En un hecho histórico, Ucrania ha legalizado el cannabis medicinal como resultado de una votación parlamentaria, con 248 diputados a favor. La legislación, que entrará en vigor en el segundo semestre de 2024, regula estrictamente el uso del cannabis con fines médicos, industriales y científicos.
4,300 tonnes of fuel oil and possibly other oil products are now being spilled into the waters of the Kerch Strait (connecting the Black Sea and Azov Sea) due to 2 fuel tankers hit by the storm. Both Russian tankers were on the way to deliver fuel for the Russian navy with the Marine Traffic location system being switched off for 12 days – Greenpeace Ukraine.
En la última actualización de la contraofensiva ucraniana del 5 de diciembre (edición Europa), se confirma la muerte del general de división Vladimir Zavadsky, del 14º Cuerpo de Ejército de la Flota del Norte rusa, posiblemente por sus propias minas terrestres. Las fuerzas ucranianas atacan depósitos de petróleo y munición rusos.
Al parecer, drones kamikazes rusos han entrado en el espacio aéreo ucraniano, según las Fuerzas Aéreas de Ucrania. Se han observado varios grupos de UAV de ataque sobre varias provincias ucranianas, lo que supone una amenaza para regiones como Poltava, Kirovohrad, Kharkiv, Kherson y Mykolaiv.
Today marks the solemn 90th anniversary of the Holodomor-Genocide of 1932–1933, a harrowing chapter in Ukrainian history orchestrated by Stalin’s totalitarian regime. Renowned Polish lawyer Rafał Lemkin, a pioneer in genocide recognition, delivered a poignant speech in 1953.
Ukraine has repatriated 1002 children from the temporarily occupied territories and Russia, largely thanks to international assistance. Attempts to locate approximately 19,000 forcibly relocated children continue, according to Ukrainian Human Rights Commissioner, Dmytro Lubinets.
During the 8th Ukrainian Women’s Congress in Kyiv, the First Lady of Ukraine, Olena Zelenska noted that 59% of businesses founded in Ukraine in 2024 were started by women. The participants discussed how women’s potential helps to overcome war-related challenges and how it essential this will be in Ukraine’s future reconstruction and modernization.
A further 160,000 people are to be drafted into the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which will raise the manning of units to 85%, National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksandr Lytvynenko said during a session of the Ukrainian parliament. According to Lytvynenko, 1,000,050 citizens have been drafted into the military so far since the beginning of martial law.
Ukraine’s population has declined by 10 million, or around a quarter, since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion as a result of refugees leaving the country along with collapsing fertility and war deaths. This was confirmed by Florence Bauer, the Eastern Europe head at the UN Population Fund, who said at a Geneva news conference that the invasion had caused an already difficult demographic situation into something more severe.
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