the US Secretary of Defense spoke with his Russian counterpart on Friday

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4:05 p.m. : Hello, a Russian official has just announced that a journalist had been killed during a night strike on a bridge in the city of Kherson, in southern Ukraine. According to Alexander Malkevitch, ten other journalists were injured. Earlier in the day, the Russian authorities accused kyiv, which immediately denied, of having killed four people during a bombardment on the Antonovski bridge on the Dnieper river.

4:05 p.m. : Hello. Another journalist killed in Ukraine during a strike in Kherson? Thanks.

3:49 p.m. : Ukraine claims to have recaptured 88 localities from Russian forces in the Kherson region, according to Ukrainian presidential adviser Kyrylo Tymoshenko. A previous assessment, on October 13, reported 75 towns and villages taken over by kyiv in this area of ​​southern Ukraine.

3:30 p.m. : The European Union is considering aid of 1.5 billion euros per month for Ukraine, announced the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.

3:22 p.m. : The two men discussed current international security issues and the situation in Ukraine, according to the Russian Defense Ministry quoted by the RIA Novosti and Interfax agencies. The last discussion between Sergei Shoigu and Lloyd Austin dates back to last May.

3:27 p.m. : Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu spoke today by telephone with US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Moscow announced.

3:00 p.m. : “We held European unity.”

Emmanuel Macron talks about the decline in dependence on Russian gas. The latter represented 40% of European imports before the start of the war, against “less than 7%” today.

2:44 p.m. : A few weeks after its liberation, the Ukrainian town of Izium is still healing its wounds. It was occupied by Russian forces for five months. Everything needs to be rebuilt, from houses to infrastructure, but the means are lacking.

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12:19 p.m. : The Kremlin “sentenced” the arrest of two Russian nationals in Italy and Germany. These two people were arrested at the request of Washington, which accuses them of having illegally sold American technologies to arms companies in Russia. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov promising to “do everything” to defend those concerned.

11:42 : kyiv carried out a strike on the Antonovskiy bridge in Kherson during the night, confirms a spokeswoman for the Southern Command of the army on television. But the latter denies that civilians could have been killed or injured, because the shootings occurred during the very strict curfew imposed in the city under Russian control. According to the occupation authorities, four people died and 13 were injured. Follow our live.

11:15 a.m. : On screen, the character of Luke Skywalker wields the lightsaber. In life, his interpreter helps supply drones to the Ukrainian army. In an interview with Bloomberg radio, Mark Hamill said he had sent at least 500 drones to Ukraine, via the United24 platform and its “Army of Drones” project (“an army of drones”), of which he is an ambassador.

10:07 : Nearly mobilized by Russia were sent home for various reasons, says Andrei Kartapolov, head of the Defense Committee of the Duma. At the end of September, Last week, Vladimir Putin announced that 222,000 people had already been mobilized.

09:42 : kyiv also accuses Russia of wanting to destroy a dam near Kherson. If the dam explodes, “more than 80 localities, including Kherson, will find themselves in the zone of rapid flooding”warns Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

09:40 : “If he sees us, it’s over.” Shahed-136 suicide drones, of Iranian origin, have been terrorizing populations in Ukraine since the beginning of the month, crashing into civilian and military infrastructure. Report in the Kherson region, alongside the gunners, in great difficulty in the face of this new air threat.

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09:06 : In Kosovo, the war waged by Moscow in Ukraine adds an additional layer of dissension. In this country, the Serbian minority supports Russia and the Albanian majority is firmly on the side of the Ukrainians. These divisions are particularly striking in Mitrovica, a city bisected along ethnic lines.

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09:05 : The local occupation authorities of the Kherson region accuse Ukraine of having killed in the night at least four civiliansincluding two television workers, in a strike carried out in the area of ​​the Antonovskiy bridge.

08:03 : In the Kherson region, Moscow evacuates civilians. Occupation authorities claim to have evacuated 15,000 people in two days. But the Kremlin’s intentions are unclear. Explanations by Fabien Magnenou.

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07:21 : Campaigning for the midterm elections, Joe Biden castigated the Republican Party by accusing it of wanting, in the event of a victory in the legislative elections, to potentially reduce American financial support for Ukraine. “These people don’t understand. It goes beyond Ukraine. It’s Eastern Europe. It’s NATO”launched the Democratic leader.

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