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11:26 p.m.: While Kiev had asked its western allies to send it modern fighter-bombers, Poland announced that it would deliver a first batch of four MiG-29 fighter-bombers to Ukraine. At the same time, the United States considered talks between Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Xi Jinping to be “a very good thing.” Here’s what to remember from that day on the war front in Ukraine.
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11:06 p.m.: Kiev soldiers are waiting for the arrival of western tanks and fight every day with often defective Soviet-made vehicles. On the Vuhledar front, where the largest tank brigade of the Ukrainian army is located, Igor makes this observation: he has been working with the T64 tank for four years and “there is not a single day when there is nothing to repair”, explains he our local journalist, Thibault Lefèvre.
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5:51 p.m.: Poland has previously announced plans to transfer four MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine. “That doesn’t change anything about our analysis. (…) It’s not on the table,” responded a spokesman for the White House. The United States has always refused to deliver planes to Kiev.
4.49 p.m .: The Attorney General of Chambéry (Savoie) is in favor of the extradition to Ukraine of the businessman and former Ukrainian MP Konstantin Evago, accused of embezzlement, whose portrait we are taking this morning. Part of Ukraine is not in a situation of “intensity conflict,” says the Advocate General, who cannot be refused extradition because of the risk of war. The case was adjourned until March 30.
4:38 p.m .: The Russian judiciary has described a legion of Russians fighting with the Ukrainian army against Moscow as a “terrorist organization”, the “freedom of Russia”. A decision that paves the way to severe penalties for its members if caught and anyone who helps or funds this group. His spokesman assured AFP in January that this legion had “several hundred” members in Donbass at the time.
4:42 p.m.: Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, UN investigators have not observed any genocide in Ukraine, says Erik Mose, one of the three commissioners responsible for the investigation. “Certain aspects of this crime may raise questions,” he nuances.
4:31 p.m .: The Chinese Foreign Minister spoke to his Ukrainian counterpart on the phone. “We discussed the importance of the principle of territorial integrity,” assures Dmytro Kouleba. The Chinese diplomacy report does not mention it, but reports in other words from Qin Gang: “China fears that the crisis is worsening and spiraling out of control. (…) It hopes that all parties will remain calm and exercise restraint, resume peace talks as soon as possible and return to the path of a political solution.”
2:29 p.m .: Poland will send four Soviet-designed MIG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine in the coming days, Polish President Andrezj Duda has announced.
1:26 p.m.: Close to Vladimir Putin, Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill denounces Ukraine’s “outrageous” decision last week demanding the eviction of the monks from the Kiev monastery. They are part of a branch of the Orthodox Church that remained under Kirill’s authority until May, when she announced she would sever ties with Moscow over the Russian offensive. However, the Ukrainian government still sees itself as dependent on Russia.
2:25 p.m .: A factory in Tarbes (Hautes-Pyrénées) receives an investment of 15 million euros, half of it from the state. It is the only one in France that makes the shells used for the Caesar guns that are sent to Ukraine. France 2 went there.
12:25 p.m.: Official footage released by the US Air Force of the collision between a Russian Su-27 and a US MQ-9 over the Black Sea. https://t.co/kZaYUyXzVm
2:21 p.m .: The US Department of Defense uploads a video it presented of the incident involving two Russian planes that caused a US drone to be shot down in the Black Sea on Tuesday. We see how the fighter planes in turn graze the drone and repel a cloud that hits the American plane. Washington said it was a fuel spill, and the second Russian plane hit the drone’s propeller, which appears twisted in recent images.
12:15 p.m .: He is considered one of the greatest fortunes in his country and has been sued in several cases for several years. And the question that now arises is simple: will France extradite Konstantin Jevago? This businessman was arrested in Savoie late last year. He was wanted by Kyiv. The judiciary is now examining the application from the Ukrainian authorities.
11:03 am: Poland claims to have completely dismantled a Russian spy network working in support of Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine. It was a spy group, a group of people collecting information for those who attacked Ukraine,” Poland’s defense minister told public radio PR1.
10:56 a.m .: Chancellor Olaf Scholz considered it “particularly important” to supply Ukraine “quickly” with the necessary ammunition to ward off the Russian invasion.
12:04: Troop training abroad, additional resources, strategic positioning, troop morale… We explain how Kiev is preparing for a counter-offensive in the spring.
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