A Ukrainian military base about 15 kilometers from the border with Poland was targeted in the early hours of today by a Russian missile attack. The evacuation to the Azovstal steel works continues. EU sanctions on Russian oil at stake: the risk associated with gas weighs on the economies of the 27
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7:45
British intelligence: “Russia aims to relaunch advance in the Donbass”
“Russia will likely continue to resort heavily to massive artillery strikes in the coming weeks as it tries to revive its advance into the Donbass.” This is what British intelligence claims in its usual update of the war in Ukraine, underlining how Moscow is increasingly resorting to “indiscriminate artillery bombardments due to the limited ability to acquire targets and the desire not to risk flying its own fighter aircraft beyond their own lines ».
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7:40
Azovstal, 53 wounded soldiers evacuated from the steel mill brought to Novoazovsk
Fifty-three wounded soldiers evacuated overnight from the Azovstal steel mill arrived in the Russian-controlled city of Novoazovsk, some fifty kilometers from Mariupol. The military was taken to the hospital. Another 211 fighters evacuated from the plant will be taken to Olenivka, through humanitarian corridors, and exchanged there with Russian prisoners of war, the Kyiv Defense Ministry said. There are still fighters left in the steel plant, it is not clear how many.
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7:19
EU sanctions, Borrell: “I can’t guarantee an agreement on the oil embargo”
EU sanctions on Russian oil are at stake: the risk associated with gas weighs on the economies of the 27; Hungarian veto on the sixth package.
“We will do our best to unblock the situation, but I cannot guarantee that an agreement will be reached because the positions are strong enough: my role is not to assign the blame to someone but to build consensus”. This was stated by the High Representative for EU foreign policy Josep Borrell answering a question on the oil embargo in the new EU sanctions package.
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