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news of the day
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday urged the international community to show “no weakness, no spirit of compromise” against Russia, as the war in Ukraine enters its seventh month on Wednesday.
“We cannot (…) have any weakness, any spirit of compromise, because it is about our freedom to all, and peace in all parts of the globe”, he launched in a video message to the “Crimean Platform” Summit. The Europeans are ready to support Ukraine’s “combat” “in the long term”, he added to the attention of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
sentence of the day
“The war “began in Crimea and will end in Crimea”
Ukrainian President Zelensky promised to bring “freedom to Ukraine and to citizens in Crimea” at an international conference on this region annexed by Russia. “To defeat terror, it is necessary to achieve victory in the fight against Russian aggression. Crimea must be liberated. It will be the resurrection of law and order in the world. Therefore, we must also liberate Crimea from occupation. It started in Crimea and it will end in Crimea. »
The number of the day
1 million. This is the number of refugees fleeing Ukraine after the Russian invasion launched six months ago have been registered in Germany, although “a considerable number” of them did not stay in the country, said Tuesday the Ministry of the Interior.
A total of 967,546 people, the overwhelming majority of Ukrainian nationality, have found refuge “at least temporarily” in Germany, according to the ministry’s count.
The trend of the day
The fate of Russian tourists does not only depend on the next package of EU sanctions. Without a continent-wide ban, they could indeed be banned from entering Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Finland, according to Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis.