“nearly 500 civilians” have been exfiltrated from Mariupol since the start of the evacuations

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08:38 : According to the Ukrainian authorities, “nearly 500 civilians” in total have been evacuated from the city of Mariupol in recent days. kyiv also specifies that these evacuations continue today.

07:44 : What are your newspapers talking about this morning? Le Figaro devotes its front page to the war in Ukraine and fears a spiral, after the deliveries of heavy weapons to kyiv.

08:06 : Confiscated. The authorities of the Fiji Islands have seized, at the request of the United States, a superyacht suspected of belonging to a Russian oligarch targeted by sanctions linked to the war in Ukraine. The ship Amadea, estimated at 325 million dollars (308 million euros), belongs according to Washington to the businessman and deputy Suleiman Kerimov. “There is no hiding place for the assets of criminals who support the Russian regime”said in a press release the American Minister of Justice.

(Leon LORD/FIJI SUN/AFP)

08:06 : The US Department of Defense has denied providing intelligence allowing Ukrainian forces to target senior Russian officers near the front, as claimed by the New York Times. “We do not provide information on the whereabouts of senior military commanders on the battlefield, nor do we participate in targeting decisions made by the Ukrainian military”assured John Kirby, spokesman for the Pentagon.

08:13 : We start with a first point on the news:

• Agreement concluded. The National Council of the Socialist Party voted last night in favor of an alliance with La France insoumise, EELV and the Communist Party for the legislative elections.

• Manuel Valls, Jean-Michel Blanquer and Gabriel Attal are among the first legislative candidates invested by the presidential majority. Find the names of the personalities already known in this article.

• A new UN convoy is expected today to evacuate the last civilians entrenched in the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in this strategic port of Donbass.

• No Europa League conference final for OM. Held in check by Feyenoord at the Vélodrome (0-0), the Marseillais say goodbye to their European dream.

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