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The fact of the day
The funeral of Yevgueni Prigojine took place on Tuesday. Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced his intention not to go there, as he has considered the leader of Wagner a traitor since his failed rebellion attempt in June. “The farewell to Evgueni Viktorovitch took place in private. People wishing to say goodbye can go to the Porokhovskoye cemetery” in Saint Petersburg, his company, Concord, said on Telegram. This is the company’s first message since Wagner’s failed rebellion.
The number of the day
Eleven. This is the number of years in prison that two Russian journalists received on Tuesday, in absentia. They are accused of having disseminated “false information” on the army, a new illustration of the repressions in progress in Russia. Ruslan Leviev and Michael Nacke are accused of having posted on YouTube in March 2022, just after the Russian assault on Ukraine, a video containing “false information” about the Russian army and authorities, according to a press release from the floor on Telegram.
sentence of the day
You are the children of great Russia, of great saints, of kings, of Peter the Great, of Catherine II, of a Russian people of great culture and great humanity. »
This is a statement by Pope Francis, delivered by videoconference to a group of young believers gathered in a church in Saint Petersburg. “You are the heirs of the great mother Russia”, he added, provoking the indignation of the Ukrainian government. Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko called the pope’s language “very unfortunate” and said it was “with this kind of imperialist propaganda […] that the Kremlin justifies the murder of thousands of Ukrainians and the destruction of hundreds of Ukrainian towns and villages”.
The trend of the day
kyiv’s counter-offensive continues even if it remains sluggish. Ukrainian troops pushed deeper into Russian defense lines near Robotyne, a village on the southern front whose liberation was demanded on Monday, a Ukrainian army spokesman said on Tuesday. “Ukrainian forces have recorded successes in the direction of Novodanylivka and Verbove”, two localities located in the Zaporizhzhia region, Andriy Kovalyov told state media, adding that the troops were holding captured territory and attacking artillery Russian.
The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed in its daily report that it had repelled two Ukrainian attacks near Verbove and others on different sectors of the southern front, without directly mentioning the situation in Robotyne. The Ukrainian army has been leading a very difficult counter-offensive in the east and south since June and has so far only taken over a few villages.