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10:35 p.m.: The waves, like a weapon of war. In the Kharkiv region of Ukraine, Russian soldiers hacked into a local radio station to broadcast propaganda in Ukrainian. In this report, our journalist Mathilde Dehimi met the audience, who discovered the rose pot. Example of misinformation broadcast: “The target [de Kiev] is to manufacture and use biological weapons and create new strains of the virus outside of Ukraine, with support from the United States.”
9 p.m.: A new freight train has derailed after an explosion on the tracks in Russia’s Bryansk region. “An unidentified explosive device detonated near Sneetskaya train station,” the governor of this border region with Ukraine said the day after a similar derailment in the same area. “The incident resulted in the derailment of a locomotive and several wagons,” he said.
7:14 p.m .: Artillery attacks in the Kherson region killed three people and injured five others, the local prosecutor said on Telegram. Ukrainian justice says homes and businesses were affected.
7:14 p.m.: May 9, celebrated as “Victory Day” against Nazi Germany in Russia, will not go as planned in several parts of the country. The governors of six of them have announced the cancellation of traditional parades due to security concerns, the Guardian reports.
5:09 p.m .: While Russia’s offensive in Ukraine has increased concerns about the future of the Baltic states, Denmark has announced that it will send a NATO battalion to Latvia next year. He will also have the role of defending Estonia and Lithuania “in case of a crisis situation”.
2:31 p.m .: Have 20,000 Russians really been killed and 80,000 injured in Ukraine in the last five months? The Kremlin rejects the US intelligence estimate previously mentioned by the Guardian. An estimate “from scratch,” says the Russian Council Presidency, quoted by the British daily.
12:21 p.m.: The International Judo Federation (IJF) announces that it has withdrawn eight names from Russia’s proposed delegation for the World Championships, which begin in Qatar on Saturday. Russians and Belarusians are allowed to attend under a neutral banner (in response, Ukraine is boycotting the event), but the IFJ had announced it would exclude anyone who would “express support or opinions on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.” She did not specify the identities of the eight excluded and the reasons for this decision.
11:15 am: She holds up an anti-war sign on Russian television. Marina Ovsiannikova explains her gesture to France Inter. “I wanted to destroy the Kremlin’s propaganda,” asserts this dissident journalist.
(FRANCE INTER / RADIO FRANCE)
10.01 a.m .: “The Russian attempt to launch an offensive in the Donbass, mainly in Bakhmout, has failed. (…) Russia has failed to take control of really strategically important areas.”
10:00 a.m.: More than 20,000 Russian soldiers have been killed and more than 80,000 injured in Ukraine in the past five months, according to a US intelligence estimate reported by the Guardian. Most of the deaths occurred in the battle for Bakhmut in Donbass.
7.39 a.m .: Dmitry Medvedev has been intensifying hateful attacks against Ukraine and western countries for a year. But the former Russian president is primarily looking for influence and credibility. I’m going to tell you what this former liberal figure-turned-Kremlin hawk plays.
(YEKATERINA SHTUKINA/SPUTNIK VIA AFP)
6:48 a.m.: Justin Trudeau and Volodymyr Zelensky will continue their long-standing collaborative program. “Canada will continue to provide them with military, humanitarian and financial assistance,” affirmed Canada’s prime minister, who pledged to help “Ukraine for as long as necessary.”
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