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  • UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres is traveling to Boutcha, Irpin and Borodianka on Thursday, theaters of abuses blamed on the Russian army by the Ukrainians.

  • The UN chief arrived in Ukraine from Moscow where he pleaded with Vladimir Putin for a ceasefire “as soon as possible”.

    He also said he was “concerned by the repeated reports of possible war crimes”, judging that they “require an independent investigation”.

  • The European Union has accused Russia of "blackmail" after it cut off gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria while the West continues efforts to arm the Ukrainians.

  • Vladimir Putin, for his part, again warned against any outside intervention in the conflict, promising a "rapid and lightning" response.

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6:59 am: Ukraine recognizes Russian advances

Rarely on its part, the Ukrainian army has recognized Russian advances in the east, in the Kharkiv region and in the Donbass, a mining basin partly controlled by pro-Russian separatists since 2014. Kiev admitted that the Russians had taken from localities stretching from north to south, suggesting that Moscow wants to take a vice in a large pocket still in the hands of the Ukrainians.

“We have extremely difficult weeks ahead,” Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov warned on Wednesday.

According to him, the Russian army, “already aware of its strategic defeat, will try to inflict as much suffering as possible” on the Ukrainian soldiers whom he urged to “hold on”.

6:58 a.m .: Great Britain calls on the “courage” of the allies

Britain on Wednesday evening called on Ukraine's allies to show "courage" in stepping up military aid, arguing that the war was "our war" and victory for kyiv a "strategic imperative for all of us".

“Heavy weapons, tanks, planes – dig into our stocks, ramp up production, we have to do all of that,” British Foreign Minister Liz Truss said in a speech in London.

Vladimir Putin, for his part, again warned against any outside intervention in the conflict in Ukraine, promising a "rapid and lightning" response.

6:55 am: Antonio Guterres at Boutcha, Irpin and Borodianka

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres will travel this Thursday to the suburbs of kyiv, to Boutcha, Irpin and Borodianka, theaters of abuses attributed to the Russian army by the Ukrainians.

kyiv indeed accuses the Russian forces of having committed massacres after the discovery of dozens of corpses wearing civilian clothes in these localities occupied and then abandoned by the Russian army.

On April 2, in Boutcha, AFP journalists discovered the horror: a street strewn with corpses.

And the UN documented the "murder, including some by summary execution", of 50 civilians, after a mission in the city.

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As Moscow continues its offensive in eastern and southern Ukraine, the UN secretary general will be in Boutcha on the outskirts of kyiv on Thursday.

The Americans and their allies also continue to supply more and more weapons to Ukraine, even if Vladimir Putin has threatened a “rapid and lightning” response to the countries which will try to intervene in the conflict.

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