Seventy-ninth day of war in Ukraine. The Finnish government wants to join NATO immediately and the request has sparked a reaction from Moscow which considers it a threat to Russia. The vice-president of the Russian Security Council Medvedev stressed that “such a conflict always has the risk of turning into a total nuclear war. It would be a disastrous scenario for everyone ». Leading Finnish leaders have been warned that Russia could cut off gas supplies to Finland as of tomorrow. After all, Moscow has reduced gas and the price soars on the markets. Meanwhile, the European Commission is working to facilitate exports of cereals from Kiev to Europe and the rest of the world, in an attempt to avoid a global food crisis.
Russian troops meanwhile bombed the Kryvyi Rih district in the Dnipropetrovsk region of southeastern Ukraine for hours, also using banned phosphorus and cluster ammunition, while continuing to block the exits from the underground passages of the Mariupol Azovstal plant. Kiev claims instead to have hit another Russian ship in the Black Sea. Zelensky says he is ready to talk to Putin, but also explains that “we cannot accept compromises for our independence”, which means not accepting Russian Crimea and not give up territories to find a way out.
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00.21 – Zelensky: 570 health facilities destroyed, but we will rebuild everything
“Since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine, Russian troops have destroyed 570 health facilities and 101 hospitals, it’s nonsense, it’s barbaric.” President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced this in his latest video message released in the evening. “All the hospitals destroyed by the occupiers, all the schools, all the universities they bombed, all the houses, the bridges, the businesses, we will rebuild everything,” he assured him.
00.01 – US denunciation: thousands transferred “by force” to Russia
The United States accused the Russian army of having “forcibly” transferred several thousand Ukrainians to Russia since the start of the war, often by passing them through “camps” where they had to undergo “brutal” treatment. According to Kiev, the people deported to Russia are 1.2 million, and it is the Ukrainian authorities who have denounced the existence of the camps, usually in the eastern territories controlled by Moscow. But the United States, through its diplomatic representative to the OSCE, spoke of “at least several thousand Ukrainians” who would have passed through these camps, while tens of thousands of others would have been evacuated to Russia, often without informing the interested parties of the destination. the final. According to information gathered by the authorities, many of the “deportees” were confiscated phones and passports and their activities on social networks sifted through for clues of their opposition to the Russian war.
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