Russian threat is moving away from Kharkiv, according to Ukraine
The Russian noose is loosening on Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest city in the east and which had been shelled since late February, Ukrainian authorities said tuesday night, as the conflict could spread southwestward according to Washington. "Our armed forces have given us all good news from the Kharkiv region. The occupiers are gradually being pushed out of Kharkiv," President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video. "I am grateful to all our fighters who stand firm and show superhuman strength to drive out the army of invaders."
"The localities of Cherkasy Tychky, Rusky Tychky, Rubzhyzh and Bayrak have been liberated" in the region of this large city, said the Ukrainian General Staff on Facebook. "Thus, the enemy was pushed even further away from Kharkiv, and the occupiers had even fewer opportunities to strike the regional center." But "the intensity of the bombing in the Kharkiv district has increased," he said. Moreover, according to Oleg Snegubov, head of the Kharkiv regional administration speaking on Telegram, "by withdrawing, the Russian occupiers leave behind deadly traps", mines. The northern and northeastern neighborhoods of Kharkiv, which had about 1.5 million inhabitants before the war, have been hit by Russian rockets for weeks, causing civilian deaths. At the end of February, the Russians wanted to take the city, in vain: the Ukrainian forces resisted and pushed them back a few kilometers away, at the cost of bitter fighting.
Kick-off of the 2022 baccalaureate with the specialty
D-Day for the baccalaureate 2022: some 520,000 high school students take the specialty tests from Wednesday, after two years disrupted by the pandemic that had seen the elimination of most of the major written tests. From 2:00 p.m., the 523,199 Terminale students of the general and technological high schools will study the subjects of these tests, born of the reform of the baccalaureate decided by the Minister Jean-Michel Blanquer. They have been postponed from March to May due to Covid and are therefore not taken into account in Parcoursup, the higher education admission platform. An important element for high school students.
The schedule was postponed, but the program was stopped in March, on the date on which the tests should have taken place, so that the candidate would not have "excessive tension in his preparation upstream", Edouard Geffray, number two of the Ministry of Education, said on Monday. Candidates will each take two tests, each assigned a coefficient of 16. These specialty tests represent a third of the results of the baccalaureate, calculated on 100 points.
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