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The Kremlin on Monday mentioned it was not searching for a change of presidency in Ukraine.

When requested by a reporter if one of many targets of a “special military operation” was regime change in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov replied:

No [it is not], the president has already spoken about this.

The Kremlin has shifted its acknowledged targets in Ukraine all through the battle.

When Putin introduced his “special military operation”, he mentioned in a speech that his nation’s purpose was to “demilitarise and denazify Ukraine,” indicating his maximalist targets on this warfare: toppling the federal government of Ukraine’s elected president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

However, as Russia’s invasion faltered, Putin dramatically scaled again his ambitions, declaring his purpose in Ukraine to be the “liberation of Donbas”.

Over the previous few weeks, the Kremlin has repeatedly mentioned that its targets in Ukraine may be achieved by negotiations.

Other senior Russian officers, nonetheless, have continued to push for regime change in Ukraine. Earlier this month, former president Dmitry Medvedev mentioned Moscow ought to “completely dismantle” Ukraine’s political regime.

The time in Kyiv is 1pm. Here is a round-up of the day’s foremost tales thus far:

• Ukraine’s SBU safety service and police raided a 1,000-year-old Orthodox Christian monastery in Kyiv early on Tuesday as a part of operations to counter suspected “subversive activities by Russian special services”, the SBU mentioned. The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra complicated that was raided is a Ukrainian cultural treasure and the headquarters of the Russian-backed wing of the Ukrainian Orthodox church generally known as the Moscow Patriarchate, Reuters reported.

• Ukrainians are more likely to reside with blackouts at the least till the top of March, the pinnacle of a significant power supplier mentioned on Monday, as the federal government began free evacuations for folks in Kherson to different areas. Half of Ukraine’s power infrastructure had been broken by Russian assaults, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy mentioned, leaving thousands and thousands of individuals with out electrical energy and water as winter units in and temperatures drop under freezing.

• Russian shelling hit a humanitarian help distribution centre within the city of Orihiv in south-eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, killing a volunteer and wounding two ladies, the regional governor mentioned. Oleksandr Starukh, governor of the Zaporizhzhia area, gave no additional particulars of the assault on Orihiv, about 70 miles east of the positioning of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy station which has been shelled previously few days.

• Russians have murdered, tortured and kidnapped Ukrainians in a scientific sample that would implicate prime officers in warfare crimes, the US state division’s ambassador for international felony justice mentioned Monday. There is mounting proof that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “has been accompanied by systemic war crimes committed in every region where Russian forces have been deployed”, mentioned the US ambassador at giant, Beth Van Schaack.

• The Ukrainian authorities has been providing folks within the just lately liberated metropolis of Kherson, which stays principally with out electrical energy and working water, free evacuations to areas with higher infrastructure, in addition to free lodging. “Given the difficult security situation in the city and infrastructure problems, you can evacuate for the winter to safer regions of the country,” the deputy prime minister, Iryna Vereshchuk, mentioned on the Telegram messaging app.

• Russia has reiterated that it isn’t searching for a change of presidency in Ukraine. The Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, mentioned his nation “does not intend the ‘special operation’ to change the government in Ukraine”, Sky News experiences.

• The Kremlin mentioned that no substantive progress had been made in the direction of making a safety zone across the Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant in southeastern Ukraine. Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant, which Russia seized shortly after its invasion, was rocked by shelling on Sunday, drawing condemnation from the UN nuclear watchdog which mentioned such assaults risked a significant catastrophe.

• The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, will in coming days meet the moms of troopers amid fierce combating in Ukraine, the Vedomosti newspaper reported, citing three unidentified sources within the presidential administration. Russia celebrates Mother’s Day on 27 November. The Kremlin has not formally introduced any Putin conferences with troopers’ moms.

• Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, will quickly have the ability to add New Zealand to the checklist of parliaments he has addressed, after Wellington agreed to a request to take action. The prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, mentioned the federal government had agreed to the request from the Canberra-based Ukrainian embassy, which serves each international locations.

• Ukraine is to evacuate civilians from just lately liberated areas of the Kherson and Mykolaiv areas. Residents of the 2 southern areas have been advised to maneuver to safer areas within the central and western components of the nation, amid fears that the harm to infrastructure brought on by the warfare is simply too extreme for folks to endure the winter.

• The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that Ukraine’s well being system is “facing its darkest days in the war so far”. The WHO regional director for Europe, Dr Hans Henri P Kluge, referred to as for a “humanitarian health corridor” to be created to all areas of Ukraine newly recaptured by Kyiv, in addition to these occupied by Russian forces.

• Russian troops have been accused of burning our bodies at a landfill on the sting of Kherson throughout their occupation. Residents and staff on the web site told the Guardian they noticed Russian open vans arriving to the positioning carrying black baggage that have been then set on fireplace, filling the air with a big cloud of smoke and a stench of burning flesh.

That’s it from me, Tom Ambrose, in the interim. I’ll be again at 2pm UK time however my colleague Léonie Chao-Fong will probably be alongside shortly to carry you all the newest information from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Russia has reiterated that it isn’t searching for a change of presidency in Ukraine.

The Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, mentioned his nation “does not intend the ‘special operation’ to change the government in Ukraine”, Sky News experiences.

A reporter requested Peskov if one of many targets of the “special military operation” was regime change in Ukraine.

“No [it is not], the president has already spoken about this,” Peskov replied.

This is in distinction to the start of the invasion in February, when Moscow had gave the impression to be aiming to overthrow the Ukrainian authorities and set up a Russia-friendly regime.

Ukraine’s SBU safety service and police raided a 1,000-year-old Orthodox Christian monastery in Kyiv early on Tuesday as a part of operations to counter suspected “subversive activities by Russian special services”, the SBU mentioned.

The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra complicated that was raided is a Ukrainian cultural treasure and the headquarters of the Russian-backed wing of the Ukrainian Orthodox church generally known as the Moscow Patriarchate, Reuters reported.

“These measures are being taken … as part of the systemic work of the SBU to counter the destructive activities of Russian special services in Ukraine,” the Security Service of Ukraine mentioned in an announcement.

It mentioned the search was aimed toward stopping the usage of the cave monastery as “the centre of the Russian world” and carried out to look into suspicions “about the use of the premises … for sheltering sabotage and reconnaissance groups, foreign citizens, weapons storage”.

The SBU didn’t say what the results of the raid was. The Moscow Patriarchate didn’t instantly remark.

In May, the Ukrainian Orthodox church of the Moscow Patriarchate ended its ties with the Russian church over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and condemned the help of Patriarch Kirill, the pinnacle of Russia’s church, for what Moscow calls its “special military operation”.

Russians have murdered, tortured and kidnapped Ukrainians in a scientific sample that would implicate prime officers in warfare crimes, the US state division’s ambassador for international felony justice mentioned Monday.

There is mounting proof that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “has been accompanied by systemic war crimes committed in every region where Russian forces have been deployed”, mentioned ambassador at giant Beth Van Schaack.

Evidence from liberated areas signifies “deliberate, indiscriminate and disproportionate” assaults towards civilian populations, custodial abuses of civilians and POWs, forceful removing, or filtration, of Ukrainian residents – together with kids – to Russia, and execution-like murders and sexual violence, she instructed reporters.

“When we’re seeing such systemic acts, including the creation of a vast filtration network, it’s very hard to imagine how these crimes could be committed without responsibility going all the way up the chain of command,” she mentioned.

Van Schaack represents the US to international our bodies investigating warfare crimes and different atrocities, and referred to as the present state of affairs a “new Nuremberg moment”, a reference to the warfare crimes trials held within the German metropolis on the finish of the second world warfare.

She mentioned in a briefing for reporters that Russia’s nine-month-old assault on Ukraine has sparked an “unprecedented array of accountability initiatives”, involving quite a few our bodies, together with the worldwide felony court docket in The Hague.

The our bodies are coordinating to develop priorities and approaches “under all available jurisdictional bases”, she mentioned.

Van Schaack declined to say particularly if the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, might be prosecuted for warfare crimes in Ukraine.

But she mentioned prosecutors will “follow the evidence where it leads”.

Under worldwide regulation, the doctrine of superior duty permits for prosecutions “to go all the way up the chain of command”, she mentioned.

She additionally mentioned that rights officers are wanting carefully at a video that emerged over the weekend that implies Ukrainian troops might have killed Russian prisoners of warfare.

Ukrainians are more than likely to reside with blackouts at the least till the top of March, the pinnacle of a significant power supplier mentioned on Monday, as the federal government began free evacuations for folks in Kherson to different areas.

Half of Ukraine’s power infrastructure has been broken by Russian assaults, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy mentioned, leaving thousands and thousands of individuals with out electrical energy and water as winter units in and temperatures drop under freezing.

Sergey Kovalenko, head of the YASNO main non-public power supplier for Kyiv, mentioned that staff are speeding to finish repairs earlier than the winter chilly arrives.

“I would like everyone to understand: Ukrainians will most likely live with blackouts until at least the end of March,” Kovalenko mentioned in a put up on his Facebook web page. He added:

The primary situation is that if there are not any new assaults on the facility grid, then underneath present circumstances of electrical energy era, the facility deficit might be evenly distributed throughout the nation. This means the outages will probably be in all places however much less lasting.

There are additionally completely different forecasts of the event of this case, they usually utterly rely upon assaults Russia.”

Hello and welcome to our reside protection of the warfare in Ukraine. My identify is Helen Sullivan and I’ll be bringing you the newest for the following whereas.

Ukrainians are more than likely to reside with blackouts at the least till the top of March, the pinnacle of a significant power supplier mentioned late on Monday.

Sergey Kovalenko, head of the YASNO main non-public power supplier for Kyiv, mentioned that staff are speeding to finish repairs earlier than the winter chilly arrives.

“I would like everyone to understand: Ukrainians will most likely live with blackouts until at least the end of March,” Kovalenko mentioned in a put up on his Facebook web page.

More on this quickly. In the meantime, listed below are the important thing current developments:

• Ukraine is to evacuate civilians from just lately liberated areas of the Kherson and Mykolaiv areas. Residents of the 2 southern areas have been advised to maneuver to safer areas within the central and western components of the nation, amid fears that the harm to infrastructure brought on by the warfare is simply too extreme for folks to endure the winter.

• The Kremlin said it was involved by what it claimed to be Ukrainian shelling of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant, which is underneath Russian management. Yuriy Sak, an adviser to Ukraine’s defence minister, countered that the shelling of the Zaporizhzhia plant was a Russian tactic aiming to disrupt energy provides and “freeze Ukrainians to death”. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, appealed to Nato members to ensure the safety of his nation’s nuclear energy vegetation from “Russian sabotage”.

• The UN nuclear watchdog was to conduct an evaluation of the Zaporizhzhia plant on Monday. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) mentioned the forces behind its shelling have been “playing with fire” and such assaults risked a significant catastrophe.

• The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that Ukraine’s well being system is “facing its darkest days in the war so far”. WHO regional director for Europe, Dr Hans Henri P Kluge, referred to as for a “humanitarian health corridor” to be created to all areas of Ukraine newly recaptured by Kyiv, in addition to these occupied by Russian forces.

• Ukraine’s prosecutor basic workplace has mentioned its officers have recognized 4 places the place Russian forces tortured detainees in Kherson metropolis. It said Russian forces “set up pseudo-law enforcement agencies” in pre-trial detention centres and a police station earlier than troops withdrew from the southern Ukrainian metropolis.

• Russian troops have been accused of burning our bodies at a landfill on the sting of Kherson throughout their occupation. Residents and staff on the web site told the Guardian they noticed Russian open vans arriving to the positioning carrying black baggage that have been then set on fireplace, filling the air with a big cloud of smoke and a stench of burning flesh.