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news of the day
The Russian military says it hit a site housing Western-supplied weapons near Chortkiv [située à 140 km au nord de la frontière avec la Roumanie et à 200 km au sud-est de Lviv]. In a statement, the Russian Ministry of Defense said that “Kalibr cruise missiles launched from the sea (…) destroyed near Chortkiv a large warehouse of anti-tank missile systems, man-portable air defense systems and weapons. ‘shells supplied to the kyiv regime by the United States and European countries’.
“Yesterday evening, at 9:46 p.m. local time, Chortkiv was hit by four missiles, all fired from the Black Sea,” regional governor Volodymyr Trouch said during a press conference broadcast on Facebook, adding that “There were 22 wounded, all hospitalized”. Among the victims, “there are seven women and a 12-year-old child”.
The number of the day
15. This is the number of “Vkousno i totchka” (Delicious. Point), the first “Russian McDonald’s”, which opened their doors under the slogan “The name changes, the love remains”. “We will try to do everything so that our customers do not notice any difference, neither in terms of atmosphere, nor in terms of taste, nor in terms of quality”, assured the general manager of the chain, Oleg Paroïev.
Established for more than thirty years in Russia, McDonald’s suspended the work of its 850 restaurants and 62,000 employees in March, then left the country definitively in May. Very popular, Russian restaurants accounted for around 9% of the American group’s turnover. Another 50 restaurants are due to open on Monday, with the chain then planning to reopen 50 to 100 restaurants a week across the country.
sentence of the day
They came to Ukraine to kill civilians for money. This is why I see no conditions for any attenuation or modification of sentence. The court imposed a perfectly just punishment. »
These are the words of the leader of the pro-Russian separatist region of Donetsk, Denis Pushilin, who has ruled out a review of the death sentence for “mercenary” of two British and a Moroccan taken prisoner while fighting in the forces Ukrainian women in the Donbass, calling the sentence “just”.
The trend of the day
The Russian army is preparing to have to maintain its military efforts for several more months, despite its difficulties in replenishing its forces, according to the command of the Ukrainian intelligence services, quoted by the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW) . In this perspective, “Russia has probably started in recent weeks to deploy the third battalion of certain combat formations” while most brigades “normally only engage a maximum of two of their three battalions at the same time”, indicates the UK Ministry of Defence.
The numbers of these third battalions being often incomplete, Moscow “will probably have to call on new recruits or the mobilization of reservists to deploy these units in Ukraine”, he specifies.
The fact remains that the Russian forces continued this Sunday to bomb Severodonetsk to overcome the last resistance in this strategic city in eastern Ukraine. In particular, they have always tried to dislodge the Ukrainian fighters entrenched in the Azot chemical plant. Russian troops launch “unsuccessful” assaults against Severodonetsk, said Sunday the Ukrainian general staff, which had previously reported intensive shelling to “demoralize” its forces and win the unequal artillery duel.