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10:53 p.m. : Viktor Orban promises to “maintain” his country’s ties with Moscow. “The Hungarian government does not consider realistic the idea that Russia would be a threat to the security of Hungary or Europe”, said the nationalist leader in his annual state of the nation address, denouncing a Europe “in indirect war with Russia”.
10:47 p.m. : Andreas Gallozzi, 22, is the third French fighter to die at the front. France 3 collected the moving testimony of his mother.
9:06 p.m. : To his eyes, “neither side can fully prevail. Neither Ukraine nor Russia, because the effects of mobilization are not as great as expected, and it itself has capability limits.”
9:05 p.m. : On his return from the Munich Security Conference, the French President granted an interview to France Inter, Le Figaro and the JDD. He specifies his vision on the Ukrainian conflict, almost a year to the day after the start of the Russian invasion. “I want Russia to be defeated in Ukraine, and I want Ukraine to be able to defend its position, declares the Head of State. But I’m convinced that in the end it won’t be settled militarily. I don’t think, like some, that Russia should be totally defeated, attacked on its soil.“
(ODD ANDERSEN / AFP)
9:04 p.m. : “Crushing Russia has never been France’s position and it never will be”said Emmanuel Macron in an interview with several media.
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8:39 p.m. : In an interview with Parisian, Sébastien Lecornu does not rule out training Ukrainian pilots, as the British do. As for the question of the delivery of fighter planes, it is not “not taboo”, affirms thee Minister of the Armed Forces.
8:31 p.m. : The Netherlands announced today the expulsion of a dozen Russian diplomats whom they accuse of being spies. “Despite numerous attempts by the Netherlands to find a solution, Russia continues to try to install, under diplomatic cover, intelligence officers in the Netherlandssaid Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra. We cannot tolerate it and will not allow it.”
(EVERT ELZINGA / ANP)
6:45 p.m. : In a grandstand at JDDthe chief of staff of the Ukrainian president opposes the participation of Russian or Belarusian athletes in the Olympic Games in Paris. “Allowing Russian athletes to the 2024 Olympics would be a disaster”assures Andriy Yermak.
5:30 p.m. : “Thank you for your commitment, thank you for your life, glory to the hero.” The Ukraine Dijon Besançon association paid tribute to Andreas Gallozzi, this Dijonnais in his twenties killed by a Russian bombardment in eastern Ukraine. He is the third French fighter to die on the Ukrainian battlefield since the start of the war.
3:20 p.m. : “The biggest risk of all is that Putin wins. If Putin wins in Ukraine, the message for him and other authoritarian leaders will be that they can use force to get what they want.”
On the second day of the annual Security Conference in Munich, Germany, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said there was no “no indication showing” that Vladimir Putin “changed his ambitions”. Ukraine’s Western allies have again urged giving Ukraine what it needs to defeat Russia.
2:51 p.m. : Ten Ukrainian regions have been targeted by strikes in the past 24 hours, says President Volodymyr Zelensky. “The Terrorist State [russe] continues its attempts to intimidate the civilian population”he writes, referring to “dead and wounded”.
(VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY / TELEGRAM)
2:10 p.m. : Two Russian cruise missiles flew “dangerously close” nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine, Energoatom says in a statement (in Ukrainian). The projectiles were fired in the direction of Pervomaisk, in the Mykholaiv region, continues the company, which denounces a “act of nuclear terrorism”.
2:37 p.m. : Washington has formally established “that Russia had committed crimes against humanity in Ukraine”said Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States, in a speech to the Munich Security Conference. She added that all those who had perpetrated these crimes, as well as their superiors, would have “accounts to render”.
(THOMAS KIENZLE / AFP)
2:35 p.m. : The Russian army claims the capture of the locality of Gryanikovka, located in the Kharkiv region, in its daily point (in Russian). In this sector, Russian troops have gone on the offensive for several weeks, in parallel with movements around Bakhmout and Vougledar. This information was not commented on by Kyiv, and could not be independently confirmed.
