the United States announces indictments of Russian oligarchs – L’Express

2024-02-22 18:12:30

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, said on Thursday February 22 that Russia’s war in Ukraine had caused a “terrifying human cost, inflicting immense suffering on millions of civilians.” .

He said the damage caused by the war would be felt for generations and again called on Moscow to immediately stop its invasion.

Information to remember

⇒ Nearly 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers trained by France since the start of the Russian invasion

⇒ London strengthens its sanctions against Moscow and delivers more missiles

⇒ 6.5 million Ukrainians refugees abroad

US announces indictments of Russian oligarchs

The United States unveiled charges against several Russian oligarchs on Thursday, two days before the second anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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“The Department of Justice is more committed than ever to cutting off the flow of illegal funds that fuel Putin’s war and to holding accountable those who continue to enable it,” US Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. communicated.

Nearly 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers trained by France since the start of the Russian invasion

France has trained nearly 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers since the start of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, the French Ministry of the Armed Forces said Thursday during a press briefing. These training courses, provided “either in France or in Poland”, focused on the handling of specific equipment, such as the French Caesar cannons, specific techniques (mine clearance, tactical first aid), as well as more general know-how of training in combined arms combat, the ministry said.

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The training provided by Westerners to the Ukrainian army goes hand in hand with the numerous deliveries of equipment received by Ukraine since the start of the conflict with Russia, even if these deliveries have tended to run out of steam in recent months.

London strengthens its sanctions against Moscow and delivers more missiles

The United Kingdom announced Thursday, to mark two years since the major invasion of Ukraine, additional sanctions against Russia and new deliveries of missiles to the Ukrainians.

These sanctions target more than 50 personalities and companies, particularly in sectors which allow the Russian army to supply itself with ammunition, missiles and explosives, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a press release. They also target “key sources of income for Russia”, with the trade in metals, diamonds and energy resources, in order to “cut off funding for Putin’s illegal war from all possible sides”.

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In addition to the increase in its military aid announced recently, London also announced this Thursday the upcoming delivery of 200 additional Brimstone anti-tank missiles to the Ukrainian army, stressing that this type of weapon had had “a significant impact on the field of battle”.

6.5 million Ukrainians refugees abroad

Some 14 million people have fled their homes in Ukraine at some point in the two years since Russia’s invasion in 2022, with nearly 6.5 million still seeking refuge abroad, the country said on Thursday (February 22). UN.

These figures represent a total of almost a third of the Ukrainian population, said the United Nations International Organization for Migration, in a report published ahead of the second anniversary of the Russian invasion, on February 24, 2022.

A Ukraine-Denmark security agreement

The Danish government announced Thursday that it had signed a ten-year bilateral security agreement with Ukraine, following comparable agreements concluded by kyiv with Germany, France and the United Kingdom.

“The agreement means that future military and civilian support will be framed for the next ten years in a bilateral political agreement” and financed by the Danish fund for Ukraine currently endowed with 69.1 billion crowns (9.3 billion dinars). ‘euros), said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a press release.

Russia claims the conquest of the village of Pobeda

The Russian army claimed Thursday to have taken the village of Pobeda, in eastern Ukraine, a new claim for conquest a few days after that of the town of Avdiivka, in the face of a Ukrainian army which suffers from weapons shortages . “Units of the Southern grouping of forces liberated the village of Pobeda,” said the Russian Defense Ministry about this locality, not far from the destroyed town of Mariïnka, although this sector of the front had been largely unchanged for years. month.

Imprisoned opponent Kara-Mourza calls not to “despair”

Incarcerated opponent Vladimir Kara-Mourza on Thursday called on Russians not to “despair” and to continue the fight for democracy, after the death in prison of Alexeï Navalny.

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“I still can’t wrap my head around what happened, rationally or emotionally. But if we give in to gloom and despair, that’s exactly what they want. We have no right to do We owe that to our fallen comrades,” said Vladimir Kara-Mourza, speaking during a court hearing via videoconference.

Russian threats against French patrols, according to the Minister of the Armed Forces

French Minister of the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu denounced on Thursday recent Russian “attempts to take control” of French air and maritime patrols, citing in particular an incident “a month” ago in the Black Sea.

“You have attempts by the Russians to take control of a number of our patrols, a month ago a Russian air control system threatened to shoot down French planes in the Black Sea while we were in an internationally free zone in which we patrol,” he told French radio RTL.

kyiv accuses Moscow of using North Korean missiles against civilian targets

Ukraine’s security services (SBU) on Thursday accused Russia of using North Korean-made missiles to carry out deadly strikes in Ukraine against civilian targets.

“We are talking about ballistic missiles of the Hwasong-11 (KN-23/24) type (…) According to our investigation, Russian troops fired more than 20 (of these) North Korean weapons at Ukraine,” he said. indicated in a press release the SBU, specifying that these strikes had killed “at least 24 civilians” and left more than a hundred injured

Joe Biden verbally attacks Vladimir Putin

Joe Biden insulted Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday during a meeting in San Francisco with Democratic Party donors. “The existential threat is climate change. There’s that crazy bastard Putin, and others, and you always have to worry about nuclear war, but the existential threat to humanity It’s climate change,” criticized the American president.

“It is a huge shame for (…) the United States. If the president of such a country uses such lexicon, it is necessarily shameful,” replied Dmitri Peskov, the Kremlin spokesperson, in a video broadcast Thursday by a journalist from Russian public television. “Such rude statements are not capable of hurting the leader of another state, especially President Putin,” he also said.