Did you miss the latest events on the war in Ukraine? 20 minutes takes stock for you every evening. Between the strong declarations, the advances on the front and the results of the battles, here are the main points of the day.
The fact of the day
Present this Saturday at the celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the siege of Leningrad (present-day Saint Petersburg) by the German army during the Second World War, Vladimir Putin repeated that he wanted to “do everything” to “definitively eradicate the Nazism.” A statement that indirectly but clearly targets Ukraine. Indeed, by launching his troops on Ukrainian soil almost two years ago, the head of the Kremlin said he wanted to “demilitarize” and “denazify” this former Soviet republic, led according to him by neo-Nazis. “The kyiv regime continues to glorify Hitler’s accomplices […] and to resort to terror against all those who do not please him,” Putin reiterated on Saturday. We tell you more here (click on the link)
Sentence of the day
We deliver weapons to Ukraine for a victory in which unfortunately even the Ukrainian generals no longer believe […]. This war must be ended and very quickly through negotiations
Sahra Wagenknecht, the co-president of the BWS, the new German radical left populist party, which bears her name, was acclaimed this Saturday during the movement’s first congress. In front of the 450 founding members, she called for negotiations with Moscow to end the war in Ukraine. She also pleads for Germany to stop its arms deliveries to kyiv.
The number of the day
2. Two Ukrainian civilians were shot dead in their village, bordering Russia, during an incursion by a group of Russian soldiers, local authorities announced. The attack occurred in the Sumy region. Ukraine’s Prosecutor General said the victims were a 54-year-old man and a 68-year-old woman and that they were traveling in a car.
Although infrequent, this type of attack has occurred from time to time since the start of the war.
Today’s trend
“Check this info”…. We knew “Doppelganger”, now here is “Matriochka”. Since September, online disinformation attributed to Russia no longer consists only of relaying anti-Ukrainian fake news, but also of directly calling on Western media to encourage them to verify it.
This modus operandi was nicknamed the “Matriochka” or “Russian dolls” operation by the “Antibot4Navalny” collective, which tracks influence operations linked to Russia on the X platform. We tell you more in this article ( click on the link).