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news of the day
The Russian bombing of a Ukrainian maternity hospital in Mariupol provoked a tidal wave of shocked reactions from the international community on Thursday. This strike, which caused the death of at least three people including a young girl, was described as an “unworthy act of war (…) whose manifest objective is to kill civilians” by Emmanuel Macron on Thursday.
Referring to an “inhuman, cruel and tragic act”, the European Union denounced a “war crime” and called for a “thorough investigation”. For its part, after asserting that it was no longer a children’s hospital but a base of Ukrainian nationalists, Moscow assured that the bombardment was a “staged”.
sentence of the day
“I don’t see a realistic ceasefire at this stage”
Emmanuel Macron said he was “pessimistic” this Thursday about the war in Ukraine. The President of the Republic, who spoke after an EU meeting in Versailles, felt that “our democracy is threatened”. “You have to be ready to defend your values” and to “pay the price”, he added.
The number of the day
1,000. According to an official Ukrainian source for 20 minutesabout 1,000 Russian soldiers have been made prisoners of war since the start of the invasion.
The trend of the day
Everyone continues to camp on their positions on the 15th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The first high-level negotiation between Moscow and Kiev, in the Turkish seaside resort of Antalya, came to nothing on Thursday. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba failed to agree on a ceasefire.
The head of Ukrainian diplomacy revealed that Sergei Lavrov had assured him that Russia “will continue [son] aggression until we accept his demand to capitulate”. But “Ukraine has not surrendered, is not surrendering and will not surrender,” he said.
For now, the Russian army maintains its siege of major cities and a bombing campaign. Russian tanks arrived on Thursday at the northeast gates of Kiev, continuing their encirclement maneuver. The battle for the capital of Ukraine is getting closer every hour.