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The fact of the day
One more tragedy. At least 51 people, including a child, were killed by a Russian strike in Groza, a village in eastern Ukraine, during a gathering on the sidelines of the funeral of one of its residents, authorities announced.
“There were villagers in the store and villagers in the cafe were also gathered” for a tribute to a deceased person, said Ukrainian Interior Ministry Igor Klymenko, specifying that Groza has 330 inhabitants. It could be the deadliest attack on the Kharkiv region since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022, said a spokesperson for the regional assembly cited by media.
The number of the day
7. Like the number of injured after the Russian strike in Groza. The toll is likely to rise because “five to seven people could be under the debris,” warned the Ukrainian Minister of the Interior. Twenty-nine dead have been identified, again according to Interior. Faced with this tragedy, the Ukrainian Minister of Defense requested more anti-aircraft aid.
Russian forces captured large swaths of the Kharkiv region in the first days of the invasion. The Ukrainian army then liberated almost all of this area in the fall during a lightning offensive in fall 2022, but this area and Kharkiv, a regional center and the country’s second city, come under regular bombardment .
Sentence of the day
When the stocks of weapons (Western weapons delivered to Ukraine) are exhausted, they will only have a week to live”
These are the words of Vladimir Putin. During the Valdai international forum, the Russian head of state estimated that weapons stocks “are also running out in Europe”. The head of the Kremlin also accused the West of creating “a “new iron curtain” with Russia.
Today’s trend
Bad news for kyiv. Slovakia has decided to freeze its decisions on military support for kyiv pending the new government, after the electoral success of parties opposed to aid to its Ukrainian neighbor.
“President (Zuzana) Caputova shares the view of (outgoing Prime Minister Ludovit) Odor, according to which the decision on this issue should reflect the results of recent parliamentary elections,” said a presidential spokesperson.
She entrusted the formation of the new government to the populist Robert Fico, opposed to military aid to Ukraine and considered pro-Russian. During his campaign, the politician swore that he would no longer send “a single bullet of ammunition” to Ukraine.