War in Ukraine. Canada annoys Zelensky, Iranian drones for Russia… The point on the night – Ouest-France

Ukraine warned Monday July 11, 2022 that the Russian army was about to launch a new offensive on key towns in Donbass, in the east, as the human toll increases in Chassiv, a small town in 12,000 residents of the Donetsk region, where a Russian strike hit a building and claimed the lives of at least 31 people. At the same time, six civilians were killed and 31 injured in Kharkiv (northeast). On the diplomatic level, Europe has entered a period of great uncertainty regarding the continuation of gas deliveries by Russia, the Russian giant Gazprom starting maintenance work on the two Nord Stream 1 gas pipelines, which make it possible to supply the Germany and other western European countries. This stop for ten days was in theory only to be a technical formality, but, with the war in Ukraine and the showdown between Moscow and the West on energy, no one can bet on the future. And so as not to give Moscow any additional pretext, Germany obtained from Canada the return of turbines under maintenance for the same gas pipeline, which on Monday July 11, 2022 aroused the ire of Volodymyr Zelensky who announced the summons of the Canadian ambassador in Kyiv “due to an absolutely unacceptable exception to the sanctions regime against Russia”. This decision “will be perceived in Moscow only as a sign of weakness”, he warned, believing that Russia could in any case, if it wished, “completely cut off gas supplies to Europe at the moment most acute”. The turbines were undergoing maintenance at a Canadian site belonging to the German group Siemens, and Russia blamed their absence for the reduction in deliveries via the gas pipeline. Iran to deliver drones to Russia Iran will deliver “hundreds of drones” to Russia, which is stalling in the face of resistance from the Ukrainian army in the east of the country, the adviser to the White House national security, Jake Sullivan. “Our intelligence indicates that the Iranian government is preparing to deliver to Russia up to several hundred drones, including combat aircraft, in a very short time,” he explained during a press briefing to Washington. This information “also indicates that Iran is preparing to train Russian forces in the use of these drones and the first training sessions were to begin at the beginning of July”, he added, stressing that he did not know if drones had already been delivered by Tehran. The invasion of Ukraine on February 24 has “a huge cost” for Moscow, which has problems maintaining its armament as Russian forces encroach on the east of the country, he explained. The United States last week announced $400 million in new military aid to Ukraine, including Himars multiple rocket launchers and sniper shells. Washington has already provided $6.9 billion in military assistance to kyiv since the start of the invasion. “The fundamental objective of our strategy is to put the Ukrainians in as strong a position as possible on the battlefield so that they are in a position of strength at the table in these negotiations when diplomacy arrives,” Sullivan explained. .

A leader of the occupying forces assassinated The occupying authorities announced that a bomb attack had cost the life of the head of the administration installed by the Russians in Veliki, in the region of Kharkiv, partially conquered by Moscow. This “terrorist act” was committed, on an unspecified date, by a group of Ukrainian saboteurs who infiltrated behind Russian lines, according to these sources. The occupation authorities of the Kherson region also assured on Monday that they had foiled an attempted attack against their leader in this territory that Ukrainian soldiers are trying to retake. War in Ukraine. Canada annoys Zelensky, Iranian drones for Russia… The point on the nightGRANDIR chevron_gauchechevron_droite