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news of the day
Russia claimed responsibility for the destruction of a landing ship in Odessa, southern Ukraine, on Wednesday. The “Yuri Olefirenko” is presented by Moscow as the “last” warship of the Ukrainian navy still operational. “The 29 [mai], as a result of a high-precision weapons strike by the Russian Aerospace Forces on the docking area of military boats in the port of Odessa, the last warship of the Ukrainian Navy, the “Yuri Olefirenko”, was destroyed,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. The claim has not been independently confirmed and the Ukrainian Navy has not responded yet.
sentence of the day
Putin woke up NATO with the worst electroshock. »
It is a declaration of the French president. Emmanuel Macron had judged in 2019 that NATO was in a state of “brain death”. “We must now help Ukraine by all means to carry out an effective counter-offensive,” said the French head of state at the Globsec forum in Bratislava.
The number of the day
5. This is the number of dead that have been recorded by the Russian authorities after a night bombardment on a poultry farm in the Ukrainian occupied region of Lugansk. Moscow also lists 19 wounded and accuses kyiv of being behind the attack.
The trend of the day
Russia began Wednesday the evacuation of children from localities bordering Ukraine intensively bombarded for several days, and where the Kremlin considered the situation “alarming”. Attacks have been mounting on Russian soil for weeks, culminating in an unprecedented drone assault on Moscow on Tuesday and a spectacular armed incursion last week into the Belgorod region bordering Ukraine.
On Wednesday, the governor of Belgorod announced the start of the evacuation of children from two localities in the region which came under heavy artillery and mortar fire. “Today, a first group of 300 children will be sent to Voronezh”, a town located some 250 km northeast of Belgorod, therefore further from the Ukrainian border, declared Viatcheslav Gladkov.
The decision was taken due to the “deteriorating” situation in the region, which suffered some 260 mortar and artillery fire on Tuesday alone, he added. One person was killed on Tuesday evening and four people were injured in other “massive” strikes overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday, Vyacheslav Gladkov said. “We are really concerned about this situation. The shelling of civilian targets continues” in Belgorod, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday.