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news of the day
At least four people were killed and four others injured on Tuesday in Russian bombings that targeted the center of Kharkiv (northeast), Ukraine’s second city, the regional governor announced.
“The Russian occupiers shelled the central districts of Kharkiv. There is damage, ”announced Oleg Synegoubov announcing the death toll on Telegram, calling on residents to take shelter.
The number of the day
5. This is the number of iodine tablets that Europe will distribute to Ukraine. Indeed, the European Commission announced that it would donate 5.5 million potassium iodide tablets to Ukraine, fearing that fighting in the area of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant could lead to a nuclear disaster. The tablets would be used “in limited scenarios to prevent inhaled or swallowed radioactive iodine from being absorbed by the thyroid,” the commission said.
sentence of the day
When I learned that the command wanted me to be sentenced to fifteen years in prison for false information, I understood that I would achieve nothing here and that my lawyers could do nothing for me in Russia. »
Pavel Filatiev, a soldier who fought for two months in Ukraine before denouncing the Kremlin offensive, is asking for political asylum in France. The 34-year-old soldier arrived in Roissy on Sunday via Tunisia and met with agents from the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (Ofpra) on Monday.
The trend of the day
EU foreign ministers are due to meet today and tomorrow in Prague, including to discuss a new set of sanctions against Russia. Among the proposals on the table, the abolition of visas for Russian tourists is far from unanimous.
Supported by the Baltic States, it is on the other hand opposed by Paris and Berlin, which issued a joint warning “against far-reaching restrictions on our visa policy, in order to avoid fueling the Russian narrative and triggering a rally unintentional around flagging effects and/or alienating future generations
For its part, Russia will take retaliatory measures if the European Union decides to suspend its visas for Russians in response to Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine, the Kremlin warned on Tuesday.