Dans un geste historique, l'Ukraine a légalisé le cannabis médical à la suite d'un vote parlementaire, 248 députés s'étant prononcés en faveur de cette mesure. La législation, qui devrait entrer en vigueur au second semestre 2024, réglemente strictement l'utilisation du cannabis à des fins médicales, industrielles et scientifiques.
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.
Dans la dernière mise à jour de la contre-offensive ukrainienne en date du 5 décembre (édition Europe), la mort du général de division Vladimir Zavadsky du 14e corps d'armée de la flotte russe du Nord a été confirmée, peut-être par ses propres mines terrestres. Les forces ukrainiennes frappent des dépôts de pétrole et des munitions russes.
Des drones kamikazes russes auraient pénétré dans l'espace aérien ukrainien, selon l'armée de l'air ukrainienne. Plusieurs groupes de drones d'attaque ont été observés au-dessus de divers oblasts ukrainiens, constituant une menace pour des régions telles que Poltava, Kirovohrad, Kharkiv, Kherson et Mykolaiv.
Aujourd'hui marque le 90e anniversaire solennel de l'Holodomor, le génocide de 1932-1933, un chapitre déchirant de l'histoire de l'Ukraine orchestré par le régime totalitaire de Staline. Le célèbre avocat polonais Rafał Lemkin, pionnier de la reconnaissance des génocides, a prononcé un discours poignant en 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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