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news of the day
Since its recovery of the city of Izioum, in the Kharkiv region, in the Northeast, from the hands of the Russians, the macabre discoveries accumulate. This Friday, the Ukrainian army claimed to have discovered a “mass grave” hosting nearly 450 graves. An AFP reporter confirmed that at least one body had its hands tied. Crimes attributable to Russian forces according to Volodymyr Zelensky.
Later in the day, two AFP journalists claimed to have seen hundreds of graves in a forest on the outskirts of the city. The Ukrainian authorities notably proceeded on the spot to the examination of a grave containing the bodies of 17 Ukrainian soldiers, surmounted by a cross bearing the inscription “Ukrainian army, 17 people. Izioum, from the morgue.
The UN has already announced that it wants to send a team of experts on site to investigate these mass graves.
sentence of the day
We will do everything to get it all over as soon as possible.
Present this Friday at a regional summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Vladimir Putin took the opportunity to talk face to face with the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, who told him that “the time is not at the war “.
A statement by the Russian president in contradiction to the one he made a little later during a press conference, ensuring that he was not “in a hurry” in the conflict with Ukraine: “Our offensive operations in the Donbass are not don’t stop, they advance at a slow pace (…). The plan does not require change (…) we are in no hurry. »
The number of the day
10. This is the number of torture chambers discovered in localities in the Kharkiv region, in northeastern Ukraine, recently taken back from the Russians, according to the head of the national police Igor Klymenko.
“To date, I can speak of at least ten torture chambers [découvertes] in localities in the Kharkiv region”, including two in the small town of Balakliïa. Discoveries that led Volodymyr Zelensky to call Russian troops “torturers”.
The trend of the day
In difficulty in his conflict with Ukraine and in the midst of a showdown with the West, Vladimir Putin continues to take care of his openness to the East. After meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday, the Russian President held talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.