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News of the day
After the Wagner group yesterday, it was the Russian army which announced that it had completed the conquest of Soledar at the end of the morning. “The liberation of the town of Soledar, which is important for the continuation of offensive operations” in the Donetsk region was completed on January 12 in the evening, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
In this small town near Bakhmout, which has become the epicenter of the war in Ukraine for a few days, “heavy fighting is still taking place”, indicates kyiv. “The Ukrainian armed forces are keeping the situation under control in difficult conditions,” spokesman for the Eastern Command of the Ukrainian army, Sergiy Cherevaty, told Ukrainian television, assuring that the city was still under Ukrainian control.
sentence of the day
We received with great concern the information concerning the critical state of health of Alexei Navalny. »
Germany called on Moscow for “immediate” medical treatment of the opponent, targeted in 2020 by poisoning attributed to the Russian security services. Alexei Navalny, 46, said on Wednesday that he suffered from flu-like symptoms and was deprived of satisfactory access to care, his supporters denouncing an attempt by the Kremlin to “kill” him slowly.
He says he has to lead “a fierce struggle” to obtain “basic medicines” and was refused hospitalization in the medical unit of his prison, located 200 km from Moscow. “What happens to Navalny can apply to all those in Russia who raise their voices against the regime” of President Vladimir Putin, warned the spokesperson for the German government.
The number of the day
-20°C. This is the temperature that prevails in the north of Sweden, beyond the Arctic Circle. A space center has been set up there, from which a satellite is to be launched in the coming months, a first on the European continent. A challenge that responds to the objective of European independence on the space issue, while Russia has broken off its cooperation with Europe and the Vega rocket engines are manufactured in Ukraine.
The trend of the day
The heads of French and German diplomacy on Friday called on African countries to condemn Russian aggression in Ukraine, while insisting on the EU’s desire to intensify its relations with the African Union. “It is important to remember that there is an aggressor and an attacked and it is important that everyone tells the aggressor that he must stop his aggression,” French Minister Catherine Colonna said in Addis Ababa. Same message delivered by her German counterpart Annalena Baerbock: “Peace in Europe is under attack, […] we need you, we need Africa to defend peace”.