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The fact of the day
Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow on Thursday of preparing a “terrorist attack” involving a radioactive leak at the Zaporozhye power plant, occupied by Russian troops in southern Ukraine. “They have prepared everything for this,” said the Ukrainian President on Telegram.
“It’s a new lie. We have just had contacts with the International Atomic Energy Agency,” whose director Rafael Grossi visited the Zaporozhye power plant last week, replied Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov. The destruction in May of the Kakhovka dam raised concerns about the sustainability of the basin used to cool the six reactors of Europe’s largest power plant.
sentence of the day
I propose that we focus in Vilnius on what is now a top priority, namely strengthening Ukraine’s combat capability”
This is a statement by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. On Thursday, he called on the leaders of the NATO countries, who will meet in July in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, to focus on strengthening military aid to Ukraine. “The Ukrainian government has itself declared that there is no question of joining NATO as long as Russia is waging its war against Ukraine,” he explained.
The number of the day
60 billion. This is the total amount of new financial support received by Ukraine to rebuild its economy at the end of an international conference on its reconstruction organized in London. The bulk of the commitments comes from a 50 billion euro aid package that the European Union has planned to release until 2027. The United States has also announced support of 1.3 billion dollars. (about 1.2 billion euros) of aid.
The trend of the day
This is the “list of shame”. Russian armed forces and “affiliated” armed groups have been added to the UN list of violations of children’s rights in conflict for their actions in Ukraine.
“I am particularly shocked by the high number of attacks against schools, hospitals and protected personnel, and by the large number of deaths and maimings of children attributed to Russian forces and affiliated armed groups”, underlines Antonio Guterres in this report which will be released next week. “I am appalled by the high number of grave violations committed against children in Ukraine after the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation,” he said.
According to the report that was distributed to members of the Security Council on Thursday, the UN confirmed the number of 477 children killed in Ukraine in 2022, including 136 deaths attributed to Russian forces and affiliated groups and 80 to Ukrainian armed forces, and 909 cases. mutilated children, including 518 attributed to Russian forces and affiliated groups and 175 to Ukrainian forces.