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1:48 p.m. : “When you know the body is going back to its family, it helps not to go crazy.”
In Ukraine, the Tulipe Noire association takes care of recovering the bodies of soldiers killed in combat in the Donbass. Ukrainian victims of course, but also Russians, to have the bodies repatriated to their families. One of its members speaks at the microphone of franceinfo on this difficult mission which brings out a part of humanity from the horrors of war. “All people must be buried with dignity, even if they are our enemies. We do not make war on the dead”he says. (VALERIE CROVA / RADIO FRANCE)
10:44 am : Germany is now “in a much better position” to counter the Russian gas threat. Chancellor Olaf Scholz says so. All the measures taken by Germany, very dependent on Russian gas, to guarantee its supply have “helped us to be in a much better situation today than we expected a few months ago”.
09:57 : Russian shelling in the center of Kharkiv left at least four dead and four injured this morning. “The Russian occupiers shelled the central districts of Kharkiv. There is damage”, announced Oleg Synegoubov, the regional governor, who calls on the inhabitants to take shelter.
2:02 p.m. : kyiv has started its counter-offensive in the south of the country well. Of the “intense fighting” with the Russian army take place in the “almost all” of the occupied region of Kherson, the Ukrainian presidency said this morning.
On Telegram, Oleksiy Arestovych, adviser to the Ukrainian president, explains that”You have to be patient”. It’s about, he said, from a “planned slow operation to crush the enemy while saving the lives of our military and civilians”.
1:58 p.m. : Let’s make a new summary of the news:
For Olivier Veran, “the time has come to change a number of our habits”. The government spokesperson gave some details on franceinfo on the Defense Council devoted to energy, which Emmanuel Macron will chair on Friday morning.
Summer 2022 is the second hottest after 2003, learned franceinfo from Météo France. It was 22.67 degrees on average, compared to an average of 23.10 degrees 19 years ago.
#POGBA Footballer Paul Pogba has already paid 100,000 euros to his extortionists in March 2022, according to the elements of the file that franceinfo has been able to consult.
After a quiet night, fighting between supporters of rival forces resumed this morning in Baghdad. According to a new report provided by a medical source, 23 supporters of Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr have been shot dead since yesterday.
“L‘Ukraine is taking back what is hers’, declares President Zelensky as kyiv launched its counter-offensive in the south of the country. Objective: push the Russian troops back across the Dnieper River and retake the occupied city of Kherson.
07:18 : Almost a month (29 days precisely) since the reopening of its ports, Ukraine has already exported more than 1.3 million tons of cereals. Figure given this morning by Sergey Bratchuk, the spokesman for the military administration of Odessa oblast. In his Telegram message, he specifies that at least 56 ships have delivered grain to 18 countries.
06:49 : kyiv launched its counter-attack well to retake Kherson, the southern city that fell into Russian hands at the start of the war. In his daily message last night, Volodymyr Zelensky assured that his country was “taking back what is hers and will eventually take everything back – the regions of Kharkiv, Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhia, Kherson, Crimea, the waters of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov”. Before adding: “The occupiers must know that we will push them back to our border, a line that remains unchanged for us.”
06:25 : We start gently with a first summary of the news:
Emmanuel Macron will chair a defense council on Friday morning devoted to the energy crisis, franceinfo learned from government sources. The topics covered will be “the supply of gas and electricity in view of the winter”specifies to franceinfo a source within the executive.
#POGBA Footballer Paul Pogba has already paid 100,000 euros to his extortionists in March 2022, according to the elements of the file that franceinfo has been able to consult.
Baghdad’s Green Zone descended into chaos last night, after the “withdrawal” policy of the Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr. At least fifteen people were shot dead. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres calls on all parties to “take immediate action to defuse the situation”.
“L‘Ukraine is taking back what is hers’, declares President Zelensky as kyiv launched its counter-offensive in the south of the country. Objective: push the Russian troops back across the Dnieper River and recapture the occupied city of Kherson.
Serena Williams always shines. The 40-year-old American won her first round at the US Open last night against Danka Kovinic.