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12h34 : “It’s a ghost town. It’s pretty amazing.” Frenchman Henry Camenen, co-founder of the NGO Road to Relief, organizes the evacuation of Ukrainian civilians from Sievierodonetsk in the Luhansk region (Ukraine). “It’s something post apocalyptic. All the streets are destroyed. One in two buildings has collapsed”he describes.
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12h12 : Hello everyone ! I am delighted to have you back to follow the news of the afternoon together. At 2:30 p.m. we will welcome Luc Lacroix, France Télévisions correspondent in Moscow. He will answer your questions about the war in Ukraine and the aftermath of the conflict. Do not hesitate to send us your questions now with the keyword . Thank you !
12h10 : It is noon. We make a new update on the news of the day:
Some 85,000 Ukrainians have been received in France since the start of the war three months ago. Follow our live.
The dismissal in favor of Luc Besson was confirmed on appeal after the rape charges against the director.
Three confirmed cases of monkeypox have been recorded in France, according to Public Health France.
• Medvedev and Tsitsipas enter the fray, fifteen French on the courts… Discover the program of the day at the Porte d’Auteuil.
The Paris Court of Appeal has “rejected the request for adjustment of sentence” of Alain Ferrandi, a member of the Erignac commando sentenced to life imprisonment.
11h56 : The former pro-Russian president of Moldova, Igor Dodon, has been taken into police custody, suspected of treason and corruption, announced the prosecution of this country where the friction between pro-Westerns and pro-Russians has increased with the conflict in Ukraine.
11h57 : Ukrainian forces are now shelling Russian positions with newly brought in Western artillery systems, according to a Ukrainian military spokesman. Fighting continues to rage over large parts of eastern and southern Ukraine, and much of the fighting takes the form of long-range artillery clashes between Russian and Ukrainian armies.
11h09 : Three months after the start of the war in Ukraine, 85,000 Ukrainians benefit from the allowance for asylum seekers in France.
10h42 : The conflict in Ukraine has been going on for three months. On this occasion, we publish a series of articles on the subject:
10h19 : Victory of kyiv or on the contrary of Moscow, conflict which settles in the long term, peace negotiations which succeed… For franceinfo, several specialists have examined different scenarios for the weeks to come and their probabilities.
10h00 : On March 2, twenty African countries abstained at the UN from voting on a resolution calling for an end to the Russian invasion. “These countries refuse to align themselves with the order imposed by the West and show Westerners that they are no longer the masters of the world”explains Sylvie Matelly, deputy director of Iris, to franceinfo.
10h00 : To date, China has never condemned the Russian offensive, even refusing to speak of intervention. “Both countries share the ideology of a new world order against liberal democracies”, analysis for franceinfo Valérie Niquet, China specialist. But Beijing is careful not to offend the Americans and Europeans, its main economic partners.
10h44 : In the West, the conflict has enabled the European Union to strengthen its defense policy, long perceived as the sea serpent of European construction. “There was a violent realization, on the part of Europeans, that war was back on the continent”explains Federico Santopinto, a specialist in European integration.
10h44 : In three months, the war in Ukraine has revealed the fragility of the international world order established since the end of the Cold War. If the Western bloc has united against Russia, other countries refuse to choose a side. Explanations in this article.
09h01 : It’s 9 o’clock. We make a new update on the news of the day:
The war in Ukraine has been going on for three months. What are the scenarios envisaged for the coming weeks? Answers in this article.
Three confirmed cases of monkeypox have been recorded in France, according to a press release from Public Health France.
• Medvedev and Tsitsipas enter the fray, fifteen French on the courts… Discover the program of the day at the Porte d’Auteuil.
• #ABAD “Lourdingue”, “insistent” : Within the Republicans, some describe inappropriate behavior on the part of Damien Abad.
08h46 : Armaments, logistics, cyber defense… France is prepared for asymmetric conflicts, but not for an inter-state war like the one between Russia and Ukraine. Experts analyze what the conflict reveals about our armies and the challenges that await them.
08:28 : But the threatening discourse of Moscow on the subject of nuclear power is above all there to frighten kyiv and its allies. “The nuclear weapon is used as an instrument of intimidation, even of coercion”, explained the soldier and analyst Jean-Sylvestre Mongrenier in his text for the Thomas-More Institute. Why agitate this threat? What would be the damage of a Russian nuclear strike? How would Westerners react? I try to answer all these questions in this article.
07h54 : We might as well reassure you right away: Russia certainly has the largest nuclear arsenal in the world, but observers do not imagine it using it. Héloïse Fayet, a researcher at Ifri, however, explained to me that there are two types of nuclear weapons: strategic weapons, with very long range and which exist above all to dissuade other countries from hitting you; and tactical weapons, which are generally less powerful but designed for use on the battlefield. If Russia used nuclear power in this war, it would be through a tactical strike, probably in Ukraine, she said. The risk is “extremely weak, but not zero”.
07h54 : It has been three months since Russia began invading Ukraine, and many of you have no doubt had nightmares at least once about the outbreak of a nuclear war in Europe. A scenario that Russian officials do not hesitate to evoke, in a more or less ambiguous way, while Russian state television fantasizes the destruction of Western Europe. But what are the chances of this scenario coming to fruition? And what is the Russian discourse all about?
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07h27 : “The Russian occupiers are trying to show that they will not abandon the occupied areas of the Kharkiv region, that they will not return the Kherson region, the occupied territories of the Zaporizhia region and Donbass. somewhere. They are strengthening their positions elsewhere.”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has spoken out in his daily televised address as the war in Ukraine enters its fourth month.
07h25 : It’s 6 o’clock. We make a first point on the news of the day:
The war in Ukraine has been going on for three months. Russian troops are now concentrating their offensive on the last pocket of resistance in the Luhansk region, in the Donbass. “The next weeks of war will be difficult”Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned last night.
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• Medvedev and Tsitsipas enter the fray, fifteen French on the courts… Discover the program of the day at the Porte d’Auteuil.
Accused of rape by two women, Damien Abad says he is “innocent” and does not plan to resign. The new minister spoke to the press at the end of the afternoon from Ain, where he is a candidate for the legislative elections.