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news of the day
A Russian official has accused Ukraine of carrying out a helicopter attack on an “oil depot” in the western Russian city of Belgorod, about 40 kilometers from the Ukrainian border on Friday .
“It is clear that we cannot consider this as something that will create the appropriate conditions for the continuation of negotiations”, reacted Dmitry Peskov, spokesperson for the Russian presidency. For its part, kyiv refused to confirm the strike.
sentence of the day
“If confirmed, beating and shooting captured combatants in the legs would constitute a war crime”
The NGO Human Rights Watch has called on the Ukrainian authorities to investigate potential “war crimes” against Russian prisoners, after the broadcast of images appearing to show Ukrainian soldiers shooting them in the legs.
The number of the day
7.5%. The inflation rate in the eurozone hit a new high in March, at 7.5% year on year, according to Eurostat, as the war in Ukraine has further accelerated soaring energy prices.
The trend of the day
Russian-Ukrainian talks aimed at ending the conflict resumed on Friday by videoconference, according to Kremlin negotiator Vladimir Medinsky. Ukraine is still waiting for a “real response to the proposals that were made in Istanbul” earlier this week.
kyiv had notably proposed the neutrality of Ukraine and to renounce joining NATO, provided that its security was guaranteed by other countries against Russia. Moscow had promised to reduce its military activity in the country to concentrate on the Donbass, but fighting and bombardments continue to rage.
A bog down of the Russian forces seems however to be confirmed on the military ground. In the kyiv region, the villages of Sloboda and Lukashivka were taken over by Ukrainian troops. As for the East, “Russian forces have failed to take any territory for twenty-four hours,” according to the American Institute for the Study of War (ISW).