2023-05-16 09:21:45
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RUSSIAN STRIKES ON kyiv
Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko live on LCI, about the Russian strikes that hit the country and in particular the capital, last night. Ukraine said earlier it shot down 18 Russian missiles overnight, including six Kinzhals missiles.
MP Lesia Vasylenko live from KyivSource : TF1 Info
GRAIN AGREEMENT IN UKRAINE
The Kremlin said there were still “many questions” to settle before extending the agreement to export Ukrainian grain by sea, which Moscow threatens to leave tomorrow.
“There are still a lot of unanswered questions about the part of the agreement that concerns us. Now we have to make a decision,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. Moscow says there are still obstacles to its own fertilizer and grain exports and is therefore threatening to quit the deal.
RUSSIAN STRIKES ON UKRAINE
The Russian army confirms having struck Ukraine during the night and claims to have “hit all the targets”. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the strikes targeted “Ukrainian armed forces deployment points”, Western ammunition and weapons depots. He claimed to have destroyed an American Patriot anti-aircraft system in Kiev and intercepted seven British Storm Shadow missiles, while kyiv guaranteed to have shot down 18 Russian missiles during the night, including six Kinzhals missiles.
A NEW COUNCIL OF EUROPE
A year after having excluded Russia, the leaders of 46 member states of the Council of Europe meet this afternoon at a summit in Iceland to show their unity against Moscow. This new sum is aimed at multiplying the means to hold Russia criminally responsible for the destruction and crimes caused by its invasion of Ukraine.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni, all four of whom received Volodymyr Zelensky this weekend, will lead the discussions in Reykjavik.
THESE WOMEN WHO FIGHT IN THE NAME OF kyiv
41,000 women serve today in the ranks of the Ukrainian army. Our LCI team was able to meet some of them and discuss their place in a world that is still very masculine.
THE CHINESE EMISSION RECEIVED IN POLAND
TERRORISTS RECRUITED BY THE FSB?
According to an investigation by Meduza, Russian FSB intelligence recruited former Daesh terrorists to infiltrate various Ukrainian battalions. The independent Russian-language media tell in particular the story of Baurzhan Kultanov, arrested in Russia in 2015 and given special treatment by the FSB.
“We will give you a minimum sentence, and when you are released, we will make you an agent,” the Russian intelligence service allegedly offered him. An infiltration of the Ukrainian army which would have started in 2019 and which would have allowed the FSB to obtain information on the supply and training of the military. According to a source close to the FSB in Meduza, attempts to infiltrate Ukraine take place regularly.
OIL SALES AT HIGH
Despite the Western embargo, Russian oil exports in April reached their highest level since the start of the invasion of Ukraine, a windfall of $15 billion, according to the International Energy Agency ( OUCH). In its monthly report, the organization points out that Russian exports reached 8.3 million barrels per day last month, as the country failed to follow through on its threat to cut production by 500,000 barrels per day.
Despite international sanctions targeting its oil, Russia manages to redirect its hydrocarbon exports to other countries (China, India, Turkey, etc.) but Moscow “seems to have a little trouble finding buyers for its crude and its petroleum products”, according to the same report.
CONFLICT UPDATE
Paris will soon train Ukrainian fighter pilots, while London promises to deliver new weapons. During this time, the counter-offensive is still not launched and kyiv suffered a new air raid from the Russian army during the night. The highlights of the last 24 hours.
ZELENSKY AT THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE
This Tuesday evening at the Council of Europe, the Ukrainian president will deliver his speech by videoconference, and not on the spot. He should come just after Icelandic Prime Minister Katrin Jakobsdottir, and before Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz and Rishi Sunak.
RUSSIAN LOSSES
Here is the latest assessment of Russian losses, communicated by the Ukrainian army and quoted by the Kyiv Independent. According to kyiv, 199,980 Russian soldiers died in the conflict, and many material losses are to be recorded. Beware of these figures, however: the human toll is impossible to establish precisely, on both sides, as we developed it a few weeks ago.
SIX MISSILES DOWN, kyiv SAYS
Ukraine claims to have shot down six Russian Kinjal hypersonic missiles in a new nighttime attack on Kiev, a type of weapon that is more difficult to intercept, Defense Minister Oleksiï Reznikov announced. “Another incredible achievement for the Ukrainian Air Force! Last night, the defenders of our skies shot down six Russian Kinjal hypersonic missiles and 12 other missiles,” according to the Minister on Twitter.
THE CIA RECRUITS IN MOSCOW
Learn more about this promotional video from the CIA, aimed at recruiting directly from Russia.
When the CIA seeks to recruit in RussiaSource : TF1 Info
BAKHMUT STILL AT THE HEART OF THE FIGHTS
If Ukraine has been announcing for months a counter-offensive intended to retake the territories conquered by Russia, no one can say with certainty whether it has really started. And Bakhmout is still in the midst of bloody fighting.
kyiv claimed on Sunday to have taken over “more than 10 Russian positions” in the suburb of Bakhmout, while Moscow said it was advancing in the city itself, which it largely controls. The battle for the city located in the Donbass is the bloodiest and longest since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022.
ATTACKS TONIGHT ON kyiv
Here an idea of the scale of the attack that hit kyiv on Tuesday before dawn.
ATTACKS ON kyiv, TARGETS DESTROYED
On the spot, our journalist Charline Hurel reports a “attack of rare magnitude in kyiv”including “numerous explosions and anti-aircraft defense for several minutes”. According to the head of the Kyiv military administration, Serhi Popko, “the vast majority of enemy targets in Kyiv airspace have been detected and destroyed! Data on the number and type of missiles will soon be reported by the Air Force”. He adds that missile debris fell above the kyiv zoo, as well as in the Obolonskyi and Darnytskyi districts.
BRED FORECASTS
In Ukraine, the economy is expected to grow by 1% this year, after an unprecedented collapse in GDP of 29% in 2022 with the start of the Russian invasion, warns the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (BRED).
In Russia, on the other hand, the economy contracted by 2.1% last year, which is less than expected. It should contract again by 1.5% this year, an upward revision of 1.5 points compared to February. Indeed, Moscow is benefiting from higher than expected oil revenues. A return to growth is expected at 1% next year.
ATTACKS TONIGHT ON kyiv
The Russian military launched an unusually intense airstrike on kyiv overnight, “using drones, cruise missiles and possibly ballistic missiles”, according to city officials. Therefore, Ukrainian anti-aircraft defenses went into action before dawn to repel this new “complex” drone and missile attack on Kyiv, according to Kyiv’s military authority on Telegram.
This is the eighth airstrike in the Ukrainian capital this month. “It was exceptional in its density – the maximum number of attack missiles in the shortest period of time,” said Serhiy Popko, head of Kiev’s military administration. According to the mayor of the city, “three people were injured in the Solomyansky district”.
THE CIA RECRUITS IN MOSCOW
In a video clip posted on its social networks, the CIA is now seeking to recruit directly from Russia. Wanting to target the disappointed and dissatisfied with power, American intelligence published a video, featuring a Russian official and his family. “The CIA wants to know the truth about Russia, and we are looking for reliable people who can tell us this truth. Your information may be more valuable than you think,” she wrote in this excerpt, to see below.
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