new Russian bombardments on several regions, including that of kyiv

Cover image: According to the Ukrainian government, “over a hundred [projectiles] in several waves” were identified on Thursday morning. SAMEER AL-DOUMY / AFP

Shelling left several injured in Kharkiv and near Khersonregional authorities announced on Wednesday.
“Only a few civilians” are still present in BakhmoutUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky lamented on Wednesday on Facebook. “Last year, 70,000 people lived there”he added, without specifying the number of civilians who are still there.
The deficit of the Ukrainian electricity network has worsened due to the bombardment of gas infrastructure in eastern Ukraine, announced the operator Ukrenergo, national manager of the electricity transmission network, on Wednesday on Facebook.
The ban by Moscow, effective 1^isfebruary, to sell Russian oil to foreign countries capping its price is not “meaningless, but it has no practical meaning”Berlin commented on Wednesday.
Ukraine has purchased nearly 1,400 dronesmainly models intended for reconnaissance missions, and plans to develop combat models to be able to attack the explosive drones used by the Russians in the invasion of the country, announced the minister responsible for technologies of Ukraine.
The International Organization for Migration announced on Wednesday, in a statementthat she was going be able to help “more than 700,000 Ukrainians” during the winter thanks to humanitarian funds provided by the European Union.
French Armed Forces Minister Sébastien Lecornu met the Ukrainian President on Wednesday in kyiv. After the meeting, Volodymyr Zelensky said on Telegram to be “grateful to France for the military assistance already provided aimed at protecting the Ukrainian skies and strengthening the capabilities of the defense forces”.
The head of Russian diplomacy said to himself ” convinced “ that Russia would achieve its goals in Ukraine by dint of « patience ». On condition that ” the four regions [Donetsk, Louhansk, Zaporijia, Kherson] belong to the Russian Federation”asserted Sergei Lavrov, specifying that Moscow had to ” sure “ conquer all of these four territories, which are currently not fully controlled by the Russian army.
L’Institute for the Study of War (ISW) estime que “the Russian offensive on Bakhmout has probably already reached its peak”. In its daily bulletin of December 28the American think tank considers that the Russian forces “can no longer continue their attack [à Bakhmout] and must adopt a defensive position or take an operational break”which does not mean the end of the fighting.