The city of Zaporizhia again hit by an air attack
The city of Zaporizhia in southeastern Ukraine was hit by a Russian airstrike overnight, city council secretary Anatoly Kurtev said on Monday.
“According to preliminary data, there was no damage and no injuries,” he added. on Telegram.
Ukrainian presidency denounces “attack by suicide drones”
According to the chief of staff of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the explosions heard in the early morning on Monday in kyiv are due to “an attack by kamikaze drones”.
Two explosions heard in kyiv
Two explosions were heard Monday morning in kyiv, exactly one week after Russian strikes on the Ukrainian capital, AFP journalists noted.
The two explosions took place around 6:35 a.m. and 6:45 a.m. local time (4:35 a.m. and 4:45 a.m. French time). The air alert sirens had sounded shortly before.
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Macron calls on Berlin for European “solidarity”
French President Emmanuel Macron called on Germany on Sunday for European “solidarity” in the face of soaring energy prices, warning against the “distortions” of competition to which the massive German plan to help households and individuals could drive.
“We cannot stick to national policies because that creates distortions within the European continent,” he said in an interview with French daily Les Echos to be published on Monday.
War in Ukraine and inflation push millions of children into poverty
The war in Ukraine, and the resulting rise in the cost of living, has pushed millions more children into poverty in Eastern Europe and Central Asia in recent months, warns a study by the United Nations Development Fund. childhood (Unicef) published on Monday.
Stepping up of European Union military support for Ukraine
The European Union is stepping up its military support for Ukraine with the launch on Monday of a mission to train 15,000 Ukrainian soldiers on its territory and the granting of a new allocation of 500 million euros for the supply of weapons.
“This is a great first for the EU,” commented a European official. “We have never conducted a mission on this scale”.
The foreign ministers of the 27 member countries will endorse these two decisions on Monday at a meeting in Luxembourg and the mission will be immediately operational, a diplomatic source said.
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