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10:02 : The United States will strive to supply Europe with an additional 15 billion cubic meters of liquefied natural gas (LNG) this year. This initiative was unveiled by US President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
10:02 : The United States and the European Union announce the creation of a working group aimed at reducing Europe’s dependence on Russian fossil fuels.
09:14 : Andriy is 30 years old. Before the war, he was a forklift driver in a car factory. He took up arms to defend his country. Report in Loutsk near the Belarusian border. ? Valerie Lucas @franceinfoplus https://t.co/QKCBWD2wuH
09:14 : Our special envoy Majid Khiat is in Lviv, Ukraine. He went to meet Ukrainian civilians enlisted in the army to defend their country.
09:00 : We take stock of the news:
• In Ukraine, the situation in the city of Mariupol, on the Sea of Azov, which was heavily bombarded, is further deteriorating. Ukrainians denounce deportation “en masse” inhabitants to Russia. Follow our live.
Joe Biden is traveling to Poland, to the town of Rzeszow, about 80 kilometers from the border with Ukraine. He will meet American soldiers stationed in this region and give a speech on the war in Ukraine.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un personally ordered and supervised the firing of the country’s most powerful intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the state news agency reports.
Following the call of Greta Thunberg’s Fridays for Future movement, a new Global Youth Climate Strike is being organized around the world today.
08:47 : “We are constantly looking for ways to strengthen our action. In terms of sanctions, and then the support we can provide to Ukraine. We will continue to deliver defensive equipment to Ukraine.”
The government spokesperson is the guest of franceinfo.
08:39 : Other excerpts provide evidence of what could one day be qualified as war crimes by international justice. “Our planes will start bombing in ten minutes, well received?”, we hear in another excerpt.
(GUVENDEMIR / E+)
08:44 : Ukrainian and American radio amateurs intercepted hundreds of hours of unencrypted communications between different units of Russian ground fighters. Between the lines stand out their mistakes and setbacks. “We are retreating from the locality of Motijine and we are reversing. Let’s leave behind a damaged tank. Over”, can we hear in an excerpt.
08:34 : Among these shots: this unusual image which would show a Ukrainian farmer capturing a Russian jet. As recalled by Reuters (in English)the photo was actually taken in Croatia in 2011, when a military plane was being towed through Zagreb, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the national armed forces.
08:31 : Since the dispatch of Russian troops to Ukraine on February 24, many misleading contents have been relayed on social networks. To understand this information battle, franceinfo has deciphered a series of fake photos or taken out of context.
(ELLEN LOZON / FRANCEINFO)
08:20 : In his latest video posted on Facebook tonight, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, entrenched in Kyiv, pays tribute to “the heroic opposition of the Ukrainian people to the Russian military invasion”.
(VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY)
07:56 : Save Mariupol!Боже, борони Маріуполь!Art by Oksana Drachkovska, Lviv#RussianWarCrimes https://t.co/fDt0DlYtRN
07:55 : They wanted to break us but we only grew stronger https://t.co/qR7wXovJfC
07:55 : On Twitter, several Ukrainians share illustrations of support for the Ukrainian people and calls for peace.
07:29 : Absent from the media for two weeks, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reappeared on Russian screens during a teleconference with Vladimir Putin, reports RFI. “The Minister of Defense has a lot to do at the moment. Now is not the time for media activity,” justified the Kremlin spokesman.
07:22 : Threats to independent Kremlin journalists continue in Russia. Unidentified people left a pig’s head in front of the apartment of the editor-in-chief of Echo Moscow radio (an independent radio station), and stuck a sticker on his door showing the Ukrainian coat of arms with the anti-Semitic mention “Judensau – Jewish pig”, reports a journalist from FinancialTimes.
06:57 : Joe Biden will meet American soldiers positioned in this region. He will then go to Warsaw, where he will give a speech to “hold Russia accountable for its brutal war”according to the White House.
07:22 : Joe Biden is expected in the Polish town of Rzeszow, about 80 kilometers from the border with Ukraine. He will be received by the Polish President, Andrzej Duda, at the airport of this city located two and a half hours by road from Lviv, the main city in western Ukraine, where refugees are flocking.
(Diego Ravier / Hans Lucas via AFP)
06:23 : Under the warning sirens of the bombardment in Lviv, a young Ukrainian pianist plays Time by Hans Zimmer. https://t.co/yJMgh7gCVJ
06:23 : In Lviv, under the sirens of the bombardments, a young Ukrainian pianist played Time by Hans Zimmer, reports journalist Loup Bureau on Twitter.
06:14 : The leader of the Russian republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, claims that his forces have taken the town hall of Mariupol. Information impossible to confirm however from an independent source, the Ukrainian army ensures that the port city has not yet fallen.
(Viktor Antonyuk / SPUTNIK / SIPA)
06:12 : The mayor of Mariupol, Vadim Boychenko, advanced on Telegram a last assessment of 15,000 inhabitants taken away “by force” on board buses, as well as “the confiscation of Ukrainian passports” residents stuck in place.
06:10 : In Ukraine, the situation in the city of Mariupol, heavily bombarded, is still deteriorating. Ukrainian authorities denounce the deportation “en masse” inhabitants to Russia.
(Maksim Blinov / SPUTNIK / SIPA)
06:18 : We take stock of the news:
• US President Joe Biden travels to Poland today, to a town near the Ukrainian border. He promised earlier for the first time a “response” of NATO if Russia used chemical weapons in the war. Follow our live.
• In Corsica, the village of Cargèse will bury this afternoon the independence activist Yvan Colonna, fatally attacked by a fellow prisoner while he was serving his sentence for the assassination of the prefect Claude Erignac.
• Following North Korea’s launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile, the UN Security Council is due to meet today. Pyongyang is breaking with a moratorium it has observed since 2017 on this type of weapon test.
• Italy will not go to the World Cup. A goal from North Macedonia in added time eliminated the country (1-0) and canceled the long-awaited play-off final against Portugal.