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

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  • This Friday, April 15, Russia announced that the strikes on kyiv would be intensified.

    The new bombardments seem to herald a change in Russia's approach and once again raise fears of a Russian nuclear escalation.

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kyiv threatened again… Russia announced on Friday that it had destroyed an arms factory in the suburbs of kyiv and assured that the strikes on the Ukrainian capital would be intensified to respond to attacks on Russian territory, of which it accuses Ukraine.

A factory in the Kiev region, manufacturing Neptune missiles that the Ukrainian military said it used to strike the Russian cruiser

Moskva

, was hit overnight by a Russian strike.

According to Moscow, the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet sank on Thursday following a fire, but experts consider it credible that Ukrainian strikes are rather the cause.

The number of the day

95.

This is the percentage of the number of people found dead in Boutcha who were shot, said Friday the chief of police of the Kyiv region Andriy Nebitov.

“95% of people were killed with high precision rifles or other small arms,” he said.

sentence of the day

It is the Donbass that Russia wants to destroy first, as if they wanted only stones left and no human beings left.

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These are the words of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, pronounced in his ritual evening message posted on Facebook, Volodymyr Zelensky assured there that "the main target" of the Russians was indeed this region of eastern Ukraine .

The trend of the day

Moscow's new bombardment of kyiv seems to announce a change in approach by Russia which, after failing to defeat the defenders of the Ukrainian capital, announced at the end of March that it was going to concentrate on the East by withdrawing its forces.

“It is possible that President Putin and the Russian leaders will sink into despair, given the setbacks they have suffered so far from a military point of view”, released the head of the CIA, William Burns.

So the question arises again: can Russia use its tactical nuclear weapons, smaller in explosive charge, intended for the battlefield and having a range of less than 5,500 km?

“In the event of stagnation or humiliation, one can imagine a vertical escalation, recalled this Friday a senior French officer on condition of anonymity.

Putin did not enter this war to lose it.

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Our file on the war in Ukraine

If Vladimir Putin decided to wipe out even one Ukrainian village to show his determination, “the political cost would be monstrous.

He would lose what little support he has left.

The Indians would retreat, the Chinese too, assures William Alberque, of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).

I don't think Putin will."

In Western chancelleries, there are fewer certainties.

"The initial Rubicon was crossed" during the invasion of Ukraine, "there are no real limits", admits a Western diplomat.

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War in Ukraine: Ship sunk, factory affected and Donbass targeted… The conflict in four infographics

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War in Ukraine: CIA warns of nuclear risk posed by Vladimir Putin facing military setbacks

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