The surrender of Ukrainian soldiers who were defending the Azovstal site in Mariupol continued Thursday according to Moscow, while the city of Severodonetsk, in the Donbass, was at the heart of a brutal artillery clash.
Here are the latest developments, minute by minute
10:01 am | Italy seizes assets of Russian aircraft giant United Aircraft Corporation
Italy announced on Thursday that it had seized planes and funds linked to Russian state-controlled aviation giant United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) as part of European sanctions against Kremlin-linked entities.
9:42 am | Accession of Sweden and Finland: NATO wants to respond to Turkey’s “concerns”
9:14 a.m. | Gerhard Schröder, close to Putin, deprived of part of his advantages as ex-chancellor
The former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, close to Vladimir Putin and holder of several mandates in Russian groups, was deprived of part of his advantages as a former leader, including the allocation of offices, a-t- we learned Thursday from a parliamentary source.
9:14 a.m. | Life imprisonment required for Russian soldier tried for war crime
The Ukrainian prosecutor’s office on Thursday demanded life imprisonment, the maximum sentence, against the first Russian soldier tried for war crimes in kyiv, accused of having killed a civilian at the end of February.
7:55 am | The Kremlin prepared for the food crisis before the offensive in Ukraine
The Kremlin said Thursday that Russia had prepared from the end of 2021 for the food crisis that hit the world with the outbreak of the Ukrainian conflict in February 2022.
7:24 am | NATO: Erdogan “resolved” to block Finland and Sweden
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan again said he was “resolved” on Thursday to counter Finland’s and Sweden’s application for NATO membership, calling the latter a “nest of terrorists”.
6:54 am | Mario Draghi will visit Turkey in July
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi announced on Thursday that he would travel to Turkey in July for talks on the conflict in Ukraine, amid tensions following Ankara’s threats to block NATO’s candidacies for NATO membership. Finland and Sweden.
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WAR NOTEBOOK | The fallout from the capture of Azovstal
Sources: Globalfirepower, armedforces, Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, wikipedia photos; Research: G.Ouimet; Infographic: K. Leblanc
The Kremlin wants to make the most of the surrender of Ukrainian forces in the Azovstal complex in Mariupol for propaganda purposes. The Russians are already preparing a visit by foreign journalists there.
6:13 am | Russian soldier on trial for war crime ‘ask forgiveness’
The first Russian soldier tried for war crimes in Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion “ask forgiveness” on Thursday from the widow of the Ukrainian civilian killed, noted an AFP journalist during the hearing in a court in Kyiv .
5:59 | Russia announces the expulsion of five Portuguese diplomats
Russia announced on Thursday the expulsion of five Portuguese diplomats in retaliation for that of 10 Russian diplomats decided in the wake of the Russian offensive in Ukraine, the day after similar announcements concerning dozens of French, Italian and Spanish diplomats.
5:47 | Mariupolis 2: life under the bombs in Ukraine shown in Cannes
Emotion in Cannes with Mariupolis 2screened Thursday, the latest film by Lithuanian Mantas Kvedaravičius, killed at the end of March in Ukraine, while trying to leave the city-martyrdom besieged by the Russians from where he was documenting the war.
5:26 | Russia wants to cut off Ukraine from occupied Zaporizhia nuclear power plant
Russia wants to cut Ukraine off from its Zaporijjia nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, occupied by the Russian army, unless Kyiv pays Moscow for the electricity produced, said Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khousnoulline.
5:20 am | 1730 Ukrainian soldiers from Azovstal have surrendered since Monday
The Russian Ministry of Defense announced Thursday that 1,730 Ukrainian soldiers holed up on the Azovstal steel site in Mariupol had surrendered since Monday.
5:16 am | Scholz reluctant to fast EU membership
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Thursday that he was not in favor of giving Ukraine a “short cut” to membership of the European Union (EU) which he said would not is “not a matter of a few months or a few years”.
5:03 am | The great fundraisers of the G7 at the bedside of Ukraine
Keeping Ukraine’s finances afloat, countering rising food prices, supporting vulnerable countries: the big moneymakers of the G7 will not have enough of their meeting in Germany to tackle all the economic repercussions of the war launched by Moscow.
3h37 | “The world is collapsing”, around 60 million displaced people in the world
Conflicts and natural disasters forced millions of people to flee within their own country last year, bringing the total number of displaced to a record nearly 60 million, according to a study released Thursday by NGOs .
1h55 | One dead and injured in attack in Russia near Ukrainian border
A bombing in a village in southwestern Russia, located on the border with Ukraine, in the Kursk region, left one dead and injured, the governor of this region said on Thursday.