In a tweet written in French and Ukrainian, the mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo announces that Thursday evening, the Eiffel Tower will light up in the colors of the Ukrainian flag.

The offensive was launched by Moscow on February 24, 2022 before dawn. Vladimir Putin and his staff expected to enter kyiv in a few days.

The Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, affirms in an interview with Le Figaro (paid) that “we are witnessing fierce fighting, both in Bakhmout and in other places on the front line”. “We are also seeing considerable Russian casualty rates. The latter pay a very high price for very small advances. Their morale is low and their equipment is poor, their logistics insufficient and their leadership failing. What Russia lacks in quality, it tries to make up for in quantity. They have the mass,” he explains.

The Chinese government on Monday denied considering supplying arms to Russia to support its offensive in Ukraine, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Saturday. “We don’t accept the United States pointing fingers at China-Russia relations, let alone exerting pressure and coercion,” said Wang Wenbin, a spokesman for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Foreign Affairs, accusing the United States of “spreading false information”.

The Ukrainian general staff claims that its forces have “repelled Russian attacks in areas of the village of Hrianykivka”, east of Khatkiv, while on Saturday the Russian Ministry of Defense claimed responsibility for its capture. According to kyiv, the Russians continue to heavily bombard the area with their artillery.

While Joe Biden will be in Poland, US Foreign Minister Antony Blinken is meeting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan today in Ankara.

“Russia does not need to score points on the Ukrainian theater, it needs to freeze the situation because time is against us, against Ukraine, against Europe, even against the United States which is hijacked of their major objective which is China”, estimates, on France Inter, Dominique de Villepin.

“It is likely that Russia will claim that Bakhmout was captured to align with the anniversary, regardless of the reality on the ground,” said the British Ministry of Defense in its daily update. As a result, “Russian forces are likely to come under increasing political pressure as the anniversary of the invasion approaches.”

On the ground, continues London, the losses are high. “The elite 155th and 40th Naval Infantry Brigades suffered very heavy losses at Vuhledar and are probably ineffective in combat,” the ministry further notes.

“We have our eyes fixed on the battlefield in Europe, and we tend to forget what is happening in the rest of the world and which will weigh heavily on this conflict”, estimates on France Inter Dominique de Villepin. “There is of course the war between Russia and Ukraine, but there is also the part between the United States and China, the risk of a conflict between autocracies and democracies, there are pitfalls along the way”, insists the former Prime Minister.

As for the expression “war on the West”, “it is the ideological trap which is set for us and which could rally many countries of the South” to Russia, “we must take into account this allergy to imperialism Westerner” and “get inside other people’s heads”, he said a little later.

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It is one of their adversaries who says it: “the Ukrainian army lacks ammunition, and we have indeed destroyed a large amount of artillery, in particular M777 howitzers and American MLRS”, Yan Gagin told TASS. , Councilor of the Autonomous Republic of Donetsk. “The adversary had to move the substantial part of the artillery precisely to Artyomovsk and Ugledar, these are the two hottest fronts at the moment,” he adds.

Artyomovsk lies without an area controlled by kyiv and is an important transport hub for supplying Ukrainian troops in the Donbass. Major clashes to retake the city are underway.

In his daily address last night, President Zelensky acknowledged that “the situation is very difficult” in the Donbass. ” We are fighting. We smash the invader and inflict extremely tangible losses on Russia,” he said.

And to add: “I repeat again and again: the more Russia loses there, in the Donbass – Bakhmout, Vuhledar, Maryinka, Kreminna, the sooner we can end this war with the victory of Ukraine” .

The mining basin of eastern Ukraine has been since 2014 and the annexation of Crimea the subject of a latent war between Ukraine and separatists supported by Moscow.

On February 21, 2022, President Putin announced that Moscow recognized the sovereignty of the People’s Republics of Donetsk and Lugansk (DPR and LPR respectively), the two regions that form Donbass. Three days later, he claimed to respond to a request for assistance from these two Republics to initiate the invasion of Ukraine, called in Russia “special military operation in Ukraine.”

Last September, during disputed consultations, the populations of the DPR and the LPR chose to be attached to the Russian Federation. These referendums, organized in a few days, under disputed conditions, were not recognized by the international community, any more than those which took place in the regions of Kherson and Zaporijjia.

Tomorrow, Vladimir Poutine should deliver a great speech evoking the integration of the four areas in Russia.

The head of the Russian Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, in an interview with TASS, accuses “the Ukrainian side (of using) all possible methods to conceal the identity of foreign mercenaries” who come to fight in its ratings. According to him, several bodies were found “with their heads and hands cut off”, they were identified as Polish mercenaries thanks to the recordings of their smartphones.

Moreover, these mercenaries would be handsomely paid. According to Bastrykin, “we established their order of recruitment, training and participation in combat actions at the sum of bonus payments ranging from 30,000 to 100,000 hryvnias” (between 770 and 2550 euros), he claims. he.

Ukraine will maintain the defense of the city of Bakhmout taking into account the price paid in human lives. In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera, President Zelensky affirms that the city, which had 70,000 inhabitants before the war, “like many others in the Donbass, was devastated by the Russians”. “It is important for us to defend it, but not at any price and not so that everyone dies,” he adds.

President Emmanuel Macron had a phone conversation on Sunday with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. Macron “reaffirmed his commitment to the 10-point peace plan proposed by President Zelensky and assured him that he would support this initiative on the international scene during the next diplomatic events”, indicated the Elysée. They also “referred to the reminder made (on Friday at the annual Munich security conference) to European and NATO partners of the need to strengthen and accelerate military support for Ukraine and the Ukrainian people” .

The sentence is unequivocal. In an interview with Corriere della Sera, Volodymyr Zelensky believes that Emmanuel Macron “wasting his time” by wanting to leave the dialogue open with Vladimir Putin.

“It will be a useless dialogue, in reality Macron is wasting his time, assures the Ukrainian president. I came to the conclusion that we are not in a position to change the Russian attitude. If they have decided to isolate themselves in the dream of rebuilding the former Soviet empire, there is nothing we can do about it, it is up to them whether or not to cooperate with the community of nations on the basis of mutual respect. »