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news of the day
French President Emmanuel Macron spoke to his Ukrainian counterpart on the phone on Monday. He reaffirmed to Volodymyr Zelensky “the imperative need to preserve the safety” of nuclear facilities in Ukraine. As they had done during an exchange on August 16, the two leaders took stock of the situation at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant (south), occupied by Russian forces, whose last operational reactor was disconnected network on Monday.
During the interview, Emmanuel Macron also “questioned President Zelensky about his military, humanitarian and economic needs”, reiterating “France’s full support for Ukraine to be restored to its most fundamental rights, start with its sovereignty, its security, and its territorial integrity”, according to the Elysée.
sentence of the day
“It was these sanctions (…) that led to the situation we are seeing now. »
The Kremlin assured Monday that the stoppage of Russian gas deliveries to Germany via the strategic Nord Stream gas pipeline was the sole fault of the West, because their sanctions prevent the maintenance of gas infrastructure. “The problems of pumping (of gas) appeared because of the sanctions of the Western States. There is no other reason for these problems,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
He was speaking a few days after the complete shutdown of Nord Stream, a crucial pipeline for supplying Europeans who fear an energy crisis this winter.
The number of the day
500.000.000. The European Commission and Ukraine on Monday signed an agreement on aid of 500 million euros which will be devoted to the housing and education of displaced people as well as to agriculture in this country at war. This funding, announced by the European executive on the sidelines of a meeting of the EU-Ukraine Association Council attended by Prime Minister Denys Chmygal, falls within the framework of commitments made in the spring.
The trend of the day
The Ukrainians claimed to have destroyed an ammunition depot as well as a pontoon bridge and to have taken over several localities during their counter-offensive in southern Ukraine. Consequence of this counter-offensive: the Russian administration of occupation of the region of Kherson announced, Monday, to suspend the preparations of the referendum of annexation by Russia of this territory.
“We were prepared for the vote, we wanted to hold the referendum very soon, but due to current events, I believe that we will take a break for the moment,” said Russian public television Rossiïa- 1 Kirill Stremoussov, head of the Russian occupation administration in Kherson.