The essentials of July 14 in the morning
Emmanuel Macron considers an “adjustment” of the army budget in 2025 “necessary” due to the “rapprochement of threats”
During his traditional address to the armies on the eve of July 14, the President of the Republic said: ” necessary “ Saturday one “adjustment” of the defense budget in 2025. “The acceleration of time, the coming together of threats indeed imposes new adjustments. This is why I ask you to continue to draw the consequences of the war as it will be tomorrow and not as we imagined it yesterday, and to prepare an adjustment of our military programming for 2025”declared the head of state.
Russia claims control of Ourozhaine in Donetsk Oblast
Vladimir Rogovan official of the Russian administration in the Zaporizhia region,TASS agency as well as a blogger pro-Ukrainian claim, with video evidence, that the Russian army has entered Urozhaine, on the border between the Donetsk and Zaporizhia oblasts.
At least five civilians killed in Russian strikes on Ukraine
At least five civilians were killed by Russian fire in the Ukrainian regions of Kharkiv and Kherson on Saturday, local authorities said.
Two Russian naval vessels in China for joint military exercises
Two Russian warships have arrived in the southern Chinese port of Zhanjiang to take part in joint naval exercises, the Russian Defense Ministry said Saturday. China and Russia have grown closer since the start of Russia’s offensive in Ukraine in 2022, and both countries claim a “limitless friendship”cemented in particular by their desire to reduce the influence of the United States, and of the West in general, in international affairs.
Pyongyang rejects NATO accusations of alleged arms shipments to Moscow
North Korea has “denounced as firmly as possible” And “rejected” NATO’s joint statement condemning alleged arms shipments by Pyongyang to its Russian ally, the North’s official news agency reported on Saturday, July 13.
US missiles in Germany: European capitals could become targets for Russia, Kremlin warns
The decision to deploy long-range U.S. missiles in Germany, announced this week, could make European capitals targets for Russian missiles and victims of a confrontation between Washington and Moscow, the Kremlin spokesman said Saturday. Dmitry Peskov.
Russian oil depot catches fire after drone attack
A Ukrainian drone caused a fire at an oil depot in the Rostov region in southern Russia, several hundred kilometres from the front line, on the night of Friday to Saturday.
Volodymyr Zelensky calls Joe Biden’s gaffe a ‘mistake’ he can ‘forget’
“The United States has been very supportive of the Ukrainians”the Ukrainian president stressed from Shannon airport in western Ireland.
Australia accuses Russia of ‘spying here and around the world’
After a 40-year-old woman and her 62-year-old husband – both with Russian passports – were charged with attempted espionage, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Russia had not “no credibility”accusing Moscow of engaging in “spying here and around the world”.
Russian MPs now have to justify their trips abroad
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed on Saturday a law allowing the dismissal of deputies and senators who leave the country without authorization, reports the official news agency RIA NovostiThis would prevent Russian MPs from being detained abroad, following an Interpol warrant following a decision by the Ukrainian courts.