kyiv and Moscow claim progress in southern Ukraine

• Russia launched its "military operation" in Ukraine on Thursday, February 24.

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The European Union has imposed new trade restrictions on Russia and expanded the list of people subject to asset freezes and travel bans in the EU, as part of the 8th package of sanctions against Moscow which entered into force this Thursday.

These new measures, published in

of the EU, are a "response to Russia's escalation in the illegal war it continues to wage against Ukraine, illustrated in particular by the annexation of Ukrainian territories to the outcome of mock "referendums", the mobilization of additional troops and the threat of openly brandished nuclear weapons", specifies the European Commission.

They also prepare for the implementation of the Russian oil price cap agreed by the G7, and provide for a ban on EU nationals holding positions in the management bodies of certain Russian state-owned companies. .

This EU sanctions package introduces €7 billion worth of new import bans to reduce Russia's revenue.

sentence of the day

This war must be won now, so that (…) the Russian tanks do not advance on Warsaw or on Prague

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on European leaders for arms and to stop "Russian tanks" from advancing, seven months after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

“We must punish the aggressor,” he added by video to the 44 European leaders gathered in Prague.

European Parliament President Roberta Metsola also called on EU member states to deliver tanks to kyiv and "accelerate" the process for that country's accession to the Union, in an interview with AFP , before the summit of the Twenty-Seven.

The number of the day

At least three people lost their lives in a Russian bombardment on the city of Zaporozhye.

This strike also left seven injured in this region that Moscow claims to have annexed.

Other residents are still trapped under the rubble, according to the regional governor.

In the city, the strikes on Thursday ripped open an entire section of a large apartment building, and rescuers searched the rubble by hand, looking for possible victims.

According to the governor, seven strikes by Russian forces targeted "very tall buildings".

He then spoke in the middle of the morning of a "new attack", but without giving more details.

“The Russians continue to deliberately hit civilians to sow fear,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kouleba tweeted.

"Russian terror must be stopped: by force of arms, by sanctions and by complete isolation" of Moscow, he urged.

Overnight, seven Russian missiles have hit people sleeping peacefully at their homes in Zaporizhzhia.

More have struck during the day.

Russians keep deliberately striking civilians to fear.

Russian terror must be stopped — by force of weapons, sanctions, and full isolation.

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— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) October 6, 2022

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The trend of the day

Ukraine said it had retaken more than 400 km2 of Russian-occupied territory in the south of the country in less than a week, with Russian troops suffering a Ukrainian counter-offensive.

"The armed forces of Ukraine have liberated more than 400 km2 of the Kherson region since the beginning of October," said the spokeswoman for the military command in the South, Natalia Goumenyuk, quantifying for the first time Ukrainian advances.

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For its part, the Moscow army assured in its daily report that “the enemy has been pushed back from the line of defense of the Russian troops” in the Kherson region.

According to her, the Ukrainian forces deployed four tactical battalions on this front, ie several hundred men, and "several times tried to break through the defenses" Russian near Dudtchany, Sukhanové, Sadok and Bruskinskoye.

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