Cover image: A woman holds the flag of Ukraine as she looks at a row of destroyed Russian military vehicles on display in Independence Square in kyiv on August 23, 2022. David Goldman/AP
On the occasion of the six months of this conflict, Le Monde is today organizing two chats in which you can participate:
At 10 a.m. with Vincent Tourret, from the Foundation for Strategic Research, and Rémy Ourdan, journalist at Worldon the state of the military forces after six months of war.
At 2.30 p.m. with Emmanuel Grynszpan, journalist at Worldand Benoît Chareyron, nuclear physics engineer and director of the CRIIRAD laboratory (Commission for Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity), on the case of the Zaporijia nuclear power plant.
- Ukraine famous, under the bombs, national independence day, Wednesday, six months to the day after the beginning of the invasion of the country by Russia. Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, warned against “repulsive Russian provocations and brutal strikes”.
- Western leaders continued on Tuesday to strongly condemn the Russian offensive and rejected in advance the annexation referendums that Moscow wants to organize in the occupied territories. French President, Emmanuel Macron urged the international community not to show“no weakness, no spirit of compromise” against Russia.
- Volodymyr Zelensky pledged to restore Ukrainian sovereignty in Crimeaannexed by Russia in 2014, in order to restore “world public order”.
- The United States will announce, on Wednesday, new military aid of about 3 billion dollars (3 billion euros according to the price of August 24) to Ukraine. This will be the largest package of American military aid since the beginning of the war, which will allow kyiv to acquire new weapons or finance training or operations.
- Moscow and kyiv again accused each other Tuesday, at a meeting of the Security Council, to jeopardize Zaporizhia nuclear power plantwhile the UN General Secretariat called on them to cease all military activity around the site.
- In the field, since the withdrawal of Russian forces from the vicinity of kyiv at the end of March, most of the fighting was concentrated in the east – where Moscow slowly gained ground before the front froze – and in the South – where the Ukrainian troops say they are carrying out a counter-offensive, which is also very slow.
Watch our live from yesterday here.
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