One person died and 11 others were injured on Sunday March 17 in new strikes on the Belgorod region, bordering Ukraine and targeted by numerous attacks, the governor said. A man who was “in a parking lot”was killed, Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Telegram. “Eleven people were injured to varying degrees of seriousness”, he added, after having already announced this morning the death of a teenage girl in a first series of strikes. Follow our live stream.
Emmanuel Macron persists. “Perhaps at some point – I don’t want it, I won’t take the initiative – it will be necessary to have operations on the ground, whatever they may be, to counter the Russian forces.”declared the President of the Republic in an interview with Parisianpublished on Saturday. “It is absurd to believe that by scaring him, he will back down”Jean-Luc Mélenchon reacted on Sunday, speaking about the Russian president, on the set of “Dimanche en politique”. “We are in no condition to confront Russia”, he also judged. Manon Aubry, head of the LFI list in the European elections, for her part denounced comments “irresponsible and ineffective”.
France is not isolated, according to the head of state. On the possibility of sending troops to Ukraine, “many countries in Europe, and not the least, are totally on our line”assures Emmanuel Macron in The Parisianimplying that it is Poland or the Baltic countries.
Russia claims to have shot down 35 Ukrainian drones. This is what the Russian army said on Sunday morning, on the last day of the presidential election that Vladimir Putin will inevitably win.
New attack on a Russian refinery. A new drone attack, which Russian authorities blame on Ukraine, caused a fire at a refinery in southern Russia. Krasnodar regional authorities also report one death who may have died of a heart attack.