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  • Ukraine's destiny is being played out in Brussels where the Twenty-Seven are considering its candidacy for membership of the European Union on Thursday.

    Ukrainian President Zelensky is due to participate virtually in this European Council summit.

  • The European summit must be followed by another from the G7 and a third from NATO, in which Joe Biden will participate.

    The question of financial aid to kyiv should be at the heart of the discussions of these three meetings.

    Volodymyr Zelensky will intervene, virtually, at each meeting.

  • German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called for setting up a "Marshall Plan" for the reconstruction of Ukraine, with a budget of several billion euros.

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6:58:58 am: kyiv awaits decision on EU membership

This Thursday, but also Friday, will be held in Brussels a crucial European Summit for kyiv.

The Twenty-Seven will indeed study Ukraine's candidacy for membership of the European Union.

“As actively as we are fighting for a positive decision by the European Union on Ukraine's candidacy, we are fighting daily to obtain deliveries of modern weapons,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky insisted on Wednesday evening. participate virtually in the European Council summit.

"We are awaiting a key European decision in the evening", also specified the one who has not ceased for weeks to repeat the membership of his former Soviet republic to the "European family".

He was to continue this Thursday his “telephone marathon” with European leaders to extract a consensus in favor of yes.

6:53 am: RSF will file a complaint with the ICC

The journalists' defense organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) will file a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC) after its publication on Wednesday of an investigation according to which the Ukrainian photoreporter Maks Levin and a soldier who accompanied him were "executed and probably tortured, by Russian soldiers in March.

6:48 a.m .: Two large agricultural terminals bombed in Mykolaiv

Two grain storage terminals were hit by Russian shelling in the port city of Mykolaiv on Wednesday, their operators, trading houses Bunge and Viterra, said.

The port terminal of Evri, owned by Viterra and dedicated to vegetable oils, was “damaged by a missile attack”, which left one person slightly injured, a spokesman for the group said, adding that two silos were on fire and a third damaged.

This site, bought in 2020 by Glencore, parent company of Viterra, has a storage capacity of 160,000 tonnes.

As for Bunge, its facilities were "hit during the latest Russian attacks in the region", said a spokeswoman, adding that the strike did not cause any injuries and that the exact extent of the damage was not known. still known.

The terminal, which had been closed since the first day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, includes a storage site, ship loading and a vegetable oil production unit.

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Welcome to this new live dedicated to the war in Ukraine.

Like every day, the editorial staff of

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is mobilized to give you the latest information on the conflict.

This Thursday is a day particularly awaited by kyiv.

A European summit will indeed open to study Ukraine's candidacy for the European Union.

Brussels seems to be heading for a favorable response.

But to be certain, Volodymyr Zelensky continues to increase contacts with the leaders of the Member States.

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