11:05
North Macedonia donates 12 helicopters to Ukraine
The General Staff of North Macedonia will propose to the government to donate to Ukraine 12 M-12 helicopters that were bought in Kiev a few years ago and are no longer used in Skopje, reports the daily Sloboden Pecat.
According to North Macedonian Defense Minister Slavjanka Petrovska, these helicopters are “at the end of their service” and should have been destroyed at some point.
10:37
Actor Orlando Bloom visits Kyiv
The British actor announces on his Instagram account that in recent days he has made his first trip to Ukraine since 2016 as Unicef Ambassador.
He explains that the center for children he attended was built deep in the Kiev metro to ensure their safety.
10:09 a.m
Putin insists and signs against the West, refuting any military alliance with China
Asked about the all-time news channel Rossiya 24, Vladimir Putin insists that there is “nothing mysterious” about Sino-Russian cooperation. “Russia does not enter into any military alliance with China and does not threaten any country,” claims the Russian president, quoted by the RIA Novosti agency.
According to him, “the West is beginning to build a new axis similar to that built by the fascist regimes of Germany and Italy and militarist Japan in the 1930s.”
09:46
Two dead and one injured in Donetsk Oblast
According to the region’s governor Pavlo Kyrylenko, two people were killed yesterday in Pivnichne and Chasiv Yar. Another civilian was injured in Avdiivka, he adds on Telegram.
09:27
“You have to assume that you want Russia to lose,” says Garry Kasparov
In a long interview with our newspaper, the former world chess champion and bitter opponent of Vladimir Putin calls on Western countries to support Ukraine until it wins. And do not fool ourselves about the real possibilities of negotiation with the master of the Kremlin.
“Propaganda is constantly spreading fake news, fake maps, fake reports. The only way to convince them otherwise is for Ukraine to start accumulating victories,” assures the man who, according to Moscow, is now a “foreign agent”.
(LP/Rodin Banica)
09:10
More than 170,000 Russian soldiers were killed, according to the Ukrainian army
The Ukrainian General Staff, in its daily update, argues that 170,550 Russian soldiers have been killed since the conflict began, 660 of them in the last 24 hours, without this information being able to be independently verified.
The Army also claims to have disabled a total of nearly 3,600 armored vehicles.
08:47
Russia ‘took Belarus nuclear hostage’, Kyiv condemns
Following yesterday’s decision by Vladimir Putin to station “tactical” nuclear weapons in Belarus, Kiev has reacted by deploring a “hostage situation” in Minsk, a staunch Moscow ally.
“This is a step towards internal destabilization of the country,” says Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council.
08:29
Germany is preparing to expel 30 Russian diplomats
According to the German weekly Focus, Interior Minister Nancy Feser wants to take action against Russian spies.
His colleague at the Foreign Office, Annalena Baerbock, plans to expel more than 30 Russian diplomats accredited in Berlin.
These envoys from Moscow would use their diplomatic immunity to illegally recruit German informants, authorities said.
08:12
The Ukrainian General Staff takes stock of yesterday
The Ukrainian army carried out 11 attacks on Russian positions on Saturday and shot down two enemy drones, according to the General Staff’s daily situation report published on Facebook.
At the same time, Russian troops launched 34 airstrikes and 4 rocket attacks on Ukrainian territory, Kiev claims.
07:53
For General Yakovlev, Putin is using the nuclear threat given his troubles
“It proves that he is in a bad way. The specter of nuclear power is raised every time,” explains General Michel Yakovlev, guest of franceinfo.
In particular, he recalls that “Bachmout is a battle without a strategic objective” and whatever the outcome of this battle, “there is one last town”.
07:26
IAEA chief will visit Zaporizhia in the coming days
Rafael Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), will travel to the nuclear power plant in Zaporijjia “next week”, the organization announces on its website.
A visit, the exact date of which has not been given, but which aims to “assess the serious situation regarding nuclear safety and security at the facility and to underline the urgent need to protect it during the ongoing military conflict in the country” . .
07:24
Russia deploys “tactical” nuclear weapons in Belarus
The Russian president also said that Moscow will deploy “tactical” nuclear weapons on the territory of its ally Belarus, a country on the doorstep of the European Union.
“There is nothing unusual here: the United States has been doing this for decades. They have long stationed their tactical nuclear weapons on the territory of their allies,” he said in an interview broadcast on Russian television. “We agreed to do the same. »
07:24
Putin threatens to use depleted uranium shells
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday threatened to use depleted uranium shells in Ukraine if Kiev received them from Westerners, a British official recently pointed out.
“Of course, Russia has something to answer for. Without exaggeration, we have hundreds of thousands of such shells. We don’t use them at the moment, ”explains the Russian President during a TV interview.
(Gavriil GRIGOROV / SPUTNIK / AFP)
07:23
Hello and welcome to our live
Welcome to our live dedicated to the news about the war in Ukraine on the 396th day of the war. We will follow together the latest information on the course of the conflict.