June 9, 2022 8:25 p.m
Mattarella: “The EU takes the same approach to war as to Covid”
The European Union and the Commission must try to follow the same approach used for post-Covid initiatives, also to try to find all the tools to solve the many problems arising from the crisis between Russia and Ukraine result. As far as we know, Sergio Mattarella said this during the approximately 50-minute interview with Ursula von der Leyen in the Quirinale.
June 9, 2022 20:24
Western sources: “Up to 20,000 Russian soldiers killed”
“As many as 20,000” Russian soldiers may have died in the roughly three and a half months since the invasion of Ukraine began. This was stated by Western government sources quoted by the British media in London today, taking both the figure of 31,700 deaths mentioned by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy yesterday and – apparently – the trend indicated a few weeks ago by British intelligence itself , accredited a figure of at least 15,000 soldiers and officers killed among Moscow forces in mid-April. Sources cited today also now acknowledge the “very heavy casualties” suffered by Kyiv’s forces at this stage. Insisting on outlining a Russian offensive seriously “troubled” by problems at various levels, but not without acknowledging that Moscow – although beginning to “lack some precision weapons” – still has a vast arsenal of “free-fall bombs”. (Dumb Bombs).
June 9, 2022 8:19 p.m
Bloomberg: “EU may grant candidate status to Ukraine next week”
The EU Commission could give Ukraine the green light for EU candidate status next week. This is what Bloomberg reports, citing sources close to the dossier, according to which the recommendation, which will include the approval of the European executive, will arrive at the table of the College of Commissioners next week. The green light is subject to a number of conditions related to the rule of law and anti-corruption legislation in Ukraine. If the Commission adopts the recommendation, its positive opinion on Ukraine’s candidacy will be presented at the European summit at the end of June.
June 9, 2022 7:40 p.m
Media: “In April, 42,000 inquiries to the Kremlin about missing soldiers”
In April, the Kremlin received nearly 42,000 requests for information on soldiers missing or captured in Ukraine from their friends or family members. This was reported by the Russian research portal IStories, quoted by the Moscow Times, stating that there is no evidence of how many of these reports were checked or received a response. The last official Moscow toll dates back to March 25 and affected 1,351 fallen soldiers.
June 9, 2022 5:39 p.m
Briton convicted, Minister Truss: “farce trial”
Foreign Office proprietor Liz Truss expressed “total condemnation” for the death sentence imposed on Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner, the two former British soldiers identified by a court as “mercenaries” in the service of the Kyiv armed forces became. “pro-Russians” who keep them in eastern Ukraine”. “They are prisoners of war, charged in a sham trial that has absolutely no legitimacy,” stressed Foreign Secretary in Boris Johnson’s government: “My thoughts are with them and their families, we will continue to do whatever we can to support them”.
June 9, 2022 5:17 p.m
Filorussi: “No communication about mercenaries from London and Rabat”
there Donetsk People’s Republic (Dpr) has received no communications from the UK and Morocco about the three ‘mercenaries’ sentenced to death. That’s what Denis Pushilin, head of the DPR, said, reports Tass.
June 9, 2022 5:12 p.m
Filorussi: “One month to the mercenaries for the vocation”
The three British and Moroccan “mercenaries” are sentenced to death by the self-proclaimed woman Donetsk People’s Republic You have one month to appeal. This was announced by the pro-Russian authorities in Donetsk, reports Tass.
June 9, 2022 5:11 p.m
Johnson: “Brits are prisoners of war”
The government of Boris Johnson it is “deep concerned“For the death sentence imposed by a court of the self-proclaimed pro-Russian Republic of Donetsk on two British ‘mercenaries’ and a Moroccan comrade. “We have said repeatedly that they are prisoners of war, that they should not be exploited for political purposes and that they have done it right to immunity under the Geneva Convention,” commented a Downing Street spokesman. Not without adding that London continues to “work with the Ukrainian authorities to ensure that any British citizen called up to serve in the Kiev Armed Forces is treated as a prisoner of war”.
June 9, 2022 4:55 p.m
Filorussi: “Mercenaries can ask for forgiveness”
The British and Moroccan “mercenaries” sentenced to death by the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic did right to ask for forgiveness. This was announced by the separatist court pro-russianaccording to reports from Tass.
June 9, 2022 4:43 p.m
Mercenary Families: “Illegal Conviction”
The families of the two former British soldiers, who were sentenced to death as first-degree mercenaries by a court in the self-proclaimed Donetsk Republic, denounced the trial as a mock fight.in violation of the Geneva Convention“About prisoners of war. The Guardian reports on it.
While former Tory minister Robert Jensick, a member of the college of one of the two, accused “the Russian authorities” of having exploited his capture “in a totally shameful way” and “insulting international law”. But he still hopes they could be the subject of a prisoner swap “in the near future.”