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10:45 a.m. : Vladimir Putin will not go to the G20 summit in Indonesia next week because his schedule does not allow it, assured the Kremlin, this absence being perceived as a sign of isolation in full military intervention in Ukraine.(Sergei BOBYLYOV / SPUTNIK / AFP)
10:39 : Kherson region “is a subject of the Russian Federation”, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. “There can be no change”, he added in the Russian presidency’s first commentary on the withdrawal of its forces from Kherson announced on Wednesday.
10:45 a.m. : The Kremlin still considers that the entire Ukrainian region of Kherson and its capital belong to Russia despite the retreat of the Russian army from this area which Moscow claimed to be annexed in September.
09:43 : A Japanese man who fought alongside Ukrainian soldiers against Russia has died in Ukraine. He is the first known victim of Japan in this war, announced the Japanese government. Japanese authorities did not provide any further details.
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The humanitarian ship ocean viking docked at the military port of Toulon where he is to disembark 230 migrants he rescued in the Mediterranean off the coast of Libya. “There is a breach of trust” with Italy, said Laurence Boone, Secretary of State for Europe, on franceinfo, this morning. Follow our live.
At least four people were killed and several injured in a missile strike on a residential building in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv overnight, regional authorities said. Follow our live.
China has eased some measures against Covid-19, including a reduction in quarantine on arrival in the country from ten to eight days. The Asian country is the last major economy to maintain a strict health policy against the virus, with borders that remain closed to most foreign nationals.
• #COP27 US President Joe Biden, buoyed by midterm elections, makes a brief stopover today at COP27 to reaffirm US climate commitments, under pressure to increase aid to poor countries on the front lines of disruption climatic.
07:59 : For the Minister of Armies Sébastien Lecornu, the withdrawal of Russian troops from Kherson is “a political defeat”. According to him, “we enters the phase of the conflict which will be a little different” with a front line “who will freeze” as winter approaches.