kyiv estimates its military losses at around 10,000 soldiers

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Cover image: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after a joint press conference with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, June 11. Natasha Pisarenko / AP

  • At 108e day of war, deadly fighting rages in southern and eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian forces said on Friday that they had shelled Russian positions in the Kherson region (south), almost all of which has been occupied since the first days of the invasion. kyiv fears a rapid annexation by Moscow. To the East, ” Russia wants to destroy every city in Donbass, every one, without exaggeration”, declared, in the evening, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky.
  • US President Joe Biden said on Friday that his Ukrainian counterpart had not wanted to hear the American warnings before the invasion of his country by Russia. “A lot of people thought I was exaggerating” referring to a Russian attack on Ukraine before it started, Biden said.
  • France has declared its readiness to participate in the lifting of the blockade of the Ukrainian port of Odessain order to get cereals out of Ukraine, the blockage of which is causing a world food crisis.
  • Emmanuel Macron’s belated and highly anticipated visit to Ukraine in kyiv may well be taking shape. The head of state is expected Tuesday in Romania and Wednesday in Moldova, neighboring countries of Ukraine.
  • The leaders of nine Central and Eastern European countries – Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania and Slovakia – met in Bucharest, Romania on Friday to demand a reinforcement of NATO’s eastern flank in the face of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.

Find our live from yesterday here.

Read all our articles, analyzes and reports on the war in Ukraine

Maintenance. Iryna Vereshchuk, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine: “Civilians are being used as hostages” by Moscow

Narrative. Tribute in Paris to journalist Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff, killed while reporting on a humanitarian convoy

Decryptions. The hypothesis of a visit by Emmanuel Macron to Ukraine becomes clearer

Chat. Yohanna Michel: “In Ukraine as elsewhere, it is the combination of weapons and effects that makes the difference”

To analyse. In central Europe, generosity towards Ukrainian refugees is waning

Investigation. The exorbitant ecological cost of wars, a political misconception

Critical. From ” clown “ Russian-speaking to the adored politician, two books look at the metamorphosis of Volodymyr Zelensky

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