This small piece of land located off Odessa (Ukraine) has become a symbol of war: the Russian Ministry of Defense announced, Thursday, June 30, the withdrawal of its troops from Serpents’ Island. He asserts that they have completed the “tasks assigned to them”. This strategic island had been conquered at the beginning of the war by Russia. Follow our live.
Vladimir Putin does not appreciate NATO’s outstretched hand to Ukraine. LAt a press conference on Wednesday, the Russian president once again denounced them “imperial ambitions” of theAtlantic Alliance who seeks to affirm his “hegemony”. NATO and “above all the United States had long needed to have an external enemy around which it could unite its allies”also estimated the master of the Kremlin.
End of the NATO summit in Madrid. The Alliance pledged to support Ukraine for as long as needed in the face of “cruelty” of Russia. In a joint declaration, the member countries specified that they had agreed on a new aid plan through the “delivery of non-lethal military equipment” and by strengthening Ukrainian defenses against cyber-attacks.
The bombing of the Mariupol theater is “clearly a war crime” Russian. That’s what it says an Amnesty International report. Satellite images show that there was no “no Ukrainian military presence around the theater”. On March 16, at least a dozen people died in the attack, and “surely much more”. The town hall had reported 300 dead.