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news of the day
Strategic objective of Moscow, Severodonetsk is invaded by the Russian army. According to the regional governor, “the Russians continue their assault and consolidate their positions in the center” of this Donbass city.
The fighting, too intense, prevents the evacuation of civilians, which made the governor say that there is “now no possibility of leaving” the city. Monday, in this area, the French journalist Frederic Leclerc-Imhoffwho was accompanying a humanitarian vehicle evacuating residents, was killed.
sentence of the day
“Please don’t use wheat, a staple food, as a weapon of war!” »
Le pape Francis called on Wednesday to end the blocking of exports of cereals Ukraine, defending the “universal right to food” and rejecting the use of wheat as a “weapon of war”. “The blocking of grain exports from Ukraine, on which the lives of millions of people depend, especially in the poorest countries, is very worrying,” he said.
The number of the day
27,6 %. It was the decline in exports of russian gas over a year. “Exports to far-abroad countries stood at 61 billion cubic meters, down 27.6% (23.2 billion cubic meters) from the same period of 2021,” the giant said. Russian Gazprom.
The trend of the day
The tension continues to mount between the UNITED STATES and Russia. This Wednesday, the Kremlin accused Washington of “throwing oil on the fire”. This statement follows the promise of Joe Biden to deliver to kyiv “more advanced missile systems and ammunition that will allow them to more accurately hit key targets on the battlefield”.
According to a senior official of the White House, these are Himars systems (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System), multiple rocket launchers mounted on light armored vehicles, with a range of around 80 kilometres. No delivery date has been specified.
“The line of the United States is to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian. [Ce qui] does not encourage peace negotiations”, regretted the spokesman of the Russian presidency, Dmitry Peskov. “Any delivery of weapons which continues, which increases, reinforces the risk” of a military confrontation between the United States and Russia, added the deputy minister of Russian diplomacy Sergey Riabkov.
