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WAGNER
Will Wagner’s boss succeed Volodymyr Zelensky as president of Ukraine? It is in any case the will expressed this Saturday by Evgueni Prigojine. “I have decided to run for the Ukrainian presidential election in 2024,” said the leader of the paramilitary group.
ANGER
Videos of Russian soldiers complaining are multiplying on social networks. They protest in particular once morest counter-orders and their lack of training. A phenomenon already observable last September.
BAKHMOUT
The British Ministry of Defense announces that “within the last four days” the Wagner Group had “taken control of most of eastern” Bakhmout. “Ukrainian forces control the west of the city and have demolished key bridges over the river” which crosses it, the ministry said.
STRUCK
According to the military administration of Zaporizhia, the region was the target of new Russian strikes this Saturday using S-300 missiles. The nuclear power plant would not have been affected, “critical infrastructure of the regional center survival facility” was affected, according to a statement from local authorities.
IRAN-RUSSIA
This Saturday, Iranian media claim that Tehran has reached an agreement with Russia for the supply of several Su-35 fighter jets. This transaction further expands relations between the two countries, already more important since the start of the war in Ukraine. For several months, Moscow has been using Iranian-designed drones to carry out strikes on Ukraine.
WAGNER
The Russians are currently just over a kilometer from the center of Bakhmout, a city that Moscow troops have been trying to take since the summer, said the head of the paramilitary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigojine.
“It’s the municipal administration building, the administrative center of the city,” he said, pointing from the roof of a building to another building in what he said was Bakhmout. .c “It’s a kilometer two hundred,” he said in this video released by the press service of his company Concord. “This is the area, there are fights going on.”
JO 2024
The British government has asked Olympics sponsors including Coca-Cola and Samsung to side with a ban on Russian and Belarusian athletes in Paris next year, a way for London to put pressure on the International Olympic Committee (IOC ) a year and a half before the Games.
“We know that sport and politics in Russia and Belarus are closely linked and we are determined that the Russian and Belarusian regimes will not be allowed to use sport for propaganda purposes,” wrote the British minister for Culture Lucy Frazer in a letter addressed to the leaders of the 13 official global partners of the IOC, including Coca-Cola, Airbnb, Samsung and Deloitte.
“As an Olympic Partner, I would like to hear your views on this matter and ask you to join us in lobbying the IOC to address the concerns raised,” she added.
NUCLEAR
Greenpeace claimed that the French nuclear industry was “under the influence” of Russia, which controls according to the NGO more than 40% of imports of natural uranium from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and a third of those of uranium enriched.
In 2022, the year of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, “nearly half of the natural uranium imported into France came from Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan”, 43% exactly, underlined Greenpeace in a report published two days before the start of the National Assembly’s consideration of a bill aimed at accelerating the construction of new nuclear reactors.
However, according to the NGO, “virtually all the natural uranium from Kazakhstan, and a considerable part of that from Uzbekistan, passes through the hands of (the Russian civilian nuclear monopoly, editor’s note) Rosatom, which controls the transport of all nuclear materials transiting on Russian soil”, via rail convoys to the port of Saint Petersburg, then cargo ships to France.
KHERSON STRIKES
At least three people were killed and two others injured in a Russian strike in Kherson, southern Ukraine, authorities said on Saturday, two days following deadly artillery fire.
“It was learned that three people were killed and two injured at the site of an enemy attack on the highway (which connects) Mykolaiv to Kherson,” said on Telegram Oleksandr Prokudin, the head of the regional military administration of Kherson. “Relief work continues” on the spot, he added.
BAKHMOUT
The city of Bakhmout, in the Donbass, has become the city-symbol of the Ukrainian resistance. Kyiv forces have been resisting it for weeks, despite Russian advances. However, the city might fall to Moscow in the coming days.
War in Ukraine: the Ukrainian army continues to resist in Bakhmout, in the DonbassSource : TF1 Info
GEORGIA
Massive protests in Georgia that forced the government to drop a bill that critics have compared to repressive Russian legislation were described by Russia as an “attempted” Western coup on Friday. The Russian presidency said it saw in the mobilization “the hand” of the United States trying to provoke “anti-Russian sentiment”.
After three days of demonstrations by tens of thousands of people, sometimes enamelled with violence, the Georgian Parliament finally revoked the controversial text on Friday. As the government had promised the day before, which had also announced the release of all those arrested on Tuesday and Wednesday.
POINT
Ukraine paid tribute to a war hero who fell in Bakhmout, in the presence of Voldymyr Zelensky. While France and the United Kingdom have renewed their support for kyiv, Moscow displays its closeness to Beijing.
TF1Info takes stock of the key events of the past 24 hours.
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