An oil depot was on fire Friday morning in the Russian region of Tambov, several hundred kilometers from the border with Ukraine, following an attack by a Ukrainian drone, said the regional governor, Maxim Egorov.
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AN OIL DEPOT ON FIRE
An oil depot was on fire Friday morning in the Russian region of Tambov, several hundred kilometers from the border with Ukraine, following an attack by a Ukrainian drone, said regional governor Maxim Egorov. “At 4:35 a.m. (01:35 GMT) in the Michurinskiy municipal district of the Tambov region, a drone flight towards an oil depot was recorded,” he first said in a statement published on Telegram.
“A small fire then broke out. Currently, the fire is localized,” he added, specifying that there were “no casualties to report” after this attack.
DONALD TRUMP FACE A JOE BIDEN
The war in Ukraine would never have happened if the United States had a “leader,” Donald Trump told President Joe Biden during their debate in Atlanta.
The Republican candidate was very critical of the billions of dollars spent by the United States to support kyiv in its war against Moscow.
UPDATE ON THE SITUATION
Here are the key news items from the last 24 hours relating to the conflict:
– Russia is not in a position to make “significant breakthroughs” on the battlefield in Ukraine, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Thursday.
– Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, visiting Brussels on Thursday to sign a security agreement with the European Union, considered that this text constituted a step towards “peace and prosperity” on the continent.
– Volodymyr Zelensky said he was convinced that the new French government that will emerge from the legislative elections would maintain its support for Ukraine in the face of Russia, Thursday in an exclusive comment made to AFP.
– France denounced Thursday “the policy of violation of press freedom and intimidation of journalists working in the service of independent information”, two days after Moscow decided to block the broadcast of 81 European media on its territory.
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The president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, assured Thursday that he would not let “Russian imperialism absorbs an allied state like Ukraine” while repeating that he would refuse to send French soldiers to Ukrainian soil if he became Prime Minister following the legislative elections.
“My position is very simple on this conflict (…) It has never changed. It is one of support for Ukraine and of avoiding an escalation with Russia which is, I remind you, a nuclear power.”declared the far-right leader during the last televised debate on France 2 with Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and the socialist Olivier Faure.
The president of the RN also said he was again opposed to sending long-range missiles which could directly strike Russian territory. It could “placing France and the French in a situation of co-belligerence”, did he declare. The first secretary of the socialist party said, on the contrary, “favorable” to send missiles if they “allow infrastructure on Russian soil to be targeted which is used to bomb Ukrainian soil”.
For his part, Gabriel Attal, who is leading the campaign for the presidential camp, reiterated that it was necessary to support the Ukrainians both “because they defend values that are ours: democracy, freedom” et “because by supporting them, we also defend the French and their daily lives”.
