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  • The leader of the pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk said on Monday that his forces had completely conquered the port area of ​​the strategic city of Mariupol, in southeastern Ukraine, which has been besieged for more than a month.

  • Russian forces are maintaining their pressure on the port city on Tuesday.

  • In Eastern Ukraine where kyiv expects a major offensive shortly.

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7:26 am: Syrian opponents mobilize to help Ukrainians

Armed with solid experience acquired during the war in their country where Russian forces intervened, Syrian opponents are mobilizing to help Ukrainians treat the wounded, help refugees or prepare for possible chemical attacks.

Syrian opponents, who like the Ukrainians expect Russian forces to be held accountable for these devastating interventions, believe that a special "bond" has been forged with them.

"Given our experience in Syria, we are probably among the best able to understand the pain of the Ukrainian people," said Raed al-Saleh, head of the White Helmets, relief workers engaged in Syrian rebel areas.

“Time and space have changed but the victims are the same, the civilians, and the assassin is the same, the Russian regime”, adds Raed al-Saleh.

The fate of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol (south-east), besieged and devastated by the Russian army since the end of February, is not unlike that of Aleppo, the second city of Syria (north).

In 2016, the rebel-held eastern neighborhoods were ravaged by Russian aerial bombardment during a long siege.

Faced with violence in Ukraine, a group of associations created the Syria-Ukraine Network (SUN) which helps Syrian doctors to go to Ukraine to treat the wounded, explains to AFP the coordinator, Olga Lautman, a Ukrainian.

7:23 am: Chemical attacks in Mariupol?

The United Kingdom is trying to verify information on the possible use of chemical weapons in Ukraine by Russian forces in Mariupol, a strategic port city that has been under siege for more than a month, the British Foreign Secretary announced on Monday.

“Reports indicate that Russian forces may have used chemical agents in an attack on the population of Mariupol.

We are urgently working with our partners to verify the information,” said Liz Truss on her Twitter account.

Any use of such weapons “would constitute a brutal escalation in this conflict and we will hold (Russian President Vladimir) Putin and his regime to account,” she added.

7:18 a.m .: Europe is working hard to emancipate itself from Russian gas

Even if the task will take years, according to experts.

Europe is looking for alternatives to Russian gas with LNG terminal projects in northern Germany, Finland or France, via possible new routes via Spain or the eastern Mediterranean.

according to the European executive, the EU could completely do without Russian gas "well before 2030".

With Norway at full speed, deposits in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom in decline and Russia undesirable, Europe is therefore seeking its gas from further afield, with liquefied natural gas (LNG) transportable by ship, coming from United States, Qatar or Africa.

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On this Tuesday, we will follow the fighting in eastern Ukraine, as pro-Russian separatists claimed on Monday that the city of Mariupol had been conquered. 

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