what to remember on the 283rd day of the russian invasion

Vladimir Putin will go to the Donbass “in due time”, the Kremlin said on Saturday, while the Russian president has not yet visited this area of ​​​​eastern Ukraine which he annexed at the end of September, without however, his army does not fully control it.

“In due time, of course, (such a visit) will happen. This is a region of Russia,” Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters when asked about a possible upcoming move. Mr. Putin in the Donbass.

Russia ‘won’t accept’ oil price cap

Russia said on Saturday that it “will not accept” a cap on the price of its oil after the European Union, the G7 and Australia agreed the day before on such a mechanism which could limit the means of Moscow to finance its offensive in Ukraine.

“We will not accept this ceiling,” Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. However, he said that Moscow had “prepared” upstream “for such a ceiling”, without giving further details.

Attempted theft of a work attributed to Banksy in the suburbs of kyiv

Ukrainian police managed to thwart an attempted theft on Friday of a work attributed to the famous British artist Banksy, painted with stencils in the suburbs of kyiv, local authorities announced. “(Friday) in Gostomel, a group of people tried to steal a Banksy drawing. They cut the work (made) on the wall of a house destroyed by the Russians”, announced the governor of the region of kyiv, Oleksiï Kouleba, in a press release published on Telegram.

His social media post was accompanied by a photo showing a wall with part of the exterior cladding, orange paint, cut away. This is where an individual wearing a gas mask, standing on a chair, had been stencilled. According to Mr. Kouleba, “several people were arrested on the spot” by the Ukrainian police and “the drawing is in good condition and is in the hands of the police”.

kyiv region police chief Andrii Nebitov said in a separate statement that “eight people have been identified”. “All are between 27 and 60 years old. They are residents of kyiv and Cherkassy”, a city located 200 km southeast of the capital, he detailed on Telegram, adding that “a preliminary investigation for property damage had been opened”.

The Ukrainian authorities call on the population to “hold on” in the face of regular power cuts

The Ukrainian authorities on Saturday called on the population to “hold on” in the face of the power cuts which now punctuate their daily lives following Russian strikes in recent weeks which have largely damaged the national electricity grid. “From Monday, I will demand that Oblenergo (an operator) review the timetables for the region. Most likely there will be four-hour stops,” the governor of the Mykolaiv region (south) said on Telegram. Vitali Kim.

He described a “rising consumption” of electricity, which he said must require longer interruptions in order to relieve the regional electricity network. “We have to hold on,” he told the inhabitants of his region.

Russia has massively bombed Ukrainian energy facilities since October, causing severe damage and leading to power cuts that affect millions of Ukrainians, plunged into darkness and cold every day. On the military ground, the fighting is “tough” in the east of the country because “the Russians have had time to prepare” for the attacks in kyiv, the governor of the Lugansk region, Serguiï Gaïdaï, told Ukrainian television. .

“The Ukrainian armed forces are slowly pushing through the Russian (defense) towards Svatové-Kreminna,” he noted, however, without giving further details.