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news of the day
A responsable Russian accused Ukraine of carrying out a helicopter attack on an “oil depot” in the western Russian city of Belgorod, regarding 40 kilometers from the Ukrainian border on Friday.
“It is clear that we cannot consider this as something that will create the appropriate conditions for the continuation of negotiations”, reacted Dmitry Peskov, spokesperson for the Russian presidency. On his side, Kiev refused to confirm the strike.
sentence of the day
“If confirmed, beating and shooting captured combatants in the legs would constitute a war crime”
L’ONG Human Rights Watch called on Ukrainian authorities to investigate potential “war crimes” once morest Russian prisoners following footage emerged that appeared to show Ukrainian soldiers shooting them in the legs.
The number of the day
7,5 %. The rate d’inflation in the euro zone broke a new record in March, at 7.5% over one year, according to Eurostat, while the war in Ukraine has further accelerated the rise in energy prices.
The trend of the day
The talks Russian-Ukrainians aiming to end the conflict resumed this Friday by videoconference, according to the negotiator of the Kremlin Vladimir Medinsky. Ukraine is still waiting for a “real response to the proposals that were made in Istanbul” earlier this week.
kyiv had notably proposed the neutrality of Ukraine and to give up joining l’Otanprovided that its security is guaranteed by other countries once morest Russia. Moscow had promised to reduce its military activity in the country to concentrate on the Donbass but fighting and bombardments continue to rage.
A bog down of the Russian forces seems however to be confirmed on the military ground. In the kyiv region, the villages of Sloboda and Lukashivka were taken over by Ukrainian troops. As for the East, “Russian forces have failed to take any territory for twenty-four hours,” according to the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW).
