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Transnistria, a pro-Russian separatist region of Moldova, claimed on Sunday March 17 that an explosive drone, sent from neighboring Ukraine, had struck a military base in its capital, Tiraspol. “THE [constatations] Preliminary tests established that the explosion was caused by a kamikaze drone attack. assured the Ministry of State Security, cited by Russian and local media, specifying that the device came from the Ukrainian region of Odessa. Russia has supported this territory bordering Ukraine since the 1990s. But kyiv accuses Moscow of being in charge. “Russia carried out a provocation in Transnistria with a kamikaze drone attack on a military unit,” assured the Ukrainian Security Council, accusing Russia of wanting “an escalation” of the situation in the region.
One dead in the Belgorod region. One person died and 11 others were injured Sunday in new strikes on the Belgorod region, bordering Ukraine and targeted by numerous attacks, the governor said. A man who was “in a parking lot”was killed, Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Telegram. “Eleven people were injured to varying degrees of seriousness”he added, after having already announced this morning the death of a teenage girl in a first series of strikes.
Emmanuel Macron persists. “Perhaps at some point – I don’t want it, I won’t take the initiative – it will be necessary to have operations on the ground, whatever they may be, to counter the Russian forces.”declared the President of the Republic in an interview with Parisian, published on Saturday. On the possibility of sending troops to Ukraine, “many countries in Europe, and not the least, are totally on our line”assures Emmanuel Macron, implying that it is Poland or the Baltic countries.
LFI reviews. “It is absurd to believe that by scaring him, he will back down”Jean-Luc Mélenchon reacted on Sunday, speaking about the Russian president, on the set of “Dimanche en politique”. “We are in no condition to confront Russia”, he also judged. Manon Aubry, head of the LFI list in the European elections, for her part denounced comments “irresponsible and ineffective”.
Russia claims to have shot down 35 Ukrainian drones. This is what the Russian army said on Sunday morning, on the last day of the presidential election that Vladimir Putin will inevitably win. A new drone attack, which Russian authorities blame on Ukraine, also caused a fire at a refinery in southern Russia. Krasnodar regional authorities report one death who may have died of a heart attack.