On the 90th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this Tuesday, May 24, follow live the latest information on the conflict which is entering its fourth month.
► Moscow has blocked the RFI website, which broadcasts information in fifteen languages including Russian. An alternative URL allows access to the site by French and in Russian. RFI in Russian is also available on Telegram: https://t.me/RFI_Ru via a VPN and in Russia in French via satellite on Hotbird.
► The site of the Russian editorial staff of RFI broadcasts Ukrainian public radio (in the Ukrainian language) from the home page.
The main points:
► The war in Ukraine is entering its fourth monthat a time when Russian troops are concentrating their offensive on the last pocket of resistance in the region of Luhansk, Donbass.
► The international community sanctions against Moscow should be maximum “, with notably ” no trade with Russia “, declared the Ukrainian president during a speech by videoconference during the meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
► The first Russian soldier tried for war crime since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was found guilty and sentenced to life sentence Monday in Kyiv.
► Twenty countries have pledged to provide additional weapons Ukraine to face Russian forces at a meeting of allies on Monday.
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04:00: The war in Ukraine enters its fourth month
Three months of war in Ukraine, when Russian troops are concentrating their offensive on the last pocket of resistance in the Luhansk region, in the Donbass (east).
After driving Russian forces away from the country’s two largest cities, the capital kyiv at the end of March and the beginning of April, then Kharkiv in May, the Ukrainians have been recognizing for a few days ” difficulties in the Donbass, formed by the oblasts of Luhansk and Donetsk.
” The next weeks of war will be difficult “, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Monday evening in his daily televised address. ” The Russian occupiers are trying to show that they will not abandon the occupied areas of the Kharkiv region (north-east), that they will not return the Kherson region (south), the occupied territories of the Zaporijjia (southeast) and Donbass (east). They are moving somewhere. They are strengthening their positions elsewhere “, he continued.
