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Admitted under a neutral banner to the 2024 Paris Olympics, Russian and Belarusian athletes will not parade on the Seine during the opening ceremony on July 26, the International Olympic Committee ruled on Tuesday March 19. It was the last major decision expected from the IOC after two years of twists and turns linked to the Russian invasion of Ukraine: first banned from world sport, the Russians and Belarusians were admitted to the Games last year under strict conditions. , but with a protocol that remained to be defined.
The Kremlin wants to “punish” pro-kyiv Russian fighters. Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian security services, the FSB, to “to punish” pro-kyiv Russian fighters carrying out attacks in regions of Russia bordering Ukraine, calling them“garbage” and of “traitors”, Tuesday. “We must not forget who they are, identify them by name. We will punish them in an imprescriptible manner, wherever they are”warned the Russian president, in a speech to the heads of this service that he himself headed in the 1990s.
The Russian army claims the capture of the village of Orlivka, a new advance in eastern Ukraine. This capture comes at a time when the Ukrainian army is short of men and ammunition due to the running out of American aid. The Russian Ministry of Defense specifies that it has also “improved his positions” in the area around this village, northwest of the town of Avdiïvka, conquered by the Russian army in February.
US ‘won’t let Ukraine down’, US Defense Secretary promises. “We are determined to provide Ukraine with all the resources it needs to resist Russian aggression,” Lloyd Austin told reporters. This commitment comes despite the blocking of American aid in Congress in due to the reluctance of Republican elected officials supporting former President Donald Trump.