New Russian strikes give twelve dead east of Ukraine on Friday to Saturday, the day after a drone attack that had targeted the country’s energy infrastructure. If Russia threatened new sanctions on a hostile movement on Friday, US President Donald Trump tried in the same day that he was “easier” to deal with peace with Russia by Vladimir Putin than with Ukraine.
Info to remember
⇒ New Russian strikes give twelve dead in eastern Ukraine
⇒ Access to spatial imaging for kyiv has been frozen by the United States
⇒ Donald Trump judges that it is more difficult to deal with Ukraine than with Russia
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The new strikes bear witness to an “unchanged objective”
Volodymyr Zelensky said, this Saturday, March 8, that new deadly night strikes against Ukrainian territory show that “Russia’s objectives remain unchanged” and that new sanctions must be imposed on Moscow, his American counterpart Donald Trump having threatened the day before new banking sanctions against Russia.
7:15 am
Access to frozen American space imaging
Washington “temporarily suspended” on Friday, on Friday, Ukraine’s access to its space imaging, announced a spokesperson for the National Geospatial-Invency (NGI). CIA director John Ratcliffe had already confirmed on Wednesday that the transmission of information to Ukraine had been frozen, putting Ukraine in great difficulty. Donald Trump had ordered a break in military aid on the United States on Monday in Ukraine after his spectacular altercation last week with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky.
7:00 am
New Russian strikes give twelve dead in the night
Despite the threat of new American sanctions, new Russian strikes left at least twelve dead in eastern Ukraine on Friday to Saturday, the day after a massive attack of drones and missiles on the country’s energy infrastructure. “In the evening, the Russians struck the center of Dobropillia”, the city of the Donetsk region. “At least 11 people were killed and 30 others injured,” and nine buildings have been damaged, argues said on Telegram messaging. In the Kharkiv region, also in the East, a drone struck a civilian company in the city of Bogodoukhiv, killing a person. The Russian Defense Minister announced that he had intercepted 31 Russian drones overnight.
6:15 am
Donald Trump agitates the threat of new sanctions for Russia
The American president said on Friday that he would impose new sanctions on Russia, especially banking, if she kept hitting Ukraine and resets to peace. “Given the fact that Russia is currently pounding Ukraine on the battlefield, I strongly envisage banking sanctions, sanctions and large-scale customs rights against Russia until a ceasefire and a final peace agreement are concluded,” wrote the American president on his social social network.
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Donald Trump judges “difficult” to deal with Ukraine
Donald Trump said that it was “easier” to deal with Russia than with Ukraine in the context of efforts to end the war on Friday March 7 on the Truth Social network. “I frankly find that it is more difficult to deal with Ukraine, who does not have the cards in hand”. “It may be easier to deal with Russia,” he wrote. This remark comes a few days before planned talks in Saudi Arabia between American and Ukrainian negotiators.