As the second anniversary of the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine approaches, G7 member countries want to tighten sanctions against Moscow. The measures are expected to be announced on Saturday. Follow the latest news on the conflict.
10:28
SANCTIONS
The EU agrees on a new package of sanctions against Russia.
08:27
Kiev's denial
The Ukrainian army denied on Wednesday that it had lost control of its Krynky bridgehead on the occupied bank of the Dnieper in southern Ukraine and that Russian President Vladimir Putin himself had claimed its capture the day before.
“The military and political leadership of the aggressor country has announced the capture of the bridgehead on the left bank of the Dnieper. We officially say that this information is false,” the Southern Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces said on social networks.
07:21
SANCTIONS IN VISIBLE AT G7
The Italian presidency of the G7 announced on Tuesday a video conference meeting of its heads of state and government on Saturday on the subject of Ukraine, at which a decision will be made about tightening sanctions against Russia.
This meeting, which will be attended by President Volodymyr Zelensky, is the first of the heads of state and government of the G7 member countries (USA, Japan, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Canada) under the Italian presidency. At the end of the meeting, which is scheduled to last an hour and a half in the afternoon, a joint statement on Ukraine will be adopted, according to Italian diplomats.
According to the same sources, the participants will decide on “tightening the sanctions regime”. “The EU will launch a new sanctions package and the USA will also agree to tightening its sanctions.”
07:20
THE SITUATION POINT
Here are the most important events of the last 24 hours:
- Russia called on Tuesday for the recapture of the village of Krynky on the occupied bank of the Dnieper in southern Ukraine. “Krynky has been purged, we de facto control the entire bank,” Sergei Shoigu assured in response to a question from the Russian president during a meeting between the two men. Ukrainian forces have been trying to gain ground on the left bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region for months.
- The Ukrainian army headquarters on Tuesday noted no fewer than 84 Russian attacks in the last 24 hours, all of which were “repelled,” he assured. While Russian operations around Avdiivka itself were significantly reduced, numerous attacks occurred near Mariinka (east), near Bakhmout (east), and in the Zaporizhia region (south). “The situation is extremely difficult at several points on the front line,” Mr. Zelensky admitted on Monday evening. Russian troops are “exploiting the delay in aid to Ukraine,” he said, as the country is deprived of $60 billion in critical U.S. military aid that is currently blocked in Congress.
- The Russians are still bombing areas beyond the front almost every day. According to the Ukrainian army, a mother, her two children and her grandmother, as well as another woman, died when a Russian Lancet attack drone exploded in their home in the Sumy region (northeast). Finally, the anti-aircraft defense destroyed 23 Iranian-made Shahed explosive drones that Russia had fired at various regions of Ukraine on the night of Monday to Tuesday.
- The two French humanitarian workers killed in southeastern Ukraine in early February were victims of a “deliberate attack” by drones, the Swiss NGO they worked for said on Tuesday. The six-member Swiss Protestant Entraide (Eper, Heks in German) team was attacked near the front line during a mission to assess the humanitarian situation in the region around the town of Beryslav on the north bank of the Dnieper.
07:10
LIVE
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The Italian presidency of the G7 announced on Tuesday a video conference meeting of its heads of state and government on Saturday on the subject of Ukraine, at which a decision will be made about tightening sanctions against Russia.
This meeting, which will be attended by President Volodymyr Zelensky, is the first of the heads of state and government of the G7 member countries (USA, Japan, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Canada) under the Italian presidency.
It was called “on the occasion of the second anniversary of Russian aggression against Ukraine,” said a government press release in Rome, at a time when Kiev recognizes that it is in an “extremely difficult” situation for its armed forces , who lack ammunition. and American aid.
At the end of the meeting, which is scheduled to last an hour and a half in the afternoon, a joint statement on Ukraine will be adopted, according to Italian diplomats. According to the same sources, the participants will decide on “tightening the sanctions regime”. “The EU will launch a new sanctions package and the USA will also agree to tightening its sanctions.”
The editorial team of TF1info