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Telegram Serhi Haidai, the governor of the Luhansk region.At the same time Vladimir Putin sends passports to the conquered regions or under pro-Russian control.kyiv thanked France for welcoming “Ukrainian war wounded in its hospitals, and in particular in army hospitals”, according to a press release published Wednesday evening by the French Ministry of the Armed Forces.During a telephone exchange with his new French counterpart Sébastien Lecornu, the Ukrainian Minister of Defense, Oleksiy Reznikov, "thanked France for the care it offers to Ukrainian war wounded", according to this press release.The first two Ukrainian soldiers were received at the Percy military hospital, in the Paris region, the French minister's office told Agence France-Presse.Ukraine badly needs mobile units capable of sending several rockets simultaneously, to have equal weapons against the firepower of Russia, insisted Wednesday in Davos its Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs.“The battle for Donbass is very similar to the battles of World War II,” Dmytro Kuleba told reporters after a series of talks in Davos with government officials and business leaders.He explained that “certain villages and towns no longer exist” in this region of Ukraine, which has been subjected to intensive bombardments in recent days.“They were reduced to rubble by Russian artillery fire, by Russian multiple rocket launchers.»Russia is better equipped than Ukraine for a number of heavy weapons, but Kuleba said the biggest imbalance is in launchers capable of firing multiple rockets simultaneously.kyiv asked Washington for it, and it is “really the weapon that we badly need”, assured the minister."Countries that are dragging their feet on supplying heavy weapons to Ukraine, they have to understand that every day they spend deciding, weighing different arguments, people are being killed," he said.The new authorities of the two regions of Zaporizhia and Kherson, designated by the Kremlin, have already expressed the wish to be attached to Moscow by evoking a "return home".Washington speaks of a “Russian tactic to subjugate the Ukrainian people”.Emmanuel Macron will meet this Thursday, May 26 with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan who threatens to veto the entry of Finland and Sweden into NATO, in the midst of the Ukrainian crisis.This interview will take place at 11:30 a.m. by telephone, added the French presidency, which specified that Emmanuel Macron was at Fort de Brégançon, one of the residences of the presidency which is located on the Côte d'Azur, where he will stay for a few days, Thursday being a public holiday in France.Ankara warned on Wednesday that it would not agree to the accession of Sweden and Finland without having obtained "concrete measures" from them concerning its security concerns, after receiving delegations of diplomats from these two countries. .Turkey opened a crisis within NATO, of which it is a member, by opposing the extension of the organization to these two countries which asked to join the Alliance after the Russian invasion of the Ukraine and received the support of the overwhelming majority of member states.The Secretary General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has called for limiting restrictions on food exports, at a time when the war in Ukraine is accentuating soaring prices and fears for global food security.“We have 22 countries now with 41 food export restrictions or bans,” Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala detailed during a press briefing during the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos.One of the latest countries to have taken this type of measure is India, which has just announced a cap on its sugar exports from June 1, after already banning those of wheat."We have 164 members, so it's not the time to panic yet," continued Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, but "we try not to go any further.""Let's limit that, because we don't want it to exacerbate and lead to price hikes," she said.The war in Ukraine has heightened concerns for global food security as the country's Black Sea ports are blocked, preventing Ukraine, one of the world's breadbaskets, from exporting its produce."We are very concerned about the situation with grain in Ukraine," commented the WTO Secretary General on Wednesday.“We need safe corridors on the Black Sea.The harvest is next month.»Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had already said at the opening of the Davos meeting on Monday that he had spoken to the European Union, the United Kingdom, Turkey and UN officials in an attempt to establish a "corridor that would allow us to export our wheat, our sunflower, and other grains"."The UN Secretary General is involved," said Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on Wednesday.“He has formed a crisis group” which “is looking at this issue of creating safe corridors, and looking at alternative ways to evacuate Ukrainian grain,” she added.The United States reacted strongly on Wednesday to Russia's decision to facilitate the granting of Russian passports to residents of southern Ukraine.The plan is "a Russian tactic to subjugate the Ukrainian people - to impose their will by force," State Department spokesman Ned Price said, adding that the United States would "forcefully reject" such a project.No, of course Ukrainian soldiers are not immortal.Providing you with information about the military losses on both sides is difficult given the propaganda context that surrounds the communication of the two countries on their human losses in this conflict.But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned a few days ago the figure of "50 to 100" Ukrainian soldiers who died every day in the Donbass.According to Michael Kofman, director of the Russia Studies program at the Center for Naval Analyzes (CNA), this is a "high casualty rate".Michel Goya, a military historian and former colonel, recently estimated Ukrainian casualties (dead, seriously injured and prisoners) in the Donbass at between 4,000 and 5,000, not counting the soldiers who fell in the Battle of Mariupol.On the Russian side, the specialist estimates the losses at between 9,000 and 10,000 soldiers for the Battle of Donbass alone.Russia is imposing a naval blockade on maritime trade in Ukrainian ports, claims the Washington Post, citing US intelligence documents.According to Westerners, the Ukrainian ports on the Black Sea are blocked by the Russian offensive and more than 20 million tons of grain are immobilized in silos.The war between Russia and Ukraine, which before the conflict ensured nearly 30% of the world wheat trade, poses a risk of a world food crisis and the European Commission proposed on May 12 an action plan to help the Ukraine to export millions of tonnes of grain blocked on its soil due to the blockade.During a press conference in Madrid with his Spanish counterpart, Margarita Robles, Ben Wallace, the British Minister of Defense asked Russia to “stop stealing” these cereals."Many people around the world rely on these grains for food," said Wallace, recalling that part of the Ukrainian production went to countries already suffering from humanitarian crises, such as Yemen."Let's not talk about sanctions, let's talk about doing what is right for nations around the world," he added, referring to comments by Andrei Roudenko, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister.He said that Russia is ready to set up a corridor to allow ships carrying food to leave Ukraine in exchange for the lifting of certain sanctions.From Davos, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba described Moscow's demand for the lifting of sanctions against Russia as "blackmail".Denmark has pledged to supply Harpoon anti-ship missile launchers to Ukraine to counter the blockade of the port of Odessa.The noose is tightening on the city of Sievierodonetsk, in eastern Ukraine, whose situation is reminiscent of that of besieged Mariupol."The Russian troops have advanced and are so close that they can fire mortars" on the city, reported on Telegram Serhi Haidai, the governor of the Luhansk region.In his words, the city “is simply being destroyed”.Dozens of civilians have been killed there in shelling over the past few weeks.He accused the Russian military of bombarding the city "constantly", including using multiple Smerch and Tornado rocket launchers.The bombs would also target the Azot factory, where civilians are sheltering in air raid shelters.Mr. Haïdaï described the situation in the city as “very difficult” and believes that “next week will be decisive”.The Russian agency Interfax, for its part, quoted an unnamed representative of the pro-Russian separatists who fight alongside Moscow as saying that Sievierodonetsk was "encircled" from three sides and that the only bridge leading out of the city was now under control. Russian.This information could not be independently confirmed.On May 6, the mayor of Sievierodonetsk, Oleksandr Striouk, had however announced that the city was “virtually surrounded”.Sievierodonetsk is one of the major cities in this region still under Ukrainian control, like its twin Lyssytchansk.They are located more than 80 km east of Kramatorsk, which has become the administrative center of Ukrainian Donbass since pro-Russian separatists seized part of Donbass in 2014, and an essential hold for the Russians if they want to claim complete control of Donbass.Ukraine denounced the establishment of a special procedure by Moscow allowing Ukrainians living in regions occupied by Russian troops to obtain Russian passports.For kyiv, Moscow's decision constitutes a "flagrant violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine" and "norms and principles of international law"."The Russian presidential decree is legally void and will have no consequences" on "the membership of the inhabitants of the territories temporarily occupied by Russia to Ukrainian citizenship", assured the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs."The forced granting of passports to Ukrainians in Kherson and Zaporizhia is further evidence of the criminal aim of Russia's war against Ukraine," the Ukrainian foreign ministry said in a statement.According to the latter, this goal is “the seizure of Ukrainian territories for their occupation and their integration into the Russian legal, political and economic spheres”.The Ukrainian ministry believes that this measure “opens the way to the coercion of the inhabitants of the territories temporarily occupied by the Russian army” so that they “acquire Russian citizenship”.The Ukrainian army wrote on Monday that "due to the losses suffered the enemy was forced to withdraw T-62 tanks from storage to equip the reserve tactical groups which are being formed to be sent to Ukraine".The situation is also complicated by the difficulties that the Russian army has in maintaining its equipment, explain several threads on Twitter.The T-62 is a tank that appeared in the early 1960s, produced by Uralvagonzavod, the largest combat tank manufacturer in the world, until the mid-1970s.In the 1980s it was replaced by the new generation of T-64/T-72/T-80 tanks.Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba strongly attacked the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.“We see NATO as an alliance, as an institution set aside and doing absolutely nothing,” said Mr. Kuleba, while President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged in mid-March that his country could not join the Alliance.The Minister of Foreign Affairs recalled that at the start of the war launched on February 24, NATO was seen by the Ukrainians as "a power", and the European Union as an institution which only "expressed concerns". .But the war has brought down the masks.We have seen revolutionary decisions taken by the European Union, which they themselves did not expect to take.Like all states, Russia borrows money in the form of bonds: a debt instrument issued by a state and bought by investors who then receive interest paid by the state in question until it repay his debt.Often, these bond sales/purchases are made in dollars and cannot be redeemed in another currency (this is the case for some of the bonds issued by Russia and purchased by foreign investors).By prohibiting Russia from repaying its foreign debt in dollars, the United States is effectively preventing some of these repayments.The consequence that seems inevitable is therefore that of non-payment.Moscow experienced one in 1998 on its internal debt, which it no longer had enough money to repay.Its last payment default on its foreign debt dates from 1918. This would have the effect of cutting Russia off from the financial markets, on which it could no longer borrow, with subsequent risks of financial crisis, devaluation of the ruble, and inflation. (which is already reaching records) up sharply.However, you are right: Russia has money to pay its debts and the Russian Ministry of Finance has not failed to point this out."The current situation has nothing in common with the situation in 1998, when Russia did not have enough funds to repay its debts," Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said in a statement.“Today we have the money, and the will to pay is there too.This situation artificially created by an unfriendly country will have no effect on the lives of Russians.»Washington's measure takes effect two days before Moscow's next payment deadline, which is for just over $100 million in interest on two bonds.According to the Wall Street Journal quoting the official Russian news agency Tass, the authorities would however have already paid the interest, thus pushing back the specter of default.But the Russian government must still honor 12 payments by the end of the year.Irina Venediktova, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, released the names of five Russian servicemen from the 37th Motorized Rifle Brigade and three Wagner Company mercenaries accused of crimes and torture in Motyjyn, about 50 kilometers from Kyiv.Lieutenants Oleg Krikunov and Vitaly Dmitriev, Sergeants Genghis Gonchikov, Alexander Vanchikov and Magomedmirza Suleymanov, as well as Sergiy Sazanov, Sergey Sazonov and Alexander Stupnitsky, three mercenaries from the Wagner company, are notably accused of having assassinated Olga Sukhenko, the mayor of Motyjyn.“They abducted Olga Sukhenko, her husband and her son from the home in the village of Motyjyn,” Ms Venediktova wrote on Facebook, posting the names and photographs of the eight men.It also describes the conditions in which the family was killed.The mayor and her family were abducted by Russian forces on March 24, according to police.Residents of the village explained that the mayor and her husband had refused to collaborate with the Russian forces.Their bodies, half-buried in a pit dug in a pine forest bordering the mayor's house, as well as the body of a man lying at the bottom of a small well in the garden were discovered by Ukrainian police on 3 april.All of the victims had their hands tied behind their backs and had gunshot wounds.During the economic forum in Davos, the head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Dmytro Kuleba, denounced Moscow's request to lift sanctions against Russia to avoid a global food crisis."It's obvious blackmail.You cannot find a better example of blackmail in international relations.If someone accepts it, then that person has a problem,” he blasted.He also called on the international community to "kill Russian exports" to push for an end to the war."My message is very simple: kill Russian exports, except for some critical products that the world needs," Kouleba said in Davos, saying Moscow should stop "making money and invest in a war machine that kills, rapes and tortures Ukrainians.»Three months after the start of the offensive against Ukraine, Russian 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