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Doors may have slammed this Friday at the G20 summit in Bali. Probably those of the morning meeting, when German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock criticized Moscow over the war in Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov then left without further ado. He later shunned the session in which Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba spoke online.
It must be said that the tone has ( once more) gone up a notch between Westerners and Russia on the occasion of this major international meeting. Antony Blinken refused to meet his Russian counterpart separately and denounced the responsibility of Russia in the food crises and energy, before discussing a new Russian “aggression” in Ukraine. For his part, the head of Russian diplomacy criticized Western countries for instrumentalizing the G20 arena rather than discussing major global issues.
The phrase
His grain is not your grain
“To our Russian colleagues: Ukraine is not your country. His grain is not your grain. Why are you blocking ports? You should let out the grain “, Launched the American Secretary of State Antony Blinken to his Russian counterpart during the closed-door discussions of the G20 in Bali.
The number
Sept Years in prison were pronounced once morest the Muscovite municipal elected official, Alexeï Gorinov, for having “disseminated clearly false information” on the Russian army. This 60-year-old Russian has never ceased to denounce the war waged by Russia. The day before his conviction, he had pronounced these last words: “War is the most rapid instrument of dehumanization of man. When the line between good and evil blurs, the result is always death. I will not accept it. »
The trend of the day
Despite an “operational pause” that began since the capture of the strategic town of Lyssytchansk on July 3, Russian troops continue their offensives on the Donbass in order to seize the province of Donetsk. These are “limited ground offensives and air, artillery and missile strikes on all axes”, according to the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW). “There is a realistic possibility that Siversk (located regarding 8 km west of the current Russian front line) is Russia’s immediate tactical objective,” the UK MoD said.
In the northeast, in the Kharkiv region, Russian bombing killed four civilians and injured nine in 24 hours, Governor Oleg Sinegoubov said. In the South West, “Ukrainian forces continued to gradually advance in the Kherson sector”, according to the British Ministry of Defence.
