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19h33 : Nearly 300 people had to be buried “in mass graves” in Boutchaaccording to the mayor of this town located not far from kyiv, interviewed by AFP. “In some streets, we see 15 to 20 corpses on the ground”most “I can’t say how many there are still in courtyards, behind the palisades”continued the mayor. “As long as the deminers have not come to check them, it is not recommended to pick them up” because they can be trapped, he further said.
(RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP)
18h47 : A demonstration by civilians in Energodar, a town in southern Ukraine occupied by Russian forces, was dispersed by mortar fire and stun grenades which injured four, says Lyudmyla Denisova, human rights officer at the Parliament. “Part of the protesters were forcibly put into police vans and taken to an unknown location.”
15h56 : The Russian NGO OVD-Info, specialist in monitoring the repression of the opposition, reports at least 178 arrests in 15 different cities during sit-ins to protest against the invasion of Ukraine.
15h57 : A visit by Pope Francis to Ukraine, at the invitation of Volodymyr Zelensky, is “on the table”, said the sovereign pontiff to journalists, in the plane which takes him to Malta. The Ukrainian president had invited him to mediate with Russia. The pope did not give further details on the chances that this planned visit will materialize.
15h22 : Former international prosecutor Carla Del Ponte has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to quickly issue an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom she calls a “war criminal”. If it would be impossible to arrest him in Russia, such a decision would prevent him “to leave his country, and that would already be an important signal”says the lawyer.
15h19 : More than 20 people were arrested in Moscow, near the Kremlin, and at least 25 in Saint Petersburg, while they took part in a sit-in against the invasion of Ukraine, reports a journalist from AFP on the spot. These actions, announced online, also aimed to protest against the imprisonment of opponent Alexeï Navalny and “the collapse of the Russian economy”.
14h07 : He was unarmed and wearing a Press jacket. Photographer ???????? Max Levin has been killed like five other journalists since the start of the war in #Ukraine. #RSF sends its condolences to his family. Targeting journalists is a war crime. ▶️https://t.co/WvBWW1DAYe https://t.co/xs60Jrzywv
16h04 : Reporters Without Borders pays tribute on Twitter to journalist Maks Levin, found dead in kyiv. “Targeting journalists is a war crime”recalls the organization.
13h41 : Ukrainian photojournalist Max Levin, our friend and colleague, was found dead April 1, killed by Russian forces near Kyiv. I knew Max, a father of 4, since we began covering the war in 2014. He was brave, talented, and dedicated to covering this story. I can’t believe he’s gone. https://t.co/YelibinC7v
14h20 : Three weeks that we had no news of him. Max Levine, a veteran Ukrainian photographer and documentalist, was found dead after the withdrawal of Russian troops from territory near kyiv. “He disappeared in the zone of hostilities on March 13 in the kyiv region. On April 1, his body was found near the village of Gouta Mezhyguirska”a few tens of kilometers north of the capital, announced on Telegram the head of the presidential administration Andriï Yermak.
13h18 : “We thought invasions from other countries, fierce urban fighting and atomic threats were dark memories of the distant past.“
Pope Francis castigated, at the start of his visit to Malta, the acts of “some mighty” locked in “nationalist interests” by evoking the “icy wind of war” came from “Eastern Europe”.
13h13 : Hello, This photo is followed by comments claiming that it is a Ukrainian lynching. Is it true ?https://twitter.com/DeloisFlorine/status/1510038609746927617?t=15T2l186F9CfDMXI7qTusA&s=19
14h22 : The regional hospital of Kharkiv, in northern Ukraine, is forced to practice war medicine. “These are mainly head injuries from the shrapnel of the bombsexplains doctor Vadislav Kalouchka. There are also injuries to the arms, legs and spine. Most of the injured become paraplegics.“ The report by Gilles Gallinaro and Etienne Monin can be read here.
12h13 : Russian forces are operating a “quick withdrawal” regions of kyiv and Cherniguiv, in northern Ukraine, and aim to “to gain a foothold in the east and the south”estimated today a Ukrainian presidential adviser, Mykhaïlo Podoliak.
12h42 : It is noon, here is a new point on the news:
• The Red Cross is preparing to attempt evacuations of civilians from the besieged town of Mariupol, where more than 3,000 people managed to flee the day beforeafter another night of shelling in several parts of the country.
• The police officer whose shooting caused the death of a motorist during a check a week ago in Sevran (Seine-Saint-Denis) was indicted and placed under judicial supervisiona few hours from a march organized in memory of the victim.
• Fabien Roussel at 3 p.m., Emmanuel Macron at 4.15 p.m…. One week before the first round, the franceinfo channel (channel 27 of TNT) offers you this weekend a “presidential multiplex”.
• Initially scheduled today at 9 p.m., the match counting for the 30th day of Ligue 1 opposing Saint-Etienne to Marseille has been postponed for a day because of the snow, announced the club from Saint-Etienne.