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news of the day
Russian authorities said Monday they repelled a surface drone raid on the port of Sevastopol in annexed Crimea, headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet, without causing any casualties or damage. “One (naval) surface drone was destroyed by anti-sabotage forces, the second (drone) exploded on its own,” Russian-appointed Governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvojayev said on Telegram. attack had been repelled in a roadstead outside the port and that “no infrastructure” had been damaged.
Naval surface drones are craft that operate on the surface of the water, without a crew. “Currently, everything is calm in the city. But all forces and services are in combat readiness,” Mikhail Razvojayev added.
Sevastopol is the home port of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Since the launch of the offensive against Ukraine in February 2022, Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014, has repeatedly been the target of aerial and naval drone attacks.
sentence of the day
“No one has allowed the Western minority to speak on behalf of all humanity”
It is signed Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister. “We must behave decently and respect all members of the international community. By imposing a rules-based order, the authors arrogantly reject the key principle of the United Nations Charter, namely the sovereign equality of States,” he insisted on Monday at the UN. Russia holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council this month, in the midst of a military offensive in Ukraine.
Kiev’s allies on Monday denounced the “cynicism” of Russia which organized a special meeting of the Security Council on the “defence of the principles” of the UN Charter which it violated by invading Ukraine. “By organizing this debate, Russia is trying to present itself as a defender of the UN Charter and of multilateralism. Nothing could be further from the truth, it’s cynical,” denounced European Ambassador Olof Skoog, surrounded by representatives of the 27 EU countries.
The number of the day
2,240 billions of dollars. These are the military expenditures in Europe for the year 2022. This sum has again exceeded the level of the end of the Cold War, with a record increase for more than three decades boosted by the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, according to a benchmark report released on Monday.
Across all continents, military spending reached a new high of $2.24 trillion last year, or 2.2% of global GDP, according to data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri). This is, on a global scale, the eighth consecutive year of increase for investments in the armies.
The trend of the day
The boss of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner has said that his troops will no longer take Ukrainian prisoners, in reaction to what he presents as the execution of one of his men by Kiev forces. “We don’t know the name of our wounded guy who was shot by miserable Ukrainians. But we’re going to kill everyone on the battlefield. We will not take any more prisoners, ”said Yevgeni Prigojine on Sunday in an audio message published on Telegram by his press service.
He was reacting to another audio recording posted on a Telegram account supporting Wagner and presented as a conversation between Ukrainian servicemen ordering the execution of a captured fighter from the paramilitary group. AFP was unable to confirm the authenticity of this latest recording.
The Wagner group, accused of numerous abuses in the various areas of operations where it has been deployed around the world, is currently on the front line in the battle of Bakhmout, in eastern Ukraine, which has been raging for month.