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

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  • This Wednesday, kyiv claims that Russian forces have launched an assault on Azovstal, in Mariupol.

    And contact with Ukrainian fighters is made complicated.

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news of the day

Difficult to get news of the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in Mariupol.

“Heavy fighting” is underway at the Azovstal site in the port city, Mayor Vadim Boitchenko said on Wednesday.

A few moments earlier, Moscow had assured not to carry out an assault on this huge factory where Ukrainian fighters are entrenched.

“The order was given [on April 21] publicly by the commander-in-chief [Vladimir Putin] to call off any assault.

There is no assault “at the moment, thus hammered the spokesman of the Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, in front of the press.

Mayor Vadim Boitchenko said during the day that she “lost contact with the guys.

We cannot know what is going on there, whether they are safe or not”.

But at the start of the evening, Yaroslav Zhelenznyak, MP for Mariupol who took refuge in kyiv, told our colleagues from BFMTV that contact had been “restored” with the besieged.

sentence of the day

“If a country in Europe continues to oppose an embargo on Russian oil, then that country is complicit in the crimes committed by Russia on Ukrainian territory.

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This is a statement by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba as the European Union tries to get its member countries to accept a gradual embargo.

Hungary rejected the Brussels proposal during the day “in its current form”.

The number of the day

20.

New bodies of civilians have been discovered in the past 24 hours in the Kyiv region.

These 20 bodies were found “in Borodyanka, nearby villages and villages in the Vyshgorod district,” regional police chief Andriy Nebytov said in a video released by the Interior Ministry.

“A total of 1,235 civilian bodies have been found and inspected,” he said, of which 800 have already been “examined by experts.”

The trend of the day

As mentioned above, the EU's desire to ban imports of Russian oil and to impose new sanctions, in order to "make President Vladimir Putin pay the high price" for the war in Ukraine, has was slowed down on Wednesday by the Hungarian Viktor Orban.

The project “cannot be supported in its current form.

With all responsibility, we cannot vote for,” announced Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto.

The Commission recommends, in its 6th package of sanctions, “a ban on all Russian oil, crude and refined, transported by sea and by pipeline” by the end of 2022, explained its president, Ursula von der Leyen, before the European Parliament.

Since the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, European imports of gas, oil and coal have brought in 44 billion euros for the Kremlin, indicates a study by Crea, a think tank based in Finland.

The four main buyers are Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and France.

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