- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the population on Saturday evening to evacuate the Donetsk region in the east of the country, whose cities are the target of bombardments by Russian forces, in a video address. “A government decision has been taken on the mandatory evacuation of the Donetsk region”said the Ukrainian president. “Please evacuate”he added. “At this stage of the war, terror is Russia’s main weapon. »
- Volodymyr Zelensky also described as “deliberate Russian war crime” the bombardment on Friday of the Olenivka prison, in the east of his country, which made, according to him, “more than fifty dead”. “Today I received information about the attack of the occupiers on Olenivka, in the Donetsk region”, he said in his daily message. Initially, it was Moscow that implicated kyiv, the Russian investigation committee having accused the Ukrainian forces of having “fired on the prison where the members of the Azov regiment are held, using American projectiles of the Himars system”. Russia on Sunday evening invited experts from the United Nations and the Red Cross to carry out an independent investigation.
- The Russian gas giant Gazprom announced on Saturdaysee its gas deliveries to Latvia suspended, against a backdrop of Russian-Western tensions. The announcement comes as Gazprom drastically reduced deliveries of Russian gas to Europe through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline this week.
- For the first time since February, Antony Blinken and Sergey Lavrovheads of diplomacy of the United States and Russia, had a telephone interview Friday. The US official accused Russia of preparing “rigged referendums” to try to “demonstrate falsely” that people living in the Russian-occupied eastern territories of Ukraine “seek to be part of Russia”. He added that the world would not recognize anyway ” never “ the annexation by Russia of Ukrainian territories.
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