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Cover photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin talks with Chairman of the Turkmen People’s Council Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov in Ashgabat, June 29, 2022. DMITRY AZAROV / AFP
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- NATO pledged on Wednesday to support Ukraine for as long as needed in the face of Russia’s “cruelty” during a summit in Madrid, where it confirmed future enlargement to include Sweden and Finland.
- NATO countries have also announced an increase in their military presence on the alliance’s eastern flank.which will increase the number of its “High Readiness Forces” to more than 300,000 soldiers.
- For his part, Vladimir Putin on Wednesday denounced the “imperialist ambitions” of the Atlantic Alliance which, in his opinion, is trying to assert its “hegemony” through the Ukraine conflict. But the Russian president declared that he saw no “problems” with Sweden and Finland’s NATO membership, with which he had no “territorial disputes”.
- On the ground, Ukraine continues to pay a heavy price for the warwith new deadly attacks on civilians, particularly in Mykolayiv (South), where five people died in a strike at an apartment building, according to regional authorities.
- In Lysychansk in eastern Ukraine, the ‘frequency’ of Russian bombing is ‘enormous’, said the governor of the Luhansk region Serhi Haïdaï. “We are witnessing a peak in the intensity of the fighting,” he continued on Ukrainian television.
- Vladimir Putin on Wednesday evening dismissed the Russian army’s responsibility for the strike that devastated a shopping center in Kremenchuk on Monday, causing at least eighteen deaths. “Our army does not hit any civilian infrastructure site,” he said.
- Hours after Damascus announced it would recognize the independence of the separatist republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on Wednesday that Ukraine would end diplomatic relations with Syria.
- According to Amnesty International, the March 16 bombing of the Mariupol Theater, where many civilians had fled, “is clearly a Russian war crime.”. In a report, the NGO estimates that the number of victims is much lower than feared.
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