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07:35 : A selfie makes the headlines Release. Communicated by the Ukrainian army, it shows several of its soldiers posing on Saturday in front of their flag, hoisted in one of the villages in the east of the country taken over from the Russian army. “We can no longer exclude a total recovery of the territory”estimates the military historian Michel Goya in the columns of the newspaper.
07:20 : Yesterday, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, Valeri Zaluzhny, affirmed that “dSince the beginning of September, more than 3,000 km2 have returned to Ukrainian control”. By way of comparison, in June, Volodymyr Zelensky estimated that 82,000 km2 of Ukrainian territory had been conquered by Russia since the start of its offensive.
06:34 : Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleg Nikolenko denounced these Russian attacks on the power grid as “an act of desperation after Russia’s immense losses and retreat into eastern Ukraine”.
06:31 : The latest news, yesterday evening, the power had been restored in part of the regions of eastern Ukraine affected by a large power outage. This recovery was partial in the Kharkiv region, the scene of the main Ukrainian victories in recent days, according to the regional governor. He claims that a Russian strike on a power station in the region killed an employee.
07:23 : Let’s start with a reminder of the main news of the last few hours:
Ukraine, which announced that it had taken over the city of Izium, accused Russia of having caused a gigantic blackout which plunged part of the east of the country into darkness. Power was largely restored by the evening.
• The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II joined Edinburgh from Balmoral, and will be exposed to the public this afternoon after a religious ceremony. Here is the program for the next few days between now and the Queen’s funeral.
An exceptional heat peak for the month of September is expected today, with temperatures that could reach 38°C in the Southwest. We decipher the weather forecast for the next few days with Météo France.
At only 19, the Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz won the US Open against the Norwegian Casper Ruud (6-4, 2-6, 7-6, 6-3), and became the youngest world No. history of the men’s circuit.