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8:35 pm: Good evening, can you explain the strategic importance of the city of Bakhmout and why the Russians want it so much? thank you good night
8:15 p.m.: Eight people and seven organizations linked to the paramilitary group have been placed on the asset freeze and travel ban list. The Wagner group itself, which is actively fighting with the Russian army in Ukraine, was sanctioned by the European Union back in 2021.
7:49 p.m .: The European Union has announced new sanctions against the Russian company Wagner for its “human rights violations” in the Central African Republic, in Sudan and in Mali.
6:41 p.m.: Russia has accused the West of “destabilizing” the G20 financial summit in India by trying to “blackmail” a joint statement on Ukraine. “We regret that the activities of the G20 continue to be destabilized by the collective West and used in an anti-Russian and purely confrontational manner,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
7:17 p.m.: The head of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, Evguéni Prigojine, claimed responsibility for his men taking the village of Yaguidné. This decision closes the noose around Bakhmout, a town less than two kilometers away that Moscow’s troops have been trying to capture since the summer.
5:07 p.m .: How to push back Vladimir Putin and his troops? The European Union has passed a new set of sanctions against Russia aimed at undermining its military capabilities and increasing pressure on its economy. According to the commission, this tenth plan is of a scale that has not been reached since the beginning of the war. Franceinfo summarizes its main actions for you.
4:47 pm: Mariupol Theater, Ivankiv Historical Museum… Unesco has listed a total of 241 cultural sites that have been destroyed or damaged in Ukraine since the beginning of the war.
4:26 p.m .: Around 10,000 people gathered in central Berlin (Germany) this morning, according to the police. They demanded negotiations with Moscow instead of arms deliveries to Ukraine. The rally, organized by left-wing politician Sahra Wagenknecht and feminist Alice Schwarzer, had the motto “Rise up for peace”.
(MONIKA SKOLIMOWSKA / DPA / AFP)
4:00 p.m.: Thousands of people demonstrate in Paris and other French cities at the call of Ukrainians in France. Around 6,000 people gathered in the capital.
(EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP)
3:33 p.m.: Polish oil giant Orlen announced that Russia has stopped supplying oil to it through the Druzhba pipeline under the last valid contract, which covered around 10% of Orlen’s needs.
3:03 p.m.: New European Union sanctions over the war in Ukraine are targeting 121 individuals and organizations, including Iranian drone manufacturers, the EU has announced. These successive packages of measures adopted by the EU are “the most far-reaching sanctions” that have ever been passed, said the President of the European Commission.
2:39 p.m .: Franceinfo traces a year of war in Ukraine using eight emblematic sites of the conflict. A great visual narrative to understand how war took hold in Europe.
2:25 p.m .: From the agricultural show, Emmanuel Macron announced that he would go to China “at the beginning of April”. The head of state called on Beijing to “help us put pressure on Russia” to “stop aggression” and “make peace”.
11:19 am: Miniatures to express the immensity of the horrors of war. The Ukrainian Post Office has printed dozens of new stamp designs since the conflict began. This iconography inscribes the most important events of the conflict in the collective memory and finds unexpected success.
11:48 a.m.: Banned from broadcasting in the European Union since the war in Ukraine, broadcaster RT France has changed its editorial line and assumed it was openly passing on Moscow propaganda. She is now trying, with great difficulty, to expand her audience in French-speaking Africa. Explanations.
10:57 a.m .: The investigations are being carried out by investigators from the Central Office for Combating Crimes Against Humanity and Hate Crimes (OCLCH). A cell dedicated to Ukraine does “rather classic” investigative work, says General Jean-Philippe Reiland, who heads this office attached to the gendarmerie. Not least with one exception: “The crime scene escapes us: it is not on national territory and is difficult to access.” It is therefore important to go there to understand what might have happened. Three members of the Pnat and seven gendarmes were able to carry out an operation in Ukraine last September.
10:57 a.m.: “The judiciary takes time to collect evidence so that it can be established. It’s very long, but I get it.”
The French judiciary launched an investigation into the death of journalist Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff, who was killed by shrapnel on May 30, 2022 in the Luhansk region. The investigations continue little by little, so that his mother, Sylvie Imhoff, takes his trouble patiently.
10:56 a.m .: Since the beginning of the Russian offensive in Ukraine, seven investigations into “war crimes” have been launched by the National Counter-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office (Pnat) in France, within which there is a separate pole. I will explain to you the meticulous work of the French judges and gendarmes who have to cope with the physical distance to the crime scene and the limited resources.
11:46 a.m .: China has called on Russia and Ukraine to hold peace talks and has rejected any use of nuclear weapons. “All parties should support Russia and Ukraine to work in the same direction and resume direct dialogue as soon as possible” for a “peaceful solution,” the Chinese foreign ministry said.
11.35 a.m .: A year after the invasion of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has set himself the goal of defeating Russia “this year”. “If [nos] Partners keeping their word and meeting deadlines, an inevitable victory awaits us,” the President of Ukraine told a press conference yesterday.
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