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Three Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian "champions" of the fight for civil liberties have won a Nobel Peace Prize with a critique of the "authoritarian" and repressive regime of Vladimir Putin, in the midst of war in Ukraine.
The prestigious prize was jointly awarded to Belarusian activist Ales Bialiatski, in prison in his country, to the Russian NGO Memorial - hit by a dissolution order - and to the Ukrainian Center for Civil Liberties which works to document the "crimes of Russian warfare" in the current conflict.
"The Norwegian Nobel Committee wishes to honor three outstanding champions of human rights, democracy and peaceful coexistence in the three neighboring countries of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine", declared its president Berit Reiss-Andersen, the day when Vladimir Putin celebrated his 70th birthday under a shower of praise from Russian officials.
While it wanted to mark the occasion in the face of the war in Ukraine, which plunged Europe into the most serious security crisis since the Second World War, the committee refrained from frontally criticizing Russian President Vladimir Putin, who launched the invasion of its Ukrainian neighbor on February 24.
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We must continue to move in this direction, that of putting pressure on the Russian energy sector, on this main source of income for the aggressor state”
Volodymyr Zelensky asked the European Union on Friday to "continue" to put "pressure" on the Russian energy sector, after the adoption since the invasion of Ukraine of the eighth package of EU sanctions.
He thanked the EU for this new sanctions package, which imposes new trade restrictions on Russia and extends the list of people subject to asset freezes and travel bans in the EU.
The Ukrainian president also reiterated kyiv's calls for the "demilitarization" of the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye (south), the largest in Europe, located on territory that Moscow claims to have annexed.
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Some 100 million euros.
This is the amount "to begin with" announced by Emmanuel Macron intended for the creation of a "special fund" so that Ukraine can "purchase directly from our manufacturers the equipment it needs most to support its effort to war ".
"We are going to endow this special fund with 100 million euros to start", which will allow "to also be able to work with the French defense industrial base", added the French president to the press in Prague at the end of a EU meeting.
The trend of the day
Russian forces claimed early gains in eastern Ukraine after a series of withering reverses on multiple fronts, but kyiv appeared to retain the initiative, calling on Russian soldiers to choose surrender.
A sign of the confidence won by the Ukrainians after the success of their counter-offensive, Defense Minister Oleksiï Reznikov promised to “guarantee life, security and justice” to Russian soldiers who choose to surrender.
“You can still save Russia from tragedy and the Russian army from humiliation,” he said, as defeats prompted Russian President Vladimir Putin to mobilize several hundred thousand people in the 'army.
Moscow, for its part, announced that it had made its first gains - three villages in eastern Ukraine - after losing thousands of square kilometers of territory on several fronts in recent weeks.
According to pro-Russian separatists fighting alongside troops from Moscow, the villages of Otradivka, Vessela Dolyna and Zaitseve are now under Russian control.
The Russian Ministry of Defense had already announced the capture of Zaitseve the day before in its daily report.
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