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news of the day
The floods have already brought desolation to the people of the Kherson region. After the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, at least six civilians were killed. But misfortune continues to befall the inhabitants. Ukrainian and Russian occupation authorities have accused each other of deadly strikes in southern Ukraine, targeting civilians, including evacuees from flooded areas.
Russian occupation authorities in Ukraine accused Kyiv of killing two people, including a 33-year-old pregnant woman, when they bombed an evacuation point in Golan Pristan on Thursday, where Moscow-installed relief supplies are helping civilians leave the flooded areas. A Ukrainian army official for his part reported Russian artillery bombardments on the center of the city of Kherson, hit by major floods, which left several dead and injured. The bombings come as Volodymyr Zelensky was in Kherson talking with officials and civilians at an evacuation point.
sentence of the day
We must be open to the possibility of South Africa hosting the peace summit here. »
South Africa has declared itself ready to host peace talks to resolve the conflict. The southern African country last month announced mediation in Russia and Ukraine to “find a peaceful solution” to the war. The mission should begin in the next few weeks. In addition to Pretoria, the delegation includes the heads of state of Congo-Brazzaville, Egypt, Senegal, Uganda and Zambia.
The office of President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a statement on Thursday that the South African president spoke on the phone with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, the latter having “welcomed the initiative of African heads of state. »
The number of the day
600 km². This is the area that was flooded in the Kherson region after the destruction of the dam. It is the equivalent of the area of the city of Madrid. “Six hundred square kilometers are flooded in the Kherson region. 32% are on the right bank and 68% on the left bank,” Kherson region governor Oleksandr Prokudin said on social media. This destruction has an impact on the right bank of the Dnieper river, controlled by the Ukrainians, and the left bank, occupied by the Russians.
The trend of the day
On the side of the front, the Russian Minister of Defense affirmed that his troops had countered a Ukrainian offensive, at a time when Kiev said it was ready to launch an assault to reconquer the territories occupied by Moscow. “Today at 1:30 am in the Zaporozhye area, the enemy tried to break through our defenses with (…) up to 1,500 men and 150 armored vehicles,” Sergei Shoigu said in a statement.
“The enemy is stopped and retreating with heavy losses,” he added. And to congratulate himself: “The enemy forces specially trained for the implementation of this breakthrough did not fulfill their task. Still according to Sergei Shoigu, “following a two-hour battle, the enemy lost 30 tanks, 11 infantry fighting vehicles and up to 350 men”, however unverifiable statements from independent sources. The Ukrainian authorities did not make official mention of these events immediately.