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12:17 p.m. : It is high time to recall the main news of the day:
• Candidates from the presidential majority qualified for the second round of legislative elections in ten of the 11 constituencies for French nationals living abroad, as did Nupes. But Manuel Valls was eliminated in the first round.
Conservative MPs have triggered a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Boris Johnson, from their camp. Voting will take place from 7 to 9 p.m. If he loses, Johnson will be replaced by another member of his party in Downing Street.
The situation has “aggravated” for Ukrainian forces in Sievierodonetsk, a key city in the Luhansk region, according to Ukrainian authorities. Yesterday they claimed that half the town had been taken back.
10:40 a.m. : Emmanuel Macron’s statements on the need to “do not humiliate” Russia “invite Vladimir Putin to continue the war”, launched the Ukrainian Femen activist Inna Shevchencko, this morning on BFMTV. She believes that this concern not to offend Moscow has already shown its uselessness: “Vladimir Putin was appeased in 2014, he was not humiliated”.
10:59 : Western military equipment is flowing into Ukraine to support the resistance against the Russian army. But observers are already thinking about the post-conflict period and worry about the risk that these weapons will fuel the traffic. At the end of the 1990s, at the end of the Balkan war, the weapons of the countries of the former Yugoslavia had fed criminal networks throughout Europe. Our journalist Fabien Magnenou explains why this scenario could happen again, and how to avoid it.
(ALEJANDRO MARTINEZ / ANADOLU AGENCY VIA AFP)
10:56 : The situation “got worse” for the Ukrainian army in Sievierodonetsk, affirms Serhiy Haidaï, the governor of the province of Luhansk, who announced yesterday the resumption of half of the city. According to him, the Russian bombardments have become even more intense on this strategic city and on Lyssytchansk, the neighboring city.
10:37 : Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was due to visit Serbia today, but sanctions against Russia are making it difficult to travel. All the European countries neighboring Serbia have closed their airspace to the plane of the head of Russian diplomacy, announces his spokesperson Maria Zakharova. The Russian agency Interfax, citing an anonymous diplomatic source, announces the cancellation of the trip.
08:21 : The United Kingdom announced last night that it would supply Ukraine with rocket launchers with a range of 80 km. The British Ministry of Defense claims to have taken this decision in “close co-ordination” with the United States, which promised last week to deliver to kyiv rocket launchers of another model, but capable of striking at the same distance.
06:40 : “kyiv remains the main objective of the Russian occupier”, assured for his part the Ukrainian Minister of Defense, Hanna Maliar, in another statement last night. Russian strikes hit Ukraine’s capital yesterday for the first time since late April. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, they targeted and destroyed armored vehicles supplied to Ukraine by Eastern European countries, which the Ukrainian authorities have denied.
06:36 : Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced in his usual daily video message that he had visited Ukrainian troops in Lyssychansk, the neighboring town of Sievierodonestk. “We brought something to the army”he said without further details.
12:02 : Let’s start with the main information of the last few hours:
• Candidates from the presidential majority qualified for the second round of legislative elections in ten of the 11 constituencies for French nationals living abroad, as did Nupes. But Manuel Valls was eliminated in the first round.
• Three police officers were in custody last night after shooting at a vehicle on Saturday morning in Paris, after refusing to comply. According to our information, a passenger injured by the shots succumbed to her injuries yesterday. The driver was seriously injured.
Ukrainian authorities claim to have recaptured half of the key city of Sievierodonetsk in the Luhansk region from the Russian army.