You missed the last events of the war in Ukraine ? Do not panic, 20 Minutes takes stock for you every evening at 7:30 p.m. Who did what ? Who said what? Where are we ? The answer below:
news of the day
The fighting did not decrease in intensity this Wednesday in Ukraine with the start of the battle for control of Kharkiv, the second largest city in the country. During the night, Russian airborne troops landed. Shelling and fighting took place all day. “There is no longer an area in Kharkiv where an artillery shell has not yet struck,” said Anton Gerashchenko, adviser to the Ukrainian interior minister, as apartment buildings and the city council were hit by missiles.
Elsewhere in the country, the town of Zhytomyr, regarding two hours west of Kiev, was hit by shelling overnight. The Russian army also claimed to have seized the Ukrainian port city of Kherson in the south of the country. In the north, the mayor of Konotop said Moscow’s soldiers offered him an ultimatum: deliver the city or see it destroyed by the Russians.
sentence of the day
“They have the order to erase our history, to erase our country, to erase us all”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky regarding the Russian army.
The number of the day
194,715. The European reference price for natural gas, the Dutch TTF, soared on Wednesday to 194.715 euros per megawatt hour (MWh). A historic record that can be explained by the fact that Russia is the EU’s main gas supplier.
The trend of the day
The West continues to threaten the Russianew sanctions in an attempt to end the fighting. This Wednesday, the UN General Assembly was to vote on a draft resolution condemning Russia for the invasion of Ukraine and asking for an “immediate” withdrawal of its troops. For his part, Joe Biden assures that “nothing is excluded” regarding a stoppage of Russian oil purchases.
While the number of Ukrainian refugees jumped 200,000 in twenty-four hourstalks for a ceasefire will be on the agenda Thursday in Belarus, where the Ukrainian delegation is expected.
