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The fact of the day
A new Russian bombing on Kharkiv killed a 10-year-old child and his grandmother and injured at least 28 people, the day after a deadly strike on Groza. Two buildings were damaged and a three-story residential building destroyed, with police saying two Iskander ballistic missiles struck the buildings.
“The body of a 10-year-old child was found in the rubble,” Ukrainian Interior Minister Igor Klymenko said on Telegram, then adding that his grandmother had also died. The regional governor, Oleg Synegoubov, for his part reported at least 28 injured, including an eleven-month-old baby who is part of the same family as the two victims.
The number of the day
25. Like the number of drones that the Ukrainian army claims to have shot down last night, out of the 33 launched by Russia. Anti-aircraft defense destroyed “25 Shahed 131/136, in the regions of Odessa, Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Cherkasy and Zhytomyr,” the Air Force said in a statement on Telegram.
Sentence of the day
We continue to reaffirm that the Russian army does not strike civilian targets, but military targets”
After the carnage of Groza in Ukraine, whose bombing yesterday killed at least 52 civilians, the Kremlin assures that it only strikes military targets through the voice of its spokesperson, Dmitri Peskov. However, “everything suggests” that it was indeed a Russian missile which struck the village, according to the UN. In Groza, which had 330 inhabitants before the war, dozens of people gathered yesterday for the funeral of a soldier.
“At this stage, it is obviously very difficult to establish with absolute certainty what happened, but given the location, given that the café was hit, everything suggests that it was a “a Russian missile,” declared Elizabeth Throssell, during the regular UN briefing in Geneva, stressing that the investigation needed to be pursued further.
Today’s trend
Russia’s defense minister has called for accelerating production of Su-34 tactical bomber planes to support Russia’s offensive in Ukraine. “These aircraft, they have the most work, carrying out between four and five flights per day,” declared Minister Sergei Shoigu, quoted in a press release from the Russian army, during a visit to an aeronautical factory in Novosibirsk. , in Siberia.
At the same time, the Kremlin is considering canceling its ratification of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. “The State Duma Council will discuss, at its next meeting” scheduled for Monday “the question of leaving the ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty,” declared Vyacheslav Volodin, in a press release.
This announcement comes the day after a statement by Vladimir Putin according to which such an exit could be a “symmetrical response” to the United States which has never ratified this treaty. “The situation in the world has changed. Washington and Brussels have started a war against our country. Current challenges require new solutions,” explains Vyacheslav Volodine.