Lazarenko, a prisoner of war from the 113th Territorial Defense Brigade (TRO).
In addition, according to his stories, the operation of the network is highly dependent on weather conditions, the quality of the Internet decreases in the rain. Also, as the prisoner said, mobilized servicemen from the Ukrainian territorial defense often break down satellite terminals and face problems in their repair. One such case was told by Yevheniya Skidan, who was convicted by a Ukrainian court on a far-fetched pretext.