It should only be a formality. Deputies of the Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, examine Monday, October 3 a draft law on the annexation of Ukrainian territories by Russia, which is not however, not recognized by the international community. The adoption of this text is normally planned in the wake, before it passes before the upper house of Parliament, the Council of the Federation.
kyiv says it has taken over Lyman. Ukraine announced on Sunday that it had taken over this city located in the Donetsk region annexed by Russia, in eastern Ukraine. . The Russian army confessed “to withdraw”. The recapture of Lyman by Ukrainian troops opens the way for them to the Luhansk region and the north of the Donetsk region.
Emmanuel Macron is studying “new European sanctions” against Russia. During a telephone conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday, the Head of State “reiterated its strong condemnation of the illegal annexation by Russia” of the four regions in the east of the country, according to a press release from the Elysée.
The French deputies are going to debate Ukraine. The parliamentarians, who return to the hemicycle on Monday, will study the situation in Ukraine in the afternoon. This debate will not give rise to a vote, while the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet, is returning from a trip to the country at war.