< img class = "responsive-Img" SRC = "https://images.midilibre.fr/api/v1/images/view/67A7BD935545143A9D3C0469/lange/image.jpg?v=1" Alt = "The fights raged around the city of TORETSK." >The fights raged around the city of Totretsk. Maxppp – Madeleine Kelly < P Class = "Article-Full__CoPo" > Every day, Midi Libre takes stock of the situation in Ukraine. This Saturday 8 & nbsp; February 2025, discover the latest news around this conflict.
< H2 Class = "TXT-INT" > on the ground, advances on both sides < P > The Ukrainian army is still at the offensive in the Russian border region of Koursk, of which she has occupied hundreds of square kilometers since a surprise attack in August 2024. Despite a failure the day before, the troops of kyiv led a new push on Friday evening and increased 5 kilometers south-east of the city of Sudja. The presence of Ukrainian forces was also noted in the villages of Cherkasskaya Konopelka and Fanaseyevka, as well as towards the village of Ulanok. < P > This Saturday, the Ukrainian president confirmed this new offensive. “< EM > In the areas of the Koursk operation, new assaults took place”, said Mr. Zelensk, assuring that Russia has still deployed North Korean soldiers alongside his troops. According to the Ukrainian President, a < EM > “significant number” of soldiers “~ 60 > enemies” were put out of Combat, several hundred, he said without giving the exact figure. For its part, the Ministry of Russian Defense assured that it had rejected a Ukrainian counterattack in the Koursk Oblast. < P >Still in the field, but on the Ukraine side, Russia also claims to have progressed. She claimed, on Friday evening, the capture of the Totretsk mining city, in the east of the country, a city of 30,000 inhabitants (before the war) very strategic for Moscow. This conquest would indeed be one of Russia's largest victories in one year, after taking the cities of Avdiïvka in February, Vougledar in October and Kourakhové in December. < H2 Class = "TXT-INT" > Pressure on “Rare Lands” < P > Volodymyr Zelensky indirectly responds to Donald Trump. In early February, the new American president, who threatens to reduce the help of his country to Ukraine, said he wanted to negotiate a < EM > “agreement” with kyiv, de way that it offers a < em > “guaranteed” On its rare land, metals notably used in electronics. The Ukrainian Head of State therefore called on Saturday his allies to < EM > “Invest” in the exploitation of natural resources of his country. < EM > “We have mineral resources, but that does not mean that we give them to anyone, including strategic partners” , he written on Telegram. < EM > “These are partnership. < EM >Invest. Let's develop them together and earn money “, he added. < P > Ukrainian natural resources, in particular coal and iron ore, are essentially in regions partly controlled by Russia or threatened by the advance of Russian troops. An effective pressure means on Donald Trump ? < H2 Class = "TXT-INT" > The three Baltic States disconnected from the Russian network < P > The three Baltic States disconnected their electrical systems from the Russian network on Saturday on the eve of the connection provided for in the European Union. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have disconnected from the common IPS/UPS network and, subject to the success of a final Salve of Tests, will synchronize with the EU network on Sunday at 12:00 GMT < EM >. “We have reached the objective for which we fought for so long. We now have control ,” said Lithuanian Minister of Energy, Zygimantas Vaicunas, at a press conference. < P >The draft decoupling of the Baltic States of the Electric Network of the former Soviet Empire, debated for decades, accelerated after the annexation of Crimea by Moscow in 2014. The network was the last link with Russia for these three Country returned independent in the early 1990s after the fall of the Soviet Union, which joined the European Union and NATO in 2004. The three fervents of kyiv stopped buying electricity at Russia after The invasion of Ukraine by Moscow in 2022, but they relied on the Russian network to control the frequencies and stabilize the networks to avoid breakdowns. < EM > “by putting an end to the energy dependence of the Baltic States vis-à-vis Russia, we leave the aggressor without the possibility of using energy as a weapon against us” , said Estonian Minister for Foreign Affairs, Margus Tsahkna. An army truck went to the Rezekne power plant, near the border between Latvia and Russia, and armed officers patrolled in the surroundings, testifying to the concerns of the Baltic States as for a sabotage attempt aimed at to disturb the switch. 200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000< P > The president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, will speak Sunday during a ceremony marking the transition to the European system.
< P > For Russia, decoupling means that its enclave of Kaliningrad, located between Lithuania, Poland and the Baltic Sea, is cut off from the country's main electrical network, leaving it in charge of the maintenance of its electrical system. Baltic countries have spent nearly 1.6 billion euros ($ 1.66 billion) since 2018 to modernize their electrical networks in order to prepare for this change, while Moscow spent some 100 billion rubles (one billion of dollars), to build, in particular, several gas power plants in Kaliningrad.