Cover image: Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner (left and right), British citizens, behind bars during their trial in Donetsk, are sentenced to death by separatist authorities. Same condemnation for the Moroccan Saaudun Brahim. June 9, 2022. AP
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- Volodymyr Zelensky and Emmanuel Macron spoke. The Ukrainian president said he discussed Thursday, June 9 with the French president the military aid of France to Ukraine, including in “heavy weapons” specified Emmanuel Macron, as well as kyiv’s candidacy for entry into the European Union.
- Ukrainian soldiers fight in Sievierodonetsk one of the “toughest battles” since the beginning of the war to resist the Russian forces, which now control a large part of this strategic city in the East where, according to the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, is played ” fate “ of the Donbass region.
- The nearby town of Lysychansk is fully controlled by the Ukrainian army, but suffered from bombardments “powerful and chaotic”said the governor of the Luhansk region, Serhi Haïdaï, who accuses the Russian forces of targeting “deliberately” hospitals and humanitarian aid distribution centres.
- kyiv laments every day “up to 100 soldiers” killed and “500 wounded” in the fighting with the Russian army, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov said on Thursday (June 9).
- In Mariupol, a deputy mayor claims that dozens of corpses are regularly found in buildings in the southern Ukrainian port city, which has come under Russian control. Piotr Andryushchenko said on Telegram that the bodies are taken to a “Endless Caravan of Death” to a morgue, dumps and other places.
- In an interview with US business leaders on Wednesday, Volodymyr Zelensky said that Moscow’s participation in the negotiations “is simply not possible now, because Russia can still feel its power”. “We have to weaken Russia and the world is supposed to do that,” he shouted.
- The president of the African Union calls for the rapid demining of the port of Odessa. Senegalese Head of State Macky Sall, current chairman of the African Union, called Thursday, June 9 for the demining of the Ukrainian port of Odessa to allow grain exports and said he had received the assurance of President Vladimir Putin that Russia would not attack. Without the recovery of exports, Africa, “will be in a very serious famine situation which could destabilize the continent”he said in an interview with French media France 24 and RFI.
“If the fertilizers don’t arrive when it’s wintering (the rainy season) in most African countries, that means there will be no harvest”, he said. Mr. Sall, received last week by Mr. Poutine and left “reassured” of these interviews in his words, said to remain ” optimistic “ despite the lack of progress made since then on a cargo passage.
- Sanctions on Moscow are wiping out 15 years of Russia’s economic progress and three decades of integration with the West, according to a report by the Institute of International Finance (IFF) published on Wednesday. The IIF forecasts a contraction of the Russian economy by 15% this year and another 3% in 2023.
- More than a hundred days after the Russian offensive, the consequences of the war continue to worsen in the world, affecting 1.6 billion people, warned Wednesday, the Secretary General of the UN, Antonio Guterres. The blockade of Ukrainian ports by the Russian Black Sea Fleet is paralyzing grain exports, particularly wheat. African and Middle Eastern countries are the first to be affected and fear serious food crises.
- The war has caused some 6.5 million Ukrainians to flee their country and caused thousands of deaths: at least 4,200 civiliansaccording to the latest report from the United Nations (UN), which estimates the actual figures “significantly higher”and thousands of soldiers, even if the belligerents rarely communicate on their losses.
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