Russia launched its "military operation" in Ukraine on Thursday, February 24.
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In several Ukrainian cities, the fighting continues simultaneously.
Vladimir Putin's army is hitting harder and focusing on the east of the country.
The Ukrainian authorities do not hesitate to use the term "hell" to describe the situation in certain parts of the territories.
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news of the day
In eastern Ukraine, Russia is now concentrating its military efforts on the Donbass region, partly governed by pro-Russian separatists.
Ukrainian authorities in the area have called on residents to flee despite the lack of humanitarian corridors.
"It's hell", moved on Monday evening on Facebook the Ukrainian governor of the Lugansk region, Serguiï Gaïdaï.
The fighting "is incessant" in several cities.
“Leave!
“, he ordered this Tuesday to his fellow citizens.
“Thousands of Kreminna residents did not have time to leave and now they are hostages of the Russians.
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"It's hell. The offensive has begun, the one we've been talking about for weeks. There's fighting in Rubizhne and Popasna, incessant fighting in other peaceful towns," says the region's Ukrainian governor of Lugansk, Sergiï Gaïda #AFP
— Agence France-Presse (@afpfr) April 18, 2022
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Kreminna, which had around 18,000 inhabitants before the war and is located about 50 kilometers northeast of Kramatorsk, fell into Russian hands, he said, although Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych claimed that "intense street fighting" is still taking place there.
The number of the day
20,000.
This is the death toll in Mariupol.
According to the mayor, the port city in the south-east of Ukraine, surrounded and bombarded, was destroyed "90%" by the Russians.
Asked about BFMTV on Tuesday morning, Vadym Boytchenko said that the Russians carried out "massive fire on civilian evacuation convoys" and had "no intention of letting people out of Mariupol alive".
Mayor of Mariupol claims Russians carried out "massive fire on civilian convoys" pic.twitter.com/ru0jAYez7B
— BFMTV (@BFMTV) April 19, 2022
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sentence of the day
"Putin's goal is to exterminate us"
Former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Tuesday that the Kremlin's objective was to "wipe Ukraine off the geopolitical map of the world".
"Putin's goal is to exterminate us," he hammered on BFMTV, adding that the Russian leader is committing "genocide" in Ukraine.
Petro Poroshenko, ex-president of Ukraine: "The objective of Putin and the Russian occupier is to exterminate us" pic.twitter.com/6OtkRNUPRy
— BFMTV (@BFMTV) April 19, 2022
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The trend of the day
Diplomatic efforts continue to find a way out of the war in Ukraine.
French President Emmanuel Macron spoke by videoconference with the leaders belonging to the Quint (France, Germany, United States, United Kingdom and Italy), this Tuesday afternoon at the Elysee Palace.
Government spokesman Gabriel Attal announced this morning this discussion to which European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and NATO leader Jens Stoltenberg were invited.
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For his part, the Spanish Prime Minister, the socialist Pedro Sánchez, announced that he would go “soon” to kyiv, without however giving more details “for security reasons”.
This visit will take place as Pedro Sánchez announced this Monday the reopening "in a few days" of the Spanish embassy in the Ukrainian capital, closed the day after the start of the Russian invasion on February 24.
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