Day 246 of war in Ukraine.

The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, maintains that the risk of a conflict on a world scale “remains very high” and insists that Ukraine plans the use of a “dirty bomb” – an explosive device mixed with radioactive material. kyiv, he maintains, “has de facto lost its sovereignty and is ruled directly by the United States, which uses it as a battering ram against Russia.” Moreover, according to Putin, Washington has turned Ukraine into a “site for biological and military experiments.”

However, it was Russia who this Wednesday raised the tension with the test of a massive nuclear attack, the first since the beginning of the war. Putin’s high-sounding statements also continue without overshadowing the Russian failure on the front. In Kherson, “the mother of all battles” is being prepared, high-ranking Ukrainian commanders anticipate, pointing to the humid climate and the nature of the terrain as major obstacles to reconquest. The invading forces wait entrenched.