War in Ukraine: what to remember from the day of April 15 – franceinfo

Until now, the Pentagon had refrained from commenting on the origin of the sinking of the “Moskva”, the Russian flagship on the Black Sea which sank during its tow Thursday evening. On Friday April 15, a senior Pentagon official finally broke the silence, supporting the version put forward by kyiv. “We estimate that they hit it with two Neptunes,” two Ukrainian missiles, he told some reporters. A version that goes against that put forward by Moscow, which claims that its flagship was “seriously damaged” by a fire. The number of casualties this attack caused is still unknown. Franceinfo takes stock of what to remember from this day. kyiv threatened again Is it in retaliation for the attack on the “Moskva” that the forces are stepping up their strikes on kyiv? For now, it is difficult to know. Russia has announced that it has destroyed an arms factory, which manufactures Neptune missiles in the suburbs of kyiv. She also assured that the strikes on the Ukrainian capital would be intensified. Officially, it is to respond to the “attacks” on Russian territory, of which it accuses Ukraine. Zelensky stresses Russian nuclear risk Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that “the whole world” should be “worried” about the risk that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, cornered by his military setbacks in Ukraine, might resort to a tactical nuclear weapon. He is not the only one. On Thursday, US foreign intelligence chief William Burns said the threat posed by the Russian president’s potential use of tactical or low-power nuclear weapons should not be “taken lightly”. he was to “sink into despair” in the face of the failures of his army. New victims in Kharkiv A new report shows at least ten dead and 35 wounded in Russian bombings on a residential area in Kharkiv, in the north-east of Ukraine, announced the regional governor. A first assessment in the morning reported the death of “seven people, including a seven-month-old infant”. On the Russian side, the spokesman for the Ministry of Defense said that Russian artillery had caused the death of around thirty “Polish mercenaries” in northeastern Ukraine. An announcement that risks heightening the already strong tensions between Moscow and Warsaw. Moscow expels 18 EU representatives Moscow has announced the expulsion of 18 diplomats from the European Union representation in Russia, in retaliation for a similar measure taken by Brussels in early April. For its part, the European Union deemed this expulsion “unjustified”, believing that it would only “aggravate” the international isolation of Moscow. Finland’s candidacy for NATO “very likely” Will Finland finally join NATO? It is “very likely” that the Scandinavian country will submit an application to this effect, Finnish Minister for European Affairs Tytti Tuppurainen said on Friday. However, “the decision has not yet been taken”, added the minister on the British channel Sky News. It must be said that Russian diplomacy warned Finland and Sweden that such a measure would have consequences for these countries and European security.