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news of the day
On the occasion of Wehrmacht Day, he moved close to the front. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Tuesday departed 45 kilometers from Bakhmout, the main battlefield in the east of the country where the Ukrainian army is facing Russian offensives. In this region of Donbass, which Russia proclaimed annexation of last September, the Ukrainian leader praised the resilience of the troops while presenting military decorations to his soldiers.
He reported on his visit by posting three videos. In one of them he saluted “everyone who gave their lives for Ukraine”. “Eastern Ukraine is the most difficult axis (of the front),” Volodymyr Zelenskyy analyzed.
Since the beginning of the conflict, the Ukrainian president has regularly visited the front, unlike Vladimir Putin, who has limited his excursions. The Russian president traveled to Crimea on Monday, where footage showed him driving a car across the bridge linking that peninsula to Russia, which was partially destroyed by a Moscow attack on Kyiv earlier in October.
phrase of the day
Someone wants to give security guarantees to a terrorist and murderous state? »
Oleksiï Danilov, the secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, did not appreciate Emmanuel Macron’s statements. The French President stressed on Saturday that it was also necessary to give Russia “security guarantees” once the war was over.
The Ukrainian leader has criticized the French president for his lack of determination towards Russia. And he’s not the only one in Eastern Europe, as the Lithuanian prime minister and Polish deputy foreign minister have also criticized Emmanuel Macron’s remarks. Which on Tuesday called for “not trying to see controversy where there is none”
The number of the day
443. Like the number of children killed since February 24, according to the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office. To this terrible number must be added 853 children injured since the conflict began. This number could be higher as it does not include casualties in Russian-occupied territories where hostilities are ongoing.
Russian attacks on Ukraine have also reportedly damaged 2,719 schools and completely destroyed 332, according to Ukraine’s Attorney General.
The tendency
A Ukrainian drone has hit an airfield in Kursk (Russia), a region bordering Ukraine. An oil tank caught fire, but no one was injured. The region’s governor’s announcement comes a day after Moscow accused Kyiv of a drone strike on two air bases.
Another bombing occurred in Donetsk, killing at least six people, according to the pro-Russian authorities who administer this region annexed by Moscow last September. Authorities said the number of injured is still being determined.