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7:10 p.m. : The investigation to determine the circumstances of the death of Arman Soldin has been entrusted to the gendarmes of the Central Office for the fight against crimes against humanity and hate crimes. Raphaël Godet paints the portrait of the 32-year-old journalist killed yesterday near Bakhmout.
(Bulent KILIC / AFP)
7:10 p.m. : The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office is opening a war crime investigation in France after the death of journalist Arman Soldin near Bakhmout, Ukraine.
6:04 p.m. : Those close to Arman Soldin are convinced that his personal story has shaped his lifestyle. Born in a country at war, Bosnia, in 1991, he was one year old when he left Sarajevo with his parents. He grew up in Ille-et-Vilaine, where his mfather and his younger brother still live there. Her father lives in Sarajevo. She big sister is in Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina). “In truth, he didn’t talk much about his childhood, recognizes William. But I remember he told us that his father had a football career in the former Yugoslavia. I understand better why he was so good too.” entrust a friend.
6:02 p.m. : “I opened WhatsApp and sent her a heart. He never answered me and I cried all night about it.”
Marc-Henri Maisonhaute, colleague and friend of the AFP journalist killed yesterday in Ukraine, told our journalist Raphaël Godet who Arman Soldin was, “a lovely guy”, which had “all qualities”, “loved life” and “did everything very well”. “I think he will have lived at 32 more things than anyone in 80 years”he confides about the reporter. 
(BULENT KILIC / AFP)
4:00 p.m. : “It is necessary for China to use its relations with Russia to make Russia better understand that it is at an impasse and ask it to come to its senses..”
Shortly before a meeting with her Chinese counterpart, Qin Gang, the head of French diplomacy recalled that “on China and concerning Ukraine”the positions of France were “known”. “We talk about it openly, directly, with the frankness that friendship allows”she added after the Council of Ministers.
4:03 p.m. : The Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, then took the floor to express “on behalf of the government (…) any [s]we emotion and [s]in solidarity after the death of journalist Arman Soldin.” “He fell because he believed that the duty to inform should stop at nothing”, she said.
4:04 p.m. : At the opening of the questions to the government, the senators observed a minute of silence in memory of Arman Soldin, the French journalist killed yesterday in Ukraine. Public Senate posted on Twitter an extract from this tribute in the hemicycle of the Luxembourg Palace.
3:06 p.m. : Arman Soldin took the pose a few weeks ago smiling, near a trench. The 32-year-old was killed yesterday in a hail of rockets near Bakhmout. France 2 devotes a portrait to him.
2:23 p.m. : “It’s a bad comparison but, when you go to a party or to a bar, it’s like when you meet someone who is generous and who takes the time. He was a guy like that.”
When he learned of the death of French journalist Arman Soldin in a rocket attack near Bakhmout, Caleb Larson was overwhelmed with emotion. This colleague, who works for the AP agency, confides in franceinfo.
1:45 p.m. : Kaliningrad will become Krolewiec. The city located in the Russian enclave of the same name will resume its former Polish name on maps and administrative documents, announces Warsaw. “We do not want Russification in Poland, hence our decision to call Kaliningrad and its region in our own language“said Development Minister Waldemar Buda in a statement.
1:00 p.m. : According to the chief economist of the IMF, the Russian economy is resisting in particular thanks to the explosion of energy prices, which it therefore exports “less, but much more expensive”, he explains on franceinfo. But he estimates that these revenues will “decline in the years to come, because there is a reorientation of energy flows”.
12:59 : On Friday, the European Commission submitted to EU member states an eleventh package of restrictive measures against Russia. But are these sanctions effective? For the chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, they certainly do not cause “not a sudden death” of the economy, but all the same “a choke”, he explains to franceinfo. So the country “has stopped converging with the rest of European countries in terms of standard of living”, he points.
12:57 : “I would like, on behalf of the government, and following the President of the Republic, to express the pain of the whole nation following the death of AFP journalist Arman Soldin killed in Ukraine, while he was carrying out his mission if importance, with the courage of those who devote themselves to bringing us information.”
At the end of the Council of Ministers, the government spokesman paid tribute to the 32-year-old reporter killed yesterday by Russian rocket fire, near Bakhmout.
11:34 am : He is the tenth journalist killed while covering the war in Ukraine, according to the report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Arman Soldin, 32, died yesterday near Bakhmout, in the Donetsk region (east of the country). Born in Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and a refugee in France from the age of 1, this image reporter volunteered to be one of the first AFP special envoys as soon as the country was invaded by the Russian troops in February 2022. Here’s what we know about his death.
(ARIS MESSINIS / AFP)
09:21 : France is paying a particularly heavy price in the conflict in Ukraine, underlines the secretary general of Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Christophe Deloire in a tweet. “Among the 10 journalists killed since the beginning of the conflict, 3 had a French passport: Pierre Zakrzewski, Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff and Arman Soldin”, he writes, specifying that they were all image reporters (JRI).
09:13 : “Vladimir Putin has already lost” the war in Ukraine, says Frans Timmermans, first vice-president of the European Commission, on France Inter. According to him, “no goal that had [le chef du Kremlin] a year ago didn’t last”. He mentions in particular “the failed conquest of Bakhmout” and believes that “the Ukrainians have the means to repel the Russians”.
(franceinfo)
08:40 : The National Assembly has adopted a motion for a resolution aimed at having Paris and the European Union include the Russian paramilitary group Wagner on the list of terrorist organizations. But what will this text actually do? Our journalist Valentine Pasquesoone tells you more.
07:36 : “The world owes Arman” Soldin, AFP journalist killed yesterday in Ukraine, and towards “the ten other reporters and media workers who lost their lives” covering the conflict, reacted the White House spokeswoman last night.
(Aris MESSINIS / AFP)