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This Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that he had exchanged with Emmanuel Macron, who promised him help to “repair destroyed energy infrastructure” and “strengthen Ukraine’s defense capabilities”. “Thank you, my friend, for your unwavering support,” he adds.
LOSING STARLINK WOULD BE “A HARD BLOW” FOR UKRAINE
Last month, Elon Musk took to Twitter – which he has since taken over – to ask why he should continue to provide Ukraine with Starlink, a free satellite internet service. A few days later, the SpaceX boss changed his mind. “To hell,” he wrote, after the excitement aroused. “Even though Starlink is still losing money and other companies are getting billions from taxpayers, we will continue to fund the Ukrainian government for free.”
On the front of Kherson, the fear of seeing the billionaire cut the main line of communication of the Ukrainian army is palpable. The loss of the network would leave it in trouble, at the dawn of the counter-offensive. If we lose (this line), it will be a blow to our means of transmission”, assured AFP Major Roman Omeltchenko, chief of communications of the 59th brigade, in an interview carried out in an undisclosed location. him, “it would be very difficult to do without”.
CEREALS: RT ERDOGAN WILL TALK WITH V. POUTINE AND V. ZELENSKY
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will hold talks in the coming days with his Russian counterparts Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian Volodomyr Zelensky about the deal on Ukrainian grain exports, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Cavusoglu said on Tuesday. . “Our president will speak with Putin and Zelensky in the coming days. We believe that we will overcome this,” he told reporters, assuring that the grain agreement “benefits everyone”.
SOON SANCTIONS AGAINST BELARUS?
Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, said on his return from kyiv on Tuesday that the EU could now sanction Russia’s ally Belarus for its role in the conflict. in Ukraine. Minsk says it does not want to get directly involved in the war but allows Russian soldiers to be stationed on its territory, which Russia used as a rear base for the invasion of Ukraine at the end of February.
“We are now examining (…) the role of Belarus and the potential need to target it,” Petr Fiala told reporters on his return from kyiv, where he went on Monday with soldiers. ministers for talks with their counterparts. “Some sanctions against Belarus are already in place but we cannot accept that Belarus supports Russia’s policy or that Russia circumvents the impact of sanctions through countries like Belarus.”
MOSCOW POINTS LONDON FOR NORD STREAM SABOTAGE
The Kremlin on Tuesday accused the United Kingdom of being behind the explosions that damaged the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea during the month of September, built to transport Russian gas to Europe. “Our intelligence services have evidence to suggest that the attack was directed and coordinated by British military specialists,” Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
“There is evidence that Britain is involved in a sabotage, a terrorist attack against (these) vital energy infrastructure, not Russian, but international,” he continued. “Such actions cannot be left (unanswered). We will reflect on the measures to be taken”, he added, denouncing the “unacceptable silence of European capitals”.
THREE CEREAL CARGOS ON THE WAY FOR THE HUMANITARIAN CORRIDOR
Three new cargo ships loaded with grain left the ports of Ukraine on Tuesday morning and are heading for the humanitarian corridor in the Black Sea, the Joint Coordination Center (JCC) in Istanbul announced at midday. “The movements of these three boats have been approved by the Ukrainian, Turkish and United Nations delegations. The Russian delegation has been informed,” the JCC, which oversees Ukrainian grain exports in Istanbul, told AFP. the international agreement signed last July from which Russia announced its temporary withdrawal.
NEW EVACUATIONS IN KHERSON
The Russian occupation authorities in Kherson, in the south of Ukraine, announced on Tuesday that they had started the displacement of thousands of additional people in this region where the forces of kyiv are carrying out a counter-offensive.
“We will resettle and transfer up to 70,000 people” who are currently in a strip 15 kilometers deep to the east on the left bank of the Dnipro river, said the governor installed by Moscow in Kherson, Vladimir Saldo, in the Russian radio program Solovyov Live.
Last week, the pro-Russian occupation forces had already announced that 70,000 civilians had left, as a precaution, their homes located to the west on the right bank of the river and closer to the front line.
WATER AND ELECTRICITY “RESTORED” IN kyiv
The supply of water and electricity has been “restored” in the whole of kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, the day after Russian attacks which caused massive cuts, indicated Tuesday morning the mayor Vitali Klitschko. The water and electricity supply “has been fully restored”, he informed on Telegram. Massive Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure on Monday morning deprived 80% of the city’s inhabitants of water and cut power to 350,000 homes.
“DIRTY BOMB”: O. SCHOLZ REJECTS MOSCOW’S CHARGES
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Monday dismissed Russia’s accusations that Ukraine was preparing a “dirty bomb”. He shares the opinion of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that the inspections of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), requested by the kyiv regime and which have begun, will remove all doubts on this subject, indicated the German Chancellery in a statement after a telephone conversation between the two political leaders.
V. PUTIN CALLS ON kyiv TO DEMILITARIZE THE GRAIN CORRIDOR
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday called on Ukraine to guarantee the safety of ships using the corridor for grain exports, accusing it of being a “threat” after an attack that targeted the Russian fleet in Crimea on Saturday.
“Ukraine must guarantee that there will be no threat to the safety of civilian ships,” the Kremlin chief told a press conference, accusing the kyiv regime of using the grain corridor to the attack which he attributes to him and which justified his withdrawal from the agreement on Ukrainian exports.
TINKOFF FOUNDER RENOUNCES RUSSIAN NATIONALITY
Billionaire Oleg Tinkov, founder of the online bank Tinkoff, a great FinTech success of recent years, announced on Monday that he had renounced his Russian nationality because of the conflict in Ukraine, which he had strongly criticized. “I have made the decision to give up my Russian citizenship. I cannot and do not want to be associated with a fascist country which has started a war with its peaceful neighbor and which kills innocent people every day,” he said. writes on the Instagram social network.
“I hope other prominent Russian businessmen will follow my example, in order to weaken (Vladimir) Putin’s regime and its economy and ultimately defeat it,” he added. Oleg Tinkov accompanied his message with the photograph of a certificate from the Russian consulate confirming the end of his Russian citizenship. “I hate Putin’s Russia, but I love all Russians who are clearly against this crazy war!”, Concluded the billionaire banker.
MOSCOW TARGETS INFRASTRUCTURE WITH MASSIVE STRIKES
More than 80% of kyiv residents were without water and “hundreds of localities” in Ukraine were without electricity, after massive strikes Monday from Russia against infrastructure in several regions of the country. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, “all the strikes achieved their objective”.
Ukrainian Army Commander-in-Chief Valeriy Zaluzhnyi told Telegram that Russian forces launched 55 cruise missiles, one air-to-surface missile, 22 anti-aircraft missiles and 5 drones “against civilian targets on Monday. in Ukraine”. In the south of the country, “the enemy continues to undermine the directions of a possible offensive of our troops and to destroy critical infrastructure”, also indicated the Ukrainian general staff of the southern region in a press release.
“DIRTY BOMB”: IAEA INSPECTIONS IN UKRAINE
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced on Monday evening that it had begun its inspections in Ukraine, requested by this country after Russian President Vladimir Putin accused it of erasing evidence of the preparation of a “bomb dirty”. IAEA inspectors have “begun – and will soon complete – verifying the activities of two sites in Ukraine”, said the UN agency, based in Vienna.
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