"The Ukrainian flag is in Lyman. This week we have planted more Ukrainian flags in the Donbass. In a week there will be even more."
President Volodymyr Zelensky said this in his video message after the Russians withdrew from the strategic city in southeastern Ukraine.
In Lyman "the fighting is still ongoing, but there is no trace of a pseudo-referendum there", added Zelensky, referring to the vote called by Moscow in the occupied areas to annex them to Russia. A vote, he stressed, "condemned even today by even more voices in the world".
"Until you all solve the problem with the one who started it all, who started this senseless war for Russia against Ukraine, you will be killed one by one, scapegoating, not to admit that this war is a historical mistake for Russia - he added, addressing the Russians - There they have already begun to bite: they are looking for the culprits, accusing some generals of failures. This is the first bell that should be heard at all levels of the Russian government ".
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NATO: "Serious consequences if Moscow uses nuclear weapons"
"Any use of nuclear weapons will have serious consequences for Russia": NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told NBC, defining Putin's rhetoric on nuclear power as "dangerous" and "reckless".
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Moscow: "We will restore the gas pipelines and investigate the sabotage"
Ways to restore operation of the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 pipelines will be found, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak told Rossiya-1 television.
"Incidents like this have never happened before. Without a doubt, there are some technical ways to restore the infrastructure, but this takes time and the necessary means. I am sure the appropriate ways will be found," he said. And he added: "But at this point, we proceed with the awareness that the first thing to do is to investigate who did this, and we are convinced that the countries that have taken a negative position in relation to this project - USA, Ukraine , Poland - are interested in the decommissioning of Nord Stream, so this is certainly a subject for serious scrutiny, "Novak said.
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Zaporizhzhia retains its name, but is now a Russian entity
The Zaporizhzhia Region becomes a Russian entity under its current name, as provided for by the decree on the recognition of the treaty, corresponding to the Constitution, published today on the website of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation.
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"The leak from Nord Stream 1 has stopped"
The gas leak from the Nord Stream 1 pipeline in the Baltic Sea appears to have stopped today. This was stated by the Danish Energy Agency, informed by the company Nord Stream Ag, according to which stable pressure seems to have been reached on the two Nord Stream 1 gas pipelines.
"This indicates that gas blowing from the last two leaks has now also been completed," writes the Danish agency. The announcement comes after the agency said Saturday that gas is no longer leaking from the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. The Danish media reported it.
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Kiev: "The losses of the Russians exceed 60 thousand dead"
The Russian military killed in Ukraine has exceeded 60,000 in the last 24 hours, according to the Ukrainian military staff quoted by the Kyiv Independent in its daily bulletin. If the figure were confirmed, it would be, in just over seven months, more than four times the total Soviet losses suffered in the almost ten-year war in Afghanistan (1979-1989), which amounted to about 15,000, according to official figures of the USSR. The enemy soldiers killed in Ukraine, according to Kiev, are now 60,110, an increase of 500 in the last 24 hours. According to the bulletin, Russian tanks are now 2,377 (+23), armored vehicles 4,975, and 337 artillery pieces.
(Unioneonline)