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12:13 p.m. : Russian forces are operating a “quick withdrawal” regions of kyiv and Cherniguiv, in northern Ukraine, and aim to “to gain a foothold in the east and the south”estimated today a Ukrainian presidential adviser, Mykhaïlo Podoliak.
12:42 p.m. : It is noon, here is a new point on the news:
• The Red Cross is preparing to attempt the evacuation of civilians from the besieged city of Mariupol, where more than 3,000 people managed to flee the day before, after another night of bombardments in several regions of the country.
• The police officer whose shooting caused the death of a motorist during a check a week ago in Sevran (Seine-Saint-Denis) was indicted and placed under judicial supervision, a few hours from a march organized in memory of the victim.
• Fabien Roussel at 3 p.m., Emmanuel Macron at 4:15 p.m…. One week before the first round, the franceinfo channel (channel 27 of TNT) offers you this weekend a “presidential multiplex”.
• Initially scheduled for today at 9 p.m., the match counting for the 30th day of Ligue 1 between Saint-Etienne and Marseille has been postponed for a day because of the snow, announced the Saint-Etienne club.
11:36 : The ICRC has not managed to organize a humanitarian convoy from Mariupol but every day civilians manage to leave the area in their vehicles or on Ukrainian government buses. “Normally, we cover the road in three hours, but here it took two days”testify to civilians met on the spot by Marie-Pierre Vérot and Arthur Gerbault.
(MARIE-PIERRE VEROT / RADIO FRANCE)
10:32 : “China is not a party to the Ukrainian crisis. (…) Therefore, our trade with Moscow should not be targeted” by sanctions, said Wang Lutong, the head of European affairs with Chinese diplomacy, today. The European Union has warned that any support for Moscow to circumvent Western sanctions will damage Beijing’s economic relations with Europe.
10:33 am : The Putin years are marked by war. This is how they began at the dawn of the 2000s, with the second war in Chechnya. The then Prime Minister of Boris Yeltsin initiates a “counter-terrorist operation” after attacks in Russia attributed to the Chechens, despite doubts about the origin of these attacks. “This is also how Vladimir Putin built his image”analyzes Cécile Vaissié, professor of Russian and Soviet studies at the University of Rennes 2.
10:34 am : “The philosophical sources of Putinism, however diverse they may be, all rest on two pillars: the idea of empire and the apology of war.”
War and military culture are also markers of Putin’s Soviet youth. His father was injured in World War II, and the future head of state grew up “in the ‘city-hero’ whose memory remains untouchable”Leningrad, writes Michel Eltchaninoff in his book.
10:16 a.m. : Since his accession to power at the dawn of the 2000s, Vladimir Putin, imbued with militaristic values, has continued to establish Russian power by waging war. How does the man who started the most important conflict in Europe since 1945 by invading Ukraine conceive of war? Our journalist Valentine Pasquesoone paints a portrait of the Russian leader through this question.
(ALEXEI NIKOLSKY / RIA NOVOSTI / AFP)
08:42 : “I am quite shocked to see that all the candidates are deploying their beautiful promises, we are forgetting the economic crisis which is getting worse, we are forgetting the war, but this war is far from over. Who says that this war is not going to have consequences here?wonders the candidate LO on franceinfo.
10:48 : We start by taking stock of the news:
More than 3,000 people have fled the Mariupol region, in buses and private cars, Ukrainian authorities have announced, as the Red Cross, after an initial failure, prepares a new evacuation attempt today from the port city besieged by the Russian army.
• Emmanuel Macron will play big this afternoon on the Arena stage in Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine) for his first meeting of a campaign where he is struggling to consolidate his position as favorite, now contested by Marine The pen.
• The Paris prosecutor’s office announces that an investigation has been opened for “involuntary homicides” after the detection of contamination by the E. coli bacterium in Fraich’Up pizzas from the Buitoni brand.
• Loïk Le Priol, the main suspect in the murder of former Argentinian rugby player Federico Martin Aramburu, has been indicted for “murder” and remanded in custody.