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news of the day
The Russian army announced Tuesday “massive strikes” on all fronts in response to the dazzling counter-offensive by Ukrainian troops. The Russian bombardments have so far killed eight people and injured 19 in twenty-four hours in the population of the regions of Kharkiv (northeast) and Donetsk (east), said the Ukrainian presidency.
“Russian air, ballistic and artillery forces are carrying out massive strikes against Ukrainian Armed Forces units in all operational areas,” the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. In particular, he mentioned shelling near Sloviansk, Konstantinivka and Bakhmout in eastern Ukraine, as well as in the southern regions of Mykolaiv and Zaporozhye and in that of Kharkiv, from where Russian soldiers have almost completely withdrawn in the face of Ukrainian advances.
sentence of the day
“Ukraine can win the war if we support it more”
This is a phrase from former French President François Hollande who pleads for constant financial and military support for kyiv and so that “Russia understands that its interest is to go as quickly as possible to negotiations and to stop this war”. He also expressed concern this Tuesday, in his intervention on BFMTV, about the attitude of Vladimir Putin who is strongly committed to this invasion.
The number of the day
500,000. This is the number of doses of the Covid-19 vaccine that the Swedish government has decided to donate to Ukraine, in response to kyiv’s requests for medical equipment.
The trend of the day
The pressure is growing on Olaf Scholz, in kyiv as well as within his own government coalition, to deliver combat tanks likely to complete the successes of the Ukrainian counter-offensive. The head of Ukrainian diplomacy openly expressed on Tuesday his bitterness towards the German chancellor and his supposed reluctance to send new heavy weapons.
“Disappointing signals from Germany as Ukraine now needs Leopard and Marder tanks to liberate our people and save them from genocide,” Dmytro Kouleba said on Twitter. “There is not a single rational argument that justifies why these weapons cannot be delivered, only abstract fears and excuses. What does Berlin fear that kyiv does not fear? “, he hammered.
The pressure on Olaf Scholz, whose popularity rating remains mediocre, is also increasing in Germany itself. The conservative union CDU-CSU has thus put on its costume of first opponent to criticize the reserves of Chancellor Scholz. More embarrassing for the ex-mayor of Hamburg: voices are rising within his coalition to demand the sending of tanks.