Lysytchansk bombed, Kiev is active for weapons and its EU application

The Russian strikes “destroy everything” in Lysytchansk, a strategic industrial city near Severodonetsk in Donbass (east), deplore the Ukrainians who, at the same time, are working to obtain arms and official EU candidate status. “The Russian army is shelling Lysychansk with cannons, missiles, aerial bombs, rocket launchers... they are destroying everything”, Sergiy Gaidai, the governor of the Lugansk region, the epicenter of the confrontation between the Ukrainian armies and Russian.
“As actively as we are fighting for a positive decision by the European Union on Ukraine's candidacy, we are fighting daily to obtain modern arms supplies,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who spent the day on TV, Tuesday evening. ; phone to try to get support from the Twenty-Seven. This optimism is confirmed by the words of the French Minister for European Affairs Clement Beaune, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU. He reported a “total consensus” that emerged within the Twenty-Seven during a meeting with his counterparts in Luxembourg, regarding this request, which has yet to be officially validated at a summit on Thursday.

United States: Senators from both sides propose a law to limit gun violence

American senators on both sides have unveiled a bill to restrict gun violence after a series of deadly shootings, a text that falls far short of the measures called for by President Joe Biden, but is, however, a first in decades. In a deeply divided America, an agreement in Congress between Democratic and Republican elected officials is indeed rare, especially on this very divisive subject.
This is “the most important legislation against gun violence in nearly 30 years,” Democratic Senator Chris Murphy tweeted, although the proposed measures fall far short of what President Biden wanted, such as banning assault rifles.

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