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the context
- The Europeans are working on tightening their sanctions Economy against Moscow. Energy ministers of the 27 on Monday in Brussels outlined a timeline for phasing out their Russian oil imports, which account for 30% of their oil imports. On that occasion, the EU reiterated its refusal to pay for its Russian gas purchases in rubles. Tuesday, May 3, new Russian banks are to be excluded from the Swift payment system, announced the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell. Finally, a contract with the Russian company Rosatom to build a nuclear reactor in northern Finland was terminated.
- In the Donbass, Russian forces continue their offensive, with particularly intense fighting around Izium, Lyman and Rubizhne. As May 9 approaches, the day of Russia’s victory over Nazi Germany, the governor of the Luhansk region said he expected “bombing to intensify.”
- When asked about Russian claims that the war is aimed at “denazifying” Ukraine, even though President Zelenskyy is Jewish, Sergei Lavrov caused an outcry said: “I could be wrong, but Hitler also had Jewish blood. His Israeli counterpart Yaïr Lapid judged these statements as “scandalous, unforgivable”, denounced “a terrible historical mistake” and ordered the Russian ambassador to “clarify”.
- All Monday, Ukrainian authorities hoped to resume evacuations of civilians from Mariupol, which began this weekend with the departure of a hundred people from Mariupol the huge Azovstal Steelworks. But the convoys chartered by Unicef and several NGOs were slow to arrive Monday night in Zaporijia, a Ukrainian-controlled town about 200 kilometers to the northwest.
- Odesaa Russian-speaking Black Sea port considered a major cultural center by Ukrainians and Russians alike was again the target of Russian bombings on Monday.
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