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11:44 am : “Based on the evidence collected by the Commission, it concluded that war crimes were committed in Ukraine”, said the chairman of the UN commission of inquiry, Erik Mose, during a first oral report. The latter lists Russian bombings of civilian areas, numerous executions, torture and ill-treatment and sexual violence, attributed to Russian forces.
11:44 am : The UN Commission of Inquiry on Ukraine says that “war crimes have been committed” in the country since the Russian invasion last February.
09:05 : It’s 9 o’clock, the time has come to make a new point on the news:
Russian annexation referendums began this morning in parts of Ukraine wholly or partly controlled by Moscow. The polls are described as “simulacra” by kyiv and the West, and mark an escalation of the conflict. Follow our live.
According to a provisional report from the gendarmerie unveiled on Friday, 48 people were arrested during this summer marked by a record of burned areas, especially in the Southwest.
• Authorities in Iran have blocked access to Instagram and WhatsApp in response to six days of protests after the death of a young woman arrested by vice squad, in which at least 17 people died, according to a report by yesterday’s state media.
Foreign ministers of the UN Security Council yesterday demanded that Vladimir Putin’s Russia be held to account for its invasion of Ukraine, before their Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.
08:59 : Almost seven months after the start of the war in Ukraine, the holding of “annexation referendums” in four Ukrainian separatist areas “is a sign of panic from Russian power“, analyzed this morning on franceinfo Cédric Mas, military historian and president of the Action Resilience Institute. According to him, “these are ballots that will be neither free nor sincere”.
07:42 : “There, it was unbearable, as if we had a rope around our necks that were tightened little by little”, laments Igor, a 43-year-old Ukrainian. Despite the fear, despite the climate of mistrust and terror, he left his city of Melitopol, under Russian occupation, before the trap closed on him. Like him, Ukrainians are fleeing the areas occupied by the Russians so as not to be forcibly enrolled in the army after the annexation referendums. Reportage.
07:15 : The separatist authorities of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia will hold “annexation referendums” from now on. But these popular consultations are already coming up against a wall: they are moreover qualified as “parody” by President Emmanuel Macron and described as “illegal” by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Pierre-Louis Caron summarizes the reasons for this massive rejection.
07:10 : The “referendums” of annexation by Russia in areas controlled by pro-Russians have just begun.
07:21 : It’s time to make the first point on the news of the day:
Foreign ministers of the UN Security Council yesterday demanded that Vladimir Putin’s Russia be held to account for its invasion of Ukraine, before their Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.
“The head of state who wanted to go to war, who wanted an escalation, is Vladimir Putin”said Emmanuel Macron, in an interview with CNN on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
• Authorities in Iran have blocked access to Instagram and WhatsApp after six days of protests following the death of a young woman arrested by vice squad, in which at least 17 people died, according to a report from a yesterday’s state media.
• Emmanuel Macron announced yesterday that he wanted “go twice as fast” in the deployment of renewable energies and accelerate the launch of new nuclear reactors, by inaugurating the first offshore wind farm in France off Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique).