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news of the day
There was more fear than harm. On the night of Wednesday to Thursday, a motorist hit the vehicle transporting the Ukrainian president through kyiv. Immediately inspected by caregivers, Volodymyr Zelensky was not injured in the accident. “In kyiv, an automobile collided with the car of the President of Ukraine and vehicles [de son] escort,” Serguii Nikiforov said in a statement posted on Facebook Thursday at 1:22 a.m. local time (12:22 a.m. in Paris).
“The doctors accompanying the president provided emergency assistance to the driver of the automobile and transferred him to an ambulance,” he continued. “The president was examined by a doctor, no serious injuries were detected. The police will investigate all the circumstances of the accident, ”he also said, without further details.
sentence of the day
The priority issue for us is the integration of Ukraine into the EU common market”
This is a statement by Volodymyr Zelensky this Thursday, during a joint press conference with the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, visiting kyiv. The Ukrainian leader took advantage of this third visit to insist on his wish that Ukraine integrate this system where goods, services and capital can circulate freely between countries.
The number of the day
100 m3. It is the quantity of water that pours every second at the point of impact of a hydraulic infrastructure victim of a Russian bombardment. Because of this strike, the city of 600,000 inhabitants, Kryvyi Rig, is threatened with flooding. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a native of this city located west of Zaporozhye, had denounced an “attempt to flood Kryvyi Rig”, according to him.
The trend of the day
Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin met on Thursday on the sidelines of a Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Uzbekistan. It is their first meeting since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and President Xi’s first trip abroad since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Chinese president took the opportunity to assure that his country was ready to work with Moscow for mutual support of their “fundamental interests”, Chinese state media reported. For his part, Vladimir Putin denounced Western attempts to create a “unipolar world” and welcomed Beijing’s “balanced position” on Ukraine.
The leaders promised each other mutual support for their “fundamental interests”, in full tension with the West, exacerbated by the war in Ukraine but also by American diplomacy towards Taiwan.