Victory Day Neither sing victory nor call up: the two resignations of Vladimir Putin
Ukrainian war The death of the tank
Russian forces attacked eastern
and southern Ukraine on
Monday, coinciding with the Day of Soviet Victory over Nazi Germany and, although Russia assured that there is no doubt that its military objectives will be met, 75 days after the start of the
war in Ukraine
has not yet succeeded in taking Donbas
.
Ukraine feared an intensification of the attacks during May 9, as well as Russian attempts to celebrate Victory Day in several of the occupied territories.
According to the US Pentagon,
Russian forces are advancing slowly but gradually
through the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, where the situation is "dynamic".
"There are cities and towns that change hands sometimes in the course of the same day," spokesman John Kirby said.
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development forecasts a sharp drop in Ukraine's GDP in 2022
Ukraine's economy will shrink by almost a third this year due to the
war in Ukraine
, according to forecasts announced Tuesday by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which is holding its annual general meeting this week.
The agency revised upwards its forecast for the contraction of Ukraine's Gross Domestic Product (GDP): it now estimates that it will lose 30% in 2022, instead of the 20% indicated in its March forecasts.
As for Russia, a 10% contraction of its economy is still expected, subject to an unprecedented series of sanctions by the West.
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Biden believes that Putin does not find a "way out" for the invasion of Ukraine
The president of the United States, Joe Biden, said on Monday that he was concerned because he considers that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, "does not find a way out" that would end the war in Ukraine after failing to occupy the country.
During a charity event on the outskirts of the capital, Biden said that Putin "believed he could break NATO and the European Union" when he ordered the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, but, according to the US president, he did not succeed. .
Biden, who described Putin as "very calculating", considered that he is not managing to "find a way out" of the invasion, so the White House is "studying" what to do about it.
Initially, Russian troops tried to take the Ukrainian capital, kyiv, but in April they withdrew from the area and focused their efforts on the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine.
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1.2 million people were deported to Russia and detained in camps
The United States has evidence that the Russians
are forcibly expelling Ukrainians from their country and sending them to Russia,
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Monday.
"I can't say how many camps there are or what they are like," he told reporters.
"But we have indications that
the Ukrainians are being taken to Russia against their will."
The Ukrainian government claims that
1.2 million people
were deported to Russia and held in camps.
Russia's behavior is "inadmissible" and "not typical of a responsible power," added Kirby, who believes that Russian President
Vladimir Putin
"does not accept or respect the sovereignty of 'Ukraine'."
A Ukrainian government official,
Liudmila Denisova,
was quoted by the official Spravdi media center as saying: "More than 1.19 million of our citizens, including more than 200,000 children, have been deported to the Russian Federation."
He refrained from calling these deportations ethnic cleansing and used the term "Russian brutality."
"For 75 days (Russia) has brutalized Ukraine and the Ukrainian people," he said.
"And every time we think they can't go any lower, they prove you wrong."
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