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12:04 PM: It’s 12:04 PM, time to review the news for this Thursday afternoon:
• After discovering young Sihem’s body, prosecutors announced that the suspect said he killed her during an argument “related to their romantic relationship.”
• The journalist and writer Philippe Tesson, theater enthusiast, has died last night at the age of 94.
• The European Parliament has just lifted the immunity of two MEPs targeted by the Belgian judiciary in the alleged corruption scandal benefiting Qatar and Morocco.
• On the eve of a summit meeting between the European Union and Ukraine, a European Commission delegation will visit Kyiv.
10:17 a.m .: The head of Russian diplomacy, Sergey Lavrov, for his part accused the West of supporting Ukraine in order to end “the Russian question”. According to him, Ursula von der Leyen said “that the outcome of the war must be Russia’s defeat, and a defeat from which it will not recover for decades. Isn’t that racism and National Socialism?”
10:11 am: Good to be back in Kyiv, my 4th time since the Russian invasion. This time with my team of commissars. We are here together to show that the EU is as committed to Ukraine as ever. And to further deepen our support and cooperation. https://t.co/zf8fvoNKnG
10:11 am: Ursula von der Leyen, arriving in Kyiv this morning, assured Ukraine of the European Union’s full support on the eve of an EU-Ukraine summit. This is the fourth visit by the President of the European Commission to the Ukrainian capital.
9:16 a.m.: “The memory of this battle prepares public opinion for a difficult, long-term war.”
If the reference to Stalingrad was not very present in Ukraine at the beginning of the war, “it appears especially in summer and September, which corresponds to the period when the Russian army has difficulties,” Emilia Koustova told franceinfo. Researcher of Russian Civilization at the University of Strasbourg.
9:12 a.m.: Russia is today celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory in the Battle of Stalingrad, a major turning point in World War II. This memory is now being used politically by the Kremlin to justify sending its soldiers to the front in Ukraine. I will explain to you how this memory allows Russian power to renew its ideology.
(PAULINE LE NOURS / FRANCEINFO)
7:39 a.m.: The Russian strike we were talking about in the headlines took place at 9:45 p.m. (8:45 p.m. in Paris). It targeted eight buildings in central Kramatorsk, one of which collapsed completely. About 100 police officers were deployed to search the rubble. Donetsk Region Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said two people were killed and 21 wounded in the attack.
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