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- A Frenchman was killed “in fights” in Ukraine, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced today. Neither the identity of the “combatant who left as a volunteer” nor the place where he died have been communicated.
- The European Union has banned most Russian oil imports with an embargo within six months, in its sixth package of sanctions against Moscow to dry up funding for the war against Ukraine, after arduous negotiations due to pressure from Hungary.
- In a short video broadcast on instagramthe President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky says: “Victory will be ours. » “State officials have been here, defending Ukraine for 100 days”he says in this thirty-six-second video, filming himself in front of the presidential administration building in kyiv alongside his prime minister, Denys Chmyhal, and the leader of the presidential party, David Arakhamia.
- The Kremlin felt it had fulfilled ” some ” of its objectives after a hundred days of offensive against Ukraine, judging that “many localities” had been “liberated”. “This work will continue, until all the objectives of the special military operation are fulfilled”Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
- The Luhansk region would be at 90% under control of Russia, according to British Ministry of Defense.
- Sievierodonetsk crystallizes the attention of Moscow. “The most difficult situation” concerns Luhansk, one of the two regions of Donbass, recalled the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces, Valeri Zalouzhny. Sievierodonetsk, the administrative capital of the region, is “80% occupied” by Russian forces and fighting rages in the streets, Luhansk region governor Serhi Haidai said.
- Sloviansk residents called to evacuate. Russian pressure also remains significant on Donetsk, the other Donbass region, in particular Sloviansk, some 80 kilometers west of Sievierodonetsk.
- The President of Senegal and the African Union “reassured” of his meeting with the Russian President. Macky Sall found Vladimir Putin “committed and aware that the crisis and the sanctions create serious problems for weak economies, such as African economies”.
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