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news of the day
A deluge of missiles almost fell on kyiv. Ukraine claimed to have repelled further Russian strikes and shot down six Kinjal hypersonic missiles. If the Ukrainian forces were pleased to have destroyed in flight all the Russian missiles, Moscow assured to have “hit all the targets”, including “deployment points of the Ukrainian armed forces” and depots of ammunition and Western weapons .
The Kinjal (“Dagger” in Russian) missile is one of the weapons touted as “invincible” by Vladimir Putin, as their hypersonic speed allows them to challenge most air defense systems.
During the night, Ukrainian air defense lit up the night sky to destroy Russian missiles targeting the capital. According to Ukrainian Chief of Staff Valery Zalouzhny, Russia attacked Ukraine “from the north, south and east” with Kinjals, Kalibr cruise missiles, S-400 anti-aircraft and Iskander ballistic missiles, but also Iranian-made drones.
sentence of the day
There are still many unanswered questions about the part of the agreement [céréalier] which concerns us. Now we have to make a decision. »
The Kremlin is still reluctant to extend the agreement on the export of Ukrainian cereals. Russia has publicly listed five requirements to extend the deal, including reconnecting Russian agricultural specialist Rosselkhozbank to the Swift international banking system, and removing shackles to insure ships and access foreign ports. Believing that they are not fulfilled, the Kremlin spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, affirmed that Russia was waiting for answers before being able to decide. Last week, Turkey claimed that an extension of the deal was “close”, which Moscow has not confirmed.
The number of the day
2.5. It is in millions of euros the amount that relates to a corruption scandal in Ukraine. The President of the Supreme Court of Ukraine Vsevolod Kniazev was arrested and detained in this case. “This is the biggest case” affecting the judicial branch of the state, said the head of the national anti-corruption office Semen Kryvonos, referring to a “criminal group” formed by judges of the Supreme Court.
Anti-corruption officials say Ukrainian billionaire Kostiantin Jevago, whom Ukraine is seeking to extradite from France, has agreed with a law firm to pay a bribe to the Supreme Court so that the latter “adopts a necessary decision” concerning this ex-deputy. According to the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office, Kostiantin Jevago transferred 2.7 million dollars to the lawyers. Of this amount, $1.8 million was to be paid to Supreme Court justices and $900,000 to lawyers for their “services as intermediaries”.
The trend of the day
Still a little ground recovered by kyiv. In Bakhmout, where fighting has been raging for months between Russian and Ukrainian forces, the latter congratulated themselves on having succeeded in “liberating about 20 square kilometers to the north and south of the outskirts” of the city, indicated the Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Ganna Maliar. According to her, the Russian troops continue to advance within the city itself, however, where they besiege the last pockets of Ukrainian resistance in the West, “completely destroying the city with the help of artillery”.
Russia has been in difficulty for several days by a Ukrainian counter-attack on its flanks in Bakhmout, a city which it now controls more than 90% despite growing tensions between the army and the paramilitary group Wagner on the spot.