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news of the day
There was movement in Chernobyl on Thursday. The Russian forces, which had taken control of the nuclear site from the first day of the invasion on February 24, began to leave the place.
According to the Ukrainian nuclear agency Energoatom, the troops occupying the plant and its surroundings left “in two columns towards the border” between Ukraine and Belarus. There are only a “small number” of Russian soldiers left on the spot, adds the body.
sentence of the day
“They are afraid to tell him the truth”
According to British and American intelligence, President Vladimir Putin is misled by his advisers who are “afraid to tell him the truth”. However, his war strategy is proving “failing” in Ukraine where Russian troops sabotage equipment and accidentally shoot down their own planes, the sources add.
The number of the day
45. This is the number of buses sent by kyiv on Thursday to evacuate civilians from Mariupol, announced Iryna Vereshchuk, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister. The city in southeastern Ukraine is besieged by Moscow, which has announced a truce.
The trend of the day
The gas war continues and everyone remains on their positions. This Thursday, Vladimir Putin threatened buyers of “unfriendly” Russian gas to cut off their supply if they did not comply with the Kremlin’s demands to pay in roubles.
“They have to open ruble accounts in Russian banks. And from these accounts they will have to pay for the gas delivered and that tomorrow,” he said. But European countries refuse to give in. They will continue to pay for Russian gas in euros and dollars as it is “written in the contracts”, retorted German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Threatened, France and Germany are already “preparing” for a stoppage of Russian gas imports, however, indicated the Minister of Economy Bruno Le Maire. “There may be a situation in which tomorrow, in very specific circumstances, there will be no more Russian gas (…) it is up to us to prepare these scenarios, and we are preparing them,” he said. -he rocks.