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The info of the day
An underwater cable connecting Sweden and Latvia has been damaged, the authorities of the two countries, a new incident that follows a series of similar events in the Baltic Sea on Sunday, on Sunday. “This cable belongs to a Latvian entity. I was in close contact with my colleague […] Prime Minister Evika Silina, throughout the day, “said Swedish Prime Minister Ulf KrisSson on X, reporting at least one damaged cable.
For its part, Latvia has announced that it had dispatched a warship to the place of damage, specifying that it has identified a “suspicious ship”, Michalis San, as well as two other ships, in the area. “Based on current findings, we assume that the cable has been considerably damaged by external factors,” the company said in a statement. “LVRTC has initiated criminal procedure actions”. Country countries of the Baltic Sea strive to strengthen their defenses after the alleged sabotage of several underwater cables occurring in recent months, suspicions weighing on Russia.
The Decor of the day
« We have a brutal democracy in Belarus ” »
The Belarusses vote this Sunday during an undoubted presidential election which must ensure a seventh consecutive term to the assumed autocrat Alexandre Loukachenko, in power since 1994. The leader launched that his country lived in “a brutal democracy” before journalists .
He admitted that the people who had participated in the major unpublished demonstrations against his power in 2020 had since been excluded from certain jobs, saying that they could request a grace if they recognize “that they were wrong”. “We will not continue everyone, but we are watching them,” he warned, when he has been based for three decades on the all-powerful local KGB.
Alexandre Loukachenko got closer in recent years to Vladimir Putin, whom he qualified on Sunday as “big brother”, until the Russian army is made to invade Ukraine in 2022. Questioned by the AFP on possible regrets in view of the magnitude of the human assessment of the Russian invasion in three years, he replied in a firm tone: “I do not regret anything”.
-The figure of the day
2. Like the second drone attack led in less than a week by Ukraine against a refinery in the Russian Riazan region. “Units of unanswered systems forces […] have again struck the installations of the Petroleum refining company Riazan, which supplies the Russian occupation army, “said the Ukrainian staff in a statement, adding that” explosions and a fire have been registered in The targeted area ”, in the night from Saturday to Sunday.
According to kyiv, the target target is “one of the four largest refineries in the Russian Federation” and notably produces “diesel fuel and kerosene” for the Russian army. The Riazan refinery was already targeted on Friday by kyiv drones, who had assured that he had “struck important targets of the occupants in the Russian regions of Riazan and Britersk”.
The trend of the day
Russia said on Sunday to have taken control of the city of Velika Novossilka, in eastern Ukraine. The Russian Defense Ministry announced that the soldiers had carried out “offensive actions” and “released the locality of Velika Novossilka”, which is in the west of the Donetsk region.
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This city is close to the southern front line in Ukraine, which has hardly changed but where the fear of a new Russian offensive has increased for weeks. The Russian troops, better armed and more numerous than the Ukrainian soldiers, have been advancing for more than a year on the east front, their progression having been strongly accelerated since last fall.
