uncertainty over the fate of Soledar; bombings in kyiv and the Kharkiv region

• Russia claimed on Friday that its forces have fully conquered the town of Soledara “liberation” judged “important for the continuation of offensive operations” in the Donetsk region, the Russian Defense Ministry said. The Russian army hailed the ” courage “ fighters from the paramilitary group Wagner in the clashes, a rare sign of recognition between these two structures often in rivalry.
• For its part, the Ukrainian army denied the loss of Soledar. The president, Volodymyr Zelensky, assured in the evening that “The hard battle for the Donetsk region continues, the battle for Bakhmout and Soledar, for Kreminna, for other towns and villages in the east of our country continues. »
• To face the Russian army, kyiv has again called on its Western allies to provide it with more weapons and high-performance military equipment. “Besides Poland and Finland, three other countries are ready to transfer tanks to us, but they will only announce this publicly if they are sure that Germany will support this decision”affirmed Dmytro Kuleba, the Ukrainian foreign minister.
• The United Nations (UN) Security Council met again to discuss the situation in Ukraine on Friday. “Ukraine, Russia, the world cannot afford this war to continue”insisted UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo. But “it is the military logic that dominates, with very little room for dialogue at the moment, if there is even the slightest”she added, not seeing “no sign of an end to the fighting”.
• NATO announced on Friday the deployment of Awacs surveillance aircraft in Romania from Tuesday, to support its reinforced presence in the region and “monitoring Russian military activity”.
• The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), already present in the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant occupied by the Russian army, will send experts to the other Ukrainian sites in the coming days. and eventually triple their number.

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