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  • The war in Ukraine will be this Wednesday at the heart of the NATO summit in Madrid, where more than 40 heads of state and government are gathered to discuss the future of the Alliance, which Sweden and Finland will be able to join. after the lifting of Turkey's veto.

  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will speak twice by videoconference during this summit, as kyiv continues to demand more arms deliveries from its partners.

  • Ukrainian authorities on Tuesday reported several deadly strikes against civilians, including in Lyssychansk, the twin city of Severodonetsk, located in a strategic pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the Donbass basin.

  • During a live intervention on Tuesday evening before the UN Security Council, Volodymyr Zelensky suggested sending a commission of inquiry to Ukraine and once again called for Russia to be expelled from its permanent seat.

  • Moscow, which has ensured since the start of the war that it wants to "demilitarize" and "denazify" its neighbor, ruled out on Tuesday interrupting its offensive until Ukraine capitulated.

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6:43 am: Ukraine at the heart of the NATO summit

The NATO summit in Madrid, where more than 40 heads of state and government are meeting to discuss the future of the Alliance, will mainly be devoted this Wednesday to the war in Ukraine.

Member countries, which have already provided billions of dollars in aid to kyiv, will agree "a comprehensive program of assistance to Ukraine to help it uphold its right to self-defence", pledged Tuesday Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of the Alliance.

“It is extremely important that we are ready to continue to provide our support because Ukraine today faces brutality that we have not seen in Europe since the Second World War,” he urged. .

A wish relayed by Emmanuel Macron, who called on the Alliance for a "message of unity and strength" after a G7 meeting in Germany, organized before the NATO summit.

“Russia cannot and must not win” the war, he insisted.

6:39 am: Zelensky wants a UN commission of inquiry

During his intervention by videoconference, Volodymyr Zelensky suggested on Tuesday to the UN Security Council to send a commission of inquiry to prove that the Kremenchuk shopping center was destroyed by a Russian missile.

The Ukrainian president also once again called for Russia to be expelled from its permanent seat on the Security Council and for a tribunal to be created to judge the "daily terrorist acts" of Moscow.

6:36 am: A minute of silence at the UN

During a live intervention before the UN Security Council, Volodymyr Zelensky succeeded in obtaining a minute's silence for Ukraine in the presence of Russia.

"If you could honor all Ukrainians who have been killed in this war, all adults, all our children, tens of thousands of people... I ask you to honor them with a minute of silence," he said. he said at the end of his speech, standing up.

Seeming a bit taken by surprise, the 15 members of the Security Council followed suit, as did the rest of the people present in the room.

Representing Russia at the start of the session, the Deputy Russian Ambassador, Dmitry Polyanskiy, also stood up to observe the minute of silence.

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After the G7 summit in Germany, another international summit will have the war in Ukraine as its main topic this Wednesday.

NATO brings together its members in Madrid.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will speak there twice by videoconference.

He should take the opportunity to once again request more arms deliveries from his partners.

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