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12:29 : While the war in Ukraine raises the question of Europe’s energy dependence, Turkey is betting on nuclear power. The country’s first plant is due to come into operation next year. But it is a plant that was created thanks to an agreement signed between the Turkish and Russian governments, and which is entirely owned by Russian companies. We tell you more.
12:26 p.m. : The American platform Netflix is now inaccessible in Russia, assured the Californian streaming giant. “It is the materialization of the withdrawal from the Russian market” announced in March, explained Netflix to AFP, specifying that the American platform had waited for the end of a billing cycle to block the platform in Russia. In March, the video-on-demand giant announced the suspension of its service on Russian territory due to the conflict in Ukraine.
12:25 p.m. : It’s time to take stock of the news.
• The Minister of Sports, Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, talks about “30,000 to 40,000 people” without a ticket or with fake tickets near the Stade de France on Saturday evening. A meeting takes place at the Ministry of Sports with “all the stakeholders (…) in order to learn all the lessons” and of “find out the malfunctions”. Follow our live.
• Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna arrived in Ukraine. She is due to meet President Volodymyr Zelensky and his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kouleba. Follow our live.
• From Elisabeth Borne to Marine Le Pen via Sandrine Rousseau and Manuel Valls, franceinfo presents the 30 candidates to follow to better understand the issues of the legislative elections on Sunday 12 and 19 June. The official campaign has started for more than 6,000 candidates. Follow our live.
• Russia’s Daria Kasatkina takes the lead, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Daniil Medvedev headliners for the day, Poland’s Iga Swiatek on the royal road… Follow Monday’s matches in our live stream.
11:57 : In Germany, the coalition in government and the conservative opposition have reached an agreement to deviate from the budgetary rules of the Constitution, in order to release 100 billion euros to modernize the army. The agreement should make it possible to release a special fund to rearm Germany over the next few years and modernize the Bundeswehr, whose equipment is dilapidated.
11:39 : “We responded first (…) They stayed for a few weeks, they left you something to work with and then a second team arrived.”
Catherine Colonna, visiting Boutcha, also returned to France’s contribution to the investigation into the alleged war crimes that took place in the neighboring city of kyiv. French gendarmes having been sent on the spot to set up a procedure for examining and identifying the bodies alongside the Ukrainian investigators. She hopes that “legal procedures can be completed as soon as possible so that families can see their loved ones resting in graves”.
11:44 am : The new French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Catherine Colonna, went to Boutcha, where massacres of civilians took place, of which the Russian troops are accused by the Ukrainian authorities. “This shouldn’t happen, it shouldn’t happen again”said the head of French diplomacy. “France is at their side (alongside the Ukrainians) with its friends, its allies, it will do everything possible to bring peace back”she said.
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10:34 am : Russian forces have advanced towards the center of Severodonetsk, a city in eastern Ukraine, shelled for weeks and where street fighting is now taking place, the governor of the region announced on Monday. “The fighting continues, the situation is very difficult”Serguiï Gaïdaï said on Telegram. “Severodonetsk’s critical infrastructure is destroyed, 60% of the housing stock cannot be restored”he continued.
09:57 : ? Car alarms after three loud detonations heard in the center of #Donetsk (pro-Russian separatist side). In the distance we hear other shots.@franceinfo @infofrance2 @infofrance3 https: //t.co/U9xVUfyqe3
09:58 : France Télévisions journalist Luc Lacroix, present in Donetsk, reports on Twitter “three loud bangs” heard in the city center (pro-Russian separatist side). Already the day before, shelling had been felt.
09:58 : “Obviously he uses wheat as a weapon of war.”
The Twenty-Seven must agree to impose an embargo on Russian oil, said Josep Borrell, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, on franceinfo. “At the end, we will have an agreement”, he assures. He also accuses Vladimir Putin of blocking the millions of tons of wheat stored in Ukraine. “We should export them”he adds.
09:09 : Here is the hour of the point on the news
• Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra talks about “30,000 to 40,000 people” without a ticket or with fake tickets near the Stade de France on Saturday evening. A meeting is taking place today at the Ministry of Sports with “all the stakeholders (…) in order to learn all the lessons” and “find out the malfunctions”. Follow our live.
• Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna arrived in Ukraine. She is due to meet President Volodymyr Zelensky and his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kouleba. Follow our live.
• From Elisabeth Borne to Marine Le Pen via Sandrine Rousseau and Manuel Valls, franceinfo presents the 30 candidates to follow to better understand the issues of the legislative elections on Sunday 12 and 19 June. The official campaign has started for more than 6,000 candidates. Follow our live.
• It is a monument of French football which falls in the second division. Beaten on penalties by Auxerre in the promotion-relegation barrage, Saint-Etienne is relegated to L2. Violent incidents broke out in and around the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium after the match.
08:35 : In #Ukraine, to mark France’s support ?? for the Ukrainian people ??. https://t.co/jq66q20p3d
08:35 : Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna has arrived in Ukraine, as shown in this photo she posted on her Twitter account.
07:36 : Catherine Colonna, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, is going to Ukraine, learned the international editorial staff of Radio France. The head of French diplomacy must go to Boutcha at the end of the morning, then she will return to kyiv in the afternoon. She will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kouleba.
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07:52 : In Moscow stands an exhibition on “ordinary Nazism” in Ukraine, which tries to justify the war. In this newly furnished room, a Ukrainian flag rubs shoulders with a swastika to explain that Ukrainian neo-Nazi movements rule the country and commit the worst horrors there. Franceinfo visited it.
07:52 : Ukraine claims to regain ground in the region of Kherson, in the hands of the Russians since the beginning of the invasion. “Kherson, hold on, we’re close!”, says the Ukrainian general staff on its Facebook page. This morning’s report does not give details about Kherson, but says that the Russian forces have brought in special forces to Mykolayiv, the neighboring town, “with the intention of carrying out offensive actions to recover positions lost“.
07:51 : Will the UN one day set up a peacekeeping force in Ukraine? Today, 55 observers are on site, notably to investigate war crimes. France Télévisions has collected a rare word, that of a French soldier, Enora Chame, who had joined this UN force ten years ago in Syria.
07:45 : We obviously start with the point on the news.
• It is a monument of French football which falls in the second division. Beaten on penalties by Auxerre in the promotion-relegation barrage, Saint-Etienne is relegated to L2. Violent incidents broke out in and around the Geoffroy-Guichard stadium after the match.
• The controversy continues after Saturday’s chaos outside the Stade de France during the Champions League final. A meeting is taking place today at the Ministry of Sports, convened by Amélie Oudéa-Castéra with “all the stakeholders (…) in order to learn all the lessons” and “find out the malfunctions”.
• President Volodymyr Zelensky is due to address 27 European leaders at the extraordinary EU summit in Brussels. New sanctions against Moscow are on the menu of this meeting.
• The long-awaited Nadal-Djokovic duel in the quarter-finals will take place, after the Spaniard’s difficult victory against the Canadian Félix Auger-Alliassime. The other Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz had no trouble getting into the quarter-finals by beating Russian Karen Kachanov in three sets.