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6:47 p.m.: Anti-terror prosecutors are launching a war crimes investigation into the death of journalist Arman Soldin near Bachmout, Ukraine.
6:04 p.m.: Those who are close to Arman Soldin are convinced that their personal history has shaped their lifestyle. Born in 1991 in a war country, Bosnia, he left Sarajevo with his parents at the age of one. He grew up in Ille-et-Vilaine, where his mother and younger brother still live. Her father lives in Sarajevo. Her older sister lives in Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina). “The truth is, he didn’t talk much about his childhood,” admits Guillaume. But I remember he told us that his father had a football career in former Yugoslavia. I understand better why he was so good too,” says a friend.
6:02 p.m.: “I opened WhatsApp and sent him a heart. He never answered me and I cried all night about it.”
Marc-Henri Maisonhaute, colleague and friend of the AFP journalist who was killed yesterday in Ukraine, told our journalist Raphaël Godet who Arman Soldin was, “a lovely guy” who had “all the qualities”, “loved life” and “everything “So.” “I think he’s lived 32 more things in 80 years than anyone else,” he confesses to the reporter. 
(BULENT KILIC / AFP)
4:00 p.m.: “It is necessary for China to use its ties with Russia to make it clearer to Russia that it is at an impasse and to urge it to come to its senses.”
Shortly before a meeting with her Chinese counterpart Qin Gang, the head of French diplomacy recalled that France’s positions “on China and Ukraine” were “known”. “We talk about it openly, directly, with the frankness that friendship allows,” she added after the Ministerial Council.
4:03 p.m .: Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne then took the floor to “state something on behalf of the government (…).” [s]we emotions and [s]a solidarity following the death of journalist Arman Soldin.” “He fell because he believed that duty to inform should stop at nothing,” she said.
4:04 p.m.: Opening questions to the government, senators observed a minute’s silence in memory of Arman Soldin, the French journalist killed yesterday in Ukraine. Public Senate posted on Twitter an excerpt from this homage in the plenary hall of the Palais du Luxembourg.
3:06 p.m.: Arman Soldin posed smiling near a trench a few weeks ago. The 32-year-old was killed in a hail of missiles near Bakhmout yesterday. France 2 dedicates a portrait to him.
2:23 p.m.: “It’s a bad comparison, but when you go to a party or a bar, it’s like meeting someone who is generous and takes their time. He was that type of guy.”
Learning of the death of French journalist Arman Soldin in a missile attack near Bakhmout, Caleb Larson was overcome with emotion. This colleague, who works for the AP agency, confides in Franceinfo.
1:45 p.m.: Kaliningrad becomes Krolewiec. Warsaw has announced that the city, located in the Russian enclave of the same name, will once again bear its former Polish name on maps and administrative documents. “We do not want Russification in Poland, so we decided to call Kaliningrad and its region in our own language,” Development Minister Waldemar Buda said in a statement.
1:00 p.m .: According to the IMF’s chief economist, the Russian economy is defending itself in particular with the explosion in energy prices, which it is therefore exporting “less, but much more expensively”, he explains on franceinfo. However, he assumes that these revenues “will decrease in the coming years because of a reorientation of energy flows”.
12:59 p.m .: On Friday, the European Commission presented the EU member states with an eleventh package of restrictive measures against Russia. But are these sanctions effective? For the chief economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, they certainly do not mean “sudden death” of the economy, but “a strangulation” nonetheless, he explains to franceinfo. As a result, the country “has stopped approaching the other European countries in terms of living standards,” he emphasizes.
12:57 p.m.: “On behalf of the Government and following the President of the Republic, I would like to express the pain of the entire nation after the AFP journalist Arman Soldin was killed in Ukraine while carrying out his mission.” so important, with the courage of those dedicated to providing information.
Concluding the Council of Ministers, the government spokesman paid tribute to the 32-year-old reporter who was killed by Russian rocket fire near Bakhmout yesterday.
11:34 am: According to Reporters Without Borders (RSF) report, he is the tenth journalist to be killed while covering the war in Ukraine. Arman Soldin, 32, died yesterday near Bakhmout in the Donetsk region (east of the country). Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and a refugee in France since he was a child, the photojournalist volunteered to be one of AFP’s first special envoys after the country was invaded by Russian troops in February 2022. Here’s what we know of his death.
(ARIS MESSINIS / AFP)
9:21 a.m .: France is paying a particularly high price in the conflict in Ukraine, emphasizes the Secretary General of Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Christophe Deloire in a tweet. “Of the ten journalists killed since the conflict began, three had French passports: Pierre Zakrzewski, Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff and Arman Soldin,” he wrote, specifying that they were all photo reporters (JRI).
9:13 a.m.: “Vladimir Putin has already lost the war in Ukraine,” says Frans Timmermans, first vice-president of the European Commission, on France Inter. According to him, “It had no purpose.” [le chef du Kremlin] didn’t last a year ago”. In particular, he mentions “the failed conquest of Bachmout” and believes that “the Ukrainians have the means to repel the Russians”.
(Info on France)
8:40 a.m.: The National Assembly has adopted a motion for a resolution aimed at Paris and the European Union adding the Russian paramilitary group Wagner to the list of terrorist organizations. But what will this text actually achieve? Our journalist Valentine Pasquesoone tells you more.
7:36 am: “The world owes a debt to Arman” Soldin, AFP’s journalist who was killed yesterday in Ukraine, and to “the ten other reporters and media workers who lost their lives” as they spoke about the conflict reported responded to the White House doorbell tonight.
(Aris MESSINIS / AFP)
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