In a video released this Thursday, the leader of an armed group that has kidnapped 17 people, mostly missionaries, in Haiti threatens to kill them if the ransom is not paid.
The gang, known as the 400 Mawozo, is holding captive all of the kidnapped people – 16 Americans and one Canadian, including six women and five children. For their release, a ransom of one million dollars (more than 862 thousand euros) was required for each, that is, for a total amount of 17 million dollars (about 15 million euros).
“I swear if I don’t get what I want, I’d rather kill the Americans. I shot everyone in the head, ”said Joseph Wilson, who is considered by the authorities to be the leader of the armed group.
According to the Wall Street Journal, which adds that it has not been able to confirm the video’s authenticity, Joseph appears to be speaking at the funeral of five gang members, whose death he attributed to the person in charge of the police. The funeral took place this Wednesday, and the circumstances of the death are unknown.
“Five soldiers fell, but whoever killed them cannot destroy the army. I’m going to spill blood, ”threatens Wilson Joseph.
The video was filmed less than a week after the kidnapping, which occurred over the weekend as a group of missionaries working for the Christian Relief Ministry were returning from a shelter in Croix-de-Bouquet, about eight miles from the capital, Port-au. -Prince.
Another day, new attacks. Severodonetsk in the Lugansk region is an “immediate tactical priority” for Russia, which continues to bomb residential areas. In Kharkov, the cemetery was filled with Ukrainian flags – one for each soldier who fell at the front. Zelensky today met with the President of Poland, who showed strong support for the country. Key moments of the 88th day of the war:
– Zelensky extended martial law in the country for three months until August 22.
– The UK Department of Defense has identified the city of Severodonetsk in the Lugansk region in eastern Ukraine as an “immediate tactical priority” for Russia.
– The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that six command posts of the Ukrainian army were destroyed not saturdayof these, three by missiles and three more by air strikes. Over the past 24 hours, Russian troops have bombed 12 residential areas in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, destroying 58 civilian infrastructure, according to Ukrainian authorities.
– The authorities of the Zaporozhye region reported wounded civilians as a result of Russian rocket attacks on the village. Explosions will wake people up in the middle of the night.
– Ukraine can lose up to 100 soldiers per day Fighting in the eastern region, Zelensky said.
– A sea of flags marks the graves of fallen soldiers at the Kharkov cemetery. There has been a military unit at the Bezlyudovsky cemetery for several years, but since the beginning of the invasion in February, more and more soldiers have been buried there. Each grave had a flag.
– Russia has warned that the Arctic region is becoming an “international theater of war,” a trend it has classified as “extremely worrying.” Read here.
– Andrey Shevchik, the mayor appointed by Russia in the occupied city of Energodar, was injured in an explosion and is in intensive care. The city’s mayor-elect, Dmitry Orlov, said no one else was hurt in the blast, suggesting it was a “precise and targeted strike.”
– The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted bill to ban Russian invasion symbolsincluding those containing the letters Z and V,” said deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak.
– Polish President Andrzej Duda met this Sunday with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. In the first personal speech by a foreign leader to parliament in Kyiv since the start of the Russian invasion, Duda thanked Ukraine for protecting Europe from what he called “Russian imperialism.” “The free world is like Ukraine”, he said, adding that recent calls for Kyiv to negotiate with Russian President Vladimir Putin and even give in to some of his demands are troubling.
– Regarding the candidacy for membership in the European Union (EU), Zelensky reiterated his hope that Ukraine will receive candidate status in June. In turn, the Polish President assured: “I won’t rest until Ukraine becomes a member of the European Union”.
– However, this hope collapsed after the statements of the French Minister for European Affairs. “We have to be honest. If you say that Ukraine will join the EU in six months, a year or two, they are lying,” said Clément Bon. “Probably in 15 or 20 years, it will take a long time.”
– Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Vitaly Savelyev admits that international sanctions have been imposed on Russia affect the logistics from the country.
– The Serbian President has said that Belgrade will avoid joining Western sanctions against Russia as long as possible and will talk to his Russian counterpart to sign a new gas supply agreement.
US President Joe Biden said in Seoul today that he is ready for a possible nuclear test by North Korea, but reaffirmed his openness to dialogue in a message to Kim Jong-un before leaving for Japan.
“We are ready for anything North Korea can do,” he assured, saying he was not worried about a possible nuclear test.
When asked by a journalist if he had a message for his North Korean counterpart Kim Jong-un, the US president replied succinctly: “Good morning. Period,” in a way to signal that Washington remains open to dialogue. with North Korea, even in the absence of reciprocity.
Negotiations with Pyongyang stalled after a 2019 summit between Kim and then US President Donald Trump.
Biden left South Korea early this morning for Japan, another great ally of the United States in the region and the second leg of his first tour of Asia as president.
In Seoul, he met his South Korean colleague Yoon Suk-yeol, a pro-American conservative who came to power in early May.
The heads of the two states agreed to intensify joint military exercises to counter the actions of Kim Jong-un.
Russia will explore the possibility of exchanging fighters from the Ukrainian Azov Battalion captured by pro-Russian Ukrainian MP and millionaire Viktor Medvedchuk, Russian negotiator and parliamentarian Leonid Slutsky said Saturday.
“Let’s study the issue,” Slutsky said.a member of the Russian delegation at the latest talks with Kyiv, who was quoted by the Russian news agency RIA Novosti when asked about such a prisoner exchange.
Slutsky, who spoke at a press conference in separatist Donetsk in southeastern Ukraine, said the possibility of a swap would be mentioned in Moscow by “those with prerogatives.”
Viktor Medvedchuk, 67, who is close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, was arrested again in mid-April in Ukraine after fleeing the start of the Russian military offensive on February 24.
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Medvedchuk has been under house arrest since May 2021. after being accused of “high treason” and “attempted plunder of natural resources in Crimea”, in the Ukrainian peninsula, annexed by Russia in 2014.
On Friday, the Russian army announced the surrender of the last Ukrainian defenders of the strategic city of Mariupol, who had entrenched themselves at the Azovstal metallurgical complex for several weeks. Among them are members of the Azov Battalion, an ultra-nationalist unit that the Kremlin considers neo-Nazi and that Kyiv hopes to release in exchange for Russian prisoners.
Next Thursday, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation is to consider the petition for classification Azov battalion as a “terrorist organization”, which could make it difficult to exchange prisoners.
This was stated on Saturday at the same press conference by the leader of the Donetsk separatists Denis Puchilin. The Ukrainian soldiers who defended the Azovstal plant and surrendered must be judged.
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