​Ukrainians are bracing for a winter with little or no electricity in many regions, including Kyiv, where temperatures have already dropped below zero degrees as Russia’s relentless attacks knocked out half of the country’s power generation capacity. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on residents of Kyiv and a number of regions to limit electricity consumption. “Stock up on warm clothes, blankets, think about options that will help you in case of long-term power outages,” said Serhiy Kovalenko, head of the YASNO company that supplies electricity to Kyiv.

The main thing for Tuesday, the 272nd day of the war in Ukraine, TEXT OF THE LIVE MODE:

07:19Russia will not supply oil or oil products to countries that set a price ceiling on its oil exports, and may also reduce crude production, Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Novak said on Monday, Reuters quoted.

00:27Zelensky: Now we have a historic opportunity to defend Ukrainian freedom once and for all. I think it will be so

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi said that over time there were many threats to the freedom of the Ukrainian people and even to their existence, but the people managed to overcome them. “And now we have a historic opportunity to defend Ukrainian freedom once and for all. I think it will be like that,” he emphasized.

In a video message sent on Monday evening, Zelensky noted that today is Paratroopers’ Day – the Day of Airborne Troops of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, wearing a representative T-shirt that was presented to him. He listed the landing brigades that distinguished themselves in the liberation of certain territories of Ukraine, thanked them.

23:25 Ukraine declares that a military operation is underway on the left bank of the Dnieper

Ukraine’s Southern Operational Command reports that an operation has begun at Cape Kinburn, a cape at the end of the Kinburn Peninsula in Mykolaiv Oblast, and a storm at sea is helping Ukrainian troops clear the area, Kyiv Independent reports.

A brief summary of recent events:

• Ukraine is evacuating the civilian population from the recently liberated districts of Kherson and Mykolaiv regions. Residents of the two southern regions have been advised to move to safer areas in the center and west of the country amid fears that damage to infrastructure from the war is too severe for people to survive the winter.
• The head of the Russian State Atomic Energy Agency Rosatom warned about the risk of an accident at the Zaporizhzhia NPP. Oleksiy Likhachev accused Ukraine of being ready to “put up with” a “small nuclear incident”, adding that “everything should be done so that no one has in mind a breach of the NPP’s safety”.
• President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on NATO members to guarantee the protection of his country’s nuclear power plant from “Russian sabotage.”
• According to an official statement cited by CNN, the United Nations’ panel of independent nuclear inspectors said Monday that Ukraine’s Zaporizhia nuclear power plant has “no nuclear safety or security issues” following the weekend explosions.
• The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that the Ukrainian health care system is “going through the darkest days of the war.” The Director of the WHO European Region, Dr. Hans Henry P. Kluge, called for the creation of a “humanitarian health corridor” for all territories of Ukraine recently captured by Kyiv, as well as those occupied by Russian troops.
• The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine reported that its employees had established four places of torture of detainees by Russian troops in the city of Kherson. It said Russian troops had “set up pseudo law enforcement” in pre-trial detention centers and a police station before troops were withdrawn from the southern Ukrainian city earlier this month.
• Russian soldiers were accused of burning corpses at a landfill on the outskirts of Kherson during the occupation of the region. Residents and workers at the site told The Guardian they saw open-top Russian trucks arriving at the job site with black sacks, which were then set on fire, filling the air with a large cloud of smoke and the smell of burning meat.
• The Kremlin announced that it will prosecute those responsible for the alleged shootings of Russian prisoners of war in Ukraine. Russia has accused the Ukrainian military of executing more than 10 Russian prisoners of war, citing a video posted on Russian social media. Ukraine denies these accusations. Kremlin spokesman Dmytro Peskov also said that there are no plans to call up more Russian troops to fight in Ukraine during the second round of mobilization.
• Russia has lost more than 90% of the Northern European oil market. According to Bloomberg, Russia has already lost the vast majority of the market it held in the Scandinavian countries of the European Union even before the EU embargo on Russian oil took effect on December 5.
• Ukraine’s Southern Operational Command reports that an operation has begun at Cape Kinburn, a cape at the end of the Kinburn Peninsula in Mykolaiv Oblast, and a storm at sea is helping Ukrainian troops clear the area, Kyiv Independent reports.
• Russia continues mobilization in the occupied Crimea. In the occupied Simferopol, the administration imposed by Moscow continues to recruit people to be sent to the front in order to fulfill the goal set by the Kremlin, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine declares, reports The Kyiv Independent.

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Monday’s events were broadcast live on HotNews.ro