US troops in Romania. Washington has deployed the 101st Airborne Division, one of the most elite air assault divisions in the US military , just a few kilometers from the Ukrainian border.
It is the first time this has happened in 80 years , against the backdrop of growing tensions between Russia and NATO.
The 101st Airborne Division is a light infantry unit nicknamed "Screaming Eagle": 4,700 soldiers trained to be deployed within hours on any battlefield.
Meanwhile, the Russian radios are giving Ukraine no respite: damaged energy plants, the Internet in fits and starts in various regions and one and a half million people without electricity .
"The aggressor continues to terrorize our country - denounced Zelensky -. The world can and must stop this terror". "By hitting Ukraine's critical infrastructure, the Kremlin wants to provoke new waves of refugees in Europe - warned Mykhailo Podolyak , right-hand man of the Kiev leader -. Whether Putin will be able to implement his plan today depends only on the leaders in European capitals. the only way to stop a humanitarian catastrophe is to quickly relocate air defense and missiles. "
On the Kherson front, however, the Ukrainian counter-offensive does not stop : the pro-Russian authorities have invited the residents to leave the area "immediately" and go to the other areas controlled by Vladimir Putin's army.
The new command of the Russian forces, entrusted to the iron general Serghei Surovikin , meanwhile continues to reorganize itself in Donbass, where the Chechen militias led by the hawk Ramzan Kadyrov , one of the bloodiest men in the service of Vladimir Putin, are also present.
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UK rejects Russian "dirty bomb" allegations
In his phone call with Russian Defense Minister Serghei Shoigu, British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace "dismissed" Russian allegations of an alleged possible escalation of the conflict by Ukraine through the use of "dirty bombs".
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Kiev: "The Russian accusations of a 'dirty bomb' pretext for genocide"
"What have we heard from Russia before? A lie about Nazism, nuclear weapons development and fighting pigeons. What are we listening to now? 'Dirty bomb', 'blow up the dam'. This is also a lie. It doesn't exist. a 'dirty bomb' ". Only dirty attempts to justify the genocide with a new falsehood. "Mykahilo Podolyak, advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, wrote on Twitter.
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Kuleba: "RT incites genocide, be banned"
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba urged governments to ban Russia Today, accompanying the request with an excerpt from a broadcast inciting violence against Ukrainians. Anchorman Anton Krasovsky - Kuleba notes by retweeting a post from the Russian media monitor - suggests "drowning or burning Ukrainian children, makes horrible comments about the rapes of Russian soldiers, says that Ukraine should not exist and that Ukrainians who resist the Russia should be shot ". "Incitement to genocide has nothing to do with free speech," says Kuleba.
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Kiev: "Russians shut down internet and communications in Kherson"
The Russian occupiers cut off internet and mobile phone connections and radio and TV broadcasts in Kherson "to isolate" the city. This was reported by the National Resistance Center of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, quoted by the Kyiv Independent. Russian troops are "dismantling telecommunications equipment" in an effort to prevent the resistance from sharing information with the rest of Ukraine during the counter-offensive.
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Moscow to Paris: "We fear the provocations of Kiev with the 'dirty bomb'"
The Russian Defense Minister, Serghei Shoigu, had a telephone conversation today with his French counterpart, Sebastien Lecornu, to whom he expressed the fears of Moscow about "possible military provocations" by Ukraine with the use of a " dirty bomb ". This was announced by the Russian Defense Ministry, as reported by Interfax.
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G7: "Russia to return the Zaporizhzhia power plant to Ukraine"
The G7 condemned the "repeated" kidnappings by Russia of the managers and staff of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and demanded the immediate return to Ukraine of "full control" of the plant, as well as the "immediate" release of the people. kidnapped: the G7 countries say in a statement.