NATO raises its tone and the young Russians are beautiful

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news of the day

NATO denounced on Thursday acts of “deliberate, reckless and irresponsible” sabotage committed against the Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea and will defend itself against the use of energy for “coercive purposes”.

“We are committed to deterrence, to guard against and to defend ourselves against the coercive use of energy leverage or any other hybrid device by state or non-state actors”, affirmed the 30 members of the Alliance in a statement.

The number of the day

8.000. This is the number of Russians to cross the border with Finland every day, which is more than 1,300 kilometers long. After Moscow’s mobilization order for the war in Ukraine, increasing numbers of Russians of military age fled via Finland to the Vaalimaa border post.

sentence of the day

It is very difficult to imagine that such a terrorist act could take place without the involvement of a State

The Kremlin said on Thursday that it suspected the “involvement” of a foreign state in the four leaks detected on the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea, without however naming a particular country. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called again for “an urgent investigation”.

The trend

The leaders of the four separatist regions controlled by Russia in Ukraine were in Moscow on Thursday to finalize the annexation of these territories, after elections described as “simulacra” by kyiv and the West.

Officials installed by Moscow in the regions of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine, as well as Zaporozhye and Kherson in the south, arrived by plane in Moscow on Wednesday evening, according to Russian news agencies. “I am in Moscow”, also announced this Thursday to the Russian news agency Tas the official installed by Russia at the head of the Lugansk region, Leonid Passechnik.

They were to be received soon by Russian President Vladimir Putin to ratify the annexation by Russia. On Wednesday, the four separatist leaders had already sent him “official” requests to this effect.

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