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21h05 : Maryinka, it’s just an apocalypse It’s a pity that many people don’t understand the heroism of holding this city for more than a year https://t.co/rr3zxE4I1e
9:04 p.m : Terrible aerial images of the city of Mar’inka after a year of war.
19h02 : The future of Ukraine depends on the youth. Together with @ZelenskyyUa, I got to know the students of Lviv National University named after I. Franka. Young men and women with hope for a brighter future. And the desire to play an important role in the reconstruction of Ukraine.
7:30 p.m : European Parliament President Roberta Metsola met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the western city of Lviv. “With him, I met the students of the National University of Lviv. Young men and women with the hope of a better future. And the desire to play an important role in the reconstruction of Ukraine” she tweeted.
18h39 : “We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.”Archilochus
Total combat losses of the enemy from February 24, 2022 to March 4, 2023:
19h28 : The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense shares the figures of the conflict for the past week. He announces that, according to his data, 820 Russian soldiers have been killed. Moscow also lost four tanks and a fighter plane.
19h27 : CNN (article in English) offers a portrait of “Rail Force One”, the train that took Joe Biden, like many international leaders before him, to Ukraine. The Ukrainian equivalent of the SNCF, Ukrzaliznytsia, is nothing less than the 6th largest train company in the world, and manages to maintain a rate of 90% of trains arriving on time, despite the war.
16h26 : The war in Ukraine is causing damage… in a restaurant in Strasbourg. The misnamed “Les Poutinistes”, which offers the Canadian dish of poutine (you pile on fries, cheese and gravy, then digest it for two days) is experiencing a collapse in its turnover of 30 50% since the start of the war, according to the manager interviewed by AFP.
16h55 : Mikhaïl Barychnikov, one of the greatest dancers of the 20th century (even if the names of Nureyev and Nijinski will come to your mind more easily), gave an interview on the situation in Ukraine to our colleagues from Radio-Canada. At 75, the man who fled Latvia under Soviet domination in 1974, believes he has lived “the most horrific year of all [s]for life” : “I hope this year will be a winning year for Ukrainians.”
4:03 p.m. : These few words caused many laughs in the room, briefly interrupting his speech, as captured by the Indian press agency Asian News International, on this video.
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4:03 p.m. : In India, the head of Russian diplomacy, Sergei Lavrov, provokes laughter by denying his country’s responsibility in the origin of the conflict. “You know, the war that we are trying to stop, which was launched against us using Ukrainians…”said the head of Russian diplomacy at the forum entitled “Dialogue of Raisina”, in New Delhi, on the sidelines of the G20.
15h06 : To talk about the war and Ukrainian culture in a different way, Henri, the digital platform of the French cinematheque, offers two sections devoted to Ukrainian cinema free of charge. One features the work of the collective Babylon ’13, a group of filmmakers who “witness, day by day, resistance in all its forms in their country at war”. The other, reads the newspaper Teleramaoffers a retrospective in nine animated films, for children from 4 years old.
15h06 : European Parliament President Roberta Metsola, visiting Ukraine today, said “to have hope” that accession negotiations could begin this year between Kyiv and Brussels. “The future of Ukraine is in the European Union”said the Maltese official, who met President Volodymyr Zelensky in Lviv, in the west of the country.
10h36 : The Ukrainian army clings somehow to the city of Bakhmout, in the east of the country. His soldiers suffer “increasingly severe pressure” according to a British intelligence note published on Twitter (content in English) This morning. “Ukraine sends elite units to the area”, explains the British Ministry of Defence, which specifies that the Ukrainian forces in the city have almost no supply chains left.