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7:31 p.m. : Intense emotion of Pope Francis when he entrusts the Ukrainian people to the Virgin Mary: “We entrust you with peace in Ukraine” #ImmaculateConception?Prayer to the Virgin from the Spanish Steps in Rome to review on https:// t.co/QPjxPIOam3 https://t.co/MIC6AXh5DF
7:34 p.m. : “O Immaculate Virgin, I would have liked to bring you today the thanks of the Ukrainian people…”. Pope Francis couldn’t suppress his tears as he spoke about the war in a Ukraine “martyred”in a public ceremony this afternoon in the center of Rome.
2:37 p.m. : Vladimir Putin wants to continue strikes against Ukrainian energy infrastructure. “Yes, we do, but who started it?”, launched the Russian president on the sidelines of a medal ceremony in the Kremlin. He presented the bombardment as a response to the explosion that damaged the Crimean bridge built by Russia and other attacks blamed on kyiv.
1:32 p.m. : Moscow reacts to the designation of Volodymyr Zelensky as personality of the year by the American magazine Time. The Kremlin sees it as a choice “anti-Russian” and “furiously russophobic”according to the spokesman of the Russian presidency, Dmitry Peskov.
(NEIL JAMIESON/TIME/AFP)
1:19 p.m. : Noon, let’s take a look at the day’s news:
Bulgaria’s and Romania’s applications to join the Schengen area have been rejected, Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner having already declared that he would vote against the inclusion of these two countries in the free movement area. EU interior ministers have yet to decide on Croatia’s membership.
Workers eligible for the fuel allowance of 100 euros will be able to take the steps to obtain it “from January 16” on the site impots.gouv.fr, said this morning the Ministry of the Economy on RMC. “You will receive the check within eight days once you are declared”, added Bruno Le Maire.
Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday downplayed the risk of resorting to nuclear weapons. This risk has diminished as the international community “draw a red line” to Russia, said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Follow our live.
The singer Celine Dion announces that she suffers from a “very rare neurological disorder” and postpones part of his European tour scheduled for next spring. The singer also announces the cancellation of eight concerts scheduled for next summer.
1:41 p.m. : Moscow recognizes that there is “risks” of Ukrainian attacks against its positions in annexed Crimea, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters this morning. This morning, local authorities announced that the Russian fleet shot down a drone near the port of Sevastopol, located in this region.
10:47 : In an address to the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation for Human Rights yesterday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky assured that Ukrainian forces had at this stage “succeeded in freeing” 1,888 towns and villages of the Russian occupation. “But almost as many Ukrainian towns and villages remain under occupation”he added.
1:38 p.m. : “In in the morning, the service ship of the Black Sea Fleet shot down a drone over the sea”, said on Telegram the governor of Sevastopol, in annexed Crimea, Mikhail Razvozhaev. As the Meduza media reports, this leader had already reported that drones had been shot down near the city.
10:23 : The sound of war can still be heard everywhere in Yampil (Ukraine), a liberated village in Donbass near Sloviansk. Our journalist Agathe Mahuet met residents exhausted by the conflict, and for some nostalgic for the Soviet Union.
(AGATHE MAHUET / RADIO FRANCE)
1:45 p.m. : The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announces that it has recently had access to Ukrainian and Russian prisoners of war, visits so far very limited and sporadic. The organization’s delegates were able to observe the living conditions and the treatment to which these prisoners are subjected, but also to give news to their families.
1:21 p.m. : It’s a little after 9 a.m., let’s take a look at the news:
The Peruvian president is in detention at a police base in Lima, the day after a third impeachment procedure by Parliament and his arrest. Ejected from power after barely 17 months and an attempt to dissolve Parliament, Pedro Castillo gave way to his vice-president Dina Boluarte.
Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday downplayed the risk of resorting to nuclear weapons. This risk has diminished as the international community “draw a red line” to Russia, said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Follow our live.
Workers eligible for the fuel allowance of 100 euros will be able to take the steps to obtain it “from January 16” on the site impots.gouv.fr, said this morning the Ministry of the Economy on RMC. “You will receive the check within eight days once you are declared”, added Bruno Le Maire.
The prosecution did not request any conviction against Airbus and Air France in the trial of the Rio-Paris crash, in which 228 people died on June 1, 2009. The guilt of the companies “seems impossible to demonstrate”. A position that aroused the anger of civil parties.
08:16 : In a speech broadcast by Politico (link in English)Volodymyr Zelensky says hope and wait “the peace” in Ukraine next year. The leader salutes the Ukrainian army, “who protects us on all battlefields”, as well as “our friends in Europe who help us maintain stability” and “help millions of people to live through this terrible time”.
1:54 p.m. : Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been named the most powerful person in Europe this year by Politico (link in English). The media welcomes “a figure that Europe has not only learned to trust, but to admire and follow”.
1:22 p.m. : 6 hours past by a few minutes, let’s take a first look at the news:
The Peruvian president is in detention at a police base in Lima, the day after a third impeachment procedure by Parliament and his arrest. Ejected from power after barely 17 months and an attempt to dissolve Parliament, Pedro Castillo gave way to his vice-president Dina Boluarte.
The prosecution did not request any conviction against Airbus and Air France in the trial of the Rio-Paris crash, in which 228 people died on June 1, 2009. The guilt of the companies “seems impossible to demonstrate”. A position that aroused the anger of civil parties.
Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday acknowledged that the conflict in Ukraine is “long” and relativized the risk of recourse to nuclear weapons. This risk has diminished as the international community “draw a red line” to Russia, said German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
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