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- In the Donbass, Russian forces continue their offensive, with particularly intense fighting around Izium, Lyman and Rubizhne. As May 9 approaches, the day in Russia of the victory over Nazi Germany, the governor of the Luhansk region said he expected “an intensification of the bombings”.
- Asked about Russian claims that the war is aimed at “denazify” Ukraine while President Zelensky is Jewish, Sergei Lavrov caused an outcry affirming : “I could be wrong, but Hitler also had Jewish blood. » His Israeli counterpart, Yair Lapid, judged these remarks “scandalous, unforgivable”denounced “a horrible historical error”and summoned the Russian ambassador to “clarification”.
- All day Monday, the Ukrainian authorities hoped to be able to resume the evacuations of civilians from Mariupol, which began this weekend with the exit of a hundred people from the huge Azovstal steelworks. But the convoys chartered by Unicef and several NGOs were slow to arrive Monday evening in Zaporijia, a city under Ukrainian control some 200 kilometers to the northwest.
- Odessaa Russian-speaking Black Sea port considered a major cultural center by Ukrainians and Russians alike, was again the target of Russian bombardments on Monday.
- The Europeans are working to toughen their sanctions economics against Moscow. The ministers of energy of the Twenty-Seven evoked Monday, in Brussels, a timetable for the gradual cessation of their imports of Russian oil, which represent 30% of their oil imports. The EU reiterated on this occasion its refusal to pay in rubles for its purchases of Russian gas. Tuesday, May 3, new Russian banks should be excluded from the Swift payment system, announced the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell. Finally, a contract with the Russian group Rosatom to build a nuclear reactor in northern Finland has been cancelled.
Read all our articles, analyzes and reports on the war in Ukraine
Maintenance. “The war in Ukraine is a media war with ‘human faces’”, for historian and media sociologist Isabelle Veyrat-Masson.
Report. In Lithuania, a Russian train under close surveillance.
Decryptions. In Donbass, “the dice are far from cast, but the hot and dry weather for a week favors the Russian offensive”.
Report. Poland: in Konin, a “Place of kindness” for Ukrainian refugees.
Grandstand. “Let’s guarantee that Russia will pay for the reconstruction of Ukraine”
Report. The war in Ukraine is tearing Bulgaria apart
Cards. Day after day, the war in Ukraine in cards
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