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11:57 p.m.: “We have to strengthen the weapons against the Wagner group.”
In an interview with Le Parisien, the Renaissance MP from Paris claims that adding the Russian paramilitary group to the list of terrorist organizations would allow more targeted financial support. The resolution has to be voted on in the assembly tomorrow.
11:39 p.m.: The New York Times newspaper and the Associated Press news agency receive the Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the war in Ukraine. These are the most prestigious awards in the American press. Pulitzer Administrator Marjorie Miller “particularly welcomed an eight-month investigation into the Ukrainian deaths at Boutcha and the Russian unit responsible for those killings.”
9:15 p.m .: According to the Wagner group, “bitter” fighting continues in Bakhmout. The leader of the paramilitary group, Yevgeny Prigojine, assured that his troops will receive more ammunition after threatening to withdraw.
5:52 p.m .: According to this Berlin court, Russian symbols “are likely to convey violence in view of the ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine,” he reasoned.
5:51 p.m .: On the occasion of the commemoration of the German capitulation, the Berlin Higher Administrative Court on May 8th and 9th overturned a decision to lift a ban on deployment russian and soviet flags, near the Tiergarten Soviet Memorial in the center of the city. So there will be no Russian flag on the horizon.
4:57 p.m .: Russia and Kyrgyzstan, a former Soviet republic, also want to deepen “military and technical cooperation” as well as economic and cultural relations. And this in order to “reach a new level of integration”. The two countries are already linked by a Moscow-led military alliance, the Collective Security Treaty Organization.
4:56 p.m .: Russia is expanding its military facilities in Kyrgyzstan. This was announced by the presidents of the two allied countries, Vladimir Putin and Sadyr Japarov, in a joint press release after a meeting in Moscow.
1:03 p.m .: The European Commission submitted a new package of sanctions against Russia to the member states on Friday. For the first time, eight companies from China and Hong Kong are attacked. They are accused of re-exporting sensitive goods to Russia to circumvent sanctions against Moscow, according to a document consulted by AFP.
1:15 p.m.: The President of the European Commission is traveling to Kiev tomorrow. Ursula von der Leyen will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy there. This visit, the fifth by the President of the Commission since the start of the Russian offensive, takes place on Europe Day.
11.30 a.m .: According to Soviet and Russian tradition, Ukraine will refrain from any commemoration of the victory over Nazi Germany on May 9th and will now celebrate this day on May 8th with “the free world”, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced. in a video address to celebrate the end of World War II.
9:09 a.m .: Russia will be defeated “in the same way” as Nazism was in 1945, said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on May 8, a day commemorating the Allied victory over Nazi Germany and the end of World War II . In a speech broadcast on his social networks, he promised to “liberate” the territories occupied by Moscow.
(DIRK WAEM / BELGA MAG / Belga via AFP)
8:53 a.m.: “Radioactive leaks are absolutely unlikely,” Emmanuelle Galichet, teacher and researcher in nuclear physics at the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts (Cnam), assured franceinfo, while the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) drew attention this weekend that Risk of “major nuclear accident” at Zaporijia power plant in Ukraine, occupied by Russian forces.
06:25: Last night, according to the city’s military administration, Kiev was the target of airstrikes. Four people were injured, said Mayor Vitali Klitschko, who said medical assistance was being rendered at the scene. According to the regional military administration, the Odessa region was also attacked overnight.
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