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news of the day
A few days after the withdrawal of Russian forces, Volodymyr Zelensky was visiting the city of Kherson on Monday. Greeted by an enthusiastic crowd and surrounded by civilian and military officials, he watched the flag raising and sang the Ukrainian anthem, hand on heart. According to photos posted on his Telegram account, the Ukrainian leader also marched in military uniform through the streets of the city, surrounded by heavily armed bodyguards, without however wearing a helmet or bulletproof vest himself.
“The price of this war is high. People were injured, a large number of people died,” Volodymyr Zelensky said, noting “the fierce fighting” to retake Kherson. “We are going step by step to all the temporarily occupied territories of our country. (…) It is a long and difficult path,” he added.
sentence of the day
Kherson belongs to Russia
The Kremlin reacted immediately to Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Kherson, which Russia still claims should be annexed. “You know very well that this is the territory of the Russian Federation,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. A statement that is not to be taken lightly. “The coming months will be difficult for Ukraine,” warned NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg. “Putin’s goal is to leave Ukraine cold and dark this winter,” he added.
The number of the day
106,000. This is the number of Ukrainian refugees welcomed in France since the Russian invasion in February, for an estimated budget of some 600 million euros in 2022, according to a parliamentary report published on Monday. In the document, the Macronist parliamentarians regret in passing, the absence of “budgeting” of this reception in the finance bill for 2023, even if this expense is “unpredictable”.
The trend of the day
Vladimir Putin is the most present absentee from the G20 and the war in Ukraine is at the heart of the discussions. Arrived this Monday in Bali, Emmanuel Macron affirmed that he would “continue” to discuss with the Russian president and that he “will call him after the G20”.
And while China says it is “very concerned” about the situation in Ukraine, the French president indicated that he would also insist on Tuesday with Xi Jinping that he is also in the “interests” of China. to “pressurize Russia to return to the negotiating table and respect international law”.