2024-03-15 08:02:05
It’s not just Ukrainian drones that make nighttime sorties. Two people were killed in the night from Thursday to Friday by a Russian drone strike in the Ukrainian region of Vinnystsia, several hundred kilometers from the frontlines. “As a result of this enemy attack, a 52-year-old man was killed and his 53-year-old wife died in hospital,” Ukrainian police said on Telegram. There are also injured people.
The last meeting between Olaf Scholz and Emmanuel Macron ended in a clash. The two leaders meet this Friday in Berlin, with the Pole Donald Tusk, for a meeting on aid to Ukraine placed under the sign of appeasement.
The French president and the German chancellor will not have too much of the tête-à-tête planned at midday to remove misunderstandings after their acerbic exchanges which followed the conference in support of Ukraine organized at the Elysée on the 26 FEBRUARY.
Three children were killed in a strike in Donetsk, a city in eastern Ukraine controlled by Russian forces, its pro-Russian mayor Alexei Koulemzin said on Friday. “As a result of a barbaric nighttime strike in the Petrovsky district of our city by Ukrainian Nazis,” a house was targeted and caught fire, he wrote on Telegram.
Our journalist Cécile de Sèze sees even further than this presidential election without suspense…
It was 9 p.m. in France. Due to the time difference, residents of the Far East begin to vote at a time when residents of the western part of this country with eleven time zones are just getting ready to go to bed.
The outgoing head of state will face three candidates without scope who oppose neither the offensive in Ukraine nor the repression which eradicated all opposition and culminated with the death in prison in mid-February of the main opponent , Alexei Navalny. The only real opponent to have tried to run, Boris Nadejdine, saw his candidacy rejected.
The vote will be held over three days, including in the territories occupied by Russia in Ukraine and in Transdniestria, a pro-Russian separatist territory in Moldova. The election must renew Vladimir Putin for a new term. The outcome of the vote is in no doubt since the outgoing president has no real opposition.
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