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  • While Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russian forces had "liberated" Mariupol, the Ukrainian president assured in a video address that the strategic port city continued "to resist Russia, despite everything the occupiers say" .

  • Joe Biden announced $800 million in new military aid for Ukraine.

    For her part, the German Minister of Defense announced that Ukraine would receive "in the coming days" heavy weapons, including tanks, from Eastern European partners.

  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accuses Russia of trying to organize a fake independence referendum in the regions of Kherson and Zaporijjia which it occupies in the south of the country.

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8:30 am: No evacuation corridor for civilians this Friday

"Due to the danger threatening our routes, there will be no humanitarian corridors today," Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said on Telegram.

Thursday, three buses of evacuees from the besieged port of Mariupol arrived in Zaporizhia, a large city in the south-east

8:20 am: Renault sees its turnover fall

The Renault group published on Friday a turnover down 2.7% over one year in the first quarter to 9.7 billion euros, hampered in particular by the shortage of semiconductors and to a lesser extent by the war. in Ukraine.

8 a.m.: Mariupol resists again and again

Although Vladimir Putin said yesterday that he had liberated the port city, this is not the case according to his Ukrainian counterpart.

"They can only delay the inevitable - the moment when the invaders will have to leave our territory, in particular Mariupol, a city which continues to resist Russia, despite everything the occupiers say," he said in a video address on Thursday.

US President Joe Biden has meanwhile deemed it "questionable" that Russia has taken control of this city, believing that "there is still no proof that Mariupol is completely lost".

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On the verge of falling for days, Mariupol resists somehow to the Russian army after almost two months of siege.

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