11:15
End of air alert
The air alert is lifted in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine.
11:00
Electricity deficit in Kharkiv
Electricity is lacking in the Kharkiv region in the northeast. The operator Ukrenergo explains that in the event of too much demand, emergency cuts are planned there. No restrictions are in effect elsewhere in the country.
10:40
Record profits for Aramco
Saudi oil giant Aramco announces “record” profits in 2022 thanks to soaring crude prices in the wake of the war in Ukraine. The company, largely owned by the Saudi state, posted a net profit of 161.1 billion dollars (nearly 150 billion euros) last year, up 46% over one year.
10:25
The latest Ukrainian report
The Ukrainian authorities report nearly 160,000 Russians killed since the start of the war, 159,090, according to their count, or 1,090 more in 24 hours. In addition, 3466 tanks would have been destroyed, as well as 6769 armored vehicles, 2487 artillery systems, 304 planes or 289 helicopters.
10:15
Situation frozen in Bakhmout
If the Russians are close to downtown Bakhmout, the situation could remain stable for a while now that the clashes are taking place in the heart of the urban area. L’ISW, an American study group, believes that yesterday the “Russians did not make progress”. Heavy fighting took place, but Wagner’s paramilitaries “should find themselves increasingly trapped in urban areas” of the city.
10:05
Back to Earth
The space domain remains an exception to cooperation between Russians and Americans. The crew of the Crew-5 mission sent into space by a SpaceX rocket on behalf of the American Space Agency (Nasa) has returned to Earth. The Endurance capsule landed in the Gulf of Mexico at 3 a.m. Paris time, with the Japanese Koichi Wakata on board, the Russian Anna Kikina, as well as Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada from NASA.
09:50
Air alert in the Donetsk region
The Donetsk region, in the east of the country, is placed on air alert.
09:35
“The self-portrait of Russia”
On messaging Telegram, photos of destruction and suffering in support, the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, once again denounces the war launched by Russia and its consequences. “Ruins, rubble, shell craters in the ground: this is Russia’s self-portrait, which she paints where normal life reigns without her. Russia has become synonymous with terror. »
09:25
Protect Moscow and St. Petersburg, expose minorities
In his daily point, the British Ministry of Defense is interested in the Russian dead at the front. He points out that compared to their populations, the wealthy and educated cities of Moscow and Saint Petersburg are “rather spared”. The phenomenon is even more pronounced in the privileged strata of society. In certain regions of eastern Russia, on the other hand, the percentage of deaths is “30 to 40 times higher” than in Moscow because of the war. Ethnic minorities are particularly at risk.
09:15
No specific air alert
This morning, Ukraine is not on air alert. Only the regions of Crimea, attached to Russia in 2014, and Luhansk, suffer from this situation. But this is almost always the case.
09:00
More than 150,000 Russians killed, but an “inexhaustible human mass”
“We estimate that the Russian army has already lost 150,000 men since last year in its military offensives on our soil. The human mass of its infantry is a formidable weapon, it seems inexhaustible in volume and time,” added the Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister.
08:50
“Complicated to resist” in Bakhmout
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanichyna said in an interview with Sunday newspaper (JDD), that it “is becoming complicated for us to resist and deter” Russian forces in Bakhmout.
08:40
Preparing for the counter-offensive
The commander of the Ukrainian land forces, Oleksandre Syrsky, believes that the battle waged in Bakhmout allows “to gain time to accumulate reserves and launch a counter-offensive, which is not far away”.
08:30