Russia is out of the UN Human Rights Council. The vote of the United Nations General Assembly is a signal for Moscow, but so are the votes against China and the abstention of India for the West. The decision on energy sanctions has come from the European Union: the ban is on coal and will be operational from September, while we are far from a decision on oil. On the military level, the cities count the deaths of the bombings: in Borodyanka the bodies of over twenty people were found under the rubble of a building bombed in recent days.
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00.09 Zelensky: Russians prepare staging in Mariupol
“The Russian propagandists are preparing a ‘mirror response’ to the shock that all normal people have received from what they saw in Bucha. They will show the victims of Mariupol as if they had been killed not by the Russian military, but by the Ukrainian defenders of the city.” This was stated by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, quoted by the Guardian.
“To do this – he added – the occupiers collect the corpses in the streets to use them elsewhere, on the basis of elaborate propaganda scenarios”.
00.30 Canada increases military spending by 6.4 billion
Canada increases its military spending in response to the war in Ukraine. Ottawa has unveiled a plan to spend $ 6.4 billion more over the next five years, a substantial increase that falls short of NATO’s 2% GDP target. The international media reported it.