Did you miss the latest events on the war in Ukraine? 20 minutes takes stock for you every evening at 7:30 p.m. 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
A double attack by missiles and then by Russian drones left six dead and more than a dozen injured during the night from Friday to Saturday in Kharkiv (north-east), Ukraine’s second city, according to the authorities. Elsewhere in Ukraine, several Russian strikes in the Donetsk region this Saturday afternoon left “three dead and two injured”, according to regional authorities.
In Kharkiv, “six people were killed and 11 injured following the nighttime enemy missile attack,” the Kharkiv prosecutor’s office said on social media this Saturday morning. “At around 12:20 a.m. (10:20 p.m. GMT), Russian armed forces launched their missiles at the residential district of Shevchenkivskyi,” located in the north of the city, he said, adding that the attack had damaged “buildings , administrative buildings, dormitories, a nursery, shops and cafes.”
“At around 12:20 a.m. (10:20 p.m. GMT), Russian armed forces launched their missiles at the residential district of Shevchenkivskyi,” located in the north of the city, he said, adding that the attack had damaged “buildings , administrative buildings, dormitories, a nursery, shops and cafes.”
The number of the day
Four. At least four people were killed on Friday and around twenty others injured in a Russian missile strike on Zaporizhia, a large city in southern Ukraine, announced the governor of the eponymous region, Ivan Fedorov. A previous report, provided by Ivan Fedorov on Telegram, reported three dead and thirteen injured. According to Ukrainian authorities, Russia carried out a double strike, a type of attack that involves bombing a location first, then a second time when emergency services and the press arrived on site.
Today’s statement
“ Companies, especially Chinese ones, must not provide material support to Russia’s war against Ukraine, to the Russian defense industry. »
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Saturday warned Chinese companies from providing aid to Russia and its defense industry in the war in Ukraine. Visiting China since Thursday, she stressed that “companies, particularly Chinese, must not provide material support to Russia’s war against Ukraine, to the Russian defense industry” and threatened “significant consequences » those who would do so, according to a press release from the US Treasury.
Today’s trend
Slovaks are voting this Saturday for the second round of a presidential election that is closer than ever, against a backdrop of war in neighboring Ukraine. According to the latest polls, the two candidates, the former diplomat Ivan Korcok, pro-Western, and Peter Pellegrini, close to the government skeptical of kyiv, are neck and neck to replace the liberal Zuzana Caputova.
Peter Pellegrini, 48-year-old President of Parliament, is credited with 51% of voting intentions, compared to 49% for Ivan Korcok, 60, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, according to the Focus institute.
Russia’s invasion of neighboring Ukraine has become an unavoidable element of the electoral campaign in this country of 5.4 million inhabitants, particularly since populist Prime Minister Robert Fico, an ally of Peter Pellegrini, questioned causes Kiev’s sovereignty and called for peace with Moscow.