After Storm Bret in Martinique, around 25,000 households were without power. Little by little everything is back to normal. However, some houses still have no electricity.

Xavier Chevalier • Published June 24, 2023 at 4:58 pm, updated June 24, 2023 at 5:25 pm.

As of Saturday morning, June 24, only 800 homes were left without power. EDF wants to get everyone resupplied as quickly as possible, so 150 technicians are still on duty.

The company states that 97% of victims are reconnected to the network. “Resolving the observed issues takes longer as it depends on the case,” the company states.

Storm Bret struck Martinque on the night of Thursday 22nd to Friday 23rd June, causing power outages in 25,000 homes. The municipalities of Vauclin, Marin, Sainte-Anne, La Trinité, Robert, Saint Joseph, Fort-de-France, Francois, Rivière-Pilote and Gros Morne were particularly affected.

Cuts often associated with the lack of maintenance of the vegetation. Ahead of hurricane season, EDF goes to locations where branches and trees get too close to power lines to do pruning work. On average, 1,500 participants are disconnected from the power grid with every impact on a line.

EDF reminds that “under no circumstances should you touch electric cables, even if they fall to the ground”.

A troubleshooting number is available for customers 👉🏾 0596 39 82 05.

L’Ukraine Take advantage of the crisis Russia and announces that a major offensive has begun in the east, towards Donbass, to recapture the areas that now suddenly seem within reach. And in just a few hours that would have led to the liberation of the areas in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic that had been occupied by pro-Russians since 2014.

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The country has watched with a mixture of astonishment, hope and revenge as the situation in Russia escalated. At least until Prigozhin’s announcement in the evening to halt the advance. Especially the televisions in the information marathons conveyed the feeling throughout the day that the war was digging itself like a dagger in the Russian stomach. “Russia’s weakness is obvious. It’s a weakness on a grand scale. And the longer Russia keeps its troops and mercenaries on our land, the more chaos, pain and problems it will have later on,” was President Zelenskyy’s first heated comment this morning after a brief tweet in which he argued, “This is just the beginning .” », when the 25,000 mercenaries of the Wagner rebel militia had not even taken the highway to Moscow.

Kiev’s warning

And the longer Russia keeps its troops and mercenaries on our land, the more chaos, pain and problems it will have later on,” was President Zelenskyy’s first heated comment this morning after a brief tweet in which he argued, “This is just the beginning .” », when the 25,000 mercenaries of the Wagner rebel militia had not even taken the highway to Moscow. “For too long Russia has used propaganda to cover up its weakness and the stupidity of its government. And now there is so much chaos that no lie can hide the reality,” added Zelenskyy, according to whom the tsar is now naked. “I will say in Russian: the man from the Kremlin is obviously very scared and is probably hiding somewhere without showing himself.” I am sure he is no longer in Moscow. He calls somewhere, asks for something from there… He knows what he’s afraid of, because he himself created this threat,” Zelenskyy added in a speech to the nation at the end of the day of shock in the evening.

The reaction of the Ukrainians

For many Ukrainians interviewed by the media, the images are of people running in terror through the streets of Rostov-on-Don while the Wagner militiamen took over headquarters, which until tonight was the headquarters of the Ukraine Operations Command and Post Advance the Russian General Staff. Frightened civilians make Ukrainians feel that Russians, who have been deceived by propaganda for years, are experiencing first-hand what the terror of arms and war is.

However, the enemy of the enemy Putin is not necessarily seen in Kiev as a friend, but rather as one who has all this already planned: facts that do not give hope for an all too rosy future, even if the flag of Putin’s regime should be lowered. Strikingly logical, according to Kiev, is the fact that the man who has been complaining for weeks about the lack of ammunition and logistics is now armed to the teeth in the direction of the capital of “Grandmother Russia”. The chef and former great friend of Putin – this is the most common comment made by Ukrainian media and politicians – is in fact a “monster” created by Putin’s own power to serve him, which instead rebelled against him. “The Wagner uprising is a direct consequence of the war unleashed by the Kremlin, because this illegal group was armed and prepared for aggression against Ukraine. “It is a pity that the problems have now returned to Russia like a boomerang,” commented Zelenskyi’s adviser Mikhailo Podoliak.

And if in Kiev for many months life seems to have superficially returned to everyday life, if the battlefields seem far away and many people no longer pay attention to the frequent nightly air raids, last night death returned to the same Ukrainian capital. All of the aerial bombs launched by Russia (41 cruise missiles and two Iranian Shahed drones) were shot down, Kiev claimed. But shrapnel landed on a skyscraper in the capital, killing at least three people, injuring eight others and causing part of the building to collapse.

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The partisan leader emphasized: “There are all sorts of misunderstandings between people, but there comes a time in the history of every state and citizen when you have to give up all your ambitions and defend our country as we defended it during the Great Patriotic War have.” 1941). -1945).

“I appeal to all left-patriotic people’s forces: we must unite as much as possible and support the boys who are fighting for our fatherland and liberating Ukraine from the Nazis, Banderists and fascists,” stressed Zyuganov.

He added that it was necessary to stop those who came as a provocation despite the difficult situation in the country. I speak directly to the soldiers, commanders and warriors involved in this conflict.

“We must fight against National Socialism and fascism. And doing the American, Anglo-Saxon and Russian enemies a favor is the last thing to do,” he added.

These statements of support for unity come despite Putin’s outdated allusion to the Bolshevik revolution in his speech, when he compared the current betrayal of capitalist Prigozhin to the 1917 revolution that sought to emancipate the working class from the tsarist yoke and the bourgeoisie.

Prigozin’s cause, Zyuganov argues, is not some working class-organized “revolution,” but the treacherous uprising of a capitalist magnate against a state power that for decades allowed him excesses, and he commits this act out of personal ambition at worst.

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Yevgeny Prigozhin will leave Russia after reaching an agreement with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko

Yevgeny Prigozhin, chairman of the Wagner Group, has left Russia for Belarus, where he is expected to stay after striking an agreement with Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko.

The agreement with Lukashenko provoked the withdrawal of mercenary troops heading for the Russian capital Moscow. He gave the order in an audio file that was shared on the group’s networks. Hours later, Prigozhin and his troops were seen leaving the city of Rostov.

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After signing the deal with Lukashenko, the Russian government announced it would not prosecute Prigozhin if the mercenary leader left the country.

The Moscow representative said that the other members of the Wagner group are not being pursued, since they take into account the efforts of the mercenary team that served at the front during the war with Ukraine. It was also reported that those who refused to take part in the rebellion can sign contracts with the Russian Defense Ministry.

In his speech, Peskov stated that the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin had “always respected the accomplishments” of the Wagner group.

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UNDERSTAND THE CASE

The Wagner Group launched an uprising against the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday (June 23). The leader of the mercenaries, Yevgeny Prigozhin, declared war on the Russian military high command and accused Russian Defense Minister Serguey Choigu of bombing a camp belonging to the group stationed on the front lines of the war with Ukraine.

The paramilitary group immediately seized control of the city of RostovonDon, near the border with Ukraine, and vowed to march on Moscow to overthrow the government, which it labeled “a liar, corrupt and bureaucratic”.

A few hours later, President Vladimir Putin classified the maneuver as a “stab in the back” and promised the members of the Wagner group severe penalties. According to the Kremlin chief, the forces loyal to the country have already received the necessary orders to put down the uprising and announced that decisive maneuvers will be carried out in the next few hours.

According to Prigozhin, the group includes more than 25 thousand soldiers.

In January 2023, the US classified the Wagner Group as a “transnational criminal organization”. The statement was made by John Kirby, Strategic Communications Coordinator at the National Security Council. According to him, there would be about 50,000 mercenaries on the battlefield, plus 10,000 contractors and 40,000 Russian prisoners.

Founded in 2014 by Lt. Col. Dmitry Utkin, the Wagner Group is the main mercenary company involved in military operations aligned with Putin’s interests. The faction rose to prominence that same year for supporting Russianbacked separatist forces in Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula. In 2015, Yevgeny Prigozhin became the head of the organization.

The Russian constitution prohibits mercenary groups from operating in the country, but there are loopholes in the legislation that allow these types of organizations to operate. Russian state companies are allowed to have private armed security forces, which allows mercenaries to operate legally and in an organized manner.

In this way, the Wagner Group acts as Putin’s private army, able to expand its area of ​​operations to other continents without directly involving the country’s official armed forces. Paramilitaries are already deployed in several African countries, including Libya, Sudan, Mali and Madagascar. The group has also worked in Syria to help the regime of President Bashar alAssad, an ally of Putin.

In response to Putin’s statement, Prigozhin spoke about the group’s involvement on the African continent and that they remain in contact with the Russian government to intervene in those countries. “When we were fighting in Africa, they didn’t say we needed Africa and then left because they stole all the aid money,” he said.

With regard to the current confrontation with Ukraine, the Wagner group was distinguished by fighting on the front lines in the main battles of the conflict. The mercenaries were the main Russian attacking force in the city of Bakhmut, the scene of the bloodiest battle of the war.