War in Ukraine. Uncertainty in Severodonetsk, theft of cereals… The point on the night – Ouest-France

Fighting continues on the morning of Tuesday, June 7, 2022 for the takeover of Severodonetsk, a key city in eastern Ukraine subjected to a deluge of Russian fire, where the situation is changing “hour by hour” according to kyiv. “Our heroes hold their positions in Severodonetsk. Intense street fighting continues,” President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his final video address, Monday evening June 6. kyiv is struggling to cope with the influx of Russian troops into Severodonetsk, the largest city still in Ukrainian hands in the Lugansk region. The Russians “are in the process of destroying the city… As they have not managed to take it in one or two days, they are using air strikes, heavy artillery”, testified Monday evening Oleksandr Striouk, head of the administration of Severodonetsk, worrying that the evacuation of civilians has now become “virtually impossible”. The mayor of Severodonetsk, Oleksandre Striouk, confirmed on Monday that “the situation was changing every hour” and that “intense street fighting” was taking place in his city, under the spotlight for several days as the clashes took place there. concentrate. “The main efforts of the enemy are focused” on an attempt to completely seize this industrial center and to “block” Ukrainian troops in the neighboring region of Lyssychansk, the Ukrainian army said in the evening. “Our soldiers maintain control of Severodonetsk, fighting continues in its eastern part,” she added in her statement. For Russia, getting hold of this city would be decisive in order to conquer the entire vast coal basin of the Donbass, already partly held by pro-Russian separatists since 2014. Washington considers it “credible” that Moscow “steals” Ukrainian wheat Another major battle, this one economic, that of the wheat resources of the cereal superpower that is Ukraine is agitating the Western powers. The head of the American diplomacy Antony Blinken judged Monday “credible” the information according to which Russia “steals” the exports of Ukrainian cereals, blocked because of the conflict, “to sell them for its own profit”. “It’s all deliberate,” he told a virtual conference on food insecurity, accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of “blackmail” to get international sanctions lifted against the invasion. ‘Ukraine. Russia intimidates US media correspondents The United States on Monday accused Russia of “intimidating” US media correspondents in Moscow, summoned by Russian diplomats who threatened them with reprisals because of US sanctions. “The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned your colleagues to ‘explain to them the consequences of their government’s hostile line in the media sphere’,” US Foreign Ministry spokesman Ned Price told reporters in Washington. “Let’s be clear, the Kremlin is carrying out an all-out attack on freedom of the press, access to information and the truth”, he said, denouncing a “clear and blatant effort to intimidate independent journalists”. . War in Ukraine. Uncertainty in Severodonetsk, theft of grain… The point on the nightEXPAND