Cover image: A burnt building in the city of Izioum in the Kharkiv region, taken over a few days ago by the Ukrainian army. September 13, 2022. HANDOUT / AFP
- Olaf Scholz spoke with Vladimir Putin and asked him “full withdrawal” Russian forces. The German leader has “insisted with the Russian president that a diplomatic solution be found as soon as possible”according to a statement from the Chancellery.
- The United States has called “change of momentum” the dynamics of the Ukrainian army announcing new military aid “in the next few days”. “I let President Zelensky (…) decide if he feels he has reached a turning point militarily, but clearly, at least in Donbass (eastern Ukraine), there is momentum”said John Kirby, spokesman for the National Security Council attached to US President Joe Biden.
- The Ukrainian army took over almost 6,000 square kilometers of territory controlled by Russian forces. “Since the beginning of September, our soldiers have already liberated 6,000 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory in the east and south, and we are still moving forward”Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday, September 12, in a video released on the Facebook social network. The kyiv army announces “twenty localities” times in twenty-four hours.
- “It is too early to say exactly where all this will lead us”tempered the head of American diplomacy, Anthony Blinkenduring a visit to Mexico City. “We are in the early days [de la contre-offensive], so I think it wouldn’t be good to predict exactly where this is all going to take us. »
- Ukrainian local authorities have reported Russian strikes on several strategic infrastructures of the countryprovoking power outages in Kharkiv, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Dnipro and Sumy oblasts. “No military installation was touched, Mr. Zelensky said.
- Of the “thousands” people have left the Kharkiv regiontheater of the Ukrainian counter-offensive, for Russia in twenty-four hours, said Viatcheslav Gladkov, the governor of the Russian oblast of Belgorod, bordering Ukraine.
- The Russian President, Vladimir Poutinewarned on Sunday against the “catastrophic consequences” what could the “regular Ukrainian attacks” on the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant complex in a telephone interview with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron. The latter replied that “Russian Occupation” was “the cause of the risks” weighing on Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, and demanded that it remove all Russian weapons.
- Ukrainian operator Energoatom announced to have shut down the last reactor still in operation at the plant, which produced the electricity needed to cool the nuclear fuel and to provide site security. This decision was taken after the restoration, Saturday evening, of the power supply outside the plant.
- The France and the Romania are going to sign, Monday, a agreement to facilitate the export of grain from Ukraine by land, announced on Sunday, the Minister Delegate for Transport, Clément Beaune, on France Inter. These cereals will go “to Europe and to developing countries, particularly in the Mediterranean, which need it for food and almost survival reasons”added the Minister.
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