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news of the day
It’s done. Finland officially joins NATO on Tuesday and will become the 31st member of the Atlantic Alliance, to Moscow’s chagrin. Helsinski had decided to turn the page on his policy of military non-alignment in force since the 1990s by asking to join NATO in May 2022, pushed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. ” Tomorrow [mardi], we will welcome Finland as the 31st member,” said Jens Stoltenberg, adding that the Finnish flag would be hoisted on Tuesday mid-afternoon at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels. “It is truly a historic day,” he added, pointing out that it was the “fastest” accession process in the Alliance’s recent history.
For its part, Russia has, on the contrary, castigated this integration into the Alliance and announced its intention to strengthen its military capabilities near Finland. “We will strengthen our military capabilities in the west and north-west”, on the borders with Eastern Europe and Finland, said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grouchko. “In the event of the deployment of forces and assets of other NATO members on Finnish territory, we will take additional measures to reliably ensure the military security of Russia”, he added, quoted by Russian news agency Ria Novosti.
sentence of the day
I wish the Russian president would spend the rest of his life in a basement with a bucket instead of a toilet”
The Ukrainian president will not forgive the Russians for their atrocities. After visiting a Ukrainian village liberated a year ago, almost the entire population of which had been sequestered in a cellar by the Russian occupiers, Volodymyr Zelensky wished that the same fate be reserved for Vladimir Putin.
“All these people were living in total darkness, waiting for the Ukrainians to return. They wrote (on the walls) the names of those who died and the dates so that they would not be forgotten. And the children marked the words of the Ukrainian anthem,” he said during a ceremony in their homage, accompanied by German Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck. “After seeing this, I wish the Russian president would spend the rest of his life in a cellar with a bucket instead of a toilet,” hammered the Ukrainian president.
The number of the day
2,4. It is in billions of euros the amount of damage caused to cultural property by the conflict in Ukraine, according to Unesco. Some 248 monuments were damaged in particular, some of which were completely destroyed, particularly in the East, we learned from this UN body based in Paris, whose director general Audrey Azoulay was in Ukraine on Monday.
The Russian invasion also caused a collapse of culture-related parts of the Ukrainian economy, including “tourism, arts, sports, entertainment, cultural industry, cultural education”, rated at 15, 1 billion dollars (13.9 billion euros) in losses, according to a UNESCO executive. “We are going to support the Ukrainian authorities in the development of a national plan for the reconstruction of the cultural sector”, announced Audrey Azoulay, who estimated the total need for funding to rebuild and revive this sector at 6.4 billion euros. .
The trend of the day
Communication is still just as bad between Wagner and the Russian army. The Russian army did not report any progress in Bakhmout in its latest daily update on Monday, despite the mercenary group’s boss claiming the capture of a key building in this city at the epicenter of the fighting in eastern Ukraine.
In a message broadcast overnight from Sunday to Monday on Telegram, Wagner’s leader, businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, said his men raised the Russian flag and the banner of his paramilitary group over the Bakhmout town hall. . “In the legal sense, Bakhmout has been taken”, he assured, adding that the Ukrainian forces were now “concentrated in the western areas”. But, during his daily press briefing on Monday, the spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Defense, Igor Konashenkov, did not report any progress of Russian troops in Bakhmout, not even mentioning the name of this city. .