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  • Finland's natural gas supply from Russia was cut off on Saturday, Finland's state-owned energy company Gasum said, after the Nordic country refused to pay supplier Gazprom in roubles.

  • New trenches around the city, concrete blocks, sandbags, numerous checkpoints: Kharkiv, which has already repelled a first Russian assault in February, is not lowering its guard and is organizing its defense in view of a possible second attack Russian.

  • The Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, the last pocket of resistance in this strategic port on the Sea of ​​Azov, came under Russian control on Friday evening, while in the Donbass, further north, artillery from Moscow pounded the positions of kyiv.

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08:15: Russian gas for Finland has been cut off

Finland's natural gas supply from Russia was cut off on Saturday, Finland's state-owned energy company Gasum said, after the Nordic country refused to pay supplier Gazprom in roubles.

"Natural gas deliveries to Finland under Gasum's supply contract have been interrupted," the company said in a statement, adding that gas would now be supplied from other sources via the Balticconnector pipeline, which connects Finland to Estonia.

The Finnish group said on Friday that it had been informed by the Russian giant Gazprom of the interruption of deliveries on Saturday.

In April, Gazprom demanded that all future payments for its gas export deliveries be settled in rubles rather than euros, but Gasum rejected this demand and the group announced on Tuesday that it was seeking legal arbitration. .

08:11: The anger of the mayor of Odessa

Once considered a politician with pro-Russian leanings, the mayor of the Ukrainian city of Odessa, Gennady Troukhanov, takes his time to discuss his feelings about Russia and President Vladimir Putin, who invaded the country on February 24.

“The Russians are currently on our land and they are bombing our cities, killing our people and our soldiers,” he notes.

For him, a point of no return has been crossed: there can no longer be any question of any Russian-Ukrainian friendship.

He castigates the air raids, the blockade of the Black Sea and the millions of tons of grain stuck in the ports, including Odessa.

"Putin has destroyed everything," he fumes.

08:07: Mariupol fell

The Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, the last pocket of resistance in this strategic port on the Sea of ​​Azov, came under Russian control on Friday evening, while in the Donbass, further north, artillery from Moscow pounded the positions of kyiv.

In the early evening, the Russian Defense Ministry spokesperson claimed that the steel complex had “passed under the complete control of the Russian armed forces” after the surrender of the last Ukrainian soldiers, and that the news had been passed on to the president. Vladimir Poutine.

Footage released by Moscow showed cohorts of men in combat gear emerging from the steelworks, some with crutches or bandages, after a long battle that had become a symbol of Ukrainian resistance to the Russian invasion.

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On the ground, the Azovstal steelworks, in Mariupol, the last pocket of resistance in this strategic port on the Sea of ​​Azov, passed Friday evening under Russian control.

Further north, the country's second city, Kharkiv, is preparing for a second Russian attack.

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