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news of the day
To go or not to go? The French President is approaching Kyiv but keeps suspense over a possible visit. Emmanuel Macron traveled to Romania on Tuesday to greet the 500 French soldiers stationed at a NATO base since the invasion of Ukraine. He then has to go to Moldova and could also make a trip to Kyiv.
According to media reports, his visit to Ukraine, which has been eagerly awaited for weeks, could soon take place in Berlin and Rome, accompanied by Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi. Information unconfirmed by the Elysée, stating that “no action was taken” at the time.
phrase of the day
“What we are seeing is the brutality and ferocity with which this war is being waged by the troops, usually mercenaries, deployed by the Russians. »
Pope Francis castigated the “ferocity” of Russian troops in the face of a “courageous” Ukrainian people, while affirming that the war “could be provoked” in an interview published Tuesday by the Italian magazine La Civilta Cattolica.
The number of the day
49 So many British citizens, journalists and defense sector officials were hit by a travel ban from Russian territory on Tuesday. These individuals, including journalists and officials from the BBC, the Guardian newspaper and even Sky News, “are no longer authorized to enter the Russian Federation,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
The trend of the day
A glimmer of hope for fighting-torn Severodonetsk. Moscow on Tuesday announced the establishment of a humanitarian corridor for the evacuation of civilians at the Azot factory to a place under Russian control. “A humanitarian corridor will open on June 15 from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the north direction (towards the town of Svatove),” Russia’s Defense Ministry said in a statement.
The Russian ministry has urged Ukrainians to raise the white flag to signal their acceptance of the proposal and end the “absurd resistance” that now seems to be concentrated in the huge Azot chemical plant, the landmark of this industrial city in the east Ukraine.
According to Severodonetsk chief administrator Oleksandr Striouk, “540 to 560 people” have taken refuge in the factory’s underground passages, a situation reminiscent of that of the Azovstal steel mill, which was for weeks in the last pocket of resistance in the Ukrainian port of Mariupol on the Azov River Sea.