WAR IN UKRAINE: November 30, 2022
LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: Day 280, 2022
The EU proposed setting up a special tribunal to investigate and prosecute Russia's "crime of aggression" in Ukraine
At a summit in Bucharest, Nato foreign ministers voiced their support for Georgia, Moldova and Bosnia, amid fears that Russia was trying to destabilise those nations. The ministers also said Russia's invasion of Ukraine underlined the need to reduce economic reliance on other authoritarian regimes, including China - BBC
Ukrainian forces have repelled more Russian military attacks in the east as Moscow pounded civilian settlements in central and southern Ukraine, continuing to target energy infrastructure.
The UK announced a new package of 22 sanctions targeting officials who had promoted and enforced mobilisation efforts in Russia
Ukraine's state emergency service said Wednesday that nine people had been killed in fires in the past 24 hours as people broke safety rules trying to heat their homes following Russian attacks on power facilities. The number of fires has risen, it said, with Ukrainians increasingly resorting to using emergency generators, candles and gas cylinders in their homes because of power outages - Reuters
ISW: Russian forces struggle with outdated equipment, personnel shortages as another round of mobilization looms. The Institute for the Study of War reports that Russia keeps experiencing equipment shortages and difficulties in providing for the mobilized troops. The experts wrote that a prominent Russian military blogger contended that Russian forces should use World War II-era artillery and cheap, inferior-quality military equipment to address challenges in providing for Russian soldiers - Kyiv Independent
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has invited American billionaire Elon Musk to visit Ukraine to see with his own eyes the damage caused by Russian forces before making statements on how to end the war - RFE/RL
An employee of the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid has been lightly injured while opening a letter bomb, Ukrainian and Spanish officials say. The male employee was taken to hospital for treatment but "his life is not in danger", said Ukrainian foreign ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko. He added that Ukrainian embassies have been ordered to "urgently" increase security after Wednesday's blast - BBC
Required reading…
Fueling Ukraine’s fight back against Russia’s blackout blitz
Far from the frontlines of the battlefield, the Russian Federation is ruthlessly bombing Ukraine’s civilian energy infrastructure. Electricity generating and thermal power facilities in towns and cities across the country have been specifically targeted in a methodical campaign to deprive millions of Ukrainians of access to heating, light, and water just as sub-zero temperatures and the winter heating season begin. These attacks are clearly war crimes as defined by the Geneva Convention. Russia is deliberately attempting to make Ukraine uninhabitable and place the country’s entire civilian population in grave danger.
Russia’s airstrike campaign against civilian infrastructure began in early October following a series of Russian military defeats in Ukraine. The change in strategy appears designed in part to address mounting domestic unease within the Russian Federation over Vladimir Putin’s rapidly unraveling invasion.
Read the full Atlantic Council analysis here