Have you picked up the news? We summarize the main information of the last two days.
Ukrainian army announces withdrawal from Lysychansk
The Ukrainian army finally announced on Sunday that its soldiers had withdrawn from Lysytchansk, a key city in eastern Ukraine facing a violent assault by Russian troops for weeks. “In order to preserve the lives of Ukrainian defenders, the decision has been taken to withdraw” of the city, wrote the general staff of the armed forces of Ukraine in a press release, underlining the “multiple superiority” of the Russian army on the material level.
Earlier, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu claimed responsibility for the capture of Lysytchansk and the “liberation” from the entire Luhansk region. In the evening, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had however assured that he was “impossible to say that Lysytchansk is under control” Russian.
Moreover, in Russia, a series of « fortes explosions » caused at least four deaths in Belgorod. Moscow accuses Ukraine of having launched missiles against this city near the border between the two countries.
Finally, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, an ally of Russia, said on Saturday that his army had shot down missiles fired from Ukraine and aimed at military targets located on its territory, a little earlier this week.
Eric Coquerel defends himself against accusations of his behavior towards women
Eric Coquerel denounced “unfounded rumors” on his behavior towards women, Sunday, July 3. The deputy of La France insoumise (LFI) of Seine-Saint-Denis, elected to the presidency of the finance committee of the National Assembly, published a column in The Sunday newspaper, in which he claims not to have “never exercised physical or psychological violence or coercion to obtain a report, which characterizes the gateway to criminal behavior in the field of gender-based and sexual violence”.
If the deputy regretted, in his gallery, the absence of public testimony, a left-wing activist and former figure of “yellow vests” has since announced that it has seized LFI’s sexist and sexual violence committee, ” in order to endorse [s]one testimony attesting to the unacceptable behavior of Eric Coquerel”. Asked about this on BFM-TV, Eric Coquerel disputed the facts covered by this report.
A strike and more than a hundred flights canceled at Roissy – Charles-de-Gaulle
One hundred and fifty flights were canceled on Saturday morning at Roissy – Charles-de-Gaulle airport, i.e. one flight in five, on the third day of a firefighters’ strike at the Paris airport. Employees are demanding a 6% revaluation with retroactive effect from 1is January to offset inflation. Management, which did not confirm the figures, proposed 4% on 1is July.
If the firefighters then lifted their notice for the rest of the weekend, they filed a notice for next weekend, the first of the school holidays, generally synonymous with peak attendance.
Demonstrations in favor of the right to abortion in several French cities
Six thousand five hundred people marched in thirty French cities to defend the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy, Saturday July 2, a week after its questioning in the United States, following a decision of the US Supreme Court.
One thousand five hundred people notably demonstrated in Paris, where we could read signs like “Do not touch my abortion” and “Never again” (Never again), sometimes accompanied by a hanger painted red. Some, such as “We want abortion in the Constitution”, also referred to bills to include this right in the French Constitution.
A weekend of sport: the Tour de France leaves the Danish roads, Alizé Cornet eliminates the world number 1 at Wimbledon
On the Tour de France, Fabio Jakobsen and Dylan Groenewegen won both stages of the weekend, which took place in Denmark. The Tour returns to France on Tuesday, after a transfer day on Monday.
It is the Belgian Wout Van Aert, who wears the yellow jersey. The rider of the Jumbo-Visma team took over, on Saturday, the leader’s tunic from another Belgian, Yves Lampaert, who had won during the first stage on Friday.
At the tennis tournament Wimbledon, the French Alizé Cornet achieved a huge blow by eliminating the world number 1, Iga Swiatek, in two sets (6-4, 6-2), on Saturday. In the round of 16, the Niçoise (37e world) will face Australian Ajla Tomljanovic (44e). On the same day, France’s Harmony Tan, who beat Serena Williams on June 28, will challenge American Amanda Anisimova. On the other hand, Caroline Garcia was beaten on Sunday in the round of 16 by the Czech Marie Bouzkova.
And also…
Death of Peter Brook. The British director, who marked one of the most important pages of the theatrical adventure, died on Saturday July 2, at the age of 97.
Death of Shireen Abu Akleh. The Palestinian Authority gave the Americans for expertise the bullet that killed the Palestinian-American journalist on May 11. The Israeli army then affirmed that Israeli experts will finally carry out the expertise “with an American presence”.
Italian Alps. A block of a glacier broke off on Sunday, killing six people
Denmark. Shooting at a Copenhagen shopping center on Sunday, “several people hit”, police say