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DIRECT. War in Ukraine: the Russians "want to destroy everything" in the Donbass, insists Zelensky

2022-05-25T04:59:27.888Z


On February 24, when they invaded Ukraine, Russian forces were expecting a blitzkrieg. They saved kyiv and Kharkiv but the


The essential

  • “We are continuing the special military operation until all objectives have been achieved,” Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said yesterday.

  • The invasion war, launched on February 24 by the Kremlin, has entered its 91st day.

  • The Kharkiv metro has been working again since yesterday.

  • Nearly 85,000 Ukrainian refugees are currently hosted in France.

  • Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has placed his country in a state of emergency because of the war in Ukraine.

    He always was because of the pandemic.

06:48

Russian parliament ready to censor foreign media

The Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, adopted yesterday in first reading a bill banning foreign media as soon as they broadcast "prohibited or illegal information" or images discrediting the Russian armed forces.

06:40

“The occupiers will have to leave Crimea”

“The Russian invasion began in Crimea,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recalled in his speech last night.

“It was not the first item on the list of errors of the Russian state towards Ukraine, but the first fateful one for Russia itself,” he said, promising its “historical weakening”.

"Of course, the occupiers will also have to leave Crimea", he hammered, but also Kherson, Melitopol, Enerhodar, Mariupol "and all the other cities and communities where they still claim to be the masters".

06:30

The point in the Donbass

In Lugansk, Russian troops are trying to surround the towns of Severodonetsk and Lyssytchansk.

Fighting is underway for control of the city of Lyman, an important railway junction whose capture would be a major step forward, said the leader of the pro-Russian separatists in Donetsk, Denis Pushilin.

He claims that "Russian units and people's militia (the pro-Russian separatist army, editor's note) entered the city".

kyiv also evokes intense fighting in the vicinity of the localities of Popasna and Bakhmut, crucial for routing the Ukrainian war effort.

06:20

Washington now refuses Russian dollars

For exactly 20 minutes, the Russians no longer have the right to pay in dollars.

The United States ended at midnight (6 a.m. French time), an exemption allowing Moscow to pay its debts in dollars, two days before the next payment deadline for Moscow, which concerns just over 100 million dollars in interest on two bonds.

According to the Wall Street Journal citing the official Russian news agency Tass, the authorities have already paid the interest.

In addition to Friday's deadline, the Russian government still has to honor twelve payments in 2022, so payment default seems inevitable.

06:10

Difficult situation in the Donbass

The provinces of Lugansk and Donetsk form the Donbass and since 2014 Russian-backed separatists have already been fighting there.

“The situation in the Donbass is extremely difficult,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged last night in his daily address.

"In fact, all the forces that the Russian army still has have been thrown there for the offensive," he said, adding that "the occupiers want to destroy everything there."

06:00

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Source: leparis

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