Zelensky gets impatient, Russia on the verge of default

• Russia launched its "military operation" in Ukraine on Thursday, February 24.

  Every evening, at 7:30 p.m.,

  20 Minutes

   offers you its recap on the conflict which has become a war which every day causes victims, injuries and thousands of refugees.

• Who did what ?

  Who said what?

  And who supports whom and why?

  You will know everything about the progress of the negotiations and the events of this crisis which is shaking Russia, Ukraine, Europe and even the United States.

• The Ukrainian president seems more and more annoyed by the lack of Western support on the ground while he himself seems more and more present there.

Did you miss the latest events on the war started by Vladimir Putin in Ukraine?

Do n't panic,

 takes stock for you every evening at 7:30 p.m.

Who did what ?

Who said what?

Where are we ?

The answer below:

news of the day

Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday called on Westerners to send him “as soon as possible” fighter planes, starting with the Mig-29s offered by Warsaw despite a warning from the Kremlin.

“Make a decision as soon as possible, send us planes!

“Launched the Ukrainian president to Westerners in a new video posted on his Telegram channel.

He thanked Warsaw for offering to send these planes to Ukraine and regretted that “no decision” “has (yet) been taken”.

The day before, Poland had taken the Americans by surprise by saying that it was "ready to move all its Mig-29 planes without delay and free of charge to the Ramstein base (in Germany) and to make them available to the United States government. “, so that they deliver them to Ukraine.

The United States fears a widening of the conflict, because Russia has warned that it will consider the sending of such planes by a third country as a direct involvement in the conflict.

Washington therefore flatly rejected the Polish proposal.

The number of the day

160.

This is the number of Russian oligarchs and parliamentarians added to the European Union's blacklist of persons and entities banned from entering and whose assets in Europe are frozen.

The Twenty-Seven decided on Wednesday to extend their sanctions against Moscow and Minsk following the invasion of Ukraine by targeting 14 oligarchs and businessmen involved in key sectors of the Russian economy ( agriculture, steel industry, telecoms, etc. and members of their families, as well as 146 members of the Russian Federation Council (upper house of the Russian Parliament).

The European blacklist, established since the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, now includes 862 people and 53 entities in total.

The phrase

"I don't think Putin ever imagined that financial sanctions could be so powerful"

These are the words of Josep Borrell, launched at the end of a debate on security in Europe in the European Parliament, in Strasbourg.

"When we said that there would be 'serious consequences', Putin laughed, now he is not laughing anymore," declared the head of European diplomacy.

The trend of the day

In Russia, Western sanctions are increasingly making their effects felt.

Thus, the rating agency Fitch has again lowered the rating it gives to the debt of Russia, a decision meaning that the risk of a sovereign default is in its eyes "imminent".

A failure to pay by Moscow would be the first since the great financial crisis of 1998. Another effect of the sanctions: according to the Russian daily

, Moscow could soon run out of medicines, in particular insulin, in addition to other products manufactured abroad. .

According to Cyrille Bret, associate researcher at the Jacques Delors Institute, whom we receive live on Instagram to answer questions from our readers, it is this "economic asphyxiation" that could truly stop Vladimir Poutine.

“The Europeans have taken an absolutely extraordinary and historic series of sanctions.

It is the resistance and solidarity of the Europeans among themselves, and with the Ukrainians, which can bring the Russian troops to stop their operations, this is the bet that the Europeans are making”.

The Kremlin denounced the "economic war" declared by the United States against Russia, following Washington's announcement of an embargo on Russian oil and gas imports, in addition to other sanctions.

And tomorrow, Thursday, diplomacy will try to regain its rights, with an announced meeting in Turkey of Russian foreign ministers Sergei Lavrov, Ukrainian Dmytro Kuleba, with their Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Cavusoglu as mediator.

Meanwhile, continental European stock markets rebounded around 7% on Wednesday night.

In Paris, the CAC 40 rose by 7.13%.

World

War in Ukraine: Why is it so difficult to send fighter jets to Kiev?

World

War in Ukraine: What risk for anti-war protesters arrested in Russia?

• Moscow

• Video

• World

• War in Ukraine

• Vladimir Poutine

• Kyiv (Kyiv)

• 0 comment

• 0 share

  • Share on Messenger

  • Share on Facebook

  • Share on Twitter

  • Share on Flipboard

  • Share on Pinterest

  • Share on Linkedin

  • Send by Mail

• To safeguard

• A fault ?

• To print