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news of the day
Small failure for the Russian occupation administration in Kherson. “A curfew has been decreed in the city of Kherson, which will last 24 hours a day, so that we can defend our city”, declared at the end of the afternoon on Telegram the deputy head of the occupation authority. Russian in Kherson, Kirill Stremoussov. A few minutes later, the initial video was deleted, replaced by an edited version, without mention of the curfew, and without explanation. Then the official installed by Moscow, in a third time, published a new video, visibly backtracking, ensuring that “there were no restrictions for the inhabitants” in Kherson, despite the Ukrainian push in the region.
The number of the day
10,000. The Kremlin has admitted “errors” in the context of the mobilization with cases of mobilized suffering from serious illnesses, exceeding the regulatory age or being fathers of several young children. Nearly 10,000 people mobilized by mistake have been sent home, according to the head of the lower house of parliament’s committee for defense, Andrei Kartapolov.
sentence of the day
Cowardly traitors and greedy defectors have fled to distant lands, leaving their bones to rot abroad”
Dmitry Medvedev, former president of Russia and close to Vladimir Putin, did not mince words to qualify the thousands of Russians who fled the country after the announcement of the mobilization in September. “We have been abandoned by frightened, caring people,” he adds. Russia is ‘stronger and cleaner’ without them, he wrote on Telegram, on Russian Unity Day, a holiday introduced by President Vladimir Putin in 2005 to celebrate a victory of 1612 on the invading Polish forces.
The trend of the day
Second day of G7 gathering in Germany, second day of discussions on Ukraine. Members of the major Western powers pointed to the upcoming establishment of a “coordination mechanism” to help Ukraine repair and defend its critical electricity and water infrastructure. It must allow each country to do its part in the repairs and delivery of “water pumps, heating appliances, living and sanitary containers, beds, blankets, tents”, according to Annalena Baerbock, the head of German diplomacy. .
The G7 members also denounced Russia’s “unacceptable nuclear rhetoric” and reiterated their “unwavering support” for Ukraine in their final communiqué. Finally, they called on oil-producing countries to increase production to help bring down prices, as OPEC+ took the opposite direction amid rising prices and tensions in the energy market.