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10:30 p.m. : A year ago, France 2 told you the story of a father who wanted to shelter his children, while his wife had decided to stay in Ukraine to help her own mother. Both women were eventually killed. The “20 Hours” returned to take news of this bruised family.
10:06 p.m. : Vladimir Putin believes that NATO is involved in the war in Ukraine. “They are sending tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons to Ukraine”, he accused. For his part, the Ukrainian President reports that Russia currently occupies nearly 1,900 Ukrainian towns and villages. Like every day, franceinfo looks back on the highlights of the day on the war front.
6:56 p.m. : “Putin, in my opinion, thinks today that he can’t win right away, but he can’t afford to lose.”
Faced with the difficulties of his army in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is convinced that he will win a final victory with wear and tear, analyzed the boss of the CIA in an interview with CBS (link in English).
1:32 p.m. : Good morning @kat. The head of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner yesterday claimed the capture of the village of Yaguidné, located on the northern outskirts of Bakhmout. The capture of Yagidné further tightens the Russian vice around Bakhmout, the village being located less than two kilometers from the center of this fortress city. Russian forces have been trying for several weeks to encircle Bakhmout and have succeeded in cutting off several important supply routes for Ukrainian troops.
1:04 p.m. : Good morning ! What about the military situation in BAKHMUT? Is the Ukrainian army resisting the Russian army’s attempts to advance? THANKS
12:09 : “The problem is not China’s inability, but its lack of will”declared at the microphone of France Inter Marc Julienne, specialist in China at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), while Beijing has just made “proposals for peace” in Ukraine and Emmanuel Macron announced a trip to China in early April.
12:04 : “I survived two strikes. I don’t want it to happen a third time.” In the Donbass, children are trying to lead a normal life despite the war. Reporting.
11:07 : The G20 Finance fails to agree on a joint press release evoking Ukraine. Meeting since Friday in Bangalore, they were trying to agree on solutions to the challenges faced by the world economy in a context of conflict and rising inflation.
10:50 a.m. : “Russians try to live normally by choosing a psychologically comfortable position, without talking about politics and without informing themselves too much about what is happening in Ukraine.”
With Zoé Aucaigne, we tell you how her conflict with kyiv transformed Russia into “another country”.
10:50 a.m. : As for Russian citizens, the last areas of freedom are shrinking and inflation is hitting the poorest households. So why aren’t people taking to the streets?
10:50 a.m. : One year after the beginning of its invasion, Russia, through the voice of its president, still appears triumphant. But behind a grandiloquent speech hides a country weakened by Western sanctions.
09:37 : The Russian army currently occupies 1,877 Ukrainian towns and villages, according to Volodymyr Zelensky. These localities are mainly in the east and south of the country, reports the Kyiv Independent daily. The Ukrainian president added that Mariupol, now under Russian control, is more than 90% destroyed. Follow our live.
09:23 : Russian President Vladimir Putin accused NATO of participating in the conflict in Ukraine by supplying arms to kyiv forces, in an interview broadcast this Sunday on the Rossiya-1 channel: “They are sending tens of billions of dollars worth of weapons to Ukraine. This is really participation.”