the noose is tightening on Mariupol, where Ukrainian soldiers are “surrounded and blocked”

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08:05 : Unlike his American counterpart Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron does not accuse Vladimir Putin of “genocide”. “I would be careful with the terms”he declares, assuring that this word “makes sense”. I want to try to continue to be able to stop this war and rebuild peace: I’m not sure that the escalation of words helps things”, he added, specifying however that “war crimes” were committed by Russian forces on Ukrainian soil.

07:29 : Russian forces continue to tighten their grip on Ukrainian soldiers “surrounded and blocked” in Mariupol. Our journalist Benoît Jourdain explains why taking the city is a strategic issue for Vladimir Putin and the pro-Russian separatists.

(ILYA PITALEV / SPUTNIK / AFP)

07:39 : The voice of the North devotes several pages to those who host Ukrainian refugees in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais, “who are asking for help from the public authorities in the face of the financial, administrative and material burden of a reception that is sometimes longer than imagined”.


07:59 : Volodymyr Zelensky has also proposed this night in Moscow to‘”to exchange” Ukrainian MP and businessman Viktor Medvedchuk, close to Russian President Vladimir Putin and recently arrested, against Ukrainians in captivity in Russia. (Handout / Security Service of Ukraine / AFP)

06:20 : Joe Biden for the first time accused Vladimir Putin of carrying out a “genocide” in Ukraine, a word previously used by the Ukrainian head of state Volodymyr Zelensky but never by the American administration. “It is increasingly clear that Putin is simply trying to erase the very idea of ​​being able to be a Ukrainian,” developed the American president. Yes “the lawyers, at the international level”, decide on the qualification of genocide, “to me, it looks like it”, he assured.

(MANDEL NGAN / AFP)

07:13 : We start by taking stock of the news:

•After Nicolas Sarkozy and Lionel Jospin, it is Robert Badinter’s turn to call on Emmanuel Macron to vote. “The hour is too serious, the choice is too important”, the former justice minister told franceinfo. Clearly on the offensive, the presidential candidate has been multiplying walkabouts and long exchanges with citizens since Monday. This morning he will be the guest of “4 Truths” on France 2. Marine Le Pen was in the Eure yesterday and will be in the Paris region today to talk about working France. Follow our live.

•US President Joe Biden has for the first time accused his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin of leading a “genocide” in Ukraine. The word was previously used by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky but never by the American administration.

•New York police are in hot pursuit of a man wearing a gas mask who caused havoc on the subway during morning rush hour yesterday by setting off two smoke devices before opening fire, injuring 23, including ten by gunshot.

Will Salah Abdeslam remain silent once again? The main accused in the trial of the November 13 attacks is questioned this afternoon for the last time, on the hours following the attacks to which he said he had “renounced” and on his four-month run.

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