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The fact of the day
“During the past 24 hours, the Ukrainian armed forces fired artillery 15 times at the town of Energodar and at the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant”, the largest in Europe, the ministry said. Russian Defense. Three shells reportedly fell on the site of these facilities, while the IAEA issued its report on the safety of the plant. The Agency is calling for the establishment of a “safety zone” around the site and the head of the Ukrainian public operator Energoatom has proposed sending UN peacekeepers to get the Russian soldiers out of the plant. .
sentence of the day
” [Les Occidentaux] say that Russia uses energy as a weapon. Another nonsense! What weapon do we use? We provide as much as necessary according to the requests made »
At an economic forum dedicated to Asia in Vladivostok, a city located at the eastern end of Russia, Vladimir Putin denied using gas as a “weapon”, while deliveries via Nord Stream are at a standstill for several days.
Today’s date
November 4. This is the date chosen by United Russia, the party of Vladimir Putin, to propose to organize referendums in the territories occupied by the Russian forces, in order to request their annexation. “Donetsk, Luhansk and many other Russian cities will finally return to their home ports. And the Russian world, today divided by formal borders, will regain its integrity,” said the secretary of the party’s General Council, Andrei Tourchak. Russia celebrates National Unity Day on November 4.
The trend of the day
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, on Wednesday proposed to member states a cap on the price of Russian gas delivered to the EU. The idea is to “reduce the income of Russia”, which uses it to “finance this atrocious war”, denounces the head of the European executive. A sanction that could have serious long-term consequences.
“We will not deliver anything at all if it is against our interests, in this case economic. Neither gas, nor oil, nor coal (…). Nothing,” threatened Vladimir Putin, in response from Vladivostok. Europe must therefore step up its search for alternative gas suppliers. In the afternoon, Ursula von der Leyen thus exchanged with the Norwegian Prime Minister, whose country has increased its gas deliveries to the EU.