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The fact of the day
A big sweep against corruption. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Friday the dismissal of all regional officials responsible for military recruitment to uproot a system of corruption that notably allows conscripts to escape the army.
The president said that 112 criminal investigations had been launched after an inspection carried out by the Ukrainian anti-corruption bodies, the security services (SBU) and the prosecutor’s office, among others. “The system must be steered by people who know that in times of war, cynicism and corruption are treason,” the president said.
sentence of the day
It is necessary to talk with the Poles. I ordered the Prime Minister to contact them
These are the words of Alexander Lukashenko. The Belarusian president announced on Friday that he had ordered his government to resume contact with Poland, in the midst of border tensions between the ally of Moscow and its neighboring member of NATO.
Tensions between Minsk and Warsaw are currently high, amid division over the conflict in Ukraine, with Poland helping Kiev financially and militarily, while Belarus is an ally of Moscow.
According to Lukashenko, the Polish government is seeking “escalation, to worsen the situation, in order to show that they have correctly armed and rearmed the country”, in the run-up to the “(legislative) elections of next October 15” in Poland. For its part, Poland recently warned of the threat of provocations from Belarus and the potential dangers posed by the arrival in the country of the group of Russian mercenaries Wagner.
The number of the day
385. A total of 385 Ukrainian children “deported” to Russia have so far been picked up by their families, according to a count confirmed on Friday by the Austrian association SOS Children’s Villages.
“Often it is the children themselves who call for help, for example via social networks and sometimes the inhabitants of the occupied areas give us indications,” the Innsbruck-based organization wrote in a statement on Thursday. Austria.
The trend of the day
While Russian forces claim this Friday to have further “improved” their positions in northwestern Ukraine, they struck in the west, in an area rarely targeted by bombing.
Four Kinjal hypersonic missiles were dropped, causing the death of an eight-year-old child in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. In the West, the Ukrainian army, launched since the beginning of June in a difficult counter-offensive which has only enabled it to retake a handful of villages, reported on Thursday a “difficult, but under control” situation in the Kupyansk sector, a formulation commonly used by Kiev during thrusts from its enemy.