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.
Russian bombings killed at least two people and injured one in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian authorities said on Saturday, saying they destroyed nine enemy drones overnight.
The town of Krasnohorivka, located very close to the front, was under “enemy fire during the night and morning,” regional governor Vadym Filachkin said on Telegram.
These shots killed a 70-year-old woman and a 73-year-old man, and injured another, he said, calling on the last civilians present to flee the city.
In the Dnipropetrovsk region (central-south), a 36-year-old man injured the day before in a strike died in hospital and another is still hospitalized, said regional manager Serhiy Lyssak.
In the last 24 hours, a man was killed after driving his tractor over an unidentified explosive device, during agricultural work near Topolyne, in the Kherson region (south), Ukrainian police said on Saturday.
The number of the day.
5,000. This is the number of children who were evacuated from the Russian region of Belgorod, bordering Ukraine, after weeks of bombing carried out by kyiv, the region’s governor announced on Saturday.
Regional authorities announced last week that 9,000 miners would be transferred to other regions after a series of cross-border bombings and drone strikes killed more than a dozen civilians.
Today’s statement
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Renew MEP Nathalie Loiseau on Saturday singled out “the European extreme right”, notably “German and French”, some representatives of which in the European Parliament are suspected of having received money from Russia as part of ‘a network of influence.
The scandal arose on Wednesday after the announcement by the Czech intelligence services of the dismantling of a network financed by Moscow, which spread pro-Russian propaganda on Ukraine via the Voice of Europe site, and extended its influence “all the way to Parliament European”, without further details. Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo spoke on Thursday of the case of “parliamentarians receiving money”, without their identity being known.
We learn not only “that a certain number of European parliamentarians went” to Voice of Europe “to echo Russian propaganda” but also “that some would have been paid to do so”, was outraged on Saturday on franceinfo Nathalie Loiseau.
“I would like to point out that these parliamentarians who went there, who were interviewed by Voice of Europe, all belong to the European, German and French extreme right,” she assured.