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news of the day
The horror of war has struck again in Dnipro. On Friday, a Russian strike on a clinic in the city left one dead and 15 injured. President Volodymyr Zelensky shared the tragic news on his social networks in a video: we see heavily damaged buildings that spit thick black smoke.
This large city in the center-east of the country is regularly the target of Russian bombardments. In January, a strike on a residential building caused the death of several dozen residents.
sentence of the day
I intend to speak with Putin again when the time comes.
These are the words of Olaf Scholz. The German chancellor opens the door to the head of the Kremlin, during an interview with the daily Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger. His last telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin dates from last December.
Alongside these declarations, Russia is still closing the door to talks. Moscow sees “serious obstacles” to opening a discussion with kyiv, said the head of diplomacy Sergey Lavrov, who received a Chinese envoy in the capital.
The number of the day
13. Like the number of consecutive days when Ukraine suffered an air attack. “As always, at night,” the country’s administration said on Telegram. In its daily morning brief, the Ukrainian General Staff reported 55 Russian air attacks over the past day, including 36 by explosive drones, and four missile attacks.
The trend of the day
Russia also suffered enemy fire. In the Belgorod region, the scene of an armed incursion earlier this week, dozens of artillery strikes were heard and several buildings were damaged.
Elsewhere in the country, in Krasnodar, two drones crashed into infrastructure. “Buildings are damaged, but no vital infrastructure. And the main thing is that there were no casualties,” Governor Veniamine Kondratiev said on Telegram.