News Bulletin at 23:00 ATHENS 9.84
A Kremlin spokesman dismissed US President Joe Biden as saying in a speech in Warsaw that Vladimir Putin “could not stay in power”, saying that the Russians were choosing the leader. their.
The White House clarified: “What President Biden wanted to say was that Putin could not be allowed to exercise power over his neighbors or the region. “He was not talking about Putin’s rule in Russia or regime change,” he said. In his speech, the American president assessed that “the war in Ukraine will not end soon” and at the same time expressed his unwavering support for the struggle in Ukraine.
Prior to the speech, Joe Biden was informed of the rocket attack on Lviv. This Ukrainian city was the target of two Russian bombings (4 and 30 in the afternoon). Five people were injured, according to the governor of the region. A fuel depot and a military base were hit.
Earlier in the day, during a meeting with his Polish counterpart, Joe Biden told Andrei Duda that he considered NATO’s Article 5 guarantee of mutual defense between member states a “sacred” commitment.
Biden called the Russian president a “butcher” and his statement provoked the Kremlin’s reaction: “The new comments narrow the scope for improving relations between the two countries,” the TASS news agency quoted a Russian presidential spokesman as saying.
However, the Kremlin has reopened the possibility of using nuclear weapons. The former president of Russia and current vice-president of the US of the country, Dmitry Medvedev said that Moscow can fight against an enemy that uses (and) only conventional weapons.
The ban on its circulation in Kyiv until 7 am tomorrow Sunday with the latest statement of the Mayor of the city Vitali Klitschko.
A total of 5,208 people were evacuated from Ukrainian cities on Saturday via humanitarian corridors, according to a senior Ukrainian official. Ukrainian forces have regained control of the city of Trostanyets in northeastern Ukraine, where fighting with Russian troops is taking place, he told the Ukrainian Defense Ministry.
One hundred and thirty-six children have been killed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began 31 days ago, the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine in a message in the Telegram messaging application.
A large anti-war rally took place in central London, in Trafalgar Square. Protesters dressed in the colors of Ukrainian significance sent a message of solidarity to the people of Ukraine. Leaders, personalities and politicians from all over the world made their own intervention through a giant screen.
“In the last month, the dark authoritarian forces have been attacking the values we all love: democracy, freedom, the rule of law, and human rights,” said Athenian Mayor Costas Bakoyannis. “From London to Athens and beyond “Furthermore, we are all on the side of Ukraine”, concluded the mayor of Athens in his short intervention.
Former Bundestag President Wolfgang Schieble has spoken out in favor of a Russian gas and oil embargo on Germany. “We must not always be the brakes on the Western alliance,” Seibel said in an interview with Welt am Sonntag.
The new cases of coronavirus in the country in the last 24 hours amount to 16,558. 56 new deaths were recorded 341 patients are hospitalized intubated. 6,127 new infections are detected in Attica and 1,526 in Thessaloniki.
Return to summer time from the early hours of Sunday when we turn the clocks of our clocks one hour forward. Specifically, at 3:00 at night the clocks should show 4:00.
WEATHER
Initially clear tomorrow Sunday, the weather, with light clouds from noon. Winds weak and gradually southerly 3 to 4 Beaufort. Temperature in the capital from 9 to 19 degrees Celsius. Meteorological conditions favor the transport of African dust to the Ionian and the mainland.