2024-02-04 17:32:36
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The fact of the day
The exiled mayor of the Ukrainian city of Melitopol, Ivan Federov, once detained by Russian forces, was appointed by President Volodymyr Zelensky as head of the Zaporizhia region (south), the Ukrainian presidency announced this Sunday.
Ivan Fedorov, 35, was kidnapped in March 2022 by the Russian army when he refused to cooperate with Moscow. He was exchanged for a group of young Russian soldiers that same month. Ivan Fedorov, who replaces Governor Yuriy Malashko, said his “goal is to allow everyone who really wants to return home to be able to do so as quickly as possible,” according to the presidency.
The Zaporizhia region is one of four annexed by Russia, but is not entirely controlled by Moscow.
The number of the day
28. This is the number of victims – the toll could be revised upwards – after a strike attributed to Ukraine on a bakery in the town of Lyssychansk, Russian emergency services announced on Sunday. There would be at least one child among the victims. Lysychansk is located in the Luhansk region (eastern Ukraine), and fell to Russian forces in the summer of 2022 after a violent battle.
“Approximately 65% of the destroyed structure has been dismantled. […] Unfortunately, 28 people, including a child, died,” the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said on Telegram. The day before, the same source had published a video of rescuers working in the dark, extracting a body from the rubble before discovering an injured woman who was evacuated on a stretcher. Rescuers have so far saved ten people, according to the ministry.
Today’s statement
“Zaporizhia region. Robotyne. Location of the 65th Mechanized Brigade. I spoke with the defenders, thanked them and presented state awards. » »
In telegraphic style, at least for the beginning of his message, Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, declared on Sunday, on his social networks that he had visited the troops in the village of Robotyné, on the southern front line. He said “it’s an honor to be here today.”
Today’s trend
Diplomatic relations between Russia and South Korea are tense. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko visited Seoul, the South Korean Foreign Ministry announced on Sunday. At the heart of tensions: North Korea.
During a meeting between Russia’s deputy foreign minister and his counterpart Chung Byung-won on Friday, the South Korean official voiced Seoul’s criticism of growing military cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang and urged Russia to take “responsible actions,” according to the statement.
Previously, the spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that the increased tension on the Korean Peninsula was “mainly due to the brazen policies of the United States and its allies, including the Republic of Korea and Japan “, referring to South Korea by its official name. She also said that Seoul “does not seem to realize that the dominant position of the United States is irrevocably becoming a thing of the past”, and that the South “could turn out to be little more than a pocket change of exchange in Washington’s geopolitical games.” For these “rude and ignorant” remarks, the South Korean Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian ambassador on Saturday.
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