Moscow claims the conquest of villages near Bakhmout, a letter bomb to the Ukrainian embassy in Spain, Brussels in favor of a special tribunal to try "
Russian crimes
"...
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Moscow claims conquest of villages near Bakhmout
Russia on Wednesday claimed responsibility for taking three villages near Bakhmout, a town in eastern Ukraine now largely destroyed, which Russian forces have been trying to conquer since the summer.
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Following offensive actions, Russian soldiers liberated the localities of Bilogorivka and Perche Travnia
" (village called Ozarianyvka in Ukrainian), said the Russian Ministry of Defense in the afternoon.
The first village is located about 25 km north of Bakhmout, and the second about twenty kilometers south.
Later on Wednesday, he announced the capture of a third settlement south of the city, Andriivka.
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Russia has also claimed the conquest, in another part of the Donetsk region, of the locality of Vodiané, getting a little closer to Avdiivka, a town located near the front line since 2014. Since the summer, the fighting are raging for Bakhmout, which Moscow is trying to conquer without succeeding, despite the support of the paramilitary group Wagner.
The battle took on all the more symbolic significance for Russian officials as the conquest of the city would come after a series of humiliating defeats, with the retreats from Kharkiv (northeast) in September and Kherson (south) in November.
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Letter bomb to the Ukrainian embassy in Spain, a "light" injured
An employee of the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid was slightly injured on Wednesday by the explosion of a letter bomb intended for the ambassador, leading kyiv to order a reinforcement of security in all its diplomatic representations.
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The National Police was informed around 1:00 p.m. of an explosion in the Ukrainian Embassy in Madrid.
It happened when one of the embassy employees was handling a letter
,” a police source said.
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This employee was injured, a priori slightly, and he went himself to a hospital
" to be taken care of, she added.
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The National Police has opened an investigation in which the forensic science is participating
," said this source.
Following the explosion of this letter bomb, Ukraine ordered “
enhanced security
” for all its embassies.
According to the prefect of the Madrid region, it was the security officer of the embassy who was injured by this letter “
addressed to the ambassador
”.
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" if Russia loses the war
In Ukraine, accidental fires due to power cuts on the rise: nine dead in 24 hours
Nine people died Tuesday in Ukraine in house fires caused by candles, generators and gas appliances that Ukrainians are installing in their homes due to power cuts, Ukrainian relief said on Wednesday.
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Russia has heavily bombed Ukrainian energy facilities since October, causing severe damage and leading to power outages that affect millions of Ukrainians every day.
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On yesterday (Tuesday) alone, there were 131 fires in Ukraine, including 106 in private homes.
Nine people died and eight were injured
,” Ukrainian emergency services said in a statement on Facebook.
The emergency services cite in particular "
burning candles
", "
gas cylinders in apartments
" or "
generators on balconies
" as causes
of "more frequent fires and explosions
".
Ukrainians must resort to these means to have a little light or heat during the multiple time slots when they are without electricity.
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Brussels in favor of a special court to try “Russian crimes”
The European Commission proposed on Wednesday to work on the creation of a special tribunal to judge the
“crimes of Russia
” in Ukraine and on solutions to mobilize frozen Russian assets in order to rebuild the country, two undertakings which are announced however. difficult.
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While continuing to support the International Criminal Court (ICC, based in The Hague), we propose to set up a UN-backed special tribunal to investigate and prosecute Russia's crimes of aggression
" against the Ukraine, said the president of the European executive Ursula von der Leyen, in a video posted on Twitter.
These proposals should be presented for discussion to the Member States.
The creation of such a tribunal has been demanded on several occasions by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as by the Baltic countries.
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Russian crimes
"
For the Chechen leader, Pope Francis is “victim of propaganda”
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov said on Wednesday that Pope Francis was a “
victim of propaganda
” after he called
Russian soldiers from minorities taking part in the offensive in Ukraine “
cruel ”.
In an interview with the American Jesuit newspaper
America
and published on its website on Monday, the pope said he had "
a lot of information about the cruelty of the
Russian troops" arriving in Ukraine.
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The most cruel are perhaps those who come from Russia, but (who are) not of Russian tradition, like the Chechens, the Buryats
", he declared in particular.
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Chechnya is a republic of the Russian Caucasus with a Muslim majority, and Buryatia a Buddhist region of Siberia located between Lake Baikal and Mongolia.
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The pope presented the Chechens and the Buryats as the most cruel in the Russian army
", reacted Wednesday Ramzan Kadyrov, authoritarian leader of Chechnya.
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How can we understand - just by looking at it - what ethnicity comes from such a Russian soldier in such a unit, when more than 190 ethnic groups populate our country?
asks Ramzan Kadyrov in a statement posted on Telegram.
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Of course, the head of the Vatican will not be able to answer this question.
He simply became a victim of propaganda and the relentlessness of the foreign media
,” he said.
