• 5:40 am: new day of international conference in Lugano

The international conference in Lugano, Switzerland, continues on Tuesday to prepare for the reconstruction of the country.

This will be "the common task of the whole democratic world", underlined the Ukrainian president. 

The urgency is to help the population affected by the war before, in a second step, to finance thousands of reconstruction projects and, in the long term, to prepare a European, green and digital Ukraine, explained the Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Chmygal arrived in Lugano on Sunday.

  • 4:24 a.m .: after taking Lyssytchansk, the Russian army continues its offensive

After losing control of the province of Lugansk, the urgency for the Ukrainian forces is now to contain the Russian advance towards two major cities in the neighboring region of Donetsk: Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.

"The enemy's main effort (...) is aimed at a gradual overflow" of the Ukrainian military on this axis, the Ukrainian general staff said on Monday.

As the frontline draws closer to Sloviansk, the Ukrainian authorities are calling on its population to leave.

In the evening, the Ukrainian army reported repelled Russian assault attempts in the Kharkiv (northeast) and Donetsk regions.

On the other hand, near Sloviansk, "the enemy launches assaults in the direction of the locality of Mazanivka and partially succeeds there", according to the same source.

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  • 3:59 am: Ukraine needs 'colossal funds', says Zelensky

"We must break" the enemy, launched Volodymyr Zelensky in his daily address Monday evening.

"It's a difficult mission, requiring superhuman time and effort. But we have no other choice."

The president also repeated that he needed "colossal funds" to help the population, rebuild cities and infrastructure destroyed by war, but also "prepare schools and universities for a new school year" and "prepare for winter" .

Its Prime Minister Denys Chmygal, who made the trip to the international conference in Lugano, Switzerland, presented a plan "estimated at 750 billion dollars". 

With AFP

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