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18h16
Russian diplomats summoned by Europeans after Moscow’s threats to strike kyiv
European leaders summoned Russian representatives to their area on Tuesday after Moscow’s call for foreign diplomats to leave kyiv before new Russian strikes on the Ukrainian capital, already massively bombed last weekend.
Denouncing an “unacceptable escalation”, an EU spokesperson, Anitta Hipper, announced on X that the Russian charge d’affaires in Brussels had been summoned as a sign of protest and assured that the EU delegation would remain present in the Ukrainian capital.
16h51
At the UN, around fifty states denounce Moscow’s “threats” against diplomats in kyiv
Around fifty states and the European Union denounced on Tuesday the “recent threats” from Moscow against diplomats in kyiv, through the voice of Ukraine’s representative to the UN, Andriï Melnyk.
“We condemn (…) the recent threats made by Russia against diplomatic institutions and embassies in kyiv. This is something we cannot tolerate,” he declared during a press briefing.
Russian diplomacy on Monday called on foreign nationals living in kyiv, including diplomatic staff, to leave the Ukrainian capital before further Russian bombings.
16h10
Presidential candidate, Edouard Philippe meets Zelensky in kyiv
The former Prime Minister of Emmanuel Macron and candidate for the French presidential election in 2027, Edouard Philippe, is visiting kyiv on Tuesday, where he expressed to President Volodymyr Zelensky his “commitment” to working for an integration of Ukraine in NATO.
During a meeting with the Ukrainian leader, he indicated on X that he had expressed his “determination to stay alongside Ukraine until the conditions for peace are met, and even beyond”.
15h47
Russia seeks to “destabilize” European democracies, denounces Von der Leyen in Vilnius, after drone alerts in the Baltic States
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, visiting Vilnius on Tuesday, blamed recent drone alerts in the Baltic states on Russia, accusing it of seeking to “destabilize democratic societies” in the EU.
“Air alerts, families taking refuge in shelters, schools closed, transport suspended. This is the reality on Europe’s eastern border in 2026,” declared Ms von der Leyen in the presence of the Presidents of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
“These are not isolated incidents, this is a deliberate strategy by Russia which seeks to destabilize our democratic societies. But just like on the battlefields in Ukraine, Russia is failing,” she added during a press briefing.
14h05
The Czech charge d’affaires summoned by Moscow after the arrest of a Russian Orthodox dignitary
Russia announced on Tuesday that it had summoned the head of the Czech diplomatic mission in Moscow, following the arrest by the Czech police of an Orthodox dignitary accused of possessing narcotics.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said it had demanded “the unconditional and immediate release of Metropolitan Hilarion as well as an end to the persecution of representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Czech Republic.” Moscow also denounced, in a press release, “the absurdity and total lack of basis of the accusations” of possession of narcotics.
On Sunday, four containers containing “a white substance” were discovered by Czech police in the trunk of Hilarion’s car. The cleric, aged 60, “categorically rejects” any accusation of possessing narcotics.
10h57
Putin promises to forgive the debts of new recruits for the front
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on Monday erasing financial debts for recruits hired to take part in the offensive in Ukraine.
For more than four years, Russia has already offered attractive salaries and social benefits to people who work in Ukraine. The new law offers debt forgiveness up to 10 million rubles (around 120,000 euros) for those who signed a contract with the army from May 1, 2026, if their debts were already in the process of legal recovery. This law also provides for possible cancellation of the debts of the spouse of the person signing the contract.
According to the text, the new contract must be signed for a minimum duration of one year.
07h19
Un mort à Odessa
On the night of Monday to Tuesday, Russian strikes targeted Odessa and killed a 45-year-old man, according to a military administration official in this city in the south of the country.
07h19
Kiev appelle à ne pas céder au « russe blackmail»
The head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Andriï Sybiga, for his part called on kyiv’s partners “not to give in to Russian blackmail” and to provide more aid and arms to Ukraine.
06h11
Rubio says US still ready to act as mediator
“The United States is ready and willing to do everything in its power to facilitate an end to this war, and we hope that the opportunity will present itself at some point,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday during an official visit to India, after having called his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.
05h55
Moscow calls on foreigners and diplomats to leave kyiv before new Russian strikes
Russian diplomacy on Monday called on foreign nationals living in kyiv, including diplomatic staff, to leave the Ukrainian capital before further bombings by the Russian army.
This announcement comes after particularly massive Russian strikes targeted Ukraine this weekend, particularly the capital, leaving at least four dead and around a hundred injured.
New “strikes will be carried out on decision-making centers” and “companies of the military-industrial complex” in kyiv, warned the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, without giving a precise time frame before these attacks.
05h45
Welcome to this new Live
Hello everyone. Like every day, the editorial staff of 20 Minutes is mobilized to give you all the information on the conflict between kyiv and Moscow.
On the ground, strikes have resumed massively since a truce at the beginning of May. Despite numerous initiatives since Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the United States has not managed to achieve peace between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky.
