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The South African government is investigating how more than a dozen men unwittingly ended up on the front line in Russia’s war on Ukraine.
In Russia, a major oil terminal near the port of Novorossiysk stopped operations Saturday after a strike by unmanned boats damaged one of its three mooring points, according to a statement from the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, or CPC, which owns the terminal.
One attack this past spring illustrates what investigators describe as Russia's strategy: On Palm Sunday, Russian missile strikes killed 35 civilians.
The trip to Moscow is the second since last year for Orbán, who is widely considered Putin’s closest partner among all EU leaders. Hungary is one of only a few EU countries to continue importing large quantities of Russian fossil fuels, and Orbán has strongly opposed efforts by the bloc to wean its 27 member nations off Russian energy supplies.
The Russian economy will be able to finance the war against Ukraine at its current level of intensity for two more years, provided that China continues supporting it by purchasing its oil, according to the former presidential economic adviser Oleh Ustenko.
One of former South African President Jacob Zuma’s daughters resigned as a national lawmaker following a report that she had recruited young men to serve in Russian forces in its war against Ukraine.
Ukrainian Youth and Sports Minister Matviy Bidnyi told CNN Sports that it’s “too early” to speak about Russian and Belarusian athletes competing under their nations’ flags at next year’s Winter Olympics,
Russian drones and missiles attacked districts of Kyiv early on Saturday (November 29), killing one person and injuring 11, officials said, with explosions and falling drone debris triggering fires. It was the second attack on the Ukrainian capital over four days.