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news of the day
This Monday, Russia accused the Ukrainian “special services” of having killed the daughter of a reputed ideologist close to the Kremlin, who died in the explosion of his car near Moscow, according to Russian news agencies. Daria Dougina was killed on Saturday evening in the explosion of the vehicle she was driving on a road near the village of Bolchiye Viaziomy, about forty kilometers from Moscow.
Journalist and political scientist born in 1992, she was the daughter of Alexander Dougin, an ultra-nationalist ideologist and writer promoting an expansionist doctrine and fierce supporter of the Russian offensive in Ukraine. “The murder was prepared and carried out by Ukrainian special services,” the Russian security services (FSB) said in a statement. According to the same source, the car driven by Daria Douguina was trapped by a woman of Ukrainian nationality born in 1979, identified by the FSB as Natalia Vovk, who arrived in Russia in July with her minor daughter, born in 2010.
sentence of the day
The President of the Republic must explain himself: is it on the military ground that there will be a stronger commitment? I dispute this and do not want us to go in this direction because France does not have to be a co-belligerent in this conflict.
LR deputy Eric Ciotti estimated on Monday that Emmanuel Macron had to “explain himself” after his speech on Friday where he spoke of “paying the price” in the face of the consequences of the war in Ukraine.
The number of the day
9,000. This is the number of Ukrainian soldiers killed since the start of the Russian invasion six months ago, according to kyiv. Speaking at a forum in Kyiv, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, General Valery Zaluzhny, said that Ukrainian children needed special attention because their fathers had gone to the front lines and “found themselves probably among nearly 9,000 heroes who had been killed”.
This is one of the rare declarations of Ukrainian officials about military losses in kyiv in this war, launched on February 24 by Moscow and which put Ukraine on fire and blood. The previous estimate dates from mid-April, when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned the figure of 3,000 Ukrainian soldiers killed and around 10,000 wounded since the start of the Russian offensive.
The trend of the day
While many European countries are supplying military equipment to Ukraine, the European Union plans to organize a “training and assistance” mission to the Ukrainian army which would take place in neighboring countries, said said Monday the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Policy, Josep Borrell. The proposal will be discussed next week in Prague at the Council of Defense Ministers of EU member countries.
“A war that lasts and looks like it will last requires an effort not only in terms of supplying equipment, but also training and helping to organize the army”, commented Josep Borrell during a press conference in Spain. “We are facing a large-scale war”, “a conventional war” with “extraordinarily large means and hundreds of thousands of soldiers”, he explained.
