2023-04-20 10:18:45
Cover image: NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg April 20 in kyiv. GLEB GARANCH / REUTERS
- The United States announced on Wednesday the sending of new military aid to Ukraine. It will consist in particular of ammunition for the artillery systems used by the Ukrainian army. This announcement coincides with Ukraine receiving its first American Patriot air defense systems and French AMX-10 light battle tanks.
- A flash observed in the sky of kyiv, on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, caused confusion about its origin. The city administration attributed it first to the downing of a NASA satellite, before the US space agency claimed it had not yet entered the atmosphere at that time. .
- A Russian appeals court on Wednesday upheld an eight-and-a-half-year prison sentence imposed on opponent Ilya Yashin for his criticism of Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine.
- Visiting Sweden, the US Defense Minister on Wednesday called on Turkey and Hungary to ratify Sweden’s NATO candidacy ” as soon as possible “ and before the next Alliance summit, which will take place in early July.
- An agreement has been reached for Ukrainian cereals to transit through Poland. Warsaw had taken the unilateral decision to close its borders to almost all Ukrainian agricultural products because Polish silos are saturated with wheat from Ukraine, which has caused a drastic drop in prices and the anger of local farmers.
- As part of a long series of trips, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Volhynia Oblast on the border of Belarus and Poland on Wednesday. “I am honored to be here today to thank our border guards for protecting the national border”he wrote on Telegram.
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