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DIRECT. War in Ukraine: more than 260 fighters evacuated from the Avostal steelworks

2022-05-17T04:44:12.450Z


While, on the international scene, Vladimir Putin has brought together his allies to respond to the potential extension of NATO to Finland


The essential

  • Vladimir Putin gathered, this Monday in Moscow, his allies of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, including Armenia, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Belarus.

  • Turkey has repeated that it will not agree to Sweden and Finland joining NATO. 

  • The French car manufacturer Renault has sold its assets to the Russian state, the first major nationalization since the offensive against Ukraine.

    The American giant McDonald's, which has been present in Russia for more than 30 years, has announced that it will definitively withdraw from the country and sell all its activities.

06:31

Fighters still present

The Ukrainian General Staff also indicated that “the rescue activities of the defenders who remain on the territory of Azovstal continue”, without specifying how many Ukrainian soldiers remained on the spot.

06:30

New evacuations in Azovstal

More than 260 wounded Ukrainian fighters were evacuated from the Azovstal steelworks, the last bastion of Ukrainian resistance in Mariupol.

Among them, 53 seriously injured were sent “to Novoazovsk for medical assistance and 211 others were transported to Olenivka through a humanitarian corridor”, details the Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Defense, Ganna Malyar.

06:30

Hello and welcome

In this new live, we will follow together the latest developments in the war in Ukraine and its consequences.

Source: leparis

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