07:01
The impact of war on the global economy
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says Russia’s end to the war is “the most important thing” for the global economy, blaming Moscow officials. Yellen reiterates calls to his G20 Finance counterparts. “The most devastating effects of this war are being felt in Ukraine, but Putin’s militarization of food and energy has hurt developing countries and created headwinds in the global economy that have affected every nation represented. in this room,” adds Yellen, quoted by the Bloomberg agency.
06:56
A year of war in Ukraine, our big story
06:52
Ukraine will need 38 billion dollars by the end of the year
After a 30% contraction in its economy in 2022, Ukraine will need $38 billion by the end of the year to cover its budget deficit alone, according to Reuters. “We need these funds for critical expenditure: funding salaries and pensions, education and medicine,” said Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal.
06:46
A conflict that shakes the world order
Twelve months of conflict and a disrupted world order. Since the beginning of the war, Europe has broken taboos, NATO has been revitalized and Ukraine has been transformed in the face of the Russian giant. Find our analysis this morning.
06:42
“The sanctions will be more and more efficient”, according to Bruno Le Maire
The Minister of Economy spoke about the sanctions against Russia on the first day of the G20 Finance meeting in Bangalore, India.
“We are working, at European level, on a new set of sanctions against Russia,” adds Bruno Le Maire.
06:37
US announces $2 billion in aid
The United States will send Ukraine an additional $2 billion in military aid, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said last night.
06:33
The new energy routes
The war in Ukraine caused European countries to turn away from Russian oil and gas in favor of other suppliers. Discover our decryption on this global upheaval “for the decades to come”, to use the words of Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA).
06:30
UK asks G7 to speed up delivery of arms to Ukraine
The British Prime Minister is calling on the G7 to speed up arms deliveries to Ukraine, ahead of a Group of Seven video conference today. “Our priority must be to act more quickly in terms of artillery, armor and air defense”, judge Rishi Sunak. The UK is particularly invested in the conflict in Ukraine. The first country to promise heavy tanks to kyiv, the United Kingdom opened the possibility of delivering planes to NATO standards but specified that pilot training would take up to three years.
06:19
“The beginning of the war is the sound of missiles in the night”
06:14
Bardella acknowledges ‘collective naivety’ towards Putin
The president of the RN Jordan Bardella recognizes, in the daily Opinion, “a collective naivety with regard to the expansionist will of Vladimir Putin”. Two weeks earlier, the MEP had stood up in the Brussels hemicycle to applaud Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky against the advice of other RN parliamentarians. MEP Thierry Mariani, one of the most Russophiles of French elected officials, skipped the session.
“It is clear that the Vladimir Putin of five years ago is not the one who, five years later, decides to invade Ukraine and commit war crimes”, judges Bardella.
05:59
Russian military strategy in Ukraine: the reasons for a huge failure
Vladimir Putin had planned a dazzling “special military operation” to bring down the Ukrainian government… And nothing else. Failure was unthinkable. When the war turned to attrition, all the flaws in the Russian military were exposed. Our decryption.
05:55
Dialogue and no nuclear weapons, asks Beijing
The Chinese government called on Russia and Ukraine to resume dialogue and rejected any recourse to nuclear weapons, in a 12-point document published on Friday.
“All parties should support Russia and Ukraine to work in the same direction and resume direct dialogue as soon as possible,” said the Chinese Foreign Ministry, adding that “nuclear weapons should not be used “.
05:51
The Eiffel Tower in the colors of Ukraine
05:46
Catherine Colonna: “After a year, Russia suffered a strategic, political and moral defeat”
The Minister of Foreign Affairs reaffirms France’s unfailing support for the Ukrainians. And believes that “things did not go at all” as Vladimir Putin wanted. She mentions the possibility of a trial of the Russian president at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Our interview.
05:43
First year of war in Ukraine
Ukraine enters its second year of war against Russian forces on Friday, marking the first anniversary of an invasion against which it showed fierce resistance and, with the help of the West, inflicted unexpected setbacks on Vladimir Putin.
Russian troops entered Ukrainian territory in the early morning hours of February 24, 2022, starting the worst conflict Europe has seen since World War II.
A year later, Ukrainian cities have been reduced to rubble, part of the country is under Russian occupation and both sides have more than 150,000 killed or injured each, according to Western estimates.
05:41
Hello everyone !
Welcome to this direct dedicated to the war in Ukraine, one year to the day after the start of the Russian invasion.