- On the sixteenth day of the invasion, the Russian army was operating on several fronts: are reported a slight advance in an attempt to get closer to the capital Kiev and intense bombardments on other strategic cities including Mykolaiv, the last barrier before the port of Odessa. According to a UN report, at least 516 civilians were killedUkrainian side, since February 26.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday accused the Russian army of preventing the evacuation of civilians from the encircled towns of Mariupol and Volnovakha, in the southeast, and of carrying out an attack on the route of a humanitarian corridor. “The Russian troops did not cease fire. Despite everything, I decided to send a convoy of vehicles to Mariupol, with food, water, medicine (…). But the occupiers launched a tank attack exactly where this corridor was supposed to pass”, he claimed, in a video address released by the presidency. The situation remains critical in Mariupol, surrounded and deprived of electricity, water, gas and soon food, according to a representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
- European Heads of State and Government ruled out the idea of a rapid accession of Ukraine, while opening the door to closer ties, despite insistent pressure from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to join ” without delay “ the community club and which, all evening, implored its allies from Kiev to engage further.
- Ukraine and Russia are “ready” to be discussed to guarantee the security of Ukrainian nuclear sites, each day a little more compromised by the war, declared Thursday the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). This announcement comes as Kiev “lost all communication” with the Chernobyl power plant, according to information received by the UN nuclear police.
- The damage caused by the war in Ukraine is estimated at 100 billion dollars (90 billion euros), according to preliminary assessments, Oleg Ustenko, the economic adviser to the Ukrainian president, said on Thursday. However, he felt that the Ukrainian financial system was doing quite well. “given the current circumstances”citing “a more or less stable exchange rate”.
- Half of the population of the Kiev agglomeration has fled since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, the mayor of the Ukrainian capital, Vitali Klitschko, announced on Thursday, adding that“today a little less than 2 million inhabitants live there”.
Read all our articles, analyzes and reports on the war in Ukraine:
Report. Mykolaiv in the darkness of war
Story. At the origins of the war in Ukraine, twenty years of Russian propaganda in the Donbass
Decryptions. “Z”, emblem of an exacerbated Russian patriotism
Chronic. “At this moment in history, the EU must speak the language of power”
Podcast. The battle of gas and oil
Decryptions. Pope Francis’ silences on Russia
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