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07:01 : Threats to independent Kremlin journalists continue in Russia. Unidentified people left a pig’s head in front of the apartment of the editor-in-chief of Echo Moscow radio (an independent radio station), and stuck a sticker on his door showing the Ukrainian coat of arms with the anti-Semitic mention “Judensau” – Jewish pig”, reports a journalist from FinancialTimes.
06:57 : Joe Biden will meet American soldiers positioned in this region. He will then go to Warsaw, where he will give a speech to “hold Russia accountable for its brutal war”according to the White House.
06:56 : Joe Biden is expected in the Polish town of Rzeszow, about 80 kilometers from the border with Ukraine. He will be received by Polish President Andrzej Duda at the airport of this city located two and a half hours by road from Lviv, the main city in western Ukraine, where refugees are flocking.
(Diego Ravier / Hans Lucas via AFP)
06:23 : Under the warning sirens of the bombardment in Lviv, a young Ukrainian pianist plays Time by Hans Zimmer. https://t.co/yJMgh7gCVJ
06:23 : In Lviv, under the sirens of the bombardments, a young Ukrainian pianist played Time by Hans Zimmer, reports journalist Loup Bureau on Twitter.
06:14 : The leader of the Russian republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, claims that his forces have taken the town hall of Mariupol. Information impossible to confirm however from an independent source, the Ukrainian army ensures that the port city has not yet fallen.
(Viktor Antonyuk / SPUTNIK / SIPA)
06:12 : The mayor of Mariupol, Vadim Boychenko, advanced on Telegram a last assessment of 15,000 inhabitants taken away “by force” on board buses, as well as “the confiscation of Ukrainian passports” residents stuck in place.
06:10 : In Ukraine, the situation in the city of Mariupol, heavily bombarded, is still deteriorating. Ukrainian authorities denounce the deportation “en masse” inhabitants to Russia.
(Maksim Blinov / SPUTNIK / SIPA)
06:18 : We take stock of the news:
• US President Joe Biden travels to Poland today, to a town near the Ukrainian border. He promised earlier for the first time a “response” of NATO if Russia used chemical weapons in the war. Follow our live.
• In Corsica, the village of Cargèse will bury this afternoon the independence activist Yvan Colonna, fatally attacked by a fellow prisoner while he was serving his sentence for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac.
• Following North Korea’s launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, the UN Security Council is due to meet today. Pyongyang is breaking with a moratorium it has observed since 2017 on this type of weapon test.
• Italy will not go to the World Cup. A goal from North Macedonia in added time eliminated the country (1-0) and canceled the long-awaited play-off final against Portugal.