At least 17 people were killed in a missile strike that hit a building in the Odessa region of southern Ukraine on Friday July 1 before daybreak. According to the latest report from the Ukrainian emergency services, the strike fired by a “strategic aircraft” since the Black Sea also did “30 wounded, including three children”. Follow our live.
L’Ukraine has started exporting electricity to the European Union. Volodymyr Zekensky salutes “an important step” of his “rapprochement with the European Union”. Kyiv “started to significantly export electricity to EU territory, to Romania”. “It’s not just a question of export revenue for us, it’s a question of security for the whole of Europe”insisted the Ukrainian president.
Moscow leaves Serpents’ Island. This strike in the Odessa region comes the day after the withdrawal of the Russian army from Serpents’ Island. This strategic island had been conquered at the beginning of the war by Russia. He was then regularly targeted by Ukrainian drone and missile strikes.
Russian diplomacy denounces an “iron curtain” between Russia and the West. Sergei Lavrov borrowed the formula from Winston Churchill (who nonetheless denounced Stalinist expansionism) during a press conference in Minsk (Belarus). “That [les Occidentaux] be careful and they don’t get stuck [les doigts] inside. The process is ongoing”, quipped the Russian Foreign Minister. He also denounced the behavior of the European Union, which “shows no interest in understanding interests” Russians and whose decisions are dictated according to him “by Washington”.
The United States freezes more than a billion dollars in assets belonging to a Russian oligarch. The US Treasury has announced the freezing of the assets of an American company belonging to the Russian oligarch and politician Suleyman Kerimov, already sanctioned by Washington and the European Union. An investigation by US authorities “revealed that Kerimov used a complex series of legal structures and front men to conceal his interests” in the society.