A rally was held in Paris before the Olympics in honor of Ukrainian athletes who died as a result of the war with Russia.
Russia has killed 488 Ukrainian athletes, 20 Olympic and gold champions among them since the full-scale invasion began.
The demonstration was held by French Union of Ukrainians and World Ukrainian Congress.
The peaceful rally was attended by about a thousand people wearing T-shirts with the names of the victims, as well as several city deputies and representatives of the Administration of Paris.
In addition to showing solidarity, the participants of the rally also called for the removal of representatives of Russia and Belarus from the 2024 Olympic Games, even under a neutral flag.
😡❌ American blogger, Jackson Hinkle, spreads disinformation about the alleged fakeness of the pictures of the emergency services at the site of the "Okhmatdit" children's hospital destroyed by the russians.
▫️In particular, on his page in X, the blogger published one of the photos of the State Emergency Service, which shows children's toys on the ruins of the hospital, and wrote: "The Ukrainian government inserted fake children's toys into the image of the hospital it destroyed in Kyiv."
✅ In fact, no one inserted the toys into the photos, which was reported to the Center by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the State Emergency Service. It is these children's toys that can be seen on other photo and video materials from the scene, which indicates their originality.
▫️This is not Hinkle's first fake about a missile attack on "Okhmatdyt".
▪️Yes, an American blogger, known for his commitment to russia, claimed on his X-page that "Okhmatdyt" was apparently hit by an American air defense missile "Patriot" launched by Ukraine. This also turned out to be a fake, as SBU investigators determined that the attack was carried out by an Kh-101 cruise missile.
❗️ By spreading such lies, the blogger is trying to discredit the Ukrainian government and divert the attention of the world community from yet another russian war crime.
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🇺🇦 🇷🇺The result of an attack by the Russian military with the support of five Chinese Desertcross-1000-3 all-terrain vehicles in the Kupyansk direction
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In Switzerland, a Russian diplomat is suspected of espionage and the illegal purchase of weapons, — Deutsche Welle reports.
Swiss prosecutors are investigating three individuals who procured weapons and other dangerous materials in violation of local military property laws. One of them is a Russian with diplomatic accreditation in Bern, for whom a “national arrest warrant” has already been issued.
According to preliminary information, the Russian diplomat managed to leave Switzerland. He had previously been under the surveillance of Swiss special services due to suspicions of espionage for Russia.
🕯️A rescuer and a policeman were killed as a result of a repeated russian strike in Kharkiv Oblast.
Today, in the afternoon, enemy troops launched a rocket attack on Budy village of Kharkiv district. When emergency services arrived at the scene, Russian terrorists struck a second time at the same location.
As a result of the attack, the head of the Kharkiv district administration of the State Emergency Service in the Kharkiv region, lieutenant colonel of the civil protection service Artem Kostyria , and the police officer of the response sector of the patrol police of the Kharkiv district police administration, senior police sergeant Oleksiy Koshchii, died.
Three rescuers, a policeman and about 20 civilians, including one child, were among the injured .
"Condolences to the relatives of the dead, speedy recovery to the injured. this is not the first time russia has attacked emergency services when they are rescuing civilians. For every such crime there will be responsibility and an answer - in the courts and on the battlefield," the Minister of Internal Affairs emphasized.
Medvedev called for preparations for the complete takeover of Ukraine after signing peace with Kyiv
Russia needs to prepare to seize the entire territory of Ukraine after Moscow and Kyiv sign a peace treaty and end the war, said Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev.
“Even having signed the papers and accepted defeat, the remaining part of the radicals [in Ukraine], after a regrouping of forces, will sooner or later return to power, inspired by Russia’s Western enemies. And then the time will come to finally crush the reptile,” Medvedev wrote in his Telegram channel. According to him, at this moment Russia will have to “drive a long steel nail into the coffin of Bandera’s quasi-state,” as well as “destroy the remnants of his bloody legacy and return the remaining lands to the bosom of the Russian land.”
“But the enemies of Russia will not go anywhere after this. They will accumulate strength and wait for a new convenient reason to destroy our country. We must be prepared for future battles to defend the Fatherland,” Medvedev emphasized.
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