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A Russian strike on Kramatorsk, a large city in Donbass under Ukrainian control, killed two civilians and injured thirteen others on Friday evening.
The rating agencies S & P and Fitch downgraded Ukraine on Friday, now only one notch from default, after the announcement of a moratorium on its foreign debt obtained Wednesday from its international creditors.
Spain and Portugal have supported Olaf Scholz's idea of creating a gas pipeline linking them to central Europe, the Iberian Peninsula being more independent of Russia for its gas.
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8:42 a.m .: Three dead in Russian bombings in Kramatorsk and Zaporozhye
At least three people were killed and 15 others injured Friday in Russian shelling of the Ukrainian cities of Kramatorsk in the east and Zaporozhye in the south, local authorities said.
"A new attack on Kramatorsk: according to initial information, we have two civilians dead and 13 wounded with certainty," Pavlo Kyrylenko, the governor of the Donetsk region, said on Facebook.
“The shelling damaged at least 20 buildings and a fire broke out,” he added, again calling on the local population to evacuate.
A local official in Zaporozhye, Anatoly Kourtev, for his part reported on Telegram the death of a woman on Friday in Russian strikes which also injured two people who were hospitalized.
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8:23 a.m .: S&P and Fitch put Ukraine one step away from default
The rating agencies S & P and Fitch downgraded Ukraine on Friday, now only one notch from default, after the announcement of a moratorium on its external debt obtained Wednesday from its international creditors.
S&P has downgraded its long and short-term debt ratings in foreign currencies from CC/C to SD (“selective default”).
“Given the announced terms and conditions of the restructuring, and in accordance with our criteria, we consider this transaction to be (…) equivalent to default,” S&P said in a statement.
Ukraine has obtained from its international creditors a two-year moratorium on its external debt, estimated at 20 billion dollars.
8:15 a.m.: Take stock
To start the weekend off right, we suggest a little update on the latest events in Ukraine.
Yesterday's live can be found right here.
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