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10:27 p.m. : The band’s singer’s iconic pink bucket hat, signed by all its members, was offered for sale, but I don’t yet have the price at which it went.
10:27 p.m. : #KalushOrchestra and Serhiy Prytula have just sold the crystal microphone of #Eurovision 2022 for $ 900,000 at a charity auction!The funds were raised for the PD-2 drone complex for the #UAarmy.#Ukraine#UkraineRussiaWar
10:26 p.m. : The Ukrainian group Kalush Orchestra, winner of Eurovision two weeks ago, auctioned off its trophy to raise funds for the Ukrainian army. The crystal microphone was snapped up at nearly 900,000 euros!
10:24 p.m. : Earlier in the day strikes fell on the city, causing, according to the pro-Russian separatist authorities, civilian victims. The balance sheet remains to be confirmed.
10:24 p.m. : ? Tonight, shelling in Donetsk. We just felt a shock wave in the city center. Locals talk about interceptions with defense systems.@franceinfo @infofrance2 @infofrance3
10:24 p.m. : The special envoy of France 2 in Donetsk reports on Twitter violent bombardments in the region.
9:45 p.m. : “France is actively arming Ukraine, including with offensive weapons, and it is calling for a war to the end to defeat Russia.“
Interviewed by TF1, Sergei Lavrov returned to France’s role in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. “If President Macron, who has a very old relationship of trust with President Putin, proposes a discussion, I repeat, it will be accepted.”
9:14 p.m. : While it has been 95 days since the war began, France 2 wonders if the Donbass is rockinge Donbass is falling under the Russian strikes? Over the days, the city of Sievierodonetsk, Moscow’s strategic objective, could be destroyed like Mariupol.
(FRANCE 2)
8:33 p.m. : Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has just announced that he has dismissed the head of the security services of the city of Kharkiv (in the east of the country). According to him, the person concerned “did not work in defense of the city” since the beginning of the Russian invasion. “He was only thinking of himself.”
7:07 p.m. : Viktor Orban’s Hungary rejected the proposal for a two-year derogation offered to it, and demanded at least four years and nearly 800 million euros in European funding to adapt its refineries. Remember that Budapest is deprived of funds from Budapest’s post-Covid recovery plan due to breaches of the rule of law in Hungary… It would be curious to grant it European funds this time.
7:06 p.m. : This new salvo of sanctions is blocked by Hungary, a landlocked country without access to the sea, and which depends for 65% of its consumption on oil transported from Russia by the Druzhba pipeline. EU sanctions require the unanimity of the Twenty-Seven.
7:06 p.m. : We are going to bed late tonight in Brussels. The representatives of the Twenty-Seven are still examining a solution to finalize their 6th package of sanctions against Moscow. For the moment, what is stuck is a plan for a progressive embargo on Russian oil. The problem is that the Europeans would like to reach an agreement before the start of the EU summit in Brussels, tomorrow morning … especially since Volodymyr Zelensky must intervene by videoconference from the start.
7:10 p.m. : “In Europe, [l’absence du blé russe et ukrainien], it is completely circumventable. We must not forget that France is also the leading wheat producer in Europe. Out of 35 million tonnes, it exports half of it so for France there is no problem. Broadly speaking, for Europe, there is no danger.”
At the microphone of franceinfo, Michel Portier engages in an analysis of the wheat market in the coming months, and points out the fact that the Maghreb countries find themselves in difficulty without Russian and Ukrainian exports.
4:01 p.m. : Volodymyr Zelensky traveled near Kharkiv, one of the front lines of the fight against the Russian army, for an unannounced visit. This is the first time he has visited eastern Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion. “We will restore, rebuild and bring life back”he promised the inhabitants of the region.
(STR / UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS-SERVICE / AFP)
2:26 p.m. : In Lithuania, a collection launched by an influencer and his online television channel raised more than 5 million euros in three and a half days to… buy a Turkish military drone, to donate it to Ukraine. The money must be transferred to the Lithuanian Defense Ministry, which has already promised to send one of its deputies to Turkey to formalize the purchase.
1:33 p.m. : Yesterday evening, the Ukrainian General Staff also announced the launch of a counter-attack in the Kherson region, in the south of the country, the westernmost of the regions controlled by Russia. kyiv claims to have broken through a Russian defense line, reports the New York Times (in English), without it being possible to verify it for the moment.
1:30 p.m. : The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that the Russian army destroyed “an important arsenal” Ukrainian”with high-precision, long-range missiles”in the Dnipropetrovsk region, neighboring that of Donetsk.
11:40 a.m. : Lyssytchansk is close to Sievierodonetsk, whose Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov claimed the conquest by the Russian army last night. A report from the Ukrainian General Staff this morning does not confirm this, merely stating that Russia continues “assault operations”. Last night Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his troops were continuing to defend the city, which he described as “of indescribable difficulty”.
11:40 a.m. : The situation has “seriously aggravated” in Lyssytchansk, one of the main targets of the Russian army in eastern Ukraine, according to the Ukrainian governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Haidaï. One person was killed and four others injured in the shelling of an apartment building, he said.