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- The war enters its 150e day, and the Russians continue their bombardments relentlessly, especially in the Donetsk region. The Ukrainian presidency identified, on Friday, “five people killed and ten injured in the last twenty-four hours”. New Russian shelling in Sloviansk also injured three and damaged six buildings and several houses, regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko announced on Telegram.
- Ukraine and Russia signed, on Friday in Istanbul, two identical but separate texts – at the request of the Ukrainians who refused to sign with the Russians – allowing grain export and agricultural products stuck in Black Sea ports and badly needed on world markets. This agreement, signed for four months renewable, provides in particular: inspections on departure and arrival in Turkey, secure shipping lanes and a counterpart for Russian cereals and fertilizers.
- On the pro-Russian side, the authorities of the two separatist territories of Donetsk and Luhansk announced that they had blocked googleaccusing him of doing “the promotion of terrorism and violence against all Russians”.
- In the South, according to kyiv, Russian forces shell villages along the front line in the Kherson region, where the Ukrainian army is trying to recover the areas taken by Moscow in the wake of the launch of its invasion at the end of February. kyiv thus claimed to have struck a Russian position near the nuclear power plant of Zaporizhiaunder Moscow control, with “a kamikaze drone”.
- The United States announced on Friday a new tranche of military aid to Ukraine $270 million, including four new Himars precision artillery systems, 36,000 shells and 580 Phoenix Ghost kamikaze drones.
- The Europeans adopted a new salvo of sanctions against Russia Friday, including a gold embargo and an updated blacklist. Unlike the six previous packages, this one does not contain a key and symbolic measure. The new sanctions are primarily intended to correct those that have already been imposed, in order to make them more effective and to prevent, as far as possible, their circumvention.
- The NGO Human Rights Watch accused, on Friday, the Russian army of perpetrating torture, illegal detention and kidnapping of civilians in the southern part of Ukraine under its control.
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