Did you miss the latest events on the war in Ukraine? 20 Minutes takes stock for you every evening. Between the strong declarations, the advances on the front and the results of the fighting, here is the essential part of this Sunday, the 998th day of war.
News of the day
The Ukrainian energy network, already very fragile, faced on Sunday one of the most significant Russian attacks in recent months, strikes leaving 10 dead and around twenty injured across the country, according to the authorities. These strikes occur at a time when Ukraine, in difficulty on the front, fears losing American support with the imminent return of Donald Trump to the White House.
“A massive combined attack targeted all regions of Ukraine” and targeted “our energy infrastructure,” declared President Volodymyr Zelensky, reporting 120 missiles and 90 drones launched. It was a “hellish night,” said Ukrainian Air Force spokesperson Yurii Ignat, according to whom anti-aircraft defenses shot down 144 of these targets. The Russian Defense Ministry, for its part, claimed to have hit “all” of its targets during a massive attack against “essential energy infrastructure”.
Sentence of the day
« “It is not peace that he (Donald Trump) is preparing, it is the capitulation of Ukraine. » »
The elected President of the United States Donald Trump, who promised to end the conflict between kyiv and Moscow in 24 hours, is in fact preparing the “capitulation of Ukraine”, according to François Hollande. On the Ukrainian issue, Donald Trump “will stop helping” kyiv, “which will pose a problem of imbalance of power”, predicts the former president.
As part of a peace conference, he will then give “Vladimir Putin all the ground he has acquired” since the Russian offensives of 2014 and 2022, “and then he will say to the Europeans: “for the rest, it is up to you to guarantee the security of Ukraine, if you think it necessary, and it is up to you to help Ukraine with its reconstruction,” added the former host of the Elysée, interviewed on Radio J.
The number of the day
At least 1,000. Several hundred supporters of the Russian opposition in exile, led in particular by Yulia Navalnaïa, marched this Sunday in Berlin against the war in Ukraine and against Vladimir Putin, a demonstration intended to revive their weakened movement.
This protest march, which serves as a test for Russian opponents, started with cries of “No to war”, “Russia without Putin” or “Russia will be free”, noted AFP journalists . The march in Berlin, a city which hosts crowds of exiles and Russian opponents, plans to end in front of the Russian embassy. Organizers estimated the number of participants marching under threatening skies at up to 2,000.
Today's trend
No phone call can stop Russian aggression in Ukraine, Poland's prime minister said on Sunday, two days after a controversial call from the German chancellor to Russian President Vladimir Putin. “No one will stop Putin with phone calls,” Donald Tusk wrote on the social network X.
A remark directly addressed to Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor criticized for his recent interview with Vladimir Putin. “No decision will be taken over the head of Ukraine,” reassured the man who dreams of being a “chancellor of peace” before leaving for the G20 in Brazil. Trailing in the polls while early elections seem inevitable, the German Chancellor is trying to win back public opinion worried about the stagnation of the war in Ukraine and the resources that Germany is devoting to it.
