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2:27 p.m. : Ukraine received the 1st €3 billion from the new €18 billion macro-financial program. I’m grateful to the EU & President @vonderleyen for the strong support. Preserving ??’s financial stability is vital for our joint victory over the aggressor #РазомПереможемо #StandWithUkraine
2:27 p.m. : Ukraine has received a first tranche of three billion euros of an envelope of 18 billion planned by the European Union for 2023, announces President Volodymyr Zelensky.
2:00 p.m. : 2 p.m., we look at the titles:
#RETIREESThe Snuipp-FSU, the first primary school union, plans 70% of strikers in schools on Thursday, a day of mobilizations and strikes against the pension reform.
Relief operations have ended in Dnipro, announces presidential adviser Kirill Tymoshenko, four days after the strike that damaged a residential building. The provisional toll is 44 dead, including 5 minors, and 79 injured. Follow our live.
• France has more than 68 million inhabitants in 2023, or +0.3% over one year, announces INSEE. Last year, 723,000 babies were born in France, the lowest number since 1946.
• Twenty departments are currently on orange alert for “rain-flood”, “snow-ice” and/or “waves-submersion”.
2:36 p.m. : On December 31, 2022, a bombardment claimed the lives, officially, of 89 Russian soldiers in Makiïvka in Ukraine. For families, today there are many questions about this official count. An online petition has been launched to demand the publication of a full list of victims.
1:24 p.m. : Search and rescue operation in Dnipro has been completed: – 39 people were rescued, including 6 children;- 44 people died, including 5 children;- 79 people were injured, including 16 children;- 47 reported as missing (23 found dead, 4 found alive). https://t.co/hUUmOiuB23
1:45 p.m. : In total, twenty people are still missing. Some 200 people lived in this nine-storey building, hit hard by a Kh-22 missile, according to kyiv. This strike is one of the deadliest for civilians since the beginning of the Russian invasion. Follow our live.
1:28 p.m. : Relief operations have ended in Dnipro, announces presidential adviser Kirill Tymoshenko, four days after the strike that damaged a residential building. The provisional toll is 44 dead, including 5 minors, and 79 injured.
1:07 p.m. : Europe will continue to support Ukraine “as long as it takes” against Russia, promises the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, during a speech at the meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos. “Our unwavering support for Ukraine will never let up”she insists.
12:51 p.m. : Oleksiy Arestovitch, Ukrainian presidential media consultant, tenders his resignation. In a video intervention, he had raised the possibility that the Dnipro tragedy was a consequence of the work of the Ukrainian anti-aircraft defense. This remark sparked an uproar in the country, especially since Moscow then used the same argument. “I made a big mistake live”, he first wrote this morning. The consultant then posted an image of the mail signifying its withdrawal.
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12:04 : It is noon, here is the point on the news:
• The Paris prosecutor’s office announces the opening of an investigation for moral and sexual harassment against Noël Le Graët, the president of the French Football Federation. He had been reported for “sexist contempt”.
• Twenty departments are currently on orange alert for “rain-flood”, “snow-ice” and/or “waves-submersion”.
• “The rescue operation [à Dnipro] will not end until the bodies of all the dead are found”, announced an adviser to the Ukrainian presidency last night. The death toll is now 41 dead and 25 missing.
• This is a first in 60 years. China, the most populous country in the world, saw its population drop by 850,000 people last year.
10:51 a.m. : Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu is visiting the headquarters of the Vostok group this morning, mobilized in the context of the war in Ukraine. The precise location, however, is not communicated, and may be in Russia as well as in Ukraine. The minister held a meeting with several high-ranking officers, including Valeriy Gerasimov, the new commander of the military invasion. Shoigu has renewed the Russian objective of increasing the number of the army to 1.5 million people over the period 2023-2026.
10:30 a.m. : “Our unfortunate, tormented homeland needs saving. It has been robbed, wounded, embroiled in a war of aggression and turned into a prison run by the most shameless and deceitful villains. Any opposition to this gang – however symbolic , given my current limited capacity – is significant.”
It has been two years since the Russian opponent Navalny languishes in prison, where he suffers a “preferential treatment” and regular periods of solitary confinement. He just posted a letter on his Instagram account. “Darkness will eventually disappear”, he writes, calling “not to give in to discouragement”.
10:13 a.m. : The Dnipro residential building was probably hit by a Kh-22 anti-ship missile (NATO code: AS-4 “Kitchen”) fired from a Tu-22M3 medium bomber (NATO code: Backfire), writes this morning the British Ministry of Defense. “Kitchen is known to be inaccurate when used against ground targets, as its radar guidance system does not distinguish targets in urban areas”, according to this source. Incidentally, the United Kingdom rejects Russian allegations that the tragedy was due to Ukrainian anti-aircraft defence.
09:51 : Relief operations continue in Dnipro, three days after the shelling of a residential building. The body of a child was extracted from the rubble this morning, bringing the death toll to 41. A total of 79 people were also injured, said presidential adviser Kirill Tymoshenko.
09:17 : It is 9 o’clock, here is a new point on the titles:
• Seventeen departments are currently on orange alert for “violent wind”, “rain-flood”, “snow-ice” and/or “waves-submersion”.
• “The rescue operation [à Dnipro] will not end until the bodies of all the dead are found”, announced an adviser to the Ukrainian presidency last night. The death toll is now 40.
• This is a first in 60 years. China, the most populous country in the world, saw its population drop by 850,000 people last year.
• The fire at a Bolloré Logistics site in Grand-Couronne, south of Rouen, was contained yesterday evening. The air quality measurements taken since “all turned out to be zero” for pollutants, according to the prefect of Seine-Maritime.
07:10 : Here are some photos taken yesterday in Dnipro, during rescue operations in the building gutted by an airstrike.
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06:57 : Around forty people were rescued from the ruins of the building. “More than 200 apartments have been destroyed, and our most important task is to resettle all the people and help rebuild this building”added this adviser to the Ukrainian presidency.
06:55 : “The rescue operation [à Dnipro] will not end until the bodies of all the dead are found”, announced an adviser to the Ukrainian presidency last night. He clarified that “many [blessés] are in serious condition, including a child”. The death toll from the strike on a residential building is now 40.
07:12 : Here are the main news at 6 o’clock:
• Seventeen departments are currently on orange alert for “violent wind”, “rain-flood”, “snow-ice” and/or “waves-submersion”.
• “The rescue operation [à Dnipro] will not end until the bodies of all the dead are found”, announced an adviser to the Ukrainian presidency last night. The death toll is now 40.
• This is a first in 60 years. China, the most populous country in the world, saw its population drop by 850,000 people last year.
• The fire at a Bolloré Logistics site in Grand-Couronne, south of Rouen, was contained last night. It did not cause any injuries and did not generate dangerous pollution, said the prefecture of Seine-Maritime.