12:14
Pope calls to hear the cry of peace
Pope Francis calls on “those who bear the responsibilities of nations” to hear “the cry of peace of the peoples” on this “Easter of War” and recalls “martyred” Ukraine. “We have seen too much blood, too much violence (…) Let’s stop showing our muscles while the people are suffering,” the high priest begins during his traditional “Urbi et Orbi” blessing in front of around 50,000 believers in St. Peter’s Square in Rome .
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12:04
Vladimir Putin ‘believes he’s winning the war’
According to Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer, who met Vladimir Putin in Moscow earlier this week, the Russian president believes he is winning the war. “I think he’s in his own war logic now,” said the chancellor in an interview with the US broadcaster NBC, excerpts of which were published. And to add: “I think he thinks he’s winning the war”.
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11:40 a.m
The UN warns that many refugees will become homeless
Five million people have fled Ukraine since the war began. And many of them will no longer have a home after their return, the UN fears. The greatest desire of these people is to return home. But for many there will be no home because it is destroyed, damaged or in an insecure area, said Karolina Lindholm Billing, representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Ukraine.
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11:27
The escape of Kamran, a geography teacher who taught in Russia
Karman, 28, a professor in Moscow, did not want to use the educational materials provided by the Russian administration to teach. After a post on Instagram denouncing propaganda in schools about the war in Ukraine, he was summoned and threatened with jail. He told us his story.
Instagram/Kamran Manafly
11:05
Mario Draghi regrets the ineffectiveness of the dialogue with Putin
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi regrets the ineffectiveness of the “dialogue” with Vladimir Putin. “I’m starting to think that those who say: it’s useless for you to talk to him, you’re wasting time, are right,” he told Il Corriere della Sera. I have always defended (Emmanuel) Macron and I continue to say that as the current President of the EU he is right to try all possible avenues of dialogue. But I have the impression that the horror of war (…) is completely independent of the phone calls between the Kremlin and foreign powers, he added.
Reuters/Yara Nardi
10:46
Russia says it ‘destroyed’ a military factory near Kyiv.
Russia’s Defense Ministry announces it has bombed a military factory on the outskirts of Kyiv as Moscow ramps up its attacks on the Ukrainian capital. “Overnight, high-precision missiles fired from planes destroyed a munitions factory near Brovary in the Kyiv region,” the ministry said in a statement on its Telegram channel.
(Drawing). Reuters/Vladyslav Musiienko
09:48
No corridor for civilian evacuation this Sunday
In the absence of an agreement with the Russians, no corridor for the evacuation of civilians was opened on Sunday, Ukrainian authorities say. This morning we did not manage to negotiate a ceasefire with the occupying forces on the evacuation routes. For this reason, unfortunately, we will not open humanitarian corridors today,” Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk told Telegram.
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09:42
There are currently no casualties following the bombing of Brovary
Brovary Mayor Ihor Sapozhko says no casualties have been reported after the bombing of this small town on the outskirts of Kyiv this morning. Asked about BFM, the elected official further states that the bombardment damaged a facility and a power plant.
Fadel Senna / AFP
09:22
In Kharkiv, a volunteer kitchen destroyed by a Russian strike
A missile set fire to several buildings in central Kharkiv and destroyed a kitchen that provided free meals to residents of that northeastern city.
Under the pressure of the blast, loaves of bread flew onto the street, quickly soaked with water from fire hoses deployed by firefighters to put out the blaze engulfing the building. According to local authorities, two people were killed and 18 others injured in the Russian attack.
(Drawing). Reuters/Alkis Konstantinidis
09:03
Strikes in the town of Brovary near Kyiv
Strikes damaged infrastructure in the town of Brovary, near the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, the city’s mayor Igor Sapozhko told the Guardian. At the moment we do not know the number of potential victims. Asked about BFM, the city’s mayor states that the bombardment damaged a facility and a power plant.
Fadel Senna / AFP
08:53
Russia calls on remaining Mariupol defenders to surrender
Russia has promised Ukrainian forces in Mariupol that it will save their lives if they lay down their arms at “6 a.m. Moscow time” (5 a.m. Paris) this morning – according to the head of Russia’s National Defense Control Center, Colonel Mikhail Mizintsev quoted by the official Tass news agency. “All those who lay down their arms will have their lives saved,” says Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev.
Fadel Senna/AFP
08:18
Prince Charles pays tribute to refugees
Prince Charles, heir to the British Crown, paid tribute to refugees and those who open their doors to them in an Easter message. “Today millions of people are displaced, weary from their journey from troubled places, hurt by the past, fearful of the future and in need of a kind welcome and a chance to rest,” said Charles, 73, eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II, 96 next Thursday.
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08:00
How the war in Ukraine creeps into Russian schools
Since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, Russian teachers have been under pressure. The authorities sent them propaganda material, they are smart to use forbidden words like “war”. Self-censorship is the order of the day. We met some of them in Moscow.
LP/Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr.
07:38
Israel, haven for opponents of Putin’s Russia
Since the invasion of Ukraine began, nearly 24,000 Ukrainians have fled to Israel, according to the Immigration Ministry, many benefiting from the “Law of Return,” which grants Jews, children or grandchildren of Jews the right to obtain Israeli citizenship. But in the shadow of the war, Russian opponents also packed for the Holy Land. An Israeli official puts the number of Russians who have entered Israel since the war in Ukraine at around 10,000. “Most of them are educated, urban, middle-class people,” he says.
Reuters/Ammar Awad
07:21
Civilians on the brink of starvation in Mariupol
According to World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley, more than 100,000 civilians in Mariupol are at risk of starvation because they also lack water and a source of heat. “Mariupol, that can be ten times Borodianka,” a town near Kyiv that was devastated after bombing and the scene of alleged abuses during its occupation, hammered the Ukrainian president in reference to the toll.
Reuters/Alexander Ermoshenko
07:04
Inhuman situation in Mariupol
The situation in the strategic port of Mariupol is “inhumane”, declared the Ukrainian President last night and called on the West to “immediately” provide the heavy weapons that he has been demanding for several weeks, while Russia claims to control almost the entire city and makes a new appeal to its last defenders to lay down their arms. The situation in Mariupol remains as serious as it gets. Simply inhuman,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video message. The Russian Federation did that. Did it on purpose. (…) Russia is deliberately trying to annihilate someone in Mariupol’ in south-eastern Ukraine.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy. AFP
06:54
Boris Johnson will be banned from entering Russia
Russia announced yesterday that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and several other senior British officials have been banned from entering the country in retaliation for sanctions against Moscow over its military operation in Ukraine.
06:35
Survivors of the cruiser Moskva?
05:50
Moscow targets military factory in Kyiv
In particular, a military equipment factory that produces tanks was bombed yesterday morning in Darnytsky, on the outskirts of Kyiv. This Moscow-claimed bombardment, which left one dead and several injured, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko, comes the day after Russian forces warned they were stepping up attacks on the Ukrainian capital.
The attack left one dead. AFP
05:40
Oil refinery hit in Donbass
The Russians are systematically targeting them to exhaust the rescuers. There’s no fuel in there. Only hydrocarbon tailings burn, Ukrainian Lugansk Region Governor Serguiï Gaïdaï said on his Telegram channel.
05:30
Repatriation of Russian diplomats expelled by France
Passengers in their 37s, “persona non grata” with their families and loved ones, boarded the flight, which took off in the late afternoon, the source reported.
05:20
Hello and welcome
This live will be devoted to events related to the 53rd day of the Russian offensive in Ukraine.