Have you missed the latest events on the war in Ukraine? 20 Minutes Get the point for you every night. Here is the essentials of this Saturday, June 21, 2025, 1.214th day of the conflict.
The fact of the day
He’s free! Sergei Tikhanovski, husband of the figure of the opposition Bélarusse in exile svetlana tikhanovskaïa, was released on Saturday from prison with 13 other people. Sergei Tikhanovski is one of the very numerous victims of the repression who followed the re -election, in 2020, of Alexandre Loukachenko, at the head of the country for thirty years
Five years ago, Sergei Tikhanovski had been at the heart of the great protest movement crushed in violence by Alexandre Loukachenko, unwavering support of Vladimir Putin.
Svetlana Tikhanovskaïa published a video showing her a man with a shaved skull who kisses her in the neck for a long time. She then broadcast a message, on X, notably thanking US President Donald Trump and “our European allies” for “all their efforts”.
The liberation of the opponent was described as “fantastic news” and “symbol of hope” for all political prisoners to the Bélarus, by the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who reiterated her call to “their immediate liberation”, on X.
The Declaration of the Day
« “The Russian Federation receives machine tools from certain countries they use to make weapons” »
Volodymyr Zelensky said that Western companies, including German and Czech companies, still supplied the Russian military industry, calling for sanctions against these companies.
According to him, fifteen of these companies are Taiwanese, thirteen Germans, eight Czechs, six South Korean, three Japanese and three Indian women.
“We have transmitted all this information to everyone, our partners, the European Union and the United States […]. We strongly call on everyone to sanction these companies. »»
The trend
Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russia of having voluntarily gave kyiv the bodies of 20 members of the Russian troops instead of the remains of Ukrainian soldiers, as agreed during a recent great exchange of killed soldiers. Among these 20 bodies, “there is for example an Israeli mercenary who was fighting on their side. An Israeli citizen, with Israeli papers, said the Ukrainian president during a briefing on the press. Sometimes these bodies even have Russian passports. »»
During Ukraino-Russian talks in Istanbul on June 2, Moscow and kyiv had agreed with a massive exchange of remains of soldiers from both camps. On Monday, the Ukrainian Coordination Center for Prisoners of War said that Ukraine had received 6,057 bodies in this context, however being careful about the veracity of their nationality and their military status, pending their identification.
Our file on the war in Ukraine
Friday, Volodymyr Zelensky spoke as an explanation of this situation the idea that Moscow did not verify the identity of the bodies given to kyiv. “They can’t even check what they are sending because there are too many people (killed),” he said.
The Ukrainian president also raised the hypothesis that Russia voluntarily sends bodies of Russian soldiers to make believe that she killed more Ukrainians and minimize her own losses. With this in mind, Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow of wanting to “break the reality in which we live, where many more people die. »»
