Did you miss the latest events on the war in Ukraine? Do not panic, 20 minutes takes stock for you every evening, at 7:30 p.m. (and exceptionally this weekend at 6:30 p.m., because you have to break the routine). Who did what ? Who said what? Where are we ? The answer below.
The fact of the day
This Sunday, Moscow claimed the capture of a small town in the Kharkiv region, in eastern Ukraine. “The village of Krakhmalnoye was liberated thanks to the successful active operations carried out by the units of the “West” group of troops in the Kupiansk zone,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in its daily bulletin of operations in Ukraine.
But Ukraine defended itself by expressing disinterest in this capture, according to a spokesperson for the Ukrainian land forces, Volodymyr Fitio, interviewed on Ukrainian television. “It’s five houses. They were destroyed by the Russians,” he downplayed, assuring that the Ukrainian troops had been “moved to prepared reserve positions”, where they “are now holding the defense, preventing the enemy from continuing to advance” .
The number of the day
25. This is the number of people killed on Sunday by a kyiv strike on a market in Donetsk, a large city occupied by Moscow in eastern Ukraine. “A barbaric terrorist act” according to Moscow which shows “the need to achieve all the objectives” of the invasion in Ukraine.
Today’s statement
The neo-Nazi regime in kyiv, supported by the United States and its satellites, has once again committed a barbaric terrorist act against the civilian population of Russia.
These words were written in a statement sent by the Russian Foreign Ministry. The reaction follows the Ukrainian strike in Donetsk which left at least 25 dead and 20 injured.
Today’s trend
A fire that would have been caused by an external factor. During the night from Saturday to Sunday, the fire which broke out in a gas terminal was apparently caused by “an external factor”, announced the company Novatek, manager of the site and the leading Russian exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG). ). . “There are no victims, nor any threat to the life and health of employees,” Novatek said in a brief statement, adding that the fire was localized.
The site is 110 kilometers west of St. Petersburg near the border with Estonia, on the Baltic Sea, and 1,000 km from the border with Ukraine. The Russian company, like the local authorities, has not discussed the cause of the fire at this stage. However, Ukrainian forces this week claimed responsibility for two attacks on oil depots on Russian soil, one in the Leningrad region (northwest) and the other in the Bryansk region, bordering Ukraine, provoking a violent fire.