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RECONSTRUCTION
Huge 3D printers are used in Ukraine to help with the reconstruction. LCI teams monitored one of these sites, with a school emerging from the ground in the space of a few days.
KAZAKHSTAN
Kazakhstan on Friday swept away the possibility of integrating a closer union on the model of that existing between Russia and Belarus. “Kazakhstan has no intention of creating or joining a union of states, whatever it may be,” insists the spokesman for President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev.
UPDATE ON THE SITUATION
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Thursday that Russia had started transferring nuclear weapons to his country. For its part, Moscow does not relax the pressure and continues to carry out night bombardments on kyiv. Here are the highlights of the past 24 hours.
JEAN FRANCOIS COLOSIMO
“We fear a real freezing of the front: over 50 years? a century? Putin has missed everything except one thing: he has this strip on the Black Sea while keeping Crimea”, estimated this Friday Jean-François Colosimo, historian, author of “The Crucifixion of Ukraine”, on LCI.
RUSSIAN NUCLEAR WEAPONS TRANSFERRED TO BELARUS
“There is the prospect of the Ukrainian counter-offensive which is becoming clearer, without knowing its contours. It is a threat, once again!”, Estimated this Friday Jean-François Colosimo, historian, author of ” The Crucifixion of Ukraine”, on LCI. And to add: “It is not a military threat, but a political one. He seeks to sanctuary his political power.”
JEAN FRANCOIS COLOSIMO
“The more this war spreads, the less Putin is really connected to what is happening in this war”, estimated this Friday Jean-François Colosimo, historian, author of “The Crucifixion of Ukraine”, on LCI. And to insist: “Putin is not crazy, but he is losing reality.”
IMPORTS FROM UKRAINE
The European Union agreed on Thursday to suspend restrictions on imports from Ukraine for another year, reports The Guardian. A decision welcomed by Volodymyr Zelensky, pledging to respect the standards of the European Union to obtain membership of the 27.
As a reminder, in June 2022, the EU had lifted customs duties and other restrictions for an initial period of 12 months.
BOMBING ON kyiv
Russian forces bombed kyiv again overnight from Thursday to Friday, the city’s civil-military administration said, saying all the missiles were intercepted and destroyed. “Another air attack on kyiv, the 13th in a row since the beginning of May! And as always, at night,” the administration lambasted on its Telegram account. According to her, cruise missiles were launched by Tu-95MS strategic bombers from the Caspian Sea region. “According to preliminary information, all enemy targets in Kyiv airspace have been detected and destroyed,” she added.
NEW SANCTIONS IN JAPAN
Tokyo said on Friday it had imposed additional sanctions on Russia, in accordance with the commitment of the G7 countries at their summit in Hiroshima (western Japan) at the end of last week. The country of the rising sun will thus put in place the freezing of assets of 17 nationals and 78 Russian organizations, as well as the ban on the export of goods and services to 80 Russian entities, announced government spokesman Hirokazu Matsuno .
SCHOLZ-PUTIN
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said he was ready on Friday to resume contact “when the time comes” about Ukraine with Russian President Vladimir Putin, with whom he has not spoken since December. “It’s been a while since my last phone conversation. But when the time comes, I intend to talk to Putin again,” the leader said.
Nevertheless, “Russia must understand that it cannot be about sealing some kind of cold peace, which would see the current front line become the new border between Russia and Ukraine, this would only legitimize the expedition criminal Putin,” he warns.
AN IMPOSSIBLE RUSSIAN MILITARY VICTORY
Russia will not win the war in Ukraine by military means alone, US Chief of Staff General Mark Milley reiterated, warning that it is also unlikely that Kiev will manage to quickly expel all Russian forces from its territory. territory.
The initial objectives of Russia, which were in particular to overthrow the Ukrainian government, “are not achievable by military means, it will not work”, judged the highest ranking American. On the other hand, there are currently hundreds of thousands of Russian troops in Ukraine, which makes the Ukrainian goal of reclaiming all of its territory unlikely “in the short term”, he continued.
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