War in Ukraine live: Volodymyr Zelensky “grateful” for the new American military support, “important” for the defense of Donbass

Presented live by Clémence Apetogbor and Solène L’Hénoret

Cover photo: A soldier of the Ukrainian special forces sets up a German-donated DM22 anti-tank mine on a forest road, a potential route for Russian troops, in the Donetsk region on June 14, 2022. Efrem Lukatsky /AP

The posts of this live tracking are activated between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. Paris time.

• About 500 civilians are awaiting evacuation at the Azot plant in Sievierodonetsk. Russia has urged Ukrainians to end their “insane resistance” and on Wednesday offered a “humanitarian corridor” to evacuate civilians.
• the american president, Joe Bidenannounced new military aid to Ukraine on Wednesday, which includes additional artillery pieces and shells, as well as anti-ship missiles, such as a total of one billion dollars. “I am grateful for this support,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy replied in his daily video.
• Since Moldova, Emmanuel Macron reiterates that the European Union will continue to do soimpose sanctions on Russia. “As the fighting in Ukraine continues to intensify, we cannot afford weakness! Our determination remains total,” he assured on Wednesday Twitter President.
• US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin Westerners called for it on Wednesday “intensify” weapons shipments to Ukraine, during a meeting at the headquarters of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The delivery of heavy weapons to NATO “takes time,” warned the Alliance’s Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg.
• it before Czech MP, Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday urged Europe to help him more. The Ukrainian President urged the Czech Republic to speed up the next sanctions against Russia.
• The Russian Defense Ministry to have announced on his Telegram channel destroyed several depots with military equipment Ukrainian troops in Lviv, Mykolaiv and Donbass regions.
• Gazprom announced on Wednesday that it would cut its gas supplies to Europe by another third. about the Nord Stream gas pipeline, arguing that he had been forced to shut down plants belonging to Germany’s Siemens.

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