• 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, Kiev was again shelled by the Russian army. Ukrainian authorities reported attacks on 31 Iranian-made explosive drones on Monday night.

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News of the day

The Ukrainian capital was shelled again overnight. One person was killed and eleven residents were wounded in Kiev on the night of Monday to Tuesday in a new salvo, the third in twenty-four hours, local authorities said.

The Ukrainian Air Force said it shot down 29 out of 31 explosive drones launched overnight from Monday to Tuesday, "almost all near the capital and in the skies of Kiev." "From 23:30 p.m. to 04:30 a.m., Russian occupation troops attacked Ukraine" with 31 Iranian-made Shahed-136/131 drones, the Ukrainian Air Force said on Telegram.

The phrase of the day

We want to break the will of the Russians to win this war. »

This is a statement by Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov. "We have a serious chance of making a breakthrough during the summer," he said in an interview with the French daily Ouest-France published Monday, believing that the Ukrainian counter-offensive "will trigger a new movement of withdrawal of the Russians".

Today's figure

1.5 million. This is the number of Russian passports distributed by Moscow to residents of occupied regions of Ukraine, according to an announcement on Tuesday by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. It is a way for Moscow to strengthen its grip on these territories. Residents of these regions interviewed earlier in May by AFP said they were pressured to obtain a Russian passport, which has become necessary for a series of administrative procedures on the spot.

Today's trend

Vladimir Putin accused Ukraine of seeking to "terrify" Russians after an unprecedented drone attack on Moscow and its region on Tuesday. Several drones fell at dawn on buildings in the Russian capital, located more than 500 kilometers from Ukraine, taking residents by surprise for whom the conflict seemed distant. According to Russian authorities, eight drones were detected in Moscow and its region, all were neutralized, but some wrecks fell on homes. Two people were lightly injured, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said.

Our dossier on the war in Ukraine

Mykhailo Podoliak, adviser to the Ukrainian presidency, assured that Ukraine had "no direct link" with the drone attack on Moscow. The Russian president said the attack was a response to a recent Russian strike on the headquarters of Ukraine's military intelligence service. Russian diplomacy has also accused Western countries of being responsible, through their support for Kiev, for the "irresponsible" attack on Moscow.

The United States, for its part, once again reiterated its principled position in the face of the Kremlin's anger, namely that it "does not support attacks inside Russia". "We are focused on providing Ukraine with the equipment and training needed to retake its own sovereign territory," a U.S. foreign ministry spokesman said.

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