2023-07-08 07:14:20
“We are marking a grim new stage in the war,” deplores the UN. As fighting passes the 500-day mark, more than 9,000 civilians, including 500 children, have been killed since the conflict began, the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said on Friday (7 July). “Lhe war continues to take a horrible toll on Ukrainian civilians”, adds the instance. This year, the number of victims has been on average lower than in 2022, but it started to rise again in May and June. Follow our live.
Cluster munitions in Ukraine. The United States has decided to deliver cluster munitions that kill indiscriminately to kyiv. US President Joe Biden justified his decision on the grounds that Ukraine was “out of ammunition”. Washington added that the Ukrainians had provided guarantees “in writing” on the use they would make of these weapons to minimize “the risks posed to civilians”.
Erdogan reiterates his support for Ukraine. The Turkish head of state, who received Volodymyr Zelensky for the first time in Turkey since the start of the war in February 2022, considered that Ukraine “merit[ait]” to join the Atlantic Alliance and called on the two countries, Russia and Ukraine, to “return to peace talks”.
Ukraine will not “join NATO”. kyiv will not be part of the Atlantic Alliance after the Vilnius summit, scheduled for next week, said White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan. “It’s a difficult decision. We postponed it”but it was “the right thing to do”, he added.
Questions about the presence of Wagner. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko assured that the boss of the paramilitary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, was in Russia and not “not on Belarusian territory”. However, Evguéni Prigojine had, according to the agreement made with the Kremlin which put an end to the mutiny of Wagner on June 24, to go into exile in this country. Here are three signs that Yevgeny Prigozhin’s empire is being dismantled in Russia.
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