the European Union is about to announce a new set of sanctions against Russia

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• All day Monday, the Ukrainian authorities hoped to be able to resume the evacuations of civilians from Mariupol, which began this weekend with the exit of a hundred people from the huge Azovstal steelworks. But the convoys chartered by Unicef ​​and several NGOs were slow to arrive Monday evening in Zaporijia, a city under Ukrainian control some 200 km to the northwest.
• Odessa, a Russian-speaking Black Sea port considered a major cultural center for both Ukrainians and Russians, was again the target of Russian bombardments on Monday. A strike on a dormitory killed a 15-year-old boy and injured another minor. An Orthodox church and the airport were also targeted.
• In Washington, the American ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) reported information “very believable” according to which Russia intends to organize “around mid-May” referendums for “attempt to annex” the “republics” pro-Russian separatists from Donetsk and Luhansk, in the Donbass, as well as Kherson, to the south.
• In the Donbass, the Russian forces continued their offensive, with particularly intense fighting around Izium, Lyman and Rubizhne. As May 9 approaches, the governor of the Luhansk region said he expected “an intensification of the bombings”. But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov denied any particular military action on this occasion, in an interview with the Italian television channel Mediaset broadcast on Sunday.
• In that same interview, when asked about Russian claims that the war is aimed at “Denazifier” Ukraine while President Zelensky is Jewish, Sergei Lavrov caused an outcry affirming : “I could be wrong, but Hitler also had Jewish blood”. His Israeli counterpart Yair Lapid judged these remarks “scandalous, unforgivable”denounced “a horrible historical error”and summoned the Russian ambassador to « clarifications ». kyiv called them“odious”and Berlin denounced a declaration ” absurd. »
• The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will address the Ukrainian parliament by videoconference on Tuesday, a first for a Western leader since the start of the Russian invasion, and will announce 300 million pounds of additional military aid to kyiv.
• The Europeans are working to toughen their sanctions economics against Moscow. The energy ministers of the 27 mentioned Monday in Brussels a timetable for the gradual cessation of their imports of Russian oil, which represent 30% of their oil imports. The EU reiterated on this occasion its refusal to pay in rubles for its purchases of Russian gas. On Tuesday, new Russian banks should be excluded from the Swift payment system, announced Josep Borrell. Finally, a contract with the Russian group Rosatom to build a nuclear reactor in northern Finland has been cancelled.

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