War in Ukraine, live: Russia will continue military operation in the east of the country

Presented live by Solène L’Hénoret

Cover photo: A rescue worker clears the debris of a destroyed school after an attack in Kharkiv, eastern Ukraine, July 4, 2022. EVGENIY MALOLETKA / AP

• This was announced by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Sunday evening Withdrawal from the city of Lysychansk, at the heart of the fierce fighting of recent weeks, the recognition of the “superiority” of Russian troops on the ground. Russia, for its part, announced the “liberation of the Lugansk People’s Republic”. “.
• In Sloviansk, a city of about 100,000 before the war, six people, including a 9-year-old girl, died in Russian strikes on Sunday. Ukrainian authorities are now urging residents to evacuate the region while the frontline is just a few kilometers away.
• In Siversk, some twenty kilometers west of Lyssytchansk, the Ukrainian forces appear to want to rely on a defensive line between that town and Bakhmout to protect Sloviansk and Kramatorsk. In recent days, the inhabitants have been conjuring up increasingly violent bomb attacks.
• in his speech Sunday evening, Volodymyr Zelenskyy tried to put on a good show by insisting on the other front lines, where Kyiv claims to be making “progress”, in the Kharkov or Kherson regions. “A day will come when we will say the same about Donbass,” he assured.
• The Lugano ConferencePlanned long before Russia invaded Ukraine at the end of February, Monday and Tuesday will try to draw the contours of the reconstruction of Ukraine. The foundations for a “Marshall Plan” for Ukraine must be laid there, even if there is no end in sight to the war and the figures are between ten and one hundred billion dollars. British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will present a comprehensive plan to help London’s rebuilding in Lugano on Monday.
• The International Olympic Committee will triple its direct financial support to Ukrainian athletes IOC President Thomas Bach announced on Sunday that they could “hoist their flag high” during the 2024 Paris Games and then the 2026 Winter Games. He also confirmed the ban of Russian and Belarusian athletes from all international sporting events.

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