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1:08 p.m. : There will be no Russian boat invited for the next edition of the Armada de Rouen (Seine-Maritime), announce the organizers. The eighth edition hopes to bring together 50 tall ships. “Thirteen have already confirmed their presence“specifies the president of the Armada.
12:18 p.m. : It is high time to make a new point on the news of this Wednesday:
The family of the passenger killed by the police on Saturday in Paris will file two complaints, against the driver of the vehicle and against X against the author of the fatal shooting. The passenger friend of the victim testifies for the first time on franceinfo. The lawyer for the three police officers present disputes some of his assertions.
Fighting is still raging in Sievierodonetsk, which Russia says controls all residential areas. “We may have to withdraw”recognizes the governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Haidaï.
The Orpea group is targeted by a search, at its headquarters and in several regional directorates, as part of the investigation opened in April, in particular on suspicion of abuse. Thirty complaints for the same reason must be filed against another major group in the sector, Korian.
12:27 : For his part, the spokesman for the administration of the Odessa region Serguiï Bratchouk excludes removing the mines which block access to the port of Odessa. This maneuver is necessary to resume Ukrainian grain exports. But “as soon as we clear mines, (…) the Russian fleet will be there”believes this official on Telegram.
12:06 : At the request of the United Nations, Turkey has offered its assistance in escorting maritime convoys from Ukrainian ports. Sergei Lavrov assures that Russia, accused of blocking exports of agricultural products and stealing certain Ukrainian cargoes, is ready to cooperate too.
12:18 p.m. : Turkey calls for “remove obstacles to Russian exports”, which she presents as a quid pro quo for the possibility of Ukraine resuming international trade. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, who receives his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, notably mentioned Russian cereals and fertilizers, the export of which is not prohibited by international sanctions, but complicated in practice by the suspension of trade banking.
11:44 am : The minute of silence in tribute to Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff, our journalist killed in Ukraine https://t.co/4eUYUC014j
11:44 am : The body of French journalist Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff will be repatriated to France today, more than a week after his death in Ukraine. BFMTV, the channel that employed him, observed a minute of silence in his memory, at his headquarters and on air.
11:41 a.m. : The trade deficit of France, that is to say the difference between the value of imports and exports, broke a record in April, announce the Customs. It reached 12.4 billion euros. They explain this development by soaring energy prices, driven by the war in Ukraine, which inflated the value of French imports.
11:52 : The OECD, which brings together 38 countries including the entire European Union, also forecasts average inflation of 8.5% in its member states, and 5.2% in France, i.e. double what she anticipated in December.
11:51 a.m. : The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) predicts global growth of 3%, down 1.5 points from what it announced in December. The organization presents this slowdown as a consequence of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Before her, the World Bank and the IMF had lowered their growth forecasts, respectively to 2.9% and 3.6%.
12:12 p.m. : Angela Merkel yesterday gave her first major interview since retiring from politics six months ago, and she defended her attitude towards Russia, in particular the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project, abandoned since the invasion of Ukraine . “I’m not going to apologise. (…) I didn’t think that Putin would change thanks to trade relations”she assured, but Russia is “always a neighbor of Europe, which we could not completely ignore”.
10:49 : “We may have to withdraw” of Sievierodonetsk, said the governor of the Luhansk region, Serhiy Haidaï, on Ukrainian television. Russia claimed yesterday to have taken control of the residential areas of this city, which Ukraine has denied. Ukrainian soldiers and civilians are entrenched in a chemical plant, and the nearby town of Lyssychansk is also contested.
12:15 p.m. : Let’s recall the main news of the day:
• The day after the opening of a judicial investigation against the three police officers who fired on a vehicle and killed a passenger on Saturday in Paris, his friend who was in the back of the vehicle testified on franceinfo. She claims that the officers opened fire while the vehicle was stopped, which the police lawyer disputes.
Russia claimed yesterday the capture of all the residential areas of Sievierodonetsk, a key city in the Luhansk region. Volodymyr Zelensky promised a “heroic defense” remaining Ukrainian positions.
• The Council of State enjoined the executive to consider Nupes as a “full-fledged political nuance” when the results are announced of the ballot. The Interior has so far intended to assign the scores to each left-wing party in a fragmented manner.
08:26 : As in many battlefields, the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army was accompanied by rapes committed by the soldiers against Ukrainian women. The cross recounts this morning the difficulty of the Ukrainian police and justice in investigating these crimes. “The victims are traumatized and do not dare to speak”, explains an official of the Attorney General’s Office. At the end of May, we collected testimonies from victims in Boutcha.
06:55 : Yesterday, the representative of the Ukrainian presidency for the region of Crimea, Tamila Tasheva, also accused the Russian army of detaining and torturing nearly 600 people, mainly activists and journalists, in the occupied region of Kherson, in the south of the country: “According to our information, they are detained in inhuman conditions and are victims of torture (…) in specially equipped basements”.
07:52 : “IThere will be a day when, even for Russia, the number of casualties will become unacceptable”, hopes Volodymyr Zelensky, who spoke like every evening in a video message on social networks. He affirms that “more than 31,000 Russian soldiers died in Ukraine” since February 24, a figure obviously unverifiable and not confirmed by Moscow.
06:49 : While Russia claimed the capture of residential areas of Sievierodonetsk, in the Luhansk region, Volodymyr Zelensky assured last night that “the situation on the front has not changed significantly in the past 24 hours”. “The absolutely heroic defense of Donbass continues”hammers the Ukrainian president.
09:10 : Let’s recall the main information of the last few hours:
Russia claimed yesterday the capture of all the residential areas of Sievierodonetsk, a key city in the Luhansk region. Volodymyr Zelensky promised a “heroic defense” remaining Ukrainian positions.
• The day after the opening of a judicial investigation against the three police officers who fired on a vehicle and killed a passenger on Saturday in Paris, his friend who was in the back of the vehicle testified on franceinfo. She claims officers opened fire while the vehicle was not in motion.
• Five days before the first round, the Council of State enjoined the executive to consider Nupes as a “full-fledged political nuance” when the results are announced of the ballot. The Interior has so far intended to assign the scores to each left-wing party in a fragmented manner.
• Fuel prices rose again last week, exceeding the 2 euro mark for super unleaded 95 and unleaded 95-E10, all taking into account the government rebate of 18 cents. Unheard of since March.