Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered nuclear exercises to be held “in the near future.”They will notably involve troops based near Ukraine, in response to “threats” from Western leaders towards Moscow.Follow the latest information on the conflict.
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NUCLEAR EXERCISES
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered nuclear exercises “in the near future” involving troops based near Ukraine, in response to “threats” from Western leaders towards Moscow, the Defense Ministry announced on Monday .
“During the exercise, a series of measures will be taken to train in the preparation and use of non-strategic nuclear weapons,” the ministry said in a statement posted on Telegram. This training aims to “maintain the preparation” of the army, following “provocative statements and threats by certain Western officials against Russia”, he added.
SIX DEAD IN RUSSIA
At least six people were killed and 35 others injured in a Ukrainian attack by explosive drones on the Russian region of Belgorod, bordering Ukraine and regularly targeted by strikes by Kiev forces, announced Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. “Two small trucks (…), which were transporting employees to their workplace, and a car were attacked by the Ukrainian army using kamikaze drones,” he detailed on Telegram. “Six people died” and “35 people were injured, including two children suffering from superficial injuries,” he added.
CAUGHT OF WAR
In Moscow, Russian power displays its war spoils. A report can be found here:
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XI JINPING
Xi Jinping arrived in Paris yesterday for a two-day state visit. He should notably meet Emmanuel Macron to discuss several issues, including the war in Ukraine. In a column in “Figaro”, the President of the People’s Republic of China said he wanted to play “a constructive role”.
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Several Russian strikes left three people dead and sixteen injured on Sunday in eastern and northeastern Ukraine, particularly in Kharkiv, the country’s second city, which is very regularly targeted, local authorities said.
A rocket attack killed two people in Pokrovsk, in the Donetsk region (east), its governor, Vadim Filashkin, said in a message on Telegram. The locality is about 60 km northwest of the city of Donetsk, the capital of the Russian-held region and whose annexation Moscow claims.
A third person died in a Russian strike against Monachynivkan, according to the governor of the Kharkiv region (northeast), Oleg Synegoubov. The body of an 88-year-old woman was “out of the rubble” of a house, he said. Earlier, Oleg Synegubov announced that another attack had left at least ten injured in Kharkiv.
He claimed on Telegram that Moscow forces had hit the center of the city with “a guided aerial bomb”. The Russian army is intensifying the use of these guided bombs dropped by plane, with very destructive power and equipped with fins allowing them to glide to increase their range of action.
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The attacks took place as Orthodox Christians in Ukraine and Russia celebrate Easter. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky issued a video message on Sunday from Saint Sophia Cathedral in kyiv, in the center of the capital. Having swapped his usual military clothing for a traditional Ukrainian shirt, he spoke of God as a “ally” of Ukraine. “With such an ally, life will definitely conquer death”did he declare.