2023-06-12 18:00:23
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COUNTEROFFENSIVE
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said Monday he hoped a successful Ukrainian counter-offensive once morest Russian forces would force Vladimir Putin to negotiate.
“A successful counter-offensive might do two things: it would strengthen (Ukraine’s) position at the negotiating table and it might have the effect of finally getting Putin to negotiate an end to this war he has started,” he said.
FLOOD ASSESSMENT
According to a new report, this Monday evening, ten people died and 41 disappeared in the floods following the explosion of the Kakhovka dam, assures kyiv.
“We are at ten dead in Kherson and its region… We also have 41 missing,” Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko announced on the social network Telegram.
POUTINE IN A HOSPITAL
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, according to the Kremlin, visited wounded servicemen in Ukraine, presenting some with decorations.
“Vladimir Putin presented decorations to military personnel and discussed with them,” the Kremlin said in its brief statement.
According to the state-run Tass news agency, he was accompanied by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
PRISONER EXCHANGE
Volodymyr Zelensky released a video on Monday recounting a recent exchange of Russian and Ukrainian prisoners. “Each time we bring back our men from Russian captivity, we remember our fundamental objective: we will not leave any of our men, nothing from Ukraine, to the enemy”, assures the Ukrainian president. “Yesterday we brought back another 95 of our men, our warriors, from captivity. In total, since February 24 last year, we have already returned 2,526 Ukrainians,” he adds.
UKRAINIAN OFFENSIVES
The Russian army assures on Monday that it has repelled three offensives in the south-east of Ukraine, not far from where kyiv has claimed the resumption of several villages in recent hours. Captures and a possible withdrawal of its troops that the Russian Ministry of Defense is careful not to mention in its press release, without denying or confirming.
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It’s climbing’s turn to initiate a return of Russians and Belarusians: the international federation (IFSC) announced on Monday the reinstatement from 2024 and under a neutral banner of climbers from the two countries, banned since February 2022 due to the war in Ukraine.
Entering the Olympic program at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and also scheduled for the Paris 2024 Olympics, the discipline joins the ten Olympic sports that followed the recommendation issued in March by the International Olympic Committee, in the name of non-discrimination of athletes and the separation between sport and politics.
NATO AIR EXERCISES
NATO began on Monday its most important exercise of aerial maneuvers intended to show, by a show of force in central and eastern Europe, the unity of its members, in particular in the face of potential threats from Russia, in the midst of the war in Ukraine.
“The most important signal we send is that we are able to defend ourselves,” the head of the German air force, the Luftwaffe, General Ingo Gerhartz, told public television ZDF. the country coordinates the exercise.
DEATH OF BERLUSCONI, A FRIEND OF PUTIN
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi died on Monday June 12, 2023 at the age of 86. “Il Cavaliere” was close to Vladimir Putin, with whom he went on vacation. He had defended his ties with the Russian president, despite the invasion of Ukraine.
COUNTER-OFFENSIVE IN UKRAINE
Russia claims that kyiv has launched the counter-offensive, explaining that Ukrainian losses are already massive. Zelensky remains more vague on the operations in progress.
A VILLAGE TRANSFORMED INTO AN ISLAND
kyiv and Moscow accuse each other of blowing up the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam, causing the Dnieper to rise and flood the entire region. Most of the population chose not to evacuate. LCI was able to reach a locality that has become an island since the disaster.
POINT POSITION
Ukraine announced the reconquest on Sunday of three villages in the eastern region of Donetsk. The toll of human losses caused by floods following the destruction of a hydroelectric dam in Kakhovka has been revised upwards. Back to the highlights of the last 24 hours.
“FIRST RESULTS” OF THE COUNTER-OFFENSIVE
Ukraine announced the reconquest this Sunday of three villages in the eastern region of Donetsk. These are the first territorial gains obtained following the “counter-offensive actions” mentioned by President Volodymyr Zelensky.
BRUNO TERTRAIS
“The idea of Ukraine joining NATO was already mentioned in 2008, it’s not new. We can’t say that the allies were in a hurry and that’s normal: we don’t do not give this kind of commitment lightly”, recalled this Monday on LCI Bruno Tertrais, doctor of political science, deputy director of the Foundation for Strategic Research.
BRUNO TERTRAIS
“The counter-offensive has actually started a long time ago and will continue for a long time to come,” Bruno Tertrais, doctor of political science, deputy director of the Foundation for Strategic Research, told LCI on Monday.
LEOPARD 2 TANK DESTROYED BY RUSSIA
The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs published this Saturday a video of several Western armored vehicles stopped. Among the identifiable machines, a Leopard 2 tank of German design and American Bradleys. The images are genuine, but don’t actually mean much.
RETURN TO COMBAT OF THE UKRAINIAN INFANTRY
Ukrainian troops whose American-made Bradley armored vehicles were damaged or destroyed in an assault on Russian positions last week pledged on Sunday to resume combat soon.
A group of Ukrainian Bradley fighting vehicles backed by German-made Leopard tanks came under fire on Wednesday as the 47th Brigade launched an offensive southeast of Zaporizhia.
Footage of the ambush, provided by drones and broadcast on Russian propaganda channels, showed several vehicles hit.
UKRAINE ANNOUNCES THE RECONQUEST OF THREE VILLAGES
Ukraine announced the reconquest on Sunday of three villages in the eastern region of Donetsk, the first territorial gains obtained following the “counter-offensive actions” mentioned the day before by President Volodymyr Zelensky.
At the same time, three people were killed and at least 23 others injured in Russian fire on civilians evacuated, including in boats, from flooded areas in southern Ukrainian territory due to the destruction of a dam earlier this week, local authorities said.
On the eastern front, “the glorious soldiers of the 68th brigade (…) liberated the locality of Blagodatné”, which had less than 1,000 inhabitants before the war, said the Ukrainian land forces. All accompanied by a video showing soldiers with a Ukrainian flag in a destroyed building.
KIM JONG UN’S “TOTAL SUPPORT” FOR PUTIN
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gave Pyongyang “full support” to Moscow in a message to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, state media reported. Mr. Kim sent a message of congratulations to his counterpart on the occasion of the national holiday of Russia, one of the few allied countries of Pyongyang.
The statement published by the North Korean news agency KCNA does not expressly mention the invasion of Ukraine or Moscow’s involvement in an armed conflict, but praises the “good decision and leadership of Mr. Putin (.. .) to thwart growing threats from hostile forces”.
BONJOUR
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