Cover image: Screen capture from a video published by the press service of Yevgeny Prigozhin, Friday March 3, 2023. PA
- “Don’t panic”: Ukraine wants to reassure about the risks of a nuclear incident. The Ukrainian Ministry of Health wanted to reassure after Volodymyr Zelensky’s statement accusing Russia of preparing a “terrorist attack” at the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, occupied by Russian troops since March 2022.
- Russia ‘significantly’ expands list of EU officials banned from entering Russia. The Russian ministry announced that the people targeted, in response to the latest European sanctions, were members of security services, political or parliamentary institutions in Europe.
- The Russian army is retreating in several sectors of southern and eastern Ukraine, the head of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said on Friday, contradicting the Kremlin, which ensures for its part that the counter-offensive of kyiv is a failure. “There is no control, there are no military successes” of Moscow, Mr. Prigozhin insisted.
- The Ukrainian Air Force claimed on Friday morning that it shot down thirteen Russian cruise missiles during the night targeting a military airfield in the west of the country.
- kyiv has also reported advances in the south, where its troops are experiencing “a partial success”, according to a Ukrainian military spokesman, Andriï Kovalyov. In the east, the Ukrainian army “continues to contain the offensive of Russian troops”and “particularly difficult fights continue”he added.
- The kyiv army’s counter-offensive, which began on June 4, is making progress “slower than expected”admitted Volodymyr Zelensky, in an interview published on Wednesday on the site of the British channel BBC. If the first days of the counter-offensive allowed the Kiev army to recover a handful of villages and around 100 square kilometers of territory, progress has since slowed down. According to military analysts, the Ukrainians have reconquered only 15 square kilometers since their first advances.
- ” Whether [Vladimir Poutine] calls me to propose something, I will take it, because France has always been a facilitating and mediating power”assured Emmanuel Macron Friday morning on Franceinfo, RFI and France 24. But “the resumption of dialogue is only possible if there is respect for international lawwhich is the only one that allows us to live in peace”nuanced the head of state.
- NATO completed its largest air maneuvers exercise on Friday, intended to show the unity of its members, especially in the face of potential threats from Russia. Up to 10,000 people participated in these exercises aimed at strengthening interoperability and protection against drone and cruise missile attacks.
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