- On the seventeenth day of the war in Ukraine, pressure is growing on Kiev. According to CNN, explosions were heard overnight from Friday to Saturday from the capital. The Russian army is operating on several fronts: it is continuing its bombardment campaign, including in the towns of Ivano-Frankivsk and Dnipro which have been spared so far, and the humanitarian situation is becoming critical in several towns such as Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy or Mykolaiv.
- The very rare information emanating from the port of Mariupol, on the Sea of Azov, where communications are almost cut off, tell of the despair of the inhabitants. The city is without water, without gas, without electricity and soon without food. The situation is there “desperate”according to MSF.
- The mayor of Melitopol was kidnapped on Friday by Russian soldiers occupying the southern Ukrainian town, Ukrainian officials said. President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced “a crime once morest democracy”.
- the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights confirmed the death of 549 civilians in Ukraine since the launch of the Russian military offensive on February 24. The OHCHR says the invasion left at least 957 injured.
- If the Twenty-Seven closed the door on Friday to Ukraine’s rapid accession, they sought to reassure it at the end of the Versailles summit, which brought together European heads of state and government. Main concrete gesture: they decided to double, to bring it to 1 billion euros, the envelope intended to finance the delivery of arms to Ukraine in order to help it resist the attacks of the Russian army.
- While claiming to be concerned to avoid a “direct confrontation” between the Atlantic Alliance and Russia, because it would cause ” The Third world war “, Joe Biden, together with the European Union, showed himself, on Friday, eager to banish Russia from international trade. In particular, the American president decreed a ban on imports of “key sectors of the Russian economy” like “seafood, vodka and diamonds”. In the process, the United States and the EU have banned exports to Russia of luxury items.
Read all our articles, analyzes and reports on the war in Ukraine:
Reportage. Mykolaiv in the darkness of war
Story. At the origins of the war in Ukraine, twenty years of Russian propaganda in the Donbass
Decryptions. The fear of war is spreading to Eastern and Northern Europe
Story. Russia recruits Syrian mercenaries
Podcast. The battle of gas and oil
Decryptions. War in Ukraine: global food security alert
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