The Ukrainian president assured on his website that the evacuation operation of the last Ukrainian soldiers entrenched in this strategic city continued on Wednesday morning.
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kyiv and Moscow engage in a communication battle over the evacuation of soldiers from Mariupol. If Russia assures that all the fighters surrendered, the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky assures on his website that “the evacuation mission” soldiers still inside”continues”, Wednesday May 18. Follow our live.
• Opening in kyiv of the first trial for “war crime”. Vadim Chichimarine, a 21-year-old Russian soldier, is accused of deliberately killing a civilian who was riding his bicycle. The hearing is due to begin this Wednesday in the Ukrainian capital.
• Finland and Sweden submit their candidacies to NATO. They will be handed over jointly to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday morning by the Swedish and Finnish ambassadors. “I am happy that we have taken the same path and that we can do it together”said Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, alongside Finnish President Sauli Niinistö.
• Volodymyr Zelensky at the Cannes Film Festival. Ukrainian President made an isurprise intervention, Tuesday evening, during the opening ceremony of the 75th Cannes Film Festival. “We need a new Chaplin who will prove that cinema is not silent” in the face of the war in Ukraine, declared the Head of State in a video message.