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This Tuesday, Volodymyr Zelensky visited his troops near Bakhmout, while a statement by Emmanuel Macron on Russia sparked disapproval from his allies in Eastern countries.
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He moved near the front on the occasion of the day of the armed forces.
President Volodymyr Zelensky traveled on Tuesday 45 kilometers from Bakhmout, the main theater of fighting in the east of the country, where the Ukrainian army is facing Russian offensives.
In this region of Donbass, whose annexation Russia proclaimed last September, the Ukrainian head of state praised the resilience of the troops, while presenting military decorations to his soldiers.
He reported on his visit by posting three videos.
He greeted "all those who gave their lives for Ukraine" in one of them.
"Eastern Ukraine is the most difficult axis (of the front)," Volodymyr Zelensky analyzed.
Since the start of the conflict, the Ukrainian president has regularly visited the front, unlike Vladimir Putin, who limits his outings.
The Russian president traveled to Crimea on Monday, where footage showed him driving a car over the bridge linking this peninsula to Russia, which had been partially destroyed in early October by an attack attributed by Moscow to kyiv.
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Someone wants to provide security guarantees to a terrorist and murderous state?
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Oleksiï Danilov, the secretary of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council, did not appreciate the remarks made by Emmanuel Macron.
The French president stressed on Saturday that it would also be necessary to give "security guarantees" to Russia, once the war is over.
The Ukrainian leader criticizes the French president for his lack of firmness with regard to Russia.
And he is not the only one in Eastern Europe, since the Lithuanian Prime Minister and the Polish Deputy Foreign Minister have also criticized Emmanuel Macron's statements.
Which called on Tuesday not to "try to see controversies where there are none"
The number of the day
443.
Such as the number of children killed since last February 24, according to the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office.
To this terrible toll must be added 853 children injured since the beginning of the conflict.
This figure could be higher, as it does not include casualties in Russian-occupied territories where hostilities are ongoing.
Russian attacks on Ukraine also reportedly damaged 2,719 schools and completely destroyed 332, according to the Ukrainian Prosecutor General.
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A Ukrainian drone hit an airfield in Kursk (Russia), a border region of Ukraine.
An oil storage tank caught fire, but there were no casualties.
The announcement made by the governor of the region comes a day after Moscow accused kyiv of a drone attack directed at two air bases.
Another bombing occurred in Donetsk, killing at least six people according to the pro-Russian authorities who administer this region annexed last September by Moscow.
The number of injured is still being assessed, authorities said.
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