Cover image: Ukrainian soldiers shell Russian positions using a US M777 cannon, in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, July 14, 2022. Evgeniy Maloletka / AP
- ” Tomorrow [vendredi], Ukrainian and international journalists will come to Izium. We want the world to know what is really happening and what the Russian occupation has led to. Boutcha, Mariupol, now, unfortunately, Izium…”, launched President Zelensky in his daily video address, without giving details of the number of people buried or the causes of their deaths. Sergiy Botvinov, a regional police official, spoke on British television channel Sky News about « 440 corps ».
- The White House has approved a new component of $ 600 million in military assistance to Ukraine, mainly ammunition for the artillery systems that the Ukrainian forces already have (in particular Himars), but no longer-range missiles (Atacms type), which would constitute a “red line” according to the door -word of Russian diplomacy. In a press release, the American executive indicates that it has authorized the Pentagon to draw on its stocks to deliver equipment and services to Ukraine, as well as training, without further details.
- The United States also announced a new round of sanctions targeting around 20 Russian officials.
- European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen visited Kyivwhere she launched alongside Volodymyr Zelensky: “You will have your European friends by your side for as long as it takes. We are friends forever”. In an interview with the daily Bild television channel, the President of the Commission also pleaded in favor of the appearance of the Russian President before international justice.
- Vladimir Putin meets his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinpingin Samarkand, Uzbekistan, for a regional summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), touted as a solution « alternative » to Western alliances. Beijing has neither supported nor publicly criticized the Russian invasion, while repeatedly expressing its support for Moscow in the face of Western sanctions.
- Germany announced on Thursday that armored vehicles would be ” very soon “ books to Ukraine, but not at the moment the claimed battle tanks.
- On the ground, Thursday, across Ukraine, “more than 20 localities” came under Russian strikesunderlined the Ukrainian army.
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