We are on the 107th day of the war in Ukraine and the fighting on the ground continues. The situation of civilians “is tragic and worsening by the hour”, declares the archbishop of Kiev Shevchuk: three have in fact died in the Donetsk region and another 800 are refugees in the Azot chemical plant in Severodonetsk, which was bombed and is fiercely contested. Ukrainian President Zelensky warns: “The fate of the Donbass is decided there.”
Meanwhile, the supreme court of the self-styled Donetsk People’s Republic sentenced to death the British “mercenaries” Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner and the Moroccan Saaudun Brahim, who were fighting for Kiev. For London it is “a mock trial”.
The president of the European Commission Von der Leyen promises: “We will rebuild Ukraine, it is a moral obligation”. And the Italian President Mattarella warns: “The EU must have the same approach used in post-covid and find all the tools to solve the problems for the crisis between Russia and Ukraine”.
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00.01 – African Union appeal: mine port Odessa or it will be famine
The Senegalese president and current “number one” of the African Union, Macky Sall, called for the demining of the Ukrainian port of Odessa to allow the export of cereals and added that he had received assurances from the head of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, that the Russians will not attack the area. If grain exports do not resume, Africa “will be in a very serious famine situation that could destabilize the continent,” he said in an interview with French media. France 24 e RFI. The African continent is heavily dependent on Ukrainian and Russian grain imports and their fertilizers, which are essential for its agriculture.
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