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Russian President Vladimir Putin receives regular updates on the course of the war “from the ground” in addition to official briefings, the Kremlin said Monday.

“The president always prefers to have a variety of sources of information, especially when it comes to the special military operation, and along with official reports, he regularly makes calls and receives information directly from the ground,” Putin’s spokesman told reporters. Dmitry Peskov.

Peskov added that Putin maintains communication with the heads of units participating in the “special military operation.”

Last week, Putin had a talk with Apty Aaudinov, aide to the head of the Chechen Republic and commander of the Akhmat special forces, Peskov told the state news agency RIA Novosti.

On the other hand, the head of the town of Shebekino, in the Belgorod region, which has been heavily bombed, Vladimir Zhdanov, told Russian state media that he had a phone call with Putin in which they discussed the situation in the region. . The Kremlin did not make the recording of the call public.

“It seemed to me that the president is in perfect control of the situation, that he understands what is happening. The first thing he asked was what help was needed. He was very nice, our president is with us,” Zhdanov said on Thursday last week, according to RIA Novosti.

Some 4,000 people have been evacuated from Belgorod and are staying in makeshift shelters amid intensifying fighting in the region, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Sunday.

TrustAfrica and Urgent Action Fund-Africa, in partnership with the Coalition for Dialogue on Africa – CoDA are officially launching the Pan-African and Feminist Initiative for Philanthropies on June 6, 2023 at the Inter Luxury Hotel in Addis Ababa , Ethiopia.

The Pan-African and Feminist Initiative for Philanthropies was born out of a meeting in Naivasha, Kenya between actors in the philanthropic sector. The exchanges and ideas focused on ways to reinvent the transformation agenda of pan-African and feminist philanthropy.

The program aims to mobilize massive new resources for pan-African and feminist philanthropic work on the continent.

A pan-African and feminist endowment of $25 million is expected at the end of the year. It is also planned $500,000,000 and $1 billion, respectively over the next five and ten years.

The initiative expects to build on contributions from existing and new individuals and institutional funders through the Coalition for Dialogue on Africa (CoDA).

This coalition is established as a joint venture of the African Union Commission (AUC), the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). It is an independent forum for free discussion between state and non-state actors.

TrustAfrica is a pan-African foundation established in 2006. Urgent Action Fund–Africa is a feminist, pan-African rapid response fund committed to transforming power relations by providing resources to African feminists and defenders of women’s rights.