New victims. “Three women and two men died” in Kostiantynivka, located about twenty kilometers west of Bakhmout, in eastern Ukraine. This region is the epicenter of fighting with the Russian army, announces the State Service for Emergency Situations on Telegram. A sixth person died in another attack in the south of the country, authorities said. Follow our live.
An initiative for abducted Ukrainian children. The European Union is going to organize a conference in order to locate the children abducted in Ukraine by Russia and bring them back to their country. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
kyiv asks for arms. Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday thanked the Europeans for their military aid, but the Ukrainian president warned against refusing to provide its forces with long-range missiles and modern combat aircraft. Delays on these various points could “prolong the war”he estimated.
Border negotiations? The head of American diplomacy, Antony Blinken, opened the door to possible negotiations on the contours of Ukraine, while reiterating that it would be up to the Ukrainians to decide. Any eventual peace with Russia will have to be “fair and sustainable”that is to say which respects the independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine, he stressed before a parliamentary committee in Washington.
Russian and Belarusian athletes stay off the tracks. The International Athletics Federation, Olympic sport number 1, has decided to maintain the exclusion of representatives of the two countries. The question of the participation of Russian and Belarusian sportsmen at the Paris Olympics in 2024 has not yet been decided.