The EU is ready to draw new sanctions. The President of the European Commission has warned that the EU stands ready to adopt “severe new sanctions if Putin does not stop the war he has started”. The head of the Kremlin says he is open to dialogue… if “all Russian demands” are accepted. A new round of negotiations could take place this weekend.
The Kremlin is tightening the screw in Russia. Moscow has put on the rails heavy criminal penalties in the event of the distribution of “false information about the army”, the latest illustration of the internal turn of the screw, illustrated in particular by the blocking of access to Facebook decreed this Friday.
Zaporizhia power station occupied. On the ground, the Russian army now occupies the largest nuclear power plant in Europe, where bombings in the night raised fears of a disaster, but no radioactive leak was observed. According to the Ukrainians, fighting is also continuing in Cherniguiv, north of Kiev. The situation has also become “hell” in Okhtyrka, and “critical” in Sumy, two cities located some 350 km east of the capital, according to local authorities.