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  • Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview published Tuesday by The Washington Post that he had learned from the press, not Washington, of the existence of a leak of confidential US documents concerning his country's war against Russia.
  • Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US ambassador to the United Nations, on Tuesday called on Brazil to support Ukraine in the face of the Russian "tyrant", reiterating the disappointment of the United States after the remarks of the Brazilian president who partly blamed the West for the war.
  • The European Commission will propose on Wednesday a financial instrument to boost the European Union's ammunition production capacity to one million shells per year in order to replenish its arsenals and help Ukraine.

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06:25: EU wants to produce 1 million shells a year

The European Commission will propose on Wednesday a financial instrument to boost the European Union's ammunition production capacity to one million shells per year in order to replenish its arsenals and help Ukraine. "I am confident that within 12 months, we will be able to increase our production capacity to 1 million munitions per year in Europe," Industry Commissioner Thierry Breton said on Tuesday.

This proposal is the third phase of the action plan approved at the end of March by the EU to supply at least one million 155mm shells to Ukrainian forces and to replenish the strategic stocks of European countries, some of which are close to rupture.

It will be endowed with €500 million, including €260 million from the European Defence Fund. It will make it possible to co-finance the investments of industrialists to increase the production of their factories in the EU. About fifteen companies produce in eleven Member States.

06:20 a.m.: Zelensky says he was not warned of leaked U.S. documents

In an interview published Tuesday by the Washington Post, Volodymyr Zelensky said he learned in the press, not Washington, the existence of a leak of confidential American documents concerning his country's war against Russia. "I didn't get any information from the White House or the Pentagon beforehand." "We didn't have that information, I didn't have it," the Ukrainian president said.

Classified US documents, published in the press in early April following online leaks, detail Washington's views on the war in Ukraine and indicate in particular the worrying state of Ukrainian air defenses at the end of February.

"For us, anything that informs our enemy in advance is, in one way or another, a disadvantage," Zelensky said. This episode "is not beneficial for the reputation of the White House, and I think it is not beneficial for the reputation of the United States," he told the daily, comparing the leaks to "a television series".

06h10 : Welcome to this new Live

Hello everyone. The editorial staff of 20 Minutes is, as every day, mobilized to give you in this Live the latest information on the conflict.

Yesterday, Washington chose to speak frankly with Brasilia about their disagreements on the Ukrainian issue so that a diplomatic quarrel does not settle permanently between the two capitals. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, US ambassador to the United Nations, called on Brazil to support Ukraine in the face of the Russian "tyrant", reiterating the disappointment of the United States after the remarks of the Brazilian president who partly blamed the West for the war. Lula said last month during a visit to China that the US was "encouraging war" by sending billions of dollars worth of weapons to Ukraine. To get his message across, the US envoy met with Brazil's foreign minister and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's wife, but not with the leftist president himself.

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