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- For granting its status as a candidate for membership of the European Union, Kyiv can count on the support of Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who on Wednesday called on European leaders to “live up to their historic responsibility”. Volodymyr Zelenskyy will continue his “telephone marathon” with European leaders on Thursday to reach a yes consensus. From 11 a.m., Olivier Costa, political scientist and expert in the European Parliament, will answer your questions.
- The European summit must be followed by another G7 and a third by NATO, which will be attended by the President of the United States, Joe Biden. The issue of financial aid to Kyiv should be the focus of discussions at these three meetings. From Berlin on Wednesday, Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for a “Marshall Plan” for the reconstruction of Ukraine with a budget of several billion euros. The White House stressed that Volodymyr Zelenskyy will intervene virtually at these two meetings.
- Russian forces continue to tighten their grip on the twin cities of Lysychansk and Sievierodonetsk in Donbass. The Ukrainian resistance nest around these two strategic industrial cities is increasingly surrounded by the Russians. “They want to destroy the whole Donbass step by step. Fully. Lysychansk, Sloviansk, Kramatorsk… They want to turn all cities into Mariupol,” President Zelenskyy said overnight from Wednesday to Thursday.
- Two grain storage terminals in Mykolaiv were hit by Russian shelling Wednesday, five people injured. The ports of Mykolaiv and Odessa have been blocked since the conflict began, paralyzing sea transport of agricultural commodities, which had been Ukraine’s main export route until then.
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