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15h04 : “At the end of the strike, a delivery of arms and ammunition of foreign manufacture was prevented, an advance of the reserves [des forces ukrainiennes] to combat areas has been blocked, the operation of arms manufacturing and repair companies (…) has been suspended”, boasts the Russian Ministry of Defense in a press release. Friday’s attacks were denounced as “war crimes” by the European Union.
14h27 : The Russian army affirms this afternoon that the massive strikes carried out yesterday in Ukraine, and which caused power cuts in the country, prevented a delivery of foreign weapons to the Ukrainian forces.
14h16 : Here is the update on the news at 2 p.m.:
A rally in tribute to the victims of the Vaulx-en-Velin fire must take place in front of the town hall of the city in an hour. Here is our account of this tragedy.
• Parliament is preparing to definitively adopt the 2023 draft budget, with the rejection expected this afternoon of a final motion of censure from the left in the National Assembly, the end of an autumn punctuated by ten appeals to the 49.3.
• Blues “make sure to take as many precautions as possible” to protect themselves from the virus circulating in their ranks, said coach Didier Deschamps, on the eve of the World Cup final against Argentina.
• A chilling record. Ukraine’s prosecutor general’s office said on Saturday that at least 450 children had died as a result of fighting and shelling by the Russian army.
14h09 : The death of this baby in Kryvvyi Rih adds to the long list of children killed since the beginning of the Russian invasion. According to the Ukrainian Prosecutor General, quoted by the newspaper Kyiv Independent, 450 children have lost their lives and 863 others have been injured in Ukraine since February 24. The authorities are still looking for 331 missing children, and believe that more than 13,600 Ukrainian minors have been deported to Russia.
14h09 : The body of a one-year-old child was discovered last night in the rubble of a bombed house in Kryvyi Rih, in the south of the country. It was the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region who announced the news on Facebook this morning. “It’s so hard to write…”, he commented. On Friday, the bombardments left 4 dead and 13 injured in this city pounded for several days by the Russian army.
10h47 : This announcement comes as Ukraine was targeted yesterday by new Russian missile strikes which caused power cuts across the country, according to Ukrainian authorities.
10h45 : Vladimir Poutine spoke yesterday with the persons in charge for the Russian military operation in Ukraine, let know the Kremlin this morning. The head of the Russian state has in particular “held a meeting” with the participation of the Minister of Defense, Sergei Shoigu, and the Chief of the Russian General Staff, Valery Gerasimov, and “had separate meetings with the commanders” of the various branches of the army involved in the operation.