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4:19 p.m. : The Russian army occupied the city of Kherson since mid-March. Our journalist Agathe Mahuet managed to reach Katia, a resident who had not fled the city. “It was like being in prison”she says. “Russians [pouvaient] go home, you [pouvais] to be arrested in the street, and even killed.”
4:16 p.m. : “If it is a victory, the city of Kherson will not find the life it knew before the war. (…) Those who fled will not be able to return because the Russians are just across the Dnieper River, which means the city of Kherson is now under Russian artillery fire.”
The takeover of Kherson by Ukraine does not sign a return to normal for its inhabitants, reminds General Jérôme Pellistrandi on franceinfo. This analyst believes that the Ukrainian army will find it difficult to continue its counter-offensive in the rest of the region, on the other side of the Dnipro river, “en any case for the weeks and months to come”.
3:45 p.m. : The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that more than 30,000 military personnel have withdrawn from the city of Kherson and the entire western bank of the Dnipro River. This morning, Moscow assured that it had suffered no loss during this withdrawal.
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3:03 p.m. : On Twitter, the Ukrainian Post celebrates the recovery of Kherson and announces the forthcoming issue of a stamp to celebrate this victory, bearing the design of a watermelon, a symbol of this city.
3:01 p.m. : “Kherson returns to Ukrainian control, Ukrainian Armed Forces units enter the city”, writes the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense on Facebook. He calls the Russian soldiers who are still on the spot to “surrender immediately”their “only chance to avoid death”.
2:53 p.m. : The Ukrainian army has entered Kherson, confirms the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.
2:33 p.m. : Let us recall the main information of this Friday:
• The Russian army announces that it has completed its retreat from the city of Kherson and from the entire north of the region. The Ukrainian government welcomes “an important victory”as Ukraine’s flag is raised again in the city Russia has occupied since March.
• The humanitarian ship ocean viking docked at the military port of Toulon, with 230 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean on board, some for three weeks. Their landing is in progress. Criticized by France, the head of the Italian government Giorgia Meloni denounces a reaction “aggressive, incomprehensible and unjustified”.
• The man suspected of having stabbed a policeman to death last night in Brussels is a former prisoner, convicted for common law offenses. He was on file with the Belgian body for analyzing the terrorist threat (Ocam), announced the federal prosecutor’s office.
1:51 p.m. : “Ukraine is on the way to achieving another important victory”, welcomed the Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dmytro Kuleba on Twitter, after the announcement by Russia of its complete withdrawal from the city of Kherson. Local media relay videos posted on social networks showing Ukrainian flags hoisted in several places in the city, taken by Russia in March.
1:19 p.m. : The leader of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigojine, affirms that his organization trains militiamen in two regions of Russia bordering Ukraine, those of Belgorod and Kursk. In recent months, these two territories have been repeatedly hit by gunfire, which Russia attributes to the Ukrainian army. These militiamen will also build “fortified structures”says the boss of Wagner.
1:41 p.m. : The Danish authorities announce that they have authorized the gas pipeline company Nord Stream, in which the Russian group Gazprom is the majority shareholder, to carry out its own underwater inspections on the two infrastructures, targets of probable sabotage in September .
1:09 p.m. : At least four people were killed and several injured last night in a missile strike on a residential building in the city of Mykolaiv, in southwestern Ukraine, says the Ukrainian head of the regional authority.
12:17 p.m. : Let’s take a look at the news:
• The humanitarian ship ocean viking docked at the military port of Toulon from where the 230 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean off the coast of Libya are to disembark. The head of the Italian government, Giorgia Meloni, denounced a French reaction “aggressive, incomprehensible and unjustified”, after Paris announced retaliatory measures against Rome for refusing to dock the ship. Follow our live.
• In accordance with tradition, Emmanuel Macron went to the foot of the Arc de Triomphe, near the flame marking the tomb of the unknown soldier. The Head of State then greeted the soldiers and veterans.
•The Russian army has announced that it has completed its retreat from the northern Ukrainian region of Kherson, another bitter setback after almost nine months of military campaign in Ukraine. In addition, at least four people were killed and several injured last night in a missile strike on a residential building in the city of Mykolaiv, in southern Ukraine. Follow our live.
• The man suspected of having stabbed a policeman to death last night in Brussels is a former prisoner, convicted for common law offenses. He was on file with the Belgian body for analyzing the terrorist threat (Ocam), announced the federal prosecutor’s office.
11:26 : The Russian army announces that it has completed its retreat from the northern Ukrainian region of Kherson. The Russian Ministry of Defense claims to have suffered no losses.
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.
09:03 : Let’s take a look at the news:
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.