Defensive structures around Mariupol, the light back to Kherson

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news of the day

“Dragon’s teeth” around Mariupol… According to the British Ministry of Defence, Russia has begun to lay out these defensive structures supposed to prevent the passage of Ukrainian tanks around the city occupied by the Russian army. “This activity suggests that Russia is making a significant effort to prepare defenses in depth behind the front line to prevent any rapid advance by the Ukrainians”, analyzes the British ministry. This line could sign the feverishness of Moscow.

sentence of the day

I ask you to maintain unshakable unity, as it is now, [et ce] until the very day we hear all those important words that we have dreamed of, until we hear that peace has finally been restored”

It’s not just the United States that are shaking as the midterms approach. In Ukraine, it is hoped that whatever the outcome, Washington’s support for kyiv will remain up to the stakes in the conflict against Russia. Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky thus urged the Americans to “maintain unshakable unity” until “peace is restored” in Ukraine.

The day before, the spokeswoman for the White House, Karine Jean-Pierre, assured “Infallible and unwavering support from the United States for Ukraine”, regardless of the result of the legislative elections on Tuesday. US President Joe Biden “is determined to work with both parties”, Democrat and Republican, in this direction, she added, as the conservatives hope to take control of at least one of the two chambers of the US Congress .

The number of the day

200,000 million. This is what France is ready to pay to help Ukraine. According to our colleagues from Parisian, Renaissance MP Benjamin Haddad tabled an amendment to the amending finance bill “to double the military support fund for Ukraine, set at the beginning of October at 100 million euros by Emmanuel Macron”. “Examined this evening and supported by the Renaissance group”, the amendment received yesterday evening, still according to the daily, the agreement of the government and the Elysée.

The trend of the day

The other battlefield is electricity. It was restored after a two-day outage in the city of Kherson, in southern Ukraine, occupied by the Russian army, said Tuesday an official of the occupation authorities, Kirill Stremoussov. This Ukrainian city, in the hands of Moscow forces since the start of their offensive at the end of February, was deprived of water and electricity on Sunday after two strikes for which Moscow and kyiv accuse each other.

These strikes also damaged the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam, occupied by Russian forces and which supplies Crimea annexed in 2014 by Russia, in a region where Ukrainian troops have been on the offensive for weeks.