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2:08 p.m. : Here is a new point on the essentials of the news at the start of the afternoon:
• Russian-Ukrainian talks aimed at ending the conflict in Ukraine resumed on Friday via videoconference, according to Kremlin negotiator Vladimir Medinsky. “We are continuing negotiations by videoconference. Our positions on Crimea and Donbass have not changed”, he said on his Telegram channel. Follow the situation live.
Two complaints were filed with the Bordeaux public prosecutor’s office after the detection of contamination by the Escherichia coli bacterium, largely linked to the consumption of Fraich’Up pizzas from the Buitoni brand, franceinfo learned from the public prosecutor’s office.
Invited this morning from franceinfo, the environmental candidate Yannick Jadot promised, if elected, to “set up free public transport for six months” to cope with rising fuel prices. The measure would concern “local transport” like “the TER, the buses”.
20 departments are on orange alert for snow and ice. The snowy episode concerns Hauts-de-France, Normandy, the Massif Central, the Pyrenees and the Alps. Vigilance is lifted in the Somme, Pas-de-Calais and the North.
1:04 p.m. : With the invasion of Ukraine, the number of Russian nationals and companies on the sanctions lists has increased sharply. But some oligarchs have organized to circumvent the freezing measures, while others simply do not appear on the lists. In an investigation, Abdelhak El Idrissi, of the investigation cell of Radio France, describes the hide-and-seek of the Russian oligarchs to avoid sanctions.
12:59 : While the war in Ukraine is still ongoing, the French Air Force will monitor the airspace of the Baltic countries from today. A NATO mission where France takes over from Belgium. Details in our article.
12:52 p.m. : @Nanou : We have no information to confirm this. Officials in Kyiv announced last night that Russian forces had left the Chernobyl nuclear power plant they had occupied since the first day of the invasion of Ukraine on February 24. “They took with them members of the National Guard whom they had been holding hostage since February 24”, Ukrainian state agency Energoatom said on Telegram, citing employees. We don’t have any other information on this at the moment…
12:51 p.m. : Is it true that the departure of the Russians from Chernobyl is due to the fact that soldiers are contaminated by radioactivity? Thank you for your work.
12:49 : Hello @cyclo_ecolo. April fools, probably not, but indeed, this information must be taken with a grain of salt. It is the governor of the Belgorod region who claims that Ukrainian helicopters hit a fuel depot in Belgorod, about forty kilometers from the Ukrainian border. But kyiv did not immediately say anything about this operation.
This strike, the first of its kind if confirmed, comes as Russia claims, at the same time, to have total control of the air in Ukraine. The Kremlin believes that the attack that Ukraine allegedly carried out, according to Moscow, would weigh on the Russian-Ukrainian talks.
12:48 : Hello Violaine. The Ukrainian army would still have helicopters, and would have succeeded in penetrating into Russian territory to destroy a fuel depot?! It’s an April Fool’s joke from the Russian authorities, right?? Because in my opinion, the entire Ukrainian Air Force must have been destroyed in the first 2-3 days of the war…
12:44 p.m. : Russian-Ukrainian talks by videoconference resume, announces the Russian negotiator.
12:38 : The Ukrainians “were not prepared for this situation and it is very important to train them“. Raphaël Pitti, anesthesiologist-resuscitator, leaves Wednesday for Ukraine to open a training center for war medicine in Lviv. This specialist in emergency medicine in war zones explains his approach to franceinfo.
(EMRE CAYLAK / AFP)
12:02 : It is noon, here is a new point on the news:
• It is not certain that the planned evacuation of civilians from Mariupol can take place today, said a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva. “There are a lot of moving parts and not all the details are worked out to make sure it happens safely”, we clarified. Follow our live.
• Invited this morning by franceinfo, the environmental candidate Yannick Jadot promised, if he is elected, to “set up free public transport for six months” to cope with rising fuel prices. The measure would concern “local transport” like “the TER, the buses”.
• Météo France this morning placed 22 departments on orange alert for snow and ice. The snowy episode concerns Hauts-de-France, Normandy, the Massif Central, the Pyrenees and the Alps.
• Motorists have been flocking since this morning to take advantage of the government rebate of at least 15 cents per liter of fuel. Professionals expect a large influx for a few days.
12:01 : The Kremlin has estimated that the attack carried out, according to Moscow, by Ukrainian helicopters in Russian territory against a fuel depot would weigh on the Russian-Ukrainian talks. “It is clear that we cannot consider this as something that will create the appropriate conditions for the continuation of negotiations”estimated Dmitry Peskov, spokesperson for Moscow.
11:33 am : The town of Okhtyrka, in northeastern Ukraine, has been ravaged by a month of Russian bombardment. Six days after the withdrawal of the troops to redeploy further east, its inhabitants are slowly returning to the spot and trying to resume a normal life in the midst of the debris. Report on the spot.
(GILLES GALLINARO / RADIO FRANCE)
11:03 am : It is uncertain whether the planned evacuation of civilians from the besieged city of Mariupol can take place today, said Ewan Watson, a spokesman for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva. “There are a lot of moving parts and not all the details are worked out to make sure it happens safely”he added.
10:37 : “I didn’t understand where my parents were, where my team was, what was the situation in Ukraine and in my city.”
Franceinfo collected the testimony of Ivan Fedorov, mayor of the Ukrainian city of Melitopol kidnapped on March 11 by the Russian army and held hostage for six days. “They questioned me for a long time”he says in this article.
10:30 a.m. : More than 6,800 Ukrainian children are currently educated in schools, colleges and high schools in France, mainly in the academies of Nice and Versailles, announces the Ministry of National Education. These figures are increasing rapidly since Monday evening, there were 5,266 Ukrainian students attending school in France, a figure which was already “multiplied by 20 since March 8”.
09:41 : In another message, Vyacheslav Gladkov specified that the firefighters were hard at work to put out the fire and that two employees had been injured. The public company Rosneft, owner of the premises, told Russian news agencies that it had evacuated its staff.
09:38 : Russian official accuses Ukraine of carrying out a helicopter attack on a “oil depot” in the city of Belgorod, in western Russia, about forty kilometers from the Ukrainian border. “A fire in an oil depot took place because of an airstrike”said on his Telegram account the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov.
09:32 : Gérard Depardieu, who has French and Russian nationalities and has not ceased in recent years to praise Vladimir Putin, yesterday denounced “crazy unacceptable excesses” of the Russian President in Ukraine. He also announced that all of the receipts from the three concerts he gave at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in early April, “will go to the Ukrainian victims of this tragic fratricidal war”.
09:03 : It’s 9 a.m., here’s a new point on the news:
• The environmental candidate is currently the guest of “Presidential Mornings” on franceinfo. In particular, he defended “an embargo” on Russian gas and oil. Follow the interview live.
• Météo France places 22 departments on orange alert this morning for snow and ice. The snowy episode therefore now concerns Hauts-de-France, Normandy, the Massif Central, the Pyrenees and the Alps.
• The government rebate of at least 15 cents per liter of fuel is effective since this morning everywhere in France. What somewhat relieve motorists faced with soaring prices at the pump for months.
• The Ukrainian president assures that the Russian army is repositioning itself in the east of the country in anticipation “powerful attacks”, especially on the besieged port of Mariupol. A new attempt to evacuate civilians is to take place there today. Follow our live.
08:36 : “We need an embargo because we have to stop the atrocities in Ukraine, the war crimes that take place there every day. This war is financed by gas and oil sales from Russia, in particular to the European Union European.”
The environmentalist candidate defends an embargo on Russian gas and oil.
08:18 : “During our two weeks of reporting, the sirens will have sounded almost every night.” Fabien Fougère, image reporter for France Télévisions, describes the chaotic conditions of his mission in Ukraine.
(FABIEN FOUGERE / FRANCE TELEVISIONS)
08:15 : The heartbreaking farewells of an old man and his daughter in kyiv, a marriage proposal in the middle of barricaded Odessa, a family hesitating to leave Irpin under the bombardments… In this logbook of the war in Ukraine, Christophe Kenck, Fabien Lasserre and Florian Le Moal, all journalists at France Télévisions, remember.
(FLORIAN LE MOAL, FABIEN LASSERRE / FRANCE TELEVISIONS)
08:16 : “We come out of the trench and the situation degenerates. A first shell strike falls. (…) Second shot. It falls less than 50 meters from the minister who is pinned to the ground, protected by his bodyguards, then exfiltrated.”
Editor Yan Kadouch was in Ukraine for France Télévisions from the start of the conflict. He returns to the day when the Ukrainian Minister of the Interior was targeted by fire from pro-Russian troops in the Donbass.
(STEPHANE GUILLEMOT / FRANCE TELEVISIONS)
08:08 : What do we remember from the war? This is the question that underlies this logbook of a month of conflict where the stories of those whose subjects you see on television intertwine. These image reporters, great reporters or editors from France Télévisions recount the moments that have marked them over the past five weeks.
(FLORIAN LE MOAL, FABIEN LASSERRE / FRANCE TELEVISIONS)