• Russia launched its "military operation" in Ukraine on Thursday, February 24, 2022. Every evening, at 19:30 pm, 20 Minutes offers you its recap of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict that leaves dead and wounded and thousands of refugees every day.
  • Who did what? Who said what? And who supports whom and why? You will know everything about the progress of the negotiations and the events of this crisis that is shaking Russia, Ukraine, Europe and the United States.
  • On Tuesday, Washington put its hand in its pocket to support Kiev, while Wagner multiplies verbal attacks against the Russian army.

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News of the day

He promised "victory" to his people. More than a year after launching his army to attack his neighbor whom he accuses of Nazism, and after a series of military failures, Vladimir Putin said in a speech to hundreds of soldiers at attention that the world was "at a turning point", while he participated Tuesday in the commemorations of the defeat of Nazi Germany.

The military leader of the Wagner Group, took advantage of this highly symbolic day to attack, once again, the Russian army. In a long diatribe, he denounced the inability of the Russian authorities to defeat Ukraine, even accusing the military hierarchy of wanting to "deceive" the Russian president.

Businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the paramilitary organization, is in open conflict with the Russian military hierarchy that he accuses of not providing enough ammunition to his group, on the front line in Bakhmut, and has been multiplying criticism for days.

The phrase of the day

At this moment, a negotiation for peace is not possible."

These are the words of Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations. In an interview with the Spanish daily El Pais on Tuesday, the leader sees "no possibility of immediately obtaining (...) a comprehensive ceasefire."

"It is clear that [both] sides are completely engaged in the war" and are "convinced that they can win," the UN secretary-general added. Antonio Guterres, however, says he "hopes" that it will be possible "in the future" to bring Russia and Ukraine to the negotiating table.

Today's figure

1.2. Like the amount, in billions of dollars, of the new aid package released by Washington to Kiev. The new assistance reflects "the determination of the United States to continue to support Ukraine by providing it with crucial short-term resources such as air defense systems and munitions" while strengthening its ability to defend itself "in the longer term," a Pentagon statement said. This aid will be used, inter alia, to strengthen Ukraine's air defence.

Today's trend

The French National Assembly on Tuesday unanimously adopted a resolution calling for the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, accused of abuses in Ukraine and Africa, to be included on the European Union's list of terrorist organizations.

The text, without binding force, invites the French government "to mobilize diplomatically" so that the EU accedes to this request, which should make it possible to sanction more effectively the members of Wagner and their supporters, especially financially.

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