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The fact of the day
Stable day on the front but not at Evgueni Prigojine who continues to attack the Kremlin with ever-renewed vehemence. The leader of the paramilitary group Wagner accuses the Russian authorities of hiding the success of the Ukrainian counter-offensive in a recording published on Telegram.
“The enemy is occupying Piatykhatky, northern Robotyne, and Urojaine, which means that large swaths of territory have been lost. The enemy attack causes serious losses and problems on our side that are suppressed, which the Russians do not know. All of this is completely hidden from everyone. One day Russia will wake up and realize that Crimea is Ukrainian. This is a direct betrayal of the interests of the Russian Federation. »
Statements in the vein of the last speeches of the businessman, who criticizes his former ally Vladimir Putin for sending his men (those of the Wagner group) to the pipe-breaker for several months in eastern Ukraine. In fact, Ukraine claims to have recaptured eight towns or villages, while Russia replies that it repelled all enemy attacks.
“If the enemy reaches Molochnyi Lyman, then all the territories taken during the special military operation will return to the enemy”, finally warned Yevgeny Prigojine, evoking there a disaster scenario for Russia whose stated objective remains to conquer the entire Donbass and to consolidate its conquered territories in the South.
sentence of the day
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Interviewed by the BBC, the Ukrainian president said that progress on the battlefield of Kiev’s counter-offensive against Russian forces had been “slower than desired”, but that he did not want to be dictated to. rhythm of the offensive by “external pressures”. “Whatever the wishes of some, including attempts to pressure, with all due respect, we will advance on the battlefield in the way we see fit. Modest advances that the Ukrainian president attributes to the very numerous mines laid by the Russians over 200,000 km2.
The number of the day
3.5 billion euros. EU countries decided on Wednesday to contribute to a new €3.5 billion endowment for the European Peace Facility (EPF) used to finance their arms supplies to Ukraine and military missions in the stranger.
Kiev’s western allies pledged on Wednesday to increase financial aid to Ukraine’s economy, ravaged by more than a year of war, but warned Russia that it would ultimately have to pay for reconstruction. While Ukraine recognizes that its counter-offensive, which is coming up against strong resistance from the Russian army, is not going as quickly as hoped, the reconstruction conference brings together more than 60 countries for two days in London, international institutions and the private sector.
The controversy of the day
Ukraine revealed on Wednesday that it had recovered three prisoners of war recently transferred to Hungary from Russia, but Kiev accused Budapest of having violated international humanitarian law during this procedure and playing into Moscow’s hands.
“I confirm that three former prisoners of war have returned to Ukraine” out of a total of 11 transferred to Hungary on June 8, Ukrainian parliamentary human rights officer Dmytro Loubinets said on television.
“From the beginning of this story, Hungary played the game of the Russian side and Russian propaganda,” he however accused. “It was planned as a special operation against Ukraine (conducted) by Russian special services with the involvement of the Hungarian side.” Already on Monday, Ukrainian diplomacy had accused Budapest of blocking its access to this group of prisoners of war handed over to Hungary through the intermediary of the Russian Orthodox Church and above all without the knowledge of Kiev.