In an address to the French, Emmanuel Macron announced Wednesday evening an "
economic and social resilience plan
" to "
protect
" the economy.
"
We are not at war with Russia
," he said, saying he wanted to stay in contact "
as much as he can
" with Putin.
A new resolution has been passed by the UN General Assembly against Russia.
Entitled "Aggression against Ukraine", it "
demands that Russia immediately stop using force
" against its neighbor.
Russia, Belarus, North Korea voted against.
China and India abstained.
On the ground
, at least eight people were killed by an airstrike on a residential area in
Kharkiv
, a major city in eastern Ukraine on which invading Russian forces are leading the assault.
In the morning, the bombing of the central square of Kharkiv had killed at least ten people.
After an offensive on the
port of Mariupol
(southeast), which cut off the electricity there, Moscow announced that its troops and the pro-Russian separatist forces in eastern Ukraine had made the connection on the coast of the
Sea of Azov
.
Ukrainian officials confirmed during the night of Wednesday to Thursday
the capture by the Russian army of Kherson, a large city in the south of the country
which Moscow announced that it had captured in the morning after fierce fighting.
It is the largest city captured by Russian forces since the invasion began seven days ago.
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The three maps to follow the advance of the Russian forces
.
Since the start of the offensive, more than
2,000 Ukrainian civilians
have been killed, according to Ukrainian emergency services.
The UNHCR announced that
a million people had already fled Ukraine
to neighboring countries and that this figure was increasing exponentially.
According to a first assessment published by Moscow,
498 Russian soldiers were killed, 1597 others wounded
on the 7th day of the offensive.
After the request of the Ukrainian president, Georgia is also calling
for the integration of its country into the European Union.
Can Ukraine join the European Union "without delay", as Zelensky demands
?
LIVE - War in Ukraine: Russian forces have taken control of Kherson
2022-03-03T07:13:45.351Z
A large city in southern Ukraine, Kherson was captured overnight from Wednesday to Thursday by Moscow after intense bombing. It is the largest town to have fallen into Russian hands since the start of the invasion.