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Russia claims to have recruited 300,000 reservists and announces the end of the partial mobilization. In total, 218,000 mobilized people are in training or training, and 82,000 others have already been sent to active troops. Follow our live.
The slowdown was short-lived. Inflation resumed its acceleration in October. Prices have increased by 6.2% on average over one year, according to the latest estimates from INSEE. Explanations in two infographics.
New Canadair, budget, tree planting… We summarize the plan to fight forest fires announced at midday by Emmanuel Macron.
“The bird is released.” It is in these terms that Elon Musk announced the takeover of Twitter this morning. An ardent defender of freedom of expression, the billionaire could limit the content moderation policy so far implemented by the social network. Here’s why..
5:41 p.m. : I congratulated @GiorgiaMeloni on her appointment as Prime Minister of Italy. I’m hopeful for further fruitful cooperation. We discussed Ukraine’s integration into #EU and #NATO. I told about the current situation in our country and invited her to visit Ukraine.
5:59 p.m. : Volodymyr Zelensky in turn congratulated the new President of the Italian Council, Giorgia Meloni. The President of Ukraine invited her to go to kyiv as part of a visit.
5:34 p.m. : He pretended to be a Brazilian researcher. The Norwegian Counter-Intelligence Service (PST) has revealed the true identity, according to their information, of an illegal Russian agent suspected of spying for Russia. It would be Mikhaïl Mikouchine, a Russian born in 1978. Admitted in the fall of 2021 as a lecturer at the Norwegian University of Tromsø, the individual was arrested on Monday.
4:23 p.m. : For his part, Vladimir Putin thanks the reservists mobilized for their “patriotism”.
4:22 p.m. : “Military commissariats will continue to recruit troops, but only with volunteers and candidates for military service under a contract” professional, Sergei Shoigu added.
4:38 p.m. : Russia claims to have recruited 300,000 reservists and announces the end of partial mobilization. Follow our live.
3:27 p.m. : In hastily leaving the town of Balakliïa last March, Russian troops left behind some secrets. Thousands of pages of documents were indeed discovered in the basement of an auto repair center where they had established their headquarters. Their reading says a lot about the already delicate situation in which the Russian army found itself at the time.
(VIRGINIE NGUYEN HOANG / HANS LUCAS / AFP)
1:41 p.m. : In Prague, a banner was displayed on the building of the Czech Interior Ministry. You can see the Ukrainian and Czech flags, around a photo of a body bag containing the remains of Vladimir Putin.
12:48 : The evacuation of civilians from the Kherson region is now complete, announces Sergueï Aksionov, the leader of Crimea. “I am happy that those who wanted to quickly and safely leave the territory bombarded by the Ukrainian armed forces were able to do so,” he writes on Telegram. On Wednesday, a Russian occupation official in Kherson said at least 70,000 residents had left the area in less than a week.
12:00 p.m. : It is noon, here is the point on the news:
The rise in prices resumed its march forward in October, at 6.2% over one year, according to an initial estimate by INSEE. Over one month, consumer prices should increase by 1.0%, after -0.6% in September.
• To deal with the forest fires, Emmanuel Macron announces 150 million euros for the emergency services and four additional Canadairs, to increase the fleet from 12 to 16 aircraft.
• Elon Musk took control of the social network Twitter last night. The world’s richest man immediately fired boss Parag Agrawal and two other executives, according to unnamed sources from CNBC and the washington post.
The evacuation of civilians from the occupied Kherson region has been completed, announce the pro-Russian authorities. Follow our live.
Last night the EU endorsed the death certificate for new thermal engine vehicles for 2035. MEPs and Member States reached an agreement on an emblematic regulation for European climate objectives.
10:07 : The occupation authorities of the region of Zaporijjia ask the inhabitants to ignore this weekend the transition to winter time, practiced in Ukraine, but abandoned in Russia. “We live in the Russian Federation and our city lives on Moscow time”said Aleksandr Volga, who heads the pro-Russian administration of Energodar.
(ALEKSANDR VOLGA / TELEGRAM)
10:03 : Four Ukrainian partisans were arrested in Russia as they prepared to carry out an attack on an administrative building in the Stavropol region (Russia), according to Russian media. The FSB would then have discovered explosives and firearms at their homes during the searches.
10:16 a.m. : The Turkish defense company Baykar plans to complete the construction of a factory in Ukraine in two years. The work is in the stage of “architectural design”, said general manager Haluk Bayraktar, quoted by Reuters on the sidelines of a trade show in Istanbul. The group notably produces the Bayraktar TB2 drones, very popular in the Ukrainian army. This project had been launched before the start of the war.
09:19 : “The work organizing the departure of the inhabitants of the right bank of the (river) Dnipro to safe regions in Russia has been completed”, said Sergei Aksionov, the leader of Crimea, last night. Ukraine describes these population transfers as “deportations”.
09:18 : The evacuation of civilians from the occupied Kherson region has been completed, announce the pro-Russian authorities.
07:38 : “The screams were terrible”. Freed from Russian troops after eight months of occupation, the residents of Velika Oleksandrivka, near Kherson and the front line, are still haunted by the cries of those the occupiers tortured in a house in the village. Report by Laurent Macchietti and Gaële Joly.
(GAELE JOLY / RADIO FRANCE)
07:32 : The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will visit “this week” two Ukrainian sites at the request of kyiv. The visit comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin accuses Ukraine of erasing evidence of preparations for a “dirty bomb”.