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  • Moscow continues to focus its offensive on the Donbass.

    The Russian army is seeking at all costs to seize Severodonetsk, in eastern Ukraine, the capture of which is essential for them to fully control the region.

    According to its governor, the city “is simply being destroyed”.

    The fighting in the east of the country has reached "maximum intensity", said Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Ganna Malyar.

  • On the southern front, Moscow is busy consolidating its hold on the territories conquered for three months.

    Russia has thus announced that it will allow residents of the Zaporijjia and Kherson regions to apply for a Russian passport via “a simplified procedure”.

    Ukraine immediately denounced a “forced” granting of Russian nationality.

  • Russia on Thursday rejected an Italian peace plan.

    This one which provided, under UN guarantee, for a ceasefire and the withdrawal of troops, the entry of Ukraine into the EU but not into NATO, and a status of autonomy for Donbass and Crimea which would remain under Ukrainian sovereignty.

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin nevertheless said he was ready to help “overcome the food crisis” caused by the blocking of Ukrainian and Russian cereals due to the ongoing conflict… subject to the lifting of sanctions against Moscow.

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7:40 a.m .: Zelensky accuses Russia of “genocide” in the Donbass

The Ukrainian president accused Russia of practicing "genocide" in Donbass, in the east of the country, where the city of Severodonetsk suffered a deluge of bombs.

“The current occupier offensive in the Donbass could make the region uninhabited,” Volodymyr Zelensky said in his Thursday night televised address, accusing the invaders of seeking to “burn down” Severodonetsk and other cities. of the region.


Russian forces practice "deportation" and "mass killing of civilians" in the Donbass, he continued, denouncing "an obvious policy of genocide carried out by Russia".

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