Cover image: US President Joe Biden during an interview with the Associated Press in the Oval Office of the White House, June 16, 2022. Evan Vucci / AP
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- The European Commission is due to deliver its opinion on Ukraine’s EU candidate status on Friday.. The Twenty-Seven must decide, during a summit on June 23 and 24, if they grant Ukraine this official status, which opens negotiations likely to last for years.
- Visiting kyiv on Thursday, Emmanuel Macron and the German, Italian and Romanian leaders said they were ready to grant ” immediately “ candidate status to EU membership for Ukraine, which ” is part of the European family”, according to Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
- The French president announced on Thursday evening that France was helping Romania to transit the large quantities of cereals blocked in Ukraine. due to the Russian blockade imposed on the Black Sea.
- In the field, Ukrainian forces remain struggling in Donbass, an eastern region of the country partially controlled by pro-Russian separatists since 2014, which Moscow has set itself the goal of conquering. The fighting has been concentrated for several weeks on Sievierodonetsk and Lyssytchansk, two key cities for the control of Donbass and subjected to constant bombardments. Around 10,000 civilians are still present in Sievierodonetsk, according to Ukrainian authorities.
- France to supply Ukraine with six Caesar self-propelled gunsadding to the twelve already delivered.
- Washington announced on Thursday that a third American was missing in Ukraine., in addition to two former American servicemen who were allegedly captured by Russian troops. The United States has urged Russia to consider any American volunteer combatants captured in Ukraine as prisoners of war and to guarantee them humane treatment.
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