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3:29 p.m. : The return of the postman from #Ukrposhta was long awaited. These Ukrainians from #Snihurivka have to gather many papers to recover their pension in hryvnias. Nowhere in #Ukraine rubles are no longer accepted, even in exchange offices (2/5) ⤵️ https://t.co/jt41VRXM5y
3:29 p.m. : Franceinfo journalist Agathe Mahuet is currently reporting near Kherson. She is in Snihurivka, which was recently liberated by Ukrainian forces. The scenes she recounts are touching and poignant. Here are some of his tweets.
1:24 p.m. : During an hour-long telephone conversation between the two leaders, the German Chancellor also condemned, according to a press release from the German government, “Russian air attacks against civilian infrastructure in Ukraine and underlined Germany’s determination to help Ukraine ensure its defense capability against Russian aggression”.
1:37 p.m. : Olaf Scholz asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to withdraw his troops from Ukraine to achieve a “diplomatic solution”, during their first interview since mid-September.
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1:09 p.m. : French surgeons are in the country at war to train Ukrainian nurses in war medicine. A training center has been set up in Lviv. Reportage.
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12:38 : “It has been pointed out that the Russian armed forces have long avoided high-precision missile strikes on certain targets in Ukraine, but such measures have become necessary and inevitable in the face of provocative attacks from kyiv,” explains the Kremlin, thus summing up Vladimir Putin’s remarks to Olaf Scholz during their first meeting today since mid-September.
12:25 p.m. : Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russia’s massive strikes against Ukraine’s energy infrastructure were “necessary and unavoidable”, announces the Kremlin in a press release.
12:07 : The Kremlin rejects the conditions mentioned yesterday by US President Joe Biden, who said he was ready to discuss with Vladimir Putin if the latter withdrew his troops from Ukraine to end the conflict. “Biden said de facto that negotiations would be possible only after Putin leaves Ukraine”which Moscow rejects “Of course”, says Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. “The military operation continues.”
11:17 a.m. : The Russian oil price cap project designed by the West to deprive Moscow of the means to finance its war in Ukraine is still awaiting a green light from Poland, which considers the instrument too limited. An agreement was almost tied up last night by the ambassadors of the EU member countries in Brussels, coordinated on this file with their G7 allies, in particular the Americans and the British, as well as Australia.
10:34 am : The new Ukrainian director of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant is accused of being a “traitor” by Kyiv. Freshly appointed by Moscow, Yuriï Tchernichuk, a Ukrainian engineer, is singled out by kyiv for having accepted the post.
09:26 : “I have to be very honest (….) with you, Europe is not strong enough at the moment, we would be in trouble without the United States.”
The Finnish Prime Minister, whose country is a candidate for NATO membership, believes that the invasion and occupation of neighboring Ukraine by Russia has revealed Europe’s weaknesses and strategic errors in the face of Moscow.
07:46 : “For President Biden, it is essential that we avoid widening the conflict (…) We do not want war with Russia. Above all, we do not want a third world war. On the other hand, so that there is peace, it has to be just and it has to be lasting.”
07:44 : “If we saw on the part of Putin a seriousness in diplomacy and dialogue, the problem is that Putin is doing quite the opposite”declares on France 2 the American Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “We have had contact with Russia, because there is a fear that they will use a nuclear weapon.”
06:44 : A maximum of 13,000 Ukrainian servicemen have been killed since Russia invaded their country in February, according to an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. On the opposing side, the Russian authorities said in September that 5,937 Russian soldiers had been killed since the start of the conflict. The two adversaries are suspected of minimizing the scale of their human losses.