• 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.
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  • On Wednesday, Moscow claimed responsibility for the destruction of the "last" warship of the Ukrainian Navy still operational.

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News of the day

Russia on Wednesday claimed responsibility for the destruction of a landing ship in Odessa, southern Ukraine. The "Yuri Olefirenko" is presented by Moscow as the "last" warship of the Ukrainian Navy still operational. "On May 29, as a result of a strike of high-precision weapons of the Russian Aerospace Forces on the mooring area of military ships in the port of Odessa, the last warship of the Ukrainian Navy, the 'Yuri Olefirenko', was destroyed," the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement. The claim has not been independently confirmed and the Ukrainian Navy has not yet responded.

The phrase of the day

Putin woke up NATO with the worst of electroshocks. »

This is a statement by the French President. Emmanuel Macron had judged in 2019 that NATO was in a state of "brain death". "Today we must help Ukraine by all means to conduct an effective counter-offensive," said the French head of state at the Globsec forum in Bratislava.

Today's figure

5. This is the number of deaths recorded by the Russian authorities after a night bombing of a poultry farm in the occupied Ukrainian region of Luhansk. Moscow also counts 19 wounded and accuses Kiev of being behind the attack.

Today's trend

Russia on Wednesday began evacuating children from border towns in Ukraine that have been heavily bombed for several days, and where the Kremlin has deemed the situation "alarming". Attacks have been multiplying on Russian soil for weeks, culminating in an unprecedented drone assault on Moscow on Tuesday and a spectacular armed incursion last week into the Belgorod region, bordering Ukraine.

On Wednesday, the governor of Belgorod announced the start of the evacuation of children from two localities in the region who were subjected to heavy artillery and mortar fire. "Today, a first group of 300 children will be sent to Voronezh," a city some 250 km northeast of Belgorod, further from the Ukrainian border, Gladkov said.

Our dossier on the war in Ukraine

The decision was taken because of the "deteriorating" situation in the region, which suffered some 260 mortar and artillery attacks on Tuesday alone, he added. One person was killed Tuesday night and four people were wounded in other "massive" strikes on Tuesday night, Gladkov said. "We are really concerned about this situation. The bombing of civilian targets continues" in Belgorod, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday.

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