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  • While the war has lasted for more than three months, Russia is now concentrating its offensive in the Donbass.

    "We protect our land and do everything to strengthen" the defense of this region, assured Volodymyr Zelensky.

  • The self-proclaimed separatist "republic" of Donetsk said it had "taken complete control" of Lyman, a key town, with the "support" of the Russian army.

    But neither kyiv nor Moscow confirmed the information.

  • Vladimir Putin rejects all Russian responsibility for the world food crisis, Ukraine can no longer export its cereals following the blocking of ports, and accuses Westerners of being the cause.

    For its part, Germany is planning a "railway bridge" to help kyiv circumvent the blockade, according to the next head of American forces in Europe, General Chris Cavoli.

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War in Ukraine: Moscow intensifies its offensive in the East, the noose tightens on Severodonetsk

War in Ukraine: The Orthodox Church of Ukraine, hitherto affiliated with Moscow, announces a break with Russia

8:47 am: Contradictory statements on Lyman and Severodonetsk

The territorial defense of the self-proclaimed pro-Russian separatist "republic" of Donetsk said yesterday on Telegram that it had "taken complete control" of the key locality of Lyman, with "support" from the Russian army.

Neither the Russian nor the Ukrainian army immediately commented on this information.

A police official from the pro-Russian separatist republic of Lugansk, quoted by the Ria Novosti agency, also said on Friday that "the city of Severodonetsk is currently surrounded", and that Ukrainian troops are trapped there.

False, retorted the governor of Lugansk, Serguiï Gaïdaï, even judging erroneous to say that the region will fall under Russian “entire control of the enemy” in “one, two or three days”.

"Most likely they won't" seize it, but "perhaps, to avoid being surrounded there could be a withdrawal order given to our troops", he however admitted.

8:38 am: To not miss anything

If you disembark, you can always hang up the wagons with yesterday's recap.

Moscow's noose is tightening on eastern Ukraine https://t.co/DXrkHZCq5k

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8:31 a.m .: kyiv promises to “do everything” to defend the Donbass

“The situation in Donbass is very, very difficult,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video address on Friday.

“We protect our land and do everything to strengthen” the defense of this region, he assured.

8:24 am: Rupture between the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and Moscow

In the evening, the Moscow branch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church cut ties with the Russian spiritual authorities, who support Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“We do not agree with the Muscovite Patriarch Kirill (…) regarding the war in Ukraine”, explained in a press release the Ukrainian Church, at the end of a council devoted to “the aggression against her country, during which she pronounced "the full independence and autonomy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church".

8:15 am: S&P downgrades Ukraine, with negative outlook

The financial rating agency S&P announced on Friday that it had lowered its rating on Ukraine's debt denominated in foreign currencies to CCC +/C, “due to the greater fallout from the Russian military attack”.

She added a "negative outlook" to the note as she expects "the Russian-Ukrainian military conflict to continue," she said in a statement.

But it points out that it has confirmed its B-/B ratings “in local currency”, considering that “Ukrainian public debt denominated in hryvnia is less vulnerable to payment default”.

Hello everyone !

Welcome to this new live dedicated to the war in Ukraine, which does not stop on weekends.

The fighting is even intensifying in the Donbass, which Volodymyr Zelensky claims to "do everything" to defend.

The fight is also spreading in the minds, the Orthodox Church of Ukraine having decided to break with Moscow, to which it was attached.

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