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General Staff: Russia has lost 1,505,380 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022
Confirmed
In Short: Ukraine is bracing for its toughest winter since the 2022 invasion, with Russia intensifying aerial attacks and targeting civilian infrastructure, according to a UN official.
Efforts are underway to repair Ukraine's power network to ensure people can run heaters and access water during the harsh winter, as the country faces its toughest season since the 2022 invasion, a top UN official told the BBC.
Russia has started using faster, jet-powered drones that are harder to intercept, leading to daily attacks on Ukraine, particularly Kyiv, and causing civilian casualties.
Russia reported a Ukrainian seaborne drone attack on Sochi, resulting in 28 wounded and three deaths, while also blaming Ukraine for attacks on a border crossing between Ukraine and Moldova.
The UN Development Programme is helping to rebuild parts of Ukraine's energy system that were damaged last winter, as the country continues to launch drone strikes against Russian infrastructure.
Ukraine's UN representative accused Russia of systematically targeting the country's energy infrastructure, with strikes also hitting businesses, warehouses, and factories, according to the BBC.
Background
A military staff or general staff is a group of officers, enlisted, and civilian staff who serve the commander of a division or other large military unit in their command and control role through planning, analysis, and information gathering, as well as by relaying, coordinating, and supervising the execution of their plans and orders, especially in case of multiple simultaneous and rapidly changing complex operations.
What's confirmed
- Efforts are underway to repair Ukraine's power network to ensure people can run heaters and access water during the harsh winter, as the country faces its toughest season since the 2022 invasion, a top UN official told the BBC.
- Russia has started using faster, jet-powered drones that are harder to intercept, leading to daily attacks on Ukraine, particularly Kyiv, and causing civilian casualties.
- Russia reported a Ukrainian seaborne drone attack on Sochi, resulting in 28 wounded and three deaths, while also blaming Ukraine for attacks on a border crossing between Ukraine and Moldova.
- The UN Development Programme is helping to rebuild parts of Ukraine's energy system that were damaged last winter, as the country continues to launch drone strikes against Russian infrastructure.
- Ukraine's UN representative accused Russia of systematically targeting the country's energy infrastructure, with strikes also hitting businesses, warehouses, and factories, according to the BBC.
What's still developing
- Russia and Ukraine have been intensifying aerial attacks in recent months, and both deny deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure.
- A full-scale war has been raging between Russia and Ukraine since Putin launched an invasion more than four and a half years ago.
- He said Ukraine started "from a very weak base going into this winter".
- The concerns are driven by what De Croo said was Russia's "very systematic" targeting of civilian and energy infrastructure.