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The fact of the day
Vladimir Putin went on Tuesday to large-scale military maneuvers involving several allied countries (Belarus, Syria, India and China), in the Russian Far East. According to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, quoted by Russian news agencies, Vladimir Putin arrived at the Sergeyevsky military training ground, one of the sites of these exercises, dubbed Vostok-2022 (Orient-2022) .
The Vostok-2022 drills kicked off last Thursday with combat aircraft maneuvers, anti-aircraft unit moves and mine clearance simulations in the Sea of Japan, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. They must take place until September 7. According to Moscow, more than 50,000 soldiers, more than 5,000 pieces of arms and military equipment, including 140 aircraft and 60 warships and support ships, must be mobilized during these exercises.
sentence of the day
“Europe is reaping what it has sown. Europe’s attitude towards Vladimir Putin and the sanctions have led him, whether we like it or not, to say: “if you do this, I will do this”. »
These are the words of Recep Tayyip Erdogan pronounced during a press conference in Ankara. The Turkish president thus blamed the energy crisis in Europe on the sanctions taken against Russia, taking up an argument from the Kremlin brandished the day before.
The number of the day
326. This is, in billions of dollars, the estimated cost of the war in Ukraine, according to an initial assessment by Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Chmyhal. More than 100 billion directly relate to the reconstruction of infrastructures destroyed by the war.
The trend of the day
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has come out in favor of setting up a “safety zone” to prevent a nuclear accident at the Ukrainian power plant in Zaporozhye, occupied for six months by the Russians . “It is urgent to take provisional measures”, writes the UN body in a 52-page report made public on Tuesday, advocating “the establishment of a nuclear security and protection zone” of this complex in the south of the ‘Ukraine.
“The bombardments on the site and in the surrounding area must stop immediately to avoid causing further damage to the installations”, she insisted, underlining “the extremely stressful conditions” in which the Ukrainian personnel work, under the control Russian soldiers. “The current situation is untenable,” summarized the IAEA, this plant having been affected in recent weeks, at the risk of causing a serious nuclear accident, by multiple strikes for which kyiv and Moscow accuse each other.