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2:39 p.m.: “There is a debate among historians as to whether Stalin intended to cause a famine,” justifies Fabien Roussel, national secretary of the PCF, on France Télévisions. This week, two Communist MPs voted against a resolution that labeled the Holodomor, Stalin’s 1930s starvation of millions of Ukrainians, a genocide.
12:30 p.m.: “We will raise the Ukrainian flag again in all our cities and towns.”
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy praised the Ukrainian resistance on the first anniversary of the discovery of the bodies of civilians killed in Boutcha. To date, Russia still controls more than 18% of Ukrainian territory.
(SERGEJ DOLZHENKO / MAXPP)
11:32 a.m .: The Russian-language independent medium Meduza tells in this article (in English) how Russian soldiers at the front “drink to forget the fear”. Alcohol also leads to their death. In Yelensky, Russia, soldiers died without ever seeing a war. Two of those deaths were directly related to alcohol: one man choked on his own vomit while the other had a seizure, the media reported.
1:02 p.m .: According to the British Ministry of Defence (in English), Russian commanders reported that alcohol abuse among their troops was responsible for an “extremely high” number of incidents and deaths.
11:19 am: Ukraine “will continue the struggle for its independence,” said Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Army Valery Zalouzhny, exactly a year to the day after the bodies of civilians were found in the town of Boutcha, in the Kiev suburbs.
11:04 a.m.: The performances have been adapted to the circumstances. A closet contains a supply of gas masks “just in case”. Even in the event that a power failure closes the “scene”, a generator is ready to take over the time of the play. “Welcome to the secret stage. They are safe,” says comedian Yuri Grouchenko before each show.
(MATHIEU DREUJOU / FRANCE TELEVISION)
10:59: “We inevitably have a role to play when the wounded or people who have lost everything come to us. A year after the start of the war, our house is still a haven for spirits,” says theater director Artem Svistun.
(MATHIEU DREUJOU / FRANCE TELEVISION)
1:00 p.m.: More than a year after the Russian invasion began, the Mykolayiv Academic Theater is still waiting to resume normal operations. The spectators continue to snuggle up in the basement to forget everyday wartime life. Our special correspondents Raphaël Godet, Fabien Magnenou and Mathieu Dreujou were there.
(MATHIEU DREUJOU / FRANCE TELEVISION)
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