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10:32 : Threats from Belarus are becoming more pressing. Thanks to amateur videos, satellite images and specialized observers, the Revealers team was able to document the Russian military establishment in the country. This research reveals the extent of military activity: combat training, joint exercises, reinforcement of the arsenal… France Télévisions investigated.
10:32 : Belarus will only fight with Russian forces in Ukraine if the country is attacked, President Alexander Lukashenko said this morning. “I am ready to fight with the Russians from the territory of Belarus only in one case: if even a soldier comes [d’Ukraine] with a weapon in our territory to kill our people”, he said during a rare encounter with foreign media in Minsk.
10:25 a.m. : “I think it’s March or April. To take Bakhmout, you have to cut off all supply routes”, said Yevgeny Prigojine, in videos published last night on Telegram. He considered that the slowness of Russian progress was due in particular to the “monstrous military bureaucracy”.
10:25 a.m. : The boss of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner believes that Bakhmout, epicenter of the fighting in eastern Ukraine, will not be conquered by Russian forces before “March or April”.
08:50 : Almost everywhere, initiatives to reflect on the post-war period abound. Restart Ukraine, a group of Ukrainian researchers, architects and urban planners, has set itself the task of thinking about a green reconstruction of the country. “We want to work on the needs and allow better coordination”explained to me Alexander Shevchenko, its founder.
08:46 : In the long term, the sinews of war remains the question of money. At present, international aid is not “not sufficient”. The cost of reconstruction could reach 700 billion euros, according to the accounts of an American think tank. A dizzying number.
08:44 : Just about everywhere, as in Ovroutch, the authorities are already repairing destroyed buildings, clearing the ground, rebuilding arteries and restoring the power supply. “Ukrainians rebuild as soon as things are destroyed, in particular thanks to the help of the diaspora, it is for them a form of resistance”explained to me François Grünewald, managing director of the Urgence Réhabilitation Développement group.
08:41 : The war is not over yet, but in Ovroutch, a small town in northern Ukraine, a school will soon be built. The old building had been destroyed during strikes, a few weeks after the start of the invasion. The school is far from the only one to have been destroyed by Russian forces. Tens of thousands of buildings, but also infrastructures were destroyed. And the question of reconstruction already arises, as I explain to you in this article.
08:15 : The conflict has been going on for a year, but it seems far from over. Ukraine even fears that a new stage in the war will soon be reached. Many signs indeed show that Moscow is preparing for a new offensive. Intensification of fighting in the east, attempts to destabilize neighbors… Franceinfo details them here.
(YASUYOSHI CHIBA / AFP)