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Wednesday March 22, 2023
21:15
NO CHINESE ARMS DELIVERIES
China has not yet crossed the line in supplying lethal weapons to Russia in the midst of the war in Ukraine, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday. “To date, we haven’t seen them cross that line,” he told a Senate committee in Washington.
For several weeks, American diplomacy has been exerting intense diplomatic pressure on China to prevent it from delivering critical military equipment to Moscow, which is embroiled in the Ukraine conflict.
In mid-February, Washington announced that China was considering such an option, and there were reports of small shipments from Chinese companies to Moscow.
19:30
ZELENSKY PROMISES AN ANSWER
Ukraine “will respond to any Russian attacks,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday night after a drone strike by Moscow that killed at least seven people in the Kiev region and a strike against a building in Zaporizhia (middle-east).
“We will answer the occupiers with certainty to any attacks on our cities (…) All Russian strikes will receive a military, political and legal response,” he assured in his daily address to those from a trip near Bakhmout at the front, then in Kharkiv (northeast).
17:44
ICRC CARE
The International Committee of the Red Cross said humanitarian needs continued to mount near Bakhmout, where fighting between the Ukrainian army and Russian forces has been raging for several months. In a statement, the ICRC said it was “deeply concerned” by the situation.
17:18
ICC REJECTS RUSSIAN “THREATS”.
The International Criminal Court has dismissed “threats” and announced actions against its prosecutor and the judges involved in issuing an arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin for war crimes during the Russian invasion.
The Presidency of the Assembly of States Parties to the Court, which is its legislative body, “deplores these attempts to hamper international efforts to ensure accountability for acts prohibited by general international law,” it said in a press release.
17:08
SWEDEN CONFIRMS ITS NATO MEMBERSHIP
Sweden’s parliament has approved the Nordic country’s entry into NATO in advance, despite the blockade by Turkey and delays by Hungary in giving the necessary green lights. The Riksdag deputies voted 269 in favor of a text authorizing Sweden’s entry into the military alliance, with 37 against.
The approval expected due to the support of most parties has no effect for Sweden for the time being. No date has been set by Budapest and its nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, while Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reiterated Turkey’s refusal to see Stockholm as NATO’s 32nd member.
16:11
NO ARMS DELIVERIES FROM CHINA TO RUSSIA “YET”
In response to a question during a Senate hearing in Washington, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said China has not yet “crossed the line” in supplying lethal weapons to Russia amid the war in Ukraine. “To date, we have not seen them cross that line,” the US Secretary of State said.
15:38
411 BILLIONS FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF UKRAINE
Ukraine will need $411 billion for its recovery and reconstruction after the first year of conflict caused by the Russian invasion, which began on February 24, 2022, according to a statement released today by the World Bank (WB), the UN and the United Nations European Union published estimate Union and the Ukrainian government.
As fighting continues, these organizations and institutions also anticipate an immediate need of $14 billion this year to make “critical and priority investments” to begin recovery.
13:53
COMBAT AIRCRAFT IN UKRAINE
Slovakia has secured an arms offer worth more than $1 billion at a reduced price from the United States in compensation for its thirteen MiG-29 fighters promised to Ukraine.
“The value of this material is just over a billion dollars… Slovakia would pay around $340 million,” Slovak Defense Minister Jaroslav Nad said on Facebook, adding that the US bid in exchange for “13 old MiGs and a part of which” was offered the air defense system”.
13:25
“NO NUCLEAR ESCALADE”, RETORKS LONDON
For London, the UK’s decision to supply Ukraine with depleted uranium tank shells does not mean a “nuclear escalation”. Quoted in the press, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverley stated that these munitions were not “nuclear”. “This is purely conventional ammunition (…) So there is no nuclear escalation. The only country in the world that is talking about nuclear issues is Russia.”
13:23
RISK OF A “SERIOUS” AGGRAVATION OF CONFLICT
The head of Russian diplomacy has warned of a possible delivery of depleted uranium ammunition through London to Ukraine. This trace, recently mentioned by a British official, would represent a “serious aggravation” of the conflict, Sergei Lavrov said during a press conference in Sochi, southern Russia, noting in particular the consequences for the population’s health. and a risk of soil contamination.
13:17
Air defense over Moscow
Russia will modernize the capital’s anti-aircraft defenses, according to an announcement by the Russian Defense Minister. “This year we will complete the modernization of Moscow’s missile defense system,” he promised, according to the Russian news agency TASS.
13:13
ZELENSKY ACCUSES MOSCOW OF TARGETING ‘COMMON PEOPLE’
In response to the Russian attacks on Zaporizhia, the Ukrainian president accused his neighbor of targeting residential areas “where ordinary people and children live”. He demanded that this situation in Ukraine not become “one day like the other” and urged the world to “show greater determination to defeat Moscow”.
13:09
A DEATH IN SAPORISIA
One person died from his injuries after strikes hit buildings in Zaporizhia, the city council secretary claims on Telegram.
“Unfortunately, one injured person who was in serious condition died,” he wrote, adding that 25 people are currently being hospitalized, including three “in serious condition.”
13:05
18 INJURED IN SAPORISIA
18 people were injured during a strike at a building in Zaporizhia, including two children aged 7 and 9, the city council secretary said. On Telegram he states that among them four people were hospitalized in “serious condition”.
12:40 p.m
ZELENSKY ON THE FRONT NEAR BAKHMOUT
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy this morning visited his armies near Bakhmout in the Donbass region, the epicenter of fighting in the east of the country. “Front line positions of Ukrainian military towards Bakhmout. It is an honor for me to be there today and to decorate our heroes,” wrote the President of Ukraine in a message published on the social network Telegram.
The Kyiv Post also published a photo of Volodymyr Zelenskyy in front of his troops.
11:48
CIVIL HOUSES AFFECTED
A BBC News correspondent released video of several buildings hit by Russian strikes this morning and described a “hell” in Zaporizhia. “This is how Putin says he is not at war with Ukrainian civilians,” she added wryly in a tweet.
11:21
ZAPORIJIA UNDER RUSSIAN STRIKES
Andriy Yermak, head of Ukraine’s presidential office, says Zaporizhia is being “bombed” by Russia. As a reminder, this oblast is one of the regions part of which was illegally annexed by Moscow last year.
Specifically, “residential buildings” and the “island of Chortytsia” would be attacked. Journalists from Ukrainian TV Suspilne have reported at least three rounds of explosions in the city since this morning.
11:06
CHINA-RUSSIA SUMMIT
The Kremlin said it was not surprised by the “hostile” reaction from Western countries following the day before the Russo-Chinese summit where Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping demonstrated their alliance amid the Ukraine conflict.
“As for the reaction of the countries of the collective West, the fact that their reaction to all questions was unfriendly and hostile is not new to anyone,” said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
11:04
FOUR DEATHS IN Kyiv REGION
The death toll in the drone attack in the Kiev region has risen to four, according to Ukrainian public television. The media say an 11-year-old child is one of the seven injured.
09:55
RADIO HACKS IN CRIMEA?
Several radio stations in Crimea have been hacked, reports the Ria Novosti news agency. Several local Sevastopol-based broadcasters have therefore sent false alarms to residents with evacuation orders after Ukrainian hackers hacked their radio waves.
“After we managed to repel the drone attack on Sevastopol, Ukrainian Nazis launched an information attack,” Governor Mikhail Razvojayev wrote on Telegram.
09:43
AUDITORS
A “parliamentary inquiry” conducted by the Duma would have “fully confirmed that US and NATO military facilities in the form of biological laboratories have been established in Ukraine.” Conclusions that have gone viral, particularly from Vladimir Soloviev, the Kremlin’s chief propagandist.
In reality, these allegations, which Moscow has been waving for years, are not based on solid evidence. Below is a summary of what we know on the subject ↓
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Posted on October 28, 2022 at 1:21 p.m
09:33
MOSCOW AGAIN ACCUSED OF WAR CRIMES
In a report on the bombing of a building in Izium in March 2022, the NGO Human Rights Watch accused Russia of having “violated the laws of war” again. By analyzing testimonies, photos, videos and creating a 3D model of the affected building, the NGO claims to have “not found any evidence that the Ukrainian Armed Forces used this building for military purposes at the time”.
As a reminder, this attack, which took place on March 9, hit a building with dozens of civilians sheltering in the basement, killing 44 people.
09:15
PUTIN IS NOT INTERESTED IN PEACE
US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink responded to the drone strike that hit the Kiev suburbs. She, too, joked about the timing of these strikes, which take place the day after the meeting between Xi Jinping and Putin. “From everything that was said in Moscow yesterday, new Russian missiles and fresh drone strikes on civilians overnight clearly show President Putin’s interest in a just peace or an end to the war that ‘triggered’ it.”
09:00
POINT POSITION
It’s 9 a.m., an opportunity to look back on the main events of the last 24 hours of the conflict.
08:50
THREE DEAD IN Kyiv
Here are the photos taken by the emergency services after the Russian strike in the Kiev suburbs. The strike hit a high school in Rjychtchiv, a town about 80 kilometers south of Kiev, DSNS said. The attack “destroyed” two floors of two dormitories for high school students and a building where they studied, according to the same source.
The fire that broke out on the site, which affected more than 300 square meters, was extinguished shortly before 7 a.m., the DSNS specifies.
08:48
THREE DEAD IN Kyiv
The State Emergency Service (DSNS) released more details about the drone attack in the Kyiv region. Rescue services confirmed on Twitter that three people were killed in an attack on a vocational school. In addition to these victims, “there are believed to be four people under the rubble.”
08:30
HEADING FOR A RETREAT IN BAKHMUT?
The Russian attack on Bakhmout could lose momentum, the British Ministry of Defense says. In its daily bulletin of British intelligence information, the fighting may be declining in intensity after “some units were reassigned to other sectors”.
08:19
Zelenskyy TESTS THOSE WHO SPEAK OF “PEACE”.
On Twitter, the President of Ukraine reminded that every time “someone tries to hear the word ‘peace’ in Moscow, a new order for such criminal strikes is issued,” and condemned the attack by 20 drones in the night.
08:16
“NIGHT OF TERROR” IN UKRAINE
Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that “more than 20 Iranian-made Shahed-136/131 combat drones” attacked Ukraine overnight. The Armed Forces General Staff states that air defenses knocked down most of the targets.
A total of 21 drones were launched from Russia’s Bryansk region in northern Ukraine. 16 of these planes were shot down by the Ukrainian air defense, the Air Force said in a telegram.
07:45
THREE DEAD IN Kyiv
Three people died and seven others were injured in a “nighttime” drone attack on a “civilian compound,” the military administration of the Kyiv region said, without giving further details.
07:32
WE CONCLUSION
As Xi Jinping left Moscow this morning, our local correspondent looks back at what to remember from that visit, during which the two leaders showed their understanding ↓.
Putin and Xi Jinping agreeSource: TF1 Info
07:07
XI JINPING LEAVES MOSCOW
The Chinese President left Moscow this morning after his two-day trip to Russia focused on strengthening ties with his counterpart Vladimir Putin, according to Russian state agency Tass. On the occasion of this departure, “a solemn ceremony was held at the airport,” specifies the agency. The Chinese leader’s plane left Vnukovo Airport after being greeted by an honor guard who played the Russian and Chinese national anthems.
07:01
DRONE ATTACK ON SEVASTOPOL
The Russian Navy “repelled” a drone attack on the port of Sevastopol, says Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev. “The windows of several buildings in the city were smashed after the blasts,” authorities in the Moscow-annexed city said.
“They tried to enter our bay, our sailors shot at them with handguns. Air defense worked too,” added the Russian-installed governor.
06:58
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