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• This is a historic low. The debate between Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron attracted 15.6 million viewers. The two candidates are already back on the field. Follow this new day of action in our Live.
• Didn’t you see last night’s debate? We wrap it up for you in this article and have verified twelve finalist claims here.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin describes the “liberation of Mariupol as a success”. Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanichyna claims that “1,020 bodies of civilians, civilians only” lie in morgues “across the Kyiv region.” Track the situation in our life.
11:47 am: Olga Stefanichyna reports to AFP “1,020 bodies of civilians, only civilians” in morgues in “the entire Kyiv region”. In early April, Russian forces began withdrawing from near the Ukrainian capital to reposition to the east.
11:41 am: More than 1,000 bodies of civilians lie in morgues in the Kyiv region, the Ukrainian capital, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanichyna said.
11:21 a.m .: French involvement in Ukraine is part of a “certain revolutionary romanticism” and continues an old tradition of the French far-right, explains Jean-Yves Camus, a political scientist specializing in right-wing extremists, to AFP. “Ukraine is also seen as a thoroughly European and Christian region,” he continues. “Finally, pro-Ukrainians are drawn to the Ukrainian nationalist tradition and the myth of the insurgent army of Stepan Bandera, who collaborated with Nazi Germany (before opposing it) and fought the ‘Soviet Red Army’ during World War II.
11:14 a.m .: Sacha, who has distant family ties to Ukraine, is Argentinian: “We are in a free and democratic country, and in this war the civilians suffer the most,” he explains his commitment. Exhausted from the battle he fought last month, he takes the time to break news to his wife and children across the Atlantic.
11:21 am: Volunteers from all countries are pouring into Ukraine to fight in Donbass. In Kyiv, where franceinfo met her before she left for the East, the instructions are shown in Ukrainian and English. Four Brazilians are sitting in the canteen, having their instructions translated by a Portuguese woman. Even the commander has chosen an international combat name: John. He has trouble remembering all the countries of origin of his soldiers: Taiwan, Great Britain, Scotland, Spain, Lithuania, Sweden, Georgia. The French also left there. A total of twenty nationalities. Here is our report.
10:57: Youlia, a Ukrainian woman in her 30s who fled the bombed city of Mykolaiv a month ago, will give birth to her daughter in the Dordogne, where she has taken refuge, France Bleu Périgord reports. In France there is Jus Soli, but Julia’s daughter will be Ukrainian. She plans to return home. “There’s my husband and all my family.” Her husband cannot visit her when she gives birth, Ukrainian law forbids it because he is of military age. He will witness the birth of his daughter on video, with his cell phone.
10:29 a.m .: “At first I just wanted to help friends, a couple and their animals, says Nadejda. I started a collection on Instagram. I recorded a video and it went viral. Two days later I realized that it wasn’t just mine friends, but also 72 others who needed humanitarian assistance.” We tell in this article how solidarity is organized in Russia to help Ukrainian refugees.
9:42 a.m.: “The situation is difficult, even critical,” admitted a commander of the Azov Battalion, one of the last two combat units in Mariupol, shortly before. In addition to the last Ukrainian fighters, several hundred civilians who lack food and water are holed up in the Azovstal factory, according to Kyiv.
9.42 a.m .: The Russian President assures that his troops have “successfully” brought Mariupol under their control, which Kyiv has not confirmed for the time being. Vladimir Putin also told his Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu, that an attack on the Azovstal site was “inappropriate” and that the area “should be besieged in such a way that not a single fly could not get past”.
09:34: Russian President Vladimir Putin says “liberation of Mariupol is a success”.
09:10: It’s 9 a.m., here are the most important titles:
• Marine Le Pen hesitant and on the defensive? Emmanuel Macron arrogant and on the offensive? After the debate between the two rounds, comments and analyzes multiply. Follow the different reactions in our lives.
• Pensions, inflation, unemployment… After the face-to-face meeting between Emmanuel Macro and Marine Le Pen, we examined twelve statements from the finalists.
• According to the Ukrainian government, four civilian evacuation buses managed to leave Mariupol after several days without a humanitarian corridor. Track the situation in our life.
• We still have to wait a little longer. Despite the victory in Angers (3-0), PSG are not yet French champions. The fault of OM, winners in extremis against Nantes (3-2) delaying the deadline by a few days.
8:54 a.m.: The establishment of a humanitarian corridor from the martyr city of Mariupol failed yesterday. Kyiv and Moscow had denied responsibility for this failure.
08:46: According to the Ukrainian government, four civilian evacuation buses left Mariupol after several days without a humanitarian corridor.
07:27: When and how does the siege of Mariupol, a martyr city in southern Ukraine, end? Impossible to say exactly. “We are ready to leave Mariupol with the help of third parties,” armed with weapons, “to save the people entrusted to us,” says a commander of the Azov Battalion, one of the last two combat units in the port city.
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