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Ukraine and Russia have traded strikes targeting each other’s energy infrastructure as the war heads into the winter months. Moscow’s attacks have repeatedly plunged parts of Ukraine into blackouts, while Kyiv has hit Russia’s oil refinery capabilities.
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- Ukraine and Russia trade energy infrastructure strikes View post
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- While Kyiv’s wait for Tomahawk missiles goes on View post
Goodnight
We’re pausing our live coverage of the war in Ukraine.
Before we go, here’s a recap of the key developments over the last 24 hours.
- Russia claimed Ukrainian soldiers were surrendering in the embattled eastern city of Pokrovsk, and that it had killed an 11-strong Ukrainian special forces team sent in as reinforcements;
- Ukraine denied both reports, with its army chief Oleksandr Syrskyy saying: “We are holding Pokrovsk”;
- The Pentagon gave the green light for Washington to provide Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles, according to a CNN report;
- One person has been killed and at least 15 others injured in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv after a Russian attack;
- Russia launched 223 drones at Ukraine overnight, the country’s air force said.
Pre-schoolers ‘taught military training’ at 100 Russian nurseries
More than 100 nurseries across Russia have started offering military training courses to children since its invasion of Ukraine, according to estimates by independent Russian media outlet Verstka.
Pre-school children are reportedly being taught to march, practice hand-to-hand combat and handle firearms.
Some groups are connected to the police, border guard, defence ministry and the Kremlin.
“The reported increase in military cadet programmes in Russian nurseries forms part of the highly likely continuing militarisation of Russian education,” says the UK Ministry of Defence.
“It is likely that the politicisation and militarisation of Russian education, coupled with increasing ideological indoctrination of Russian children more broadly, will perpetuate aggressive, expansionist Russian nationalism in the longer term.”
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