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19h26 : Targeted by heavy Western economic sanctions and embargoes on its hydrocarbons because of its offensive once morest Ukraine, Russia will stop at nothing to get its black gold out. It’s a shadow trade. Not really illegal, but everything is done to keep these exchanges under the radar. Explanations from our journalist Jean-Sébastien Soldaïni.
18h50 : A year ago, the headquarters of the Mykolaiv administration was gutted by a missile strike, killing 37 people. Our journalists Raphaël Godet, Fabien Magnenou and Mathieu Dreujou attended the commemorations, they tell in this article.
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15h45 : After boasting in recent months of the adaptation of the Russian economy to sanctions, Vladimir Putin recognizes for the first time that international measures “can really have a negative impact” regarding the country “medium term”.
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15h37 : Faced with the failure of his attempt to set up a safety zone around the Zaporizhia power plant, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency now intends “to propose realistic measures“ with a view to a compromise on the center itself.
3:34 p.m. : Visiting the site of the Zaporijjia nuclear power plant, the head of the IAEA, Rafael Grossi, is worried regarding a “increased military activity throughout this region”. He calls to “avoid disaster”.
12h50 : Less civilized than the Kremlin, the Russian Olympic Committee quickly denounced criteria “unacceptable” et “discriminatory”lamenting “a joke”. For its part, Ukraine was especially delighted that the IOC postponed its decision on a possible reinstatement of the athletes from the Paris Olympics next year.
12h47 : “We will continue to defend the interests of our athletes in any way possible..”
The Kremlin reacts to the IOC’s recommendation to reinstate Russian athletes in international competitions under a neutral banner, on an individual basis and on condition that they did not support the conflict in Ukraine.
11h49 : The director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, has arrived at the Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporijjia, announces the Ukrainian operator Energoatom. The IAEA has repeatedly expressed its concern for the security of the site, which has been occupied for a year by Russian forces.
11h06 : Sweden announces that it will summon the Russian ambassador to Stockholm following his remarks yesterday, in which he considered that the future NATO membership of Sweden and Finland would make them “legitimate targets” of “reprisals from Moscow”. The head of Swedish diplomacy counts “Clearly denounce this transparent attempt at influence”.
11:05 a.m. : Bonjour @Supporters not journalists. It’s not a secret, this point is discussed in the article devoted to this vote, but it is true that we did not detail it in this direct last night. The Assembly’s resolution describing this famine in Ukraine orchestrated by the Soviet authorities as a genocide received 170 votes in favor and 2 votes once morest, which came from two deputies from the Communist group. “We refuse to contribute to the politicization of issues of memory and history”explained Jean-Paul Lecoq, one of these two elected officials.
No deputy from La France insoumise took part in the vote, while 12 socialists and 8 ecologists voted for the text – the details of the ballot on the website of the Assembly does not allow to know if others were present but they abstained. to the tribuneLFI MP Bastien Lachaud described the Holodomor as a “crime” of one “monstrous magnitude” but questioned its correspondence with the legal definition of a genocide.
11h03 : No mention on this site of the fact that the only votes once morest the recognition of the Holodomor come from the Nupes. There was no need for confirmation but a new illustration of who you ride for
10h52 : The Russian occupation administration in Melitopol, in the Zaporizhia region, claims that the town was hit by rocket fire from the Ukrainian army. It does not report any injuries, but affirms that these strikes deprived the city and surrounding villages of electricity. Ukrainian mayor of Melitopol, in exile, says he hopes “good news” Ukrainian forces.
08:35 : “If it still seems to anyone that this will somehow improve Europe’s security, rest assured that the new members of the hostile bloc will become a legitimate target for Russian retaliatory measures, including including those of a military nature”.
The future membership of Sweden and Finland in NATO exposes them to reprisals, warned yesterday the Russian ambassador in Stockholm, in a text published on the site of the Russian mission in Sweden. If Swedish membership is still blocked by Turkey and Hungary, the latter has ratified Finland’s entry into the alliance, and Ankara should do the same soon.
06h43 : Last night, Joe Biden reacted to Russia’s announcement of the deployment of nuclear weapons in Belarus, its neighbor and close ally. “These are dangerous words and it is worrying”judged the President of the United States, speaking to a reporter at the White House. He, however, reiterated US claims that this transfer is just an announcement for now: “They haven’t done it yet.”
07h32 : The director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi is due to visit the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant today, for the second time since the start of the Russian offensive in Ukraine. The IAEA has been conducting consultations for several months to set up a protection zone around the site, occupied by the Russian army, and where concern remains, as we said yesterday.
