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3:10 p.m. : “There was simply an escape of the units of the Ministry of Defense on the flanks [à Bakhmout]. Attempts by the Ministry of Defense in the informational field to sugarcoat the situation are leading and will lead to a global tragedy for Russia.”
The boss of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner is again attacking Russian regular troops. In a new video, he accuses them of “flee” their positions near Bakhmout, Ukraine, where kyiv claimed a breakthrough.
1:08 p.m. : The Russian army announces that it repelled 26 Ukrainian attacks on a 95 kilometer long front yesterday in the Soledar sector. According to Moscow, this attack involved more than 1,000 soldiers and up to 40 tanks.
12:54 p.m. : Volodymyr Zelensky will meet Italian President Sergio Mattarella tomorrow. According to a spokesperson for the Italian presidency, the Ukrainian president will be in Rome. A Vatican source, quoted by AFP, also said a meeting with Pope Francis was “possible”.
11:27 : China said it will send a special representative to Ukraine, Russia and other European countries from Monday to discuss a “political settlement” of the war in Ukraine. If the Asian giant regularly calls for respect for the sovereignty of States, it has never publicly condemned Vladimir Putin for his invasion of Ukrainian territory.
10:27 : Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was denied the right to communicate during the final of the competition – co-hosted by the United Kingdom and Ukraine, victorious last year. This is the consequence of a very political use by Ukraine of the competition since its accession in 2003. In 2005, President Viktor Yushchenko went on stage to give the crystal microphone, the trophy, to the winner. This greatly displeased the EBU, the organizer, which enacted rules the following year, preventing Vladimir Putin from doing the same in 2009.
09:21 : Kiev forces have advanced two kilometers around Bakhmout, the epicenter of the fighting in eastern Ukraine, announces the Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister. “The enemy has suffered significant losses in men”she said in a statement posted on social media. “We have not lost any position in Bakhmout this week”, she added.