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15h19 : “There will be no way out of this conflict until Russia, on the spot, notices the failure of its murderous enterprise.”
Former President of the Republic François Hollande confides in the war in Ukraine in an interview (in English) granted to the Ukrainian newspaper The Kyiv Independant. In particular, he defends the meetings organized between the different parties since the annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014, explaining that these talks have enabled Ukraine to “win time” and prepare for the Russian threat.
14h43 : The Minister for the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, paid tribute this morning in kyiv to the fighters of the Ukrainian army in front of the “Wall of Heroes”, where the portraits of hundreds of fallen soldiers are displayed.
14h47 : 2 p.m. on my watch! It’s time to take stock of the news:
The Minister for the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, is to be received by the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, this afternoon in kyiv, as part of an official visit.
Portuguese singer Linda de Suza died at the age of 74 in France, announces her agent.
Pope Francis announces that his predecessor, Benedict XVI, aged 95, is “seriously ill”. The sovereign pontiff prays for the one whose renunciation in 2013 for health reasons surprised the whole world.
The Minister of Health, François Braun, speaks of a “week of all dangers” for the French health system, faced with a “triple epidemic” marked in recent days by a “explosion of cases” flu. He also deplores the strike of general practitioners and liberal nurses in Haute-Savoie, judging it “particularly unwelcome in this time of extreme difficulty for the health system”.
13h04 : This interview, which should last about half an hour, represents “a proof of trust” entrusted the team of the Ukrainian president to franceinfo. For France, the objective is to obtain feedback from Ukrainians on the weapons already supplied and to take note of Ukraine’s new needs for 2023.
13h01 : Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will receive French Minister for the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu today at the presidential palace in kyiv.
11h27 : In the city of Odessa, municipal workers are removing the wooden palisade that had been installed around the statue of Russian Empress Catherine II. This would be the preliminary stage to the dismantling of the work of art, says the local media Dumskaya. The decision to remove the work was taken by the city council on November 30. A vast movement of “derussification” is underway in Ukraine, and affects many personalities linked to the tsarist and Soviet past.
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10h18 : Ukraine accuses Russia of having bombed the maternity ward of a hospital in Kherson last night. “Before the attack, the doctors had managed to perform a caesarean section”, commented presidential adviser Kirilo Tymoshenko, specifying that the strike had not caused any injuries.
09h59 : The Minister for the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, has arrived in kyiv. He will go to the Heroes’ wall, a memorial building, then he will visit a training camp for Ukrainian soldiers. He will then meet his Ukrainian counterpart, Oleksiy Reznikov.
09:35 : The city of Kharkiv has been the target of a new bombardment, announces the governor Oleg Singoubov. A 48-year-old man was injured by shrapnel and required hospitalization.
09h16 : It’s 9 o’clock! Let’s take a look at the news:
This is the first time he has visited the country since the start of the war on February 24. The French Minister for the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, is expected in Ukraine today. “In particular, he will pay homage to the dead at the Heroes’ monument in kyiv and will meet his Ukrainian counterpart, Oleksiy Reznikov”, explained his firm ahead of the visit. Follow our live.
The Minister of Health François Braun notes that the Covid-19 “circulates much less” on the territory. For bronchiolitis, “we went down to the level of the peaks of the previous years”, he added, during a trip to Annecy (Haute-Savoie). He is, however, concerned about a “explosion of flu cases (…) which make the intensive care units saturated”.
“The strike of general practitioners is unwelcome in this period of extreme difficulty for the health system”also denounced François Braun. “I do not question the right to strike of doctors but it is a bad period”, he continues, “this is not the right time”.
The United States is considering imposing entry restrictions on travelers from China, where authorities have abruptly relaxed their measures to fight Covid-19, American officials have said.
06h26 : Let’s take a look at the news:
The United States is considering imposing entry restrictions on travelers from China, where authorities have abruptly relaxed their measures to fight Covid-19, American officials have said.
Electricity consumption continues to fall in France, with a decline of 7.4% last week compared to the average for previous years (2014-2019) in the same week, according to the latest data from the network operator RTE.
After a leak of a dozen days, theman suspected of fatally hitting a teenager in Montpellier during the celebrations on the sidelines of the World Cup was arrested, indicted and imprisoned.
Russia will ban from February 1 the sale of its oil to foreign countries that use the price cap for Russian black gold. This ceiling price was set at the beginning of December at 60 dollars per barrel by the European Union, the G7 and Australia, and aims to deprive Moscow of significant revenue to finance its military intervention in Ukraine.