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War in Ukraine: kyiv expects Moscow to “intensify its attacks this week”

2022-06-20T07:53:06.333Z


EU member countries meet on Thursday and Friday to decide whether to officially grant Kyiv membership candidate status.


It is to be expected “that Russia will intensify its attacks this week”, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Sunday evening.

This Monday "opens a truly historic week", proclaimed Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday evening in his daily video address, "we will have the European Union's response to Ukraine's candidate status".

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"Since 1991, there have been few decisions as fateful for Ukraine as the one we are awaiting today", he added, saying he was "convinced that only a positive response is in the interest of all of Europe ".

After a positive recommendation from the European Commission last Friday, the member countries of the EU meet on Thursday and Friday to decide whether to officially grant kyiv the status of candidate for membership.

A green light requires unanimity of the 27.

“Our army is holding up”

Until then, "obviously, we expect Russia to intensify its attacks this week," warned the Ukrainian president.

“We are ready,” he added.

According to Zelensky, the Russians are "regrouping their forces in the direction of Kharkiv (north-east) and in the Zaporizhia region (south), and are still bombarding our fuel infrastructure".

But "we will respond to these attacks", he assured, while conceding "significant losses".

"Our army is holding up," he said again.

The Russians “attempted a breakthrough in the Toshkivka area, they were partially successful, but our artillery worked and we can say that the breakthrough attempt was not successful,” said Sergey Gaidai, governor of Luhansk province. , which constitutes, with that of Donestk, the Donbass.

Source: leparis

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