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- The head of the National Police of Ukraine, Igor Klymenko, said that 32 civilians had been killed in Kherson since November 9, when Russian troops were forced to withdraw from the city they had occupied for eight months.
- The city of Kyiv was one of the hardest hit by the blackouts, with about 600,000 homes left without power on Friday night.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky assured on Saturday that his people would stand firm in the face of Russian attacks, which regularly cause massive power and water outages as winter temperatures set in.
- At the front on Saturday, the exchange of prisoners between Russia and Ukraine continued.
- Dozens of countries (including France) allocate financial assistance to support the Grain from Ukraine program. .
New aid for grain exports to Africa and blackouts
Belgian Prime Minister Alexandre de Croo visited Kyiv on Saturday, the first visit since the start of the Russian invasion. According to the Belga agency, it provides Ukraine with additional financial support in the amount of 37.4 million euros, in particular, to help the population survive the winter in the face of power outages.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced in a video an additional 15 million euros in aid to support the export of war-torn Ukrainian grain.
French President Emmanuel Macron has also pledged an additional 6 million euros for these exports, which are vital to supplying many countries in Africa and Asia.
“We have decided to act in solidarity with the most vulnerable countries. Russia, for its part, continues to use hunger as a means of pressure and food as a weapon of war.
Ukrainians “cannot be broken,” Zelensky said
“Ukrainians have gone through really terrible things. And in spite of everything, they retained the ability to disobey and their love of freedom. Previously, they wanted to destroy us with hunger, but now with darkness and cold,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video posted on Telegram on Saturday, timed to coincide with the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor, a famine deliberately staged by the Stalinist regime in the 1930s. .
“We cannot be broken,” he said.
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