🇺🇦 Russian strikes across #Ukraine on Monday came after an attack on the #CrimeanBridge, a critical supply link between Russia and the Crimean peninsula.
Vladimir Putin claims he only targeted key military and energy infrastructure ⤵️
🇺🇦 How did the West respond to Monday's strikes?
The #G7 is holding crisis talks today, under increasing pressure to provide heavier weapons to #Kyiv, explains FRANCE 24's @ArmenGeorgian.
Powers that had been hesitant to provide military support are now changing their stance ⤵️
@ArmenGeorgian 🇺🇦 The United Nations convened a special session on #Ukraine, opening on Monday and expected to last until Wednesday.
Member states will vote on a resolution concerning territorial integrity over the country.
@ArmenGeorgian@lemasurierjess@cntrentF24 🇺🇦 Russia said on Tuesday it launched "mass" strikes on Ukraine hours ahead of a G7 meeting expected to condemn Monday's missile blitz.
The missiles targeted energy infrastructure in the west of the country ⤵️
🔴 "There is no doubt that the sabotage of the #Nordstream1 and 2 pipelines is an international terrorist attack aiming at destroying the supply of energy"
🔴 Russian president Vladimir #Putin says "ideologies" are behind "nuclear terrorism" and "political assassinations" to "cut the link between #Russia and #Europe".
🔴 #Ukraine saw a second round of mass missile strikes Tuesday. Ukrainian authorities say that in 24 hours, #Russia launched more than 30 cruise missiles, 7 air strikes and carried out 25 instances of shelling on more than 10 cities.
@gullivercragg The Russian strikes have led #Ukraine's president Volodymyr #Zelensky to request an aerial shield from the West. The system required would be similar to that used by #Israel.
@JJammine has more on the capabilities of such defense systems
@gullivercragg@JJammine 🔴🇺🇦 Ukrainian forces recaptured five settlements in the southern #Kherson region: Novovasylivka, Novohryhorivka, Nova Kamianka, Tryfonivka and Chervone in the Beryslav district were retaken this week.
@ShirliSitbon 🇲🇬 Child marriage is a daily reality for tens of thousands of young girls in #Madagascar.
"When a girl turns 12 or 13, she becomes a new source of income for the family", explains @Galaelle for #DayoftheGirl.
"She is sacrificed to allow the family to survive" ⤵️
@ShirliSitbon@Galaelle 🇲🇬 The consequences for young girls promised into marriage are "irreversible".
"It's impossible to build a stable, healthy, developed society if young girls' fundamental rights are not guaranteed," reports @Galaelle on #DayoftheGirl ⤵️