Today, on the occasion of the six months of this conflict, Le Monde is organizing two chats in which you can participate:
At 10am, with Vincent Tourret from the Strategic Research Foundation and Rémy Ourdan, journalist at Le Monde, on the state of the armed forces after six months of war.
At 2 p.m. with Emmanuel Grynszpan, journalist at Le Monde, and Benoît Chareyron, nuclear physics engineer and director of the Criirad Laboratory (Commission for Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity), on the case of the Zaporijia nuclear power plant.
- Ukraine famous, under the bombs, National Independence Day, Wednesday, exactly six months to the day after Russia began invading the country. Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned against “repulsive Russian provocations and brutal beatings”.
- Western leaders continued to strongly condemn the Russian offensive on Tuesday and rejected in advance the annexation referendums that Moscow wants to organize in the occupied territories. french president, Emmanuel Macron called on the international community to show “no weakness, no spirit of compromise” towards Russia.
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy promised to restore Ukrainian sovereignty in CrimeaAnnexed by Russia in 2014 to restore ‘world public order’.
- The United States will announce about $3 billion in new military aid on Wednesday (3 billion euros after August 24 price) to Ukraine. This will be the largest package of American military aid since the beginning of the war, allowing Kyiv to purchase new weapons or fund training or operations.
- Moscow and Kyiv again blamed each other Tuesday at a Security Council meeting Zaporizhia nuclear power plantwhile the UN General Secretariat asked them to halt all military activity around the site.
- In The Field, since the withdrawal of russian troops from near Kyiv at the end of march Most of the fighting was concentrated in the east – where Moscow was slowly gaining ground before the front froze – and in the south – where the Ukrainian troops say they are launching a counter-offensive, which is also very slow.
You can find our live from yesterday here.
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