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11:16 a.m. : This play-off match for the World Cup is also an opportunity for Ukrainian fans to commune with their team which will play its first official match since the start of the war. “It’s an incredible emotion!, acknowledges to franceinfo Kiril, a young 16-year-old Ukrainian, jam a big football fan. So this Ukraine game is really important for me.” In total, around 2,500 Ukrainians have secured their place for this play-off match, although the majority are based in the United Kingdom.
11:12 a.m. : Ukraine face Scotland in Glasgow in the semi-finals of the World Cup play-off. In this period of war, it is more than a match for the players of Oleksandr Petrakov’s selection. “Their families are in Ukraine, their friends on the battlefield“, he recalls in the Slovenian daily Delo. “It’s a chance to win another battle, peaceful, this one“, underlines Andriy Bidnyk, the usual interpreter of the Ukrainian selection.
11:07 : Upcoming delivery of new US weapons to Ukraine, including multiple rocket launchers, “reinforces the risk” of a military confrontation between the United States and Russia, warns Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov to the RIA Novosti agency.
09:56 : Russian forces “consolidate their positions” in the center of Sievierodonetsk, a strategic city in eastern Ukraine, regional governor Sergey Gaidai said. Russian forces are also carrying out attacks on the northern, southern and eastern neighborhoods, he added.
09:09 : It’s time to take stock of the news.
• Rafael Nadal is in the semi-finals. At the end of an incredible match of intensity and drama, as always between the two men, Rafael Nadal beat Novak Djokovic in a fight of titans (6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 7-6)! He will face Alexander Zverev for a place in the final.
• The launch of a new fact-finding mission to save the ER this summer. A new attempt which does not necessarily convince Mathias Wargon, head of the adult emergency department and the Smur of the Delafontaine hospital in Saint-Denis. According to him, the fate of the emergency services for this summer is already sealed.
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• The United States has announced the upcoming supply of weapons to Ukraine to support the country, including advanced mobile multiple launch rocket systems. The only condition: these weapons must not be used to strike Russian territory. Follow our live.
• Four days after the chaos around the Stade de France, Interior Ministers Gérald Darmanin and Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra explain themselves to the Senate about the incidents which disrupted the Champions League final.
08:21 : Dmitri, a Ukrainian, tells franceinfo how he fled Mariupol by swimming to escape Russian troops. “I swam about 800 meters and was exhausted.he recalls, I was afraid of being spotted and I was cold.” He comes out of the water 4 km further on, is picked up by an elderly couple who helps him continue his journey in a minibus. “When I arrived here in Lviv, I realized that it was worth taking this risk. I just wanted to run away from the war”he adds.
08:02 : However, Joe Biden clarified that these weapons should not be used to attack Russia. He wants Ukraine to be “in the strongest possible position” in the event of negotiations with Russia, but he adds that the United States does not encourage “not Ukraine and” don’t give “Ukraine does not have the means to strike outside its borders”.
08:03 : Washington will deliver “the Ukrainians with more advanced missile systems and ammunition that will allow them to more accurately hit key targets on the battlefield in Ukraine”writes the American president in a contribution to the New York Times. These are Himars (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System), that is to say multiple rocket launchers mounted on light armored vehicles, assured a senior White House official to the press.
06:09 : The United States will deliver new weapons to Ukraine, announces Joe Biden. These are multiple, mobile rocket launchers.
08:06 : We open with the traditional update on the news:
• Rafael Nadal is in the semi-finals. At the end of an incredible match of intensity and drama, as always between the two men, Rafael Nadal beat Novak Djokovic in a fight of titans (6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 7-6)! He will face Alexander Zverev for a place in the final.
• In full “systemic crisis” of the health sector, Emmanuel Macron announced the launch of a new fact-finding mission “one month on unscheduled care“.
• The United States has announced the upcoming supply of weapons to Ukraine to support the country, including advanced mobile multiple launch rocket systems. The only condition: these weapons must not be used to strike Russian territory.
• Three days after the failures in the organization around the final of the Champions League at the Stade de France, the anger persists in Liverpool. Club chairman Tom Werner has demanded an apology from the French authorities for pointing fingers at Reds supporters. He denounces the remarks made by the Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, alongside the Minister of the Interior, Gérald Darmanin, denouncing the British supporters as largely responsible for the incidents.