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07:15 : The separatist authorities of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia will hold “annexation referendums” from now on. But these popular consultations are already coming up against a wall: they are moreover qualified as “parody” by President Emmanuel Macron and described as “illegal” by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Pierre-Louis Caron summarizes the reasons for this massive rejection.
07:10 : The “referendums” of annexation by Russia in areas controlled by pro-Russians have just begun.
07:21 : It’s time to make the first point on the news of the day:
Foreign ministers of the UN Security Council yesterday demanded that Vladimir Putin’s Russia be held to account for its invasion of Ukraine, before their Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.
“The head of state who wanted to go to war, who wanted an escalation, is Vladimir Putin”said Emmanuel Macron, in an interview with CNN on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
• Authorities in Iran have blocked access to Instagram and WhatsApp after six days of protests following the death of a young woman arrested by vice squad, in which at least 17 people died, according to a report from a yesterday’s state media.
• Emmanuel Macron announced yesterday that he wanted “go twice as fast” in the deployment of renewable energies and accelerate the launch of new nuclear reactors, by inaugurating the first offshore wind farm in France off Saint-Nazaire (Loire-Atlantique).