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The fact of the day
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has landed in Athens for an official visit, the services of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced, adding that he would attend an informal dinner with European and Balkan leaders.
Zelensky, who was this weekend in Sweden, the Netherlands and Denmark, continues his surprise tour of Europe in a country that has been a strong supporter of Ukraine since the invasion of Russia. In Copenhagen on Monday, Volodymyr Zelensky said he was convinced that Russia would lose the war, while Denmark and the Netherlands announced the upcoming delivery of F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine. “Today, we are convinced that Russia will lose this war,” he told the crowd gathered near Parliament. For his part, the Russian ambassador to Denmark condemned Denmark’s decision to deliver these fighter jets, believing that this led to an “escalation of the conflict”.
The number of the day
15,000. This is the number of school psychologists trained by Unesco to deal with the impact of the war on the mental health of Ukrainian pupils and teachers, traumatized by the Russian invasion of their country in February 2022. According to the Unesco, 75% of Ukrainian schoolchildren have suffered from stress and 26% of adolescents have post-traumatic stress syndrome. The training program started on Monday.
sentence of the day
The pontiff is obviously very concerned about the hundreds of thousands of people who have been killed or injured and the innocent civilian lives that have been taken. He is very interested in my point of view on the situation and the unfolding of the war, as well as on the tragedy unfolding in Ukraine. »
These are the words of the American Chief of Staff. Mark Milley was received by the Pope at the Vatican on Monday and told reporters about his meeting on board an American military plane following the interview. Mark Milley, a practicing Catholic, also said he and the pontiff discussed other topics, and “talked a lot about Africa.
The trend of the day
Ukraine has retaken in one week 3 km2 from Russian forces near Bakhmout, captured by Russian forces in May at the cost of a particularly long and deadly battle, said a deputy defense minister. “An additional three square kilometers were liberated” towards Bakhmout last week, Ganna Maliar told Ukrainian television, assuring that his forces had taken over 43 km2 since June. “In the south, the situation has not changed significantly, our defenders continue to advance towards (the occupied cities) of Berdiansk and Melitopol,” she added, without specifying whether concrete gains were made there. made.
Ukraine has been engaged since the beginning of June in a vast counter-offensive to try to liberate the regions occupied by Moscow. This operation has so far achieved only modest gains, with the capture of a handful of villages after more than two months of fighting. In northeastern Ukraine, in the Kupiansk area, the only place on the front where Russian forces are attacking, Ganna Maliar assured that the Ukrainian line was holding firm, while evacuations of civilians began.
The Russian Ministry of Defense told him in its daily report that troops from Moscow have further “improved” their positions in this sector. According to him, the Russian army also repelled Ukrainian attacks near the village of Ourojaïné, captured by Ukraine last week, and that of Robotyne, another hot spot on the southern front.