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  • Volodymyr Zelensky expects “Russia to intensify its attacks this week”.

    On the other hand, hope could come, according to him, from Brussels.

    This Monday “opens a truly historic week” because kyiv will have “the European Union's response to Ukraine's candidate status”.

  • The member countries of the EU meet on Thursday and Friday to decide whether to officially grant kyiv the status of candidate for membership.

    A green light requires unanimity of the 27.

  • In the Donbass, Serguiï Gaïdaï, governor of the province of Lugansk, denied the total capture of Severodonetsk by the Russians, acknowledging however that they "control the majority".

    On the southern front, the Ukrainian army ensures that the Russian forces, “unable to advance on the ground”, proceed by bombardments.

  • The war could last "for years", NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Sunday, calling on Western countries to support kyiv over the long term.

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8:03 am: Austria relaunches a coal-fired power plant

Faced with the EU, Moscow holds the weapon of hydrocarbons.

Countries, such as Germany, are therefore seeking to compensate for the declines in Russian gas deliveries, even if it means resorting to solutions that are not very ecological.

Austria thus announced on Sunday the reactivation of a coal-fired power plant closed in the spring of 2020 by a government wanting to eliminate this source of polluting energy and produce 100% electricity from renewable sources by 2030.

7:53 am: In the south, Mykolaiv targeted by the Russians

The Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday that it had hit a factory in Mykolaiv (south) with cruise missiles, and destroyed “ten 155 mm M777 howitzers and up to twenty armored vehicles supplied to the kyiv regime by the West over the past ten days.

Statements impossible to verify from an independent source.

This port and industrial city of almost half a million inhabitants before the war is still under Ukrainian control, but it is close to the Kherson region, almost entirely occupied by the Russians.

It remains a target of Moscow because it is on the road to Odessa, the largest port in Ukraine, also still under Ukrainian control and at the center of discussions on the blocked export of millions of tonnes of Ukrainian grain.

7:50 a.m.: “Our army is holding up” says Zelensky

According to Volodymyr Zelensky, the Russians are “regrouping their forces in the direction of Kharkiv (north-east) and in the Zaporizhia region (south), and are still bombarding our fuel infrastructure”.

But "we will respond to these attacks", he assured Sunday evening, while conceding "significant losses".

"Our army is holding up," he said again.

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The coming week is crucial for kyiv.

Ukraine will indeed find out whether its candidacy for the European Union has been accepted.

While awaiting an answer on Thursday or Friday, Volodymyr Zelensky expects “Russia to intensify its attacks”.

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