LIVE – Ukraine: Zelensky invites Biden and Xi to the Geneva peace summit

In its daily estimate of losses inflicted on Moscow, the Ukrainian General Staff indicates that 501,190 Russian soldiers have died in combat since February 24, 2022. Russia has also lost “7,662 tanks, 14,803 armored combat vehicles, 357 aircraft , 326 helicopters”, or even “10,425 drones”.

The Ukrainian head of state filmed himself on Thursday in Kharkiv, on the ruins of a bombed bookstore, and published this video after a hypermarket was destroyed yesterday by two Russian strikes, leaving at least 12 dead and 43 injured. . “For them, it is a pleasure to burn. We all know who we are dealing with. Russia is run by men who want to make it a norm – burning lives, destroying towns and villages, dividing people and erasing national borders through war,” Zelensky wrote on X, taking the opportunity to invite his Chinese and American counterparts to participate in the Geneva summit in June.

The Ukrainian Sports Minister asked the national team to keep “a cool head” during the Paris Olympics, in which Russian and Belarusian athletes will participate. At the Guardian, the interim minister therefore calls on Ukrainian athletes not to pay any attention to possible provocations from their Russian counterparts. “We view Russian athletes as agents of hybrid influence,” he said.

The Ukrainian army says it has stopped the Russian advance in the north of the Kharkiv region. This is what LCI reporters Thibault Bruck, Kostia Yaremenko and Thomas Misrachi were able to observe in several combat zones close to the front line.

The death toll from the two strikes against a supermarket in Kharkiv yesterday has risen again, with 12 people killed, according to the head of the regional administration. “As a result of 2 CAB hitting the hypermarket, 12 people died and 43 were injured. A fire broke out on the square. 13500 m² Structural elements of a hypermarket, a furniture store, “A shopping center, a bus and a car were damaged,” Oleg Synegoubov said on Telegram. Here is what we know about this Russian attack, described as “despicable” by Volodymyr Zelensky.

Update on the Russian strikes on a Kharkiv hypermarket on Saturday, which left 11 dead according to a new report given this morning.

In his video released last night, Volodymyr Zelensky denounced the attack in Kharkiv as “another example of Russian madness. There is no other way to describe it.” The Ukrainian president also appealed to his Western allies to strengthen air defenses and thus ensure the security of cities: “When we tell world leaders that Ukraine needs sufficient air defenses, when we say that we need concrete, decisive steps to allow us to protect our population, so that Russian terrorists can’t even get close to our border, we’re talking about not allowing strikes like this.”

At least 11 people were killed yesterday in a Russian strike on a DIY hypermarket in Kharkiv, according to a new report provided this morning by the regional governor on Telegram. In a previous report, he had reported at least six deaths, around forty injured and 16 people “missing”.

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