Volodymyr Zelenskyi thanked the Ukrainian military for fighting against Russian attacks and his rescue services for intervening in these extreme winter conditions, which cut off power in about 400 cities in 10 regions. In a video message on Sunday evening, Zelenskyi said fighting was intense and ongoing in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Kharkiv, and “extremely difficult weather” was affecting areas from Kyiv Oblast in the north to Odesa in the south.

Highlights of the war in Ukraine, day 642, LIVETEXT:

07:32 The Ukrainian operator “Ukrenergo” published a photo of a power pole broken by a blizzard in the Odesa region. “Unfortunately, bad weather continues to destroy, as a result of which a significant number of consumers in Odesa and Mykolaiv regions are without power,” Ukrenergo reported.

“Due to significant damage to overhead power lines and distribution networks of Ukrenergo, the equipment that remained in operation was under double load. This may lead to further damage to networks for technical reasons. According to forecasts of meteorologists, bad weather will persist in various regions at the beginning of this week,” the operator reports, calling on the population to “moderately” consume electricity.

07:27 Oleg Kryuchkov, a high-ranking official appointed by Moscow to Crimea, said that almost half a million people were left without electricity on the peninsula.

Russian-appointed managers of the Black Sea port of Sevastopol and the Moscow-controlled part of the Kherson region declared Monday a day off due to strong wind and rain.

A brief summary of recent events:

• The commander of the Joint Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Serhiy Naev, believes that Russia’s war against Ukraine may again go beyond the borders of the east and south of the country, especially if Russia continues to increase the production of weapons and improve existing technologies. with aid to allies, or if Ukraine’s allies reduce the amount of aid they provide to it.
• Russian troops continued operations near Avdiivka on Saturday and achieved confirmed successes, the Institute for the Study of War reports.
• On Sunday, Russia said it had foiled a large-scale attack by Ukrainian drones, with at least 20 drones shot down over Russian regions, including Moscow.
• On the night of November 26, Ukraine attacked Russian military facilities with about 35 drones in response to the strike by the Russian Shahed drone on Ukraine a day earlier, Ukrainian Pravda reports.
• Russia may have moved strategic air defense systems from Kaliningrad to compensate for recent losses on the Ukrainian front, Britain’s Ministry of Defense said in a November 26 intelligence update.
• Meta Platforms spokesman Andy Stone is wanted by Russia without specifying what charges he is facing
• The first photos of the American M1A1 Abrams tanks on the Ukrainian front began to appear – PHOTOS.
• A fire broke out at the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant in Russia, which is under sanctions by Ukraine and the US as a manufacturer of engines for military equipment.

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• Sunday’s events related to Russian aggression were broadcast LIVE on HotNews.ro