Did you miss the latest events on the tensions in Ukraine? Do not panic, 20 Minutes takes stock for you every evening at 7:30 p.m. Who did what ? Who said what? Where are we ? The answer below:
news of the day
A Russian bombardment hit a shopping center in kyiv overnight from Sunday to Monday and caused the death of at least eight people, according to the general prosecutor’s office. Bodies of victims were lying outside the Retroville shopping center in the northwest of the capital on Monday morning, an AFP journalist noted, while firefighters and soldiers were busy in the rubble to search for other victims. .
For its part, the Russian army claimed that the shopping center was vacant and served as an arms and ammunition depot.
sentence of the day
“We call on China, as a world power, to play an important role in these efforts. [pour] find a political solution to the war against Ukraine. »
This is a sentence of the Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dmytro Kuleba who called on China to play a role of mediator in order to find a solution ending the conflict with Russia. So far Beijing has remained ambiguous and refused to denounce the Russian invasion.
The number of the day
115. This is the number of children who have lost their lives since the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine according to the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which also reports more than 140 injured minors.
The trend of the day
The information war and attempted diplomatic resolutions continue. In Russia, a court on Monday banned social media giants Facebook and Instagram for “extremism”, a move taken as Moscow seeks total control of online information amid an offensive in Ukraine.
The Cold War appears to be back between the US and Russia as Moscow summoned the US ambassador on Monday and accused President Joe Biden of driving US-Russian relations ‘to the brink’ with his ‘unworthy’ statements targeting Vladimir Putin.
Joe Biden is also beginning a week of intense diplomatic activity and will be in Poland at the end of the week. The American president spoke on Monday afternoon with French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Source: 20minutes
