More important points emerge about the explosion of a letter bomb at the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid that injured an employee.
The letter would have arrived by regular mail and would have been scanned.
Mercedes Gonzalez, the Spanish government’s representative in Madrid, said the explosion was “a very small wound on the ring finger of the employee’s right hand. “
Detectives are investigating the incident, as well as forensic and intelligence investigators, Spanish police said.
Ukraine stepped up security at its embassies abroad following the incident, and its foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said whoever the attacker was “will not succeed in intimidating Ukrainian diplomats or impeding their daily activities to strengthen Ukraine and counter Russian aggression. “
The most recent sanctions target Russian officials who promoted or imposed the mobilization, bringing the total number of sanctioned to 1,200.
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Moscow has promoted the lead engineer of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to the post of director, after Kyiv said the former chief was kidnapped by Russian authorities.
The plant, which is Europe’s largest, has been under Russian occupation since March and is a source of fear for Ukrainian and Western officials.
Ukrainian engineers at the factory, allegedly at gunpoint.
“The new director of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and first deputy general director of the operating company of the Zaporizhzhia plant is Yuriy Chernichuk,” said Renat Karchaa, adviser to the executive director of the organization of the Russian state force Rosenergoatom.
He said Chernichuk is a “courageous” successor.
Ukraine claimed that the plant’s former boss, Ihor Murashov, was kidnapped by Russian forces as he returned from the plant in October.
He later released him after he was shown confessing to “communicating with Ukrainian intelligence” in a video broadcast on Russian state television.
Murashov was subsequently allowed to register with his circle of relatives in Ukrainian government-controlled territory, the U. N. nuclear watchdog said.
A teenager has died after Russian forces bombed a building in Ukraine’s northern region, a presidential aide said.
Nearby houses and cars were in Bilopilla’s attack, Kyrylo Tymoshenko said on Telegram.
He added that Russian forces had carried out 158 artillery and 28 mortar strikes on the Sumy over the past day.
Houses, power lines, barns, farm machinery, cars and administrative buildings were damaged, he said.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine suggested that security be strengthened at Ukrainian embassies around the world.
This follows the explosion of a letter bomb at the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid, which left one employee injured.
Oleg Nikolenko, representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, gave these additional details. . .
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An in-store inventory sale lasted only about 4 months, with a 50% reduction on everything on offer today.
The fashion store closed its Russian retail outlets some time after the invasion began, but reopened later in August to sell excess inventory.
It was insisted that companies withdraw from Russia, with many suspension operations some time after the invasion, but without necessarily pronouncing a permanent exit.
A worker at the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid wounded in the explosion of a letter bomb, according to Spanish police.
The embassy worker suffered a minor injury and headed to the hospital on his own.
Police have cordoned off the domain and crews in place to defuse the explosions are at the scene, news channel Telemadrid said.
NATO pledged to help Russia’s neighbors as independent nations and said the final results of the war are of “existential importance” for countries such as Moldova and Georgia.
At the end of a day of talks between NATO foreign ministers, Estonian representative Urmas Reinsalu said: “The message is clear: all NATO allies are aware that the beast also needs to take control of the Western Balkans and we want, through concrete and viable measures to help those countries survive. “
Today’s talks focused on Bosnia, as well as the former Soviet republics of Moldova and Georgia, either of which have breakaway regions occupied by Russian troops.
Mr. Reinsalu continued: “The central point of gravity for those nations, for Moldova, for Georgia, is of course [the] outcome of this war. This is of existential importance for their territorial integrity, their long-term right to their path of life. “
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg added to this, saying that countries will have to be supported now.
“They are affected by Russian influence on other tactics [towards Ukraine], but now they see developments that surely go in the wrong direction, as we saw with the invasion of Ukraine earlier this year. “
European leaders worry that countries on the southern and eastern fringes of the continent will lose patience while waiting for the EU-NATO club, which may lead to instability, as well as efforts by Russia and China to gain influence.
Bosnian Foreign Minister Bisera Turkovic, who was invited to attend the NATO meeting, expressed fear about Russia’s intentions for her country, warning: “We have Russian representatives in our government and the department in our country is deep. “
The United States has accused the Russian president of civilians in Ukraine, saying he has directed his “fire and anger” at the general population.
U. S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said more than a third of Ukraine’s energy formula had been bombed, affecting its water and electricity supply.
Speaking after a NATO meeting in Bucharest, he said: “These are President Putin’s new goals. It hits them hard.
“Their strategy hasn’t worked and it may not work. “
Ukraine is struggling to continue supplying its citizens with electricity and water, while Russia continues to target electricity infrastructure.
The highest-level face-to-face contact between the United States and Russia since the war began took place earlier this month, where they discussed nuclear issues, he revealed.
Russian intelligence leader Sergei Naryshkin in an interview he met with CIA Director William Burns on November 14.
Russia has yet to comment on what was discussed, the United States said Mr Burns had warned Russia that it opposed the use of nuclear weapons.
Elizabeth Rood of the U. S. Embassy in Moscow told Russian news firm RIA this week that Mr. Burns “didn’t negotiate anything and didn’t talk about a deal of the confrontation in Ukraine. “
Naryshkin now showed this to RIA, noting that the most commonly used words in the assembly were “strategic stability,” “nuclear safety,” “Ukraine,” and “Kyiv regime. “
It also showed that either country has a channel to handle the dangers and that it would be imaginable that some other similar verbal exchange could take a stand in the future.