Sofia Kokkali plays Artemis, who flies home to Athens after her father is hospitalised.
In the frontline Donbas village of Adamivka near the city of Sloviansk, a community of Orthodox nuns have seen a rocket hole blasted into the wall of their well-tended garden.Moon, 66 Questions is squarely in the arthouse tradition, unconventional and defiantly unsentimental (although it is very emotional at the end). Gaiday said earlier this week that around 10,000 civilians remained in the city, which is controlled mostly by Russian forces.
There are 568 people in the shelter, including 38 children," he said.
"It is now impossible and physically dangerous to get out of the plant due to constant shelling and fighting. Severodonetsk is in the Lugansk region, where governor Sergiy Gaiday called for a ceasefire, stating hundreds of civilians were trapped in the besieged Azot chemical plant in the city. The statement said the situation is "particularly worrying in and around Severodonetsk" - where bloody battles have raged for weeks. "The humanitarian situation across Ukraine - particularly in the eastern Donbas - is extremely alarming and continues to deteriorate rapidly," the UN humanitarian agency, OCHA, said. The situation is, of course, more stark in Ukraine itself, where Russian troops have occupied a swathe of the south and east of the country during the 113-day war, including much of the Donbas region. The day before the EU Commission's announcement the French, German, Italian and Romanian leaders had travelled to Kyiv to send a powerful symbol of support to Ukraine Sergei SUPINSKY AFPīut western Europe is sweltering in a heatwave and energy prices are already soaring, adding to runaway inflation and industrial action in several economies. Several European countries, including Italy and Germany, are highly reliant upon Russian gas for their energy needs and, as the West sides with Ukraine, Moscow is cutting supplies.īerlin and Rome have rejected Russia's argument that technical issues have caused the drop in supplies, arguing that state-owned Gazprom's move is political. 'Die for the dream'įrance's network provider said it had not received any Russian gas by pipeline from Germany since June 15, and Italy's Eni said it expected Russian firm Gazprom to cut its supplies by half on Friday. "Yes, Ukraine should be welcomed as a candidate country - this is based on the understanding that good work has been done but important work also remains to be done," von der Leyen said.Īnd in the meantime, the fighting continues, with Russian forces bombarding Ukrainian pockets of resistance in frontline Severodonetsk, including civilians holed up in a chemical plant in the eastern Ukrainian city.Īnd Moscow turned up the pressure on the Western allies, sharply reducing flows of natural gas in its pipelines to Western Europe, driving up energy prices. Once Ukraine joins the EU candidates' list - alongside several countries in the western Balkans - it could still take years to meet all the formal membership requirements, even if Kyiv prevails in the war.Įuropean Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wore Ukrainian national colours to announce that the EU executive backs Kyiv's bid for candidate status Kenzo TRIBOUILLARD AFP He thanked von der Leyen for the commission's "historic decision" and said he expected that EU leaders would give Ukraine a "positive result" at the June 23 to 24 summit. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky immediately welcomed the decision as a "first step on the EU membership path that'll certainly bring our victory closer". We want them to live with us for the European dream," she said. "We all know that Ukrainians are ready to die for the European perspective. Then on Friday, the European Commission gave the executive's formal backing to the bid, and EU chief Ursula von der Leyen made her position clear by donning a striking jacket in Ukraine's national colours. With the European Commission's backing, Ukraine could now be added to the list of countries vying for EU membership as early as next week, when member state leaders meet at their Brussels summit.Īll 27 EU leaders will have to agree to the candidacy, but the heads of the European Union's biggest members - France, Germany and Italy - already gave their full-throated support to the idea on Thursday, on a trip to a war-torn suburb of Kyiv.
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