• 4 a.m.: Denmark votes on joining EU defense after 30 years of exception

In yet another domino effect of the invasion of Ukraine, Denmark votes in a referendum on Wednesday on its entry into the European Union's defense policy, turning the page on three decades of exception.

The yes is the big favorite among the 4.3 million voters called to the polls, having progressed to more than 65% of voting intentions in the last poll published on Sunday.

But caution remains in order because of the expected high abstention, in a country used to saying "nej" (no) to referenda on Europe, the last in 2015.

  • 1:48 a.m.: Washington to supply Ukraine with more advanced rocket systems, Biden says

US President Joe Biden has said the United States will provide Ukraine with more advanced rocket systems and ammunition to enable it to "hit major targets on the battlefield more accurately".

In a column published by the New York Times on Tuesday, the head of the White House added that Washington intended in this way to allow kyiv to have the "strongest possible position at the negotiating table" with Russia.

A senior White House official indicated a little later that the United States was going to deliver HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) systems to Ukraine, that is to say multiple rocket launchers mounted on light armour.

He said in an interview with reporters that the equipment sent to the Ukrainian army would have a range of 80 kilometers.

It is therefore not a question of very long-range systems, of several hundred kilometres, as the Americans also have.

  • 12:56 a.m .: Russian strikes in Severodonetsk are “crazy”, says V. Zelensky

“Given the presence of large-scale chemical production in Severodonetsk, the strikes of the Russian army in this city, with indiscriminate aerial bombardments, are simply crazy,” thundered Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a message. Tuesday night video.

"But on the 97th day of such a war, it is no longer surprising that for the Russian military, for the Russian commanders, for the Russian soldiers, any madness is absolutely acceptable," he added.

With AFP

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