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10:16 a.m. : The subject is also on the program of Emmanuel Macron’s meeting with Macky Sall, President of Senegal and of the African Union, this morning. The latter has already announced that he intends to ask France to lift the sanctions against Russia, in particular the exclusion of Russian banks from the Swift messaging system. He says he received assurances from Vladimir Putin that the Russian army would not take advantage of any demining of access to Odessa, to allow cargo ships to resume exports, to attack this Ukrainian port.
10:11 a.m. : Yesterday, Volodymyr Zelensky asked the FAO, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nationsto exclude Russia, in reaction to the paralysis of Ukrainian exports and the risk of shortages that this poses to many countries of the world.
10:06 : The Ukrainian army announces having carried out airstrikes on Russian positions in the region of Kherson, in the south of Ukraine, the most western territories among those taken by Russia since the beginning of its invasion. The Ukrainian general staff says it targeted “sites where equipment and personnel are concentrated and depots around five localities of the Kherson region”.
09:05 : Let’s recall the main news of this Friday:
• It is the last day of campaigning before the first round of legislative elections on Sunday. Yesterday on France 2, during the only major national televised debate before the election, lively exchanges opposed the participants on the question of purchasing power and police violence.
A parliamentary commission of inquiry into the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, unveiled its findings this night. She accuses Donald Trump of having been “at the center of a conspiracy” to orchestrate “a coup attempt” and retain power.
• During a telephone conversation with the Ukrainian President, Emmanuel Macron promised that “France will remain mobilized to meet Ukraine’s needs, including heavy weapons”. kyiv notably requests artillery pieces to retake Sievierodonetsk, where the fighting continues.
twenty five past eight : No elections in one of the Parisian, which highlights the testimony of a young Ukrainian soldier on his 46 days of imprisonment at the hands of Russian soldiers, before being released on April 21 in a prisoner exchange. He claims that his Russian jailers have repeatedly mentioned their wish to “kill them all”, talking about Ukrainians. And wonders: “Why do they look at us like Nazis when they behave like Nazis themselves?”
07:14 : Yesterday, the Ukrainian forces also affirmed that the Russian army had bombarded more than twenty localities in the province of Donestk, the other component of the Donbass region. And Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov revealed that the fighting was doing every day “up to 100” dead and 500 injured.
06:56 : This morning, the governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Haidaï, announces that a fire caused by Russian bombardments has destroyed the Palace of Mirrors in Sievierodonetsk, an emblematic building of the city.
07:13 : “Sievierodonetsk, Lysychansk and other Donbass towns, which the occupiers now see as their targets, are holding their own”Volodymyr Zelensky said last night in his traditional daily address on social networks.
07:21 : Let’s start by recalling the main news of the last few hours:
• It is the last day of campaigning before the first round of legislative elections on Sunday. Yesterday on France 2, during the only major national televised debate before the election, lively exchanges opposed the participants on the question of purchasing power and police violence.
A parliamentary commission of inquiry into the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, unveiled its findings this night. She accuses Donald Trump of having been “at the center of a conspiracy” to orchestrate “a coup attempt” and retain power.
• During a telephone conversation with the Ukrainian President, Emmanuel Macron promised that “France will remain mobilized to meet Ukraine’s needs, including heavy weapons”. kyiv notably requests artillery pieces to retake Sievierodonetsk, where the fighting continues.
• The man suspected of refusing to comply last Saturday in Paris, resulting in the fatal shooting of the police on his passenger, was indicted, in particular for “attempted intentional homicide on a person holding public authority”. He was remanded in custody.