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news of the day
The noose is tightening in Bakhmout. The paramilitary group Wagner on Wednesday claimed the capture of the eastern part of the city, at the heart of fighting for months. “The Wagner units have taken (…) everything east of the Bakhmoutka river,” said the group’s boss Evguéni Prigojine, in a message published by his press service.
sentence of the day
The recent shocking images of a Ukrainian soldier apparently summarily killed are another tragic reminder that the laws of war must be strictly adhered to. »
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has denounced the execution of a soldier, whose video has gone viral. We see a man in a military uniform, unarmed, smoking a cigarette, being riddled with bullets after having proclaimed “Glory to Ukraine!” “. The video “seems authentic”, indicated the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, recalling that it had “documented numerous violations of international humanitarian law against prisoners of war, including cases of summary executions of Russian and Ukrainian prisoners of war”.
The number of the day
23 million. Like the number of tons of cereals exported from Ukraine thanks to the agreement concluded with Russia last July. The UN Secretary General has deemed it “essential” to extend the text, which expires on March 18. “It has helped bring down the global cost of food and has provided crucial assistance to people who are also paying a heavy price in this war, especially in developing countries,” said Antonio Guterres during a visit to Kiev.
The trend of the day
Bakhmout could soon fall into the hands of Russian forces, as NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg himself admits. “We cannot exclude that Bakhmout will finally fall in the coming days,” he said on the sidelines of a meeting of European defense ministers in Stockholm. The fall of the city would leave “the way clear” to the Russian army in eastern Ukraine, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “This does not necessarily reflect any turning point in the war,” tempered Jens Stoltenberg. “But it underlines that we should not underestimate Russia. We must continue to support Ukraine. »