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14h03 : The head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Dmytro Kouleba has minimized the importance of the meeting between Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian ally Alexander Lukashenko. kyiv fears an attack from its Belarusian neighbor. It is “a new ‘dance'” politics, he said at a press conference. He stated “that no critical decision was taken at this meeting” while assuring that Ukraine was “ready” to any scenario.
13h44 : “It seems to me that the heroes of Bakhmout should receive what everyone receives. (…) I would like to wish there was light, but the situation is so difficult that there is light , then there is no more.”
A video broadcast by the Ukrainian state channel Freedom reported on the Ukrainian president’s surprise visit to Bakhmout. We see Volodymyr Zelensky taking a photo of himself alongside soldiers in a building and giving them medals.
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12h33 : Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Bakhmut was welcomed by Deputy Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov on Telegram: “Zelensky in Bakhmut. The bravest president of the bravest nation.” Since the summer, the Russians have been trying to take Bakhmout, which had around 70,000 inhabitants before the invasion of Moscow launched at the end of February. In recent months, the city has become the site of apparent mass casualties on both sides.
12h23 : “The situation in the people’s republics of Donetsk, Luhansk, as well as in the Kherson and Zaporizhia regions is extremely difficult.”
Vladimir Poutine spoke in a video in particular intended employees of the FSB. He commended the work of the members of the Russian security services who act in “the new regions of Russia”ensuring that “the people living there, Russian citizens” depend on the “protection” of these services.
12h16 : Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Bakhmout, a city that Russian forces have been trying to take for months and currently the hottest point on the front in eastern Ukraine, assured his press service. “He met soldiers, spoke with them and gave decorations to our soldiers”added the press service of the presidency, without giving further details.