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Putin witnesses a missile launch, Kherson empties of its inhabitants

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Five days after the genesis of the controversy over “the dirty bomb”, Vladimir Putin attended this Wednesday the training of his strategic deterrence forces, responsible for responding to threats, including in the event of nuclear war.

As an exercise, a ballistic missile was fired at the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Russian Far East and another from the waters of the Barents Sea in the Arctic. “The tasks set during the strategic deterrence training exercise were completed in full, with all missiles hitting their target,” the Kremlin said in a statement.

The number of the day

70.000. This is the number of civilians who have left the city of Kherson, according to the Russian occupation forces. Evacuations of residents of this southern Ukrainian town began last week as the premises, seized by the Russians in March 2022, are in the process of being recovered by the Ukrainian army.

sentence of the day

Britain is among the countries that fall into the unfriendly category, so there were no congratulations”

The pike is signed Dimitri Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman. After Rishi Sunak was appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Vladimir Putin did not bother to pick up his phone.

Fresh relations which can be explained by the British position in the conflict. London is one of the main supporters of Ukraine.

The trend

The drones used by the Russians worry the Ukrainian power. After asserting that Moscow had placed an order with Tehran in order to obtain “2,000 drones”, Volodymyr Zelensky specifies that the Kremlin has already used “400 Iranian drones”.

Information obtained after sharing information with Israel. “We are therefore at the start of cooperation, it is a positive trend in relations with Israel”, also rejoiced the Ukrainian head of state, believing that he saw “progress” after a “long break” between the two countries.

Source: 20minutes

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