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Ukraine on Thursday threatened to boycott the 2024 Olympics in Paris if the International Olympic Committee (IOC) decides to allow Russian and Belarusian athletes, banned from most international competitions under their banners since the Russian invasion, to participate.
On the occasion of International Holocaust Victims Day on Friday, Vladimir Putin accused "neo-Nazis in Ukraine" of committing crimes against civilians, rhetoric that the Russian president regularly uses to justify his military offensive.
For his part, the Polish Prime Minister frontally accused Vladimir Putin of “building new concentration camps”.
In the east, the heaviest fighting moved towards the town of Vougledar, southwest of Donetsk.
A "ferocious" clash is underway towards Vougledar, both sides indicate.
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08:51: Russian bombardment on Vougledar
Russian TOS-1 thermobaric strikes on the Ukrainian-held urban center of Vuhledar, Donetsk Oblast pic.twitter.com/pKH4EVt4EJ
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8:39 am: Vougledar has not fallen, assures kyiv
"Soon Vougledar could become a very important new success for us," Moscow-appointed Donetsk region chief Denis Pushilin said on Friday.
150 km from Bakhmout, this mining city which had 15,000 inhabitants before the Russian invasion, "serious, brutal" clashes took place and the Russian troops were "established in the south-east and east of the city “Said an official of the pro-Russian authorities of the eastern region of Donetsk, Ian Gagin.
The spokesman for the Ukrainian army for the eastern zone, Serguiï Tcherevaty, confirmed “fierce fighting”, while ensuring that the Russians had been repelled.
"The enemy is indeed seeking to achieve success in this sector but it is not achieving it thanks to the efforts of the Defense Forces of Ukraine," he said on television.
“The enemy is exaggerating, to put it mildly, its success,” he continued, concluding: “Faced with its losses, the enemy retreats”.
8:29 am: Emmanuel Macron will continue to "talk to Russia" and also addresses China
French President Emmanuel Macron assured Friday that he would continue to "talk to Russia", despite the criticism this arouses, but also called on China to speak out against the "imperialist war" in Ukraine.
“All our countries have a position to hold, that of respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity (…) whatever the friendships, the alliances that we can nurture”, he said during a reception at the Elysée on the occasion of the New Year of the lunar calendar.
"Some people in other times have been able to reproach me for speaking to Russia and I will continue to speak to Russia," added Emmanuel Macron, one of the rare Western heads of state to have kept in touch with the master of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, after Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. “But who could defend the possibility of a free and stable international order if we closed our eyes to an imperialist war?
“, he launched in an allusion in particular to China.
8:22 am: North Korea condemns Washington's decision to send tanks to Ukraine
On Wednesday, US President Joe Biden promised to send 31 Abrams tanks, one of the powerful and sophisticated combat vehicles of the US military, to kyiv.
However, this delivery should not take place for "several months", according to the spokesman for the National Security Council of the White House, John Kirby.
But Washington "crosses the red line further", lambasted Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in a statement on Friday, accusing the United States, which she describes as "arch-criminal", of being responsible. of the war in Ukraine.
Behind this decision "lies the sinister desire of the United States to achieve its goal of hegemony" by continuing to fuel a "proxy war to destroy Russia", she continued, adding that Pyongyang will stand "always" alongside the Russians.
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In the aftermath of the International Day for the Victims of the Holocaust, which was an opportunity for Vladimir Putin to put a layer on his rhetoric of "neo-Nazis in Ukraine", the fighting is concentrated in Vougledar, a mining town in the south of west of Donetsk.
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