“The world has a debt to Arman” Soldin, reacts the White House after the death of the French journalist in Ukraine

2023-05-10 06:00:05

Cover image: French AFP journalist Arman Soldin, in a trench in Ukraine, March 18, 2023. Aris of Messina / AP

• AFP’s video coordinator in Ukraine, Arman Soldin, was killed on Tuesday afternoon during a Grad rocket attack in eastern Ukraine. The bombardment took place around 4:30 p.m. on the spot (3:30 p.m. in Paris) in the vicinity of Chassiv Yar, a Ukrainian locality near Bakhmout which is targeted daily by Russian forces. “The world has a debt to Arman”, reacted the White House after the death of the French journalist in Ukraine.
• The Russian military launched 20 missiles, conducted 30 airstrikes, and fired about 30 rockets with salvo on the positions of the Ukrainian troops and on the populated areas of the country, according to the head of the Ukrainian armies, who affirms it in his evening synthesis.
• Is the Wagner Group a terrorist group? Unanimously, the French National Assembly adopts a resolution to request the inscription of the Wagner Group on the list of terrorist organizations of the European Union.
• The United States announced new military aid to Ukraine in the amount of $1.2 billion. This is not direct assistance from American stocks, which have already been put to use, but financing the purchase of longer-term armaments. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reacted on Twitter : “We appreciate this sign of solidarity with Ukraine, manifested on a symbolic day for us. »
• The President of the European Commission met Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv. Ursula von der Leyen recalled that the European Union had proposed an eleventh sanctions package, which emphasizes “on the repression of circumvention [des sanctions précédentes]in collaboration with our international partners”. The President of the European Commission also paid tribute to Ukraine’s efforts for its work on reforms in the midst of an all-out war.
• German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called on China to take a clear position in the conflictasserting that advocating “neutrality comes down to siding with the aggressor. China can, if it chooses, play an important role (…) to end the war. China “will reply” to possible sanctions by the European Union targeting Chinese companies for their supposed trade with Russia, according to the Chinese foreign minister.
• Volodymyr Zelensky called on Brussels to ” DELETE “ European restrictions on Ukrainian grain exportsjudging these “severe, unacceptable, even cruel protectionist measures”.
• Russia has limited the scale of victory celebrations against Nazi Germany on Tuesday (May 9). While Vladimir Putin’s speech is broadly a carbon copy of last year’s, the tone was more serious.

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