A new attempt to evacuate civilians stranded in Mariupol, besieged by the Russian army for a month, must take place on Thursday.
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16h51 | Trudeau ‘can’t see how’ Putin would fit in the G20
Justin Trudeau is of the opinion that Russian President Vladimir Putin should not have a chair at the table of the G20 countries, whose next meeting is scheduled for November 15 and 16 in Indonesia.
16h41 | Biden ‘skeptical’ of Moscow’s announcements of partial troop withdrawal
US President Joe Biden said Thursday he was “skeptical” of Russia’s announcements of a partial withdrawal of its troops from Ukraine to focus its offensive on the Donbass region in the east of the country.
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16h32 | The Russians have left the Chernobyl plant
Russian troops have left the Chernobyl plant they had occupied since the start of the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Ukrainian authorities announced Thursday evening.
16h14 | A humanitarian corridor will be opened in Mariupol on Friday, assures Moscow
Russia said on Thursday that a humanitarian corridor allowing the evacuation of civilians would be opened on Friday in Mariupol, a major port city in southeastern Ukraine that Moscow forces have been trying to conquer for weeks.
15h08 | Depardieu denounces Putin’s “crazy unacceptable excesses”
The French actor Gérard Depardieu, holder of a Russian passport and usually laudatory towards Vladimir Poutine, denounced Thursday “the crazy unacceptable excesses” of the Russian president, and announced that the recipe for his three concerts planned for the beginning April in Paris “would go to the Ukrainian victims”.
15h03 | In Kharkiv, on the “Zero Point” front line
“Behind us are our families. We cannot back down, we have no choice”: in the trenches and under grapeshot, on the north-eastern edge of Kharkiv, Ukrainian soldiers are defending the country’s second city from attacks by the Russian army.
14h50 | A Russian local elected official prosecuted for having “discredited” the army
Authorities have launched a lawsuit against an elected official from the southern Russian city of Omsk, whom they accuse of sharing “false information” about the army’s action in Ukraine, reported Thursday the media.
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13h49 | Omen of protracted conflict in Ukraine
The refocusing of the Russian war effort on Donbass, in eastern Ukraine, where Russian forces will face a hardened Ukrainian army, portends a “protracted” conflict, a senior Pentagon official warned Thursday. .
12h17 | Shooting at a humanitarian convoy near Cherniguiv, one dead
One person was killed and four injured in shootings at a convoy of five buses bringing volunteers to the besieged city of Cherniguiv in northern Ukraine, a Ukrainian official said Thursday.
11:38 am | Update on the situation in Ukraine with our journalist Elizabeth Laplante
11h33 | Russians are leaving the Chernobyl site, according to the Ukrainian nuclear agency
Russian forces have begun to withdraw from the Chernobyl nuclear site, which they had taken control of on the first day of the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, the Ukrainian nuclear agency announced on Thursday.
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11h23 | Visiting Paris, a Ukrainian mayor recounts his arrest by the Russians
The mayor of Melitopol, a city in southern Ukraine occupied by the Russians, told Paris on Thursday how he had been arrested by Russian soldiers on March 11 and called on the French to be wary of propaganda from Moscow.
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10h58 | Shortage of medicines in Kherson, a city under the control of Moscow
In Kherson, shortage of medicines and soldiers searching the houses: the inhabitants of this city in the south of Ukraine have drawn up with AFP a grim portrait of life under the Russian occupation.
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10:29 am | “Go home!”: the message to Russian soldiers from the defender of Kharkiv
“Russian soldiers, go home, while you are still alive!”: the commander-in-chief of the 92nd Brigade of the Ukrainian army and defender of Kharkiv, second city of Ukraine, considers the military situation “stable” in his region but warned of a new Russian offensive in the east of the country.
9h27 | No sanctions for half of Russia’s 20 richest oligarchs
Half of Russia’s 20 richest billionaires have been spared international sanctions imposed following Moscow’s declared war on Ukraine.
9:02 am | Zelensky in front of the Belgian Parliament: “peace is more valuable than Russian diamonds, oil and gas”
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday called on Belgium to deliver arms to help its people fight Russian troops, particularly in Mariupol, judging peace more important than trade with Russia.
8:59 am | Ukraine: “stable” situation in Kharkiv, the Russian army will “attack again”
The Russian army is “regrouping its forces to attack” in eastern and southern Ukraine, the head of the 92nd Brigade and defender of Kharkiv (northeast), the country’s second largest city, said on Thursday. where the situation is “stable”.
8h24 | New attempt to evacuate civilians stranded in Mariupol
A new attempt to evacuate the many civilians stranded in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol was on track on Thursday, with the International Committee of the Red Cross saying it was ready to lead the “life-saving” operation, provided guarantees were in place.
7:59 am | Situation in Ukraine: interview with journalist Tetyana Ogarkova
6:00 a.m. | Zelensky urges the Netherlands to ‘be ready’ to boycott Russian energy
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday called on the Netherlands to be ready to boycott Russian energy during a speech to the Dutch parliament.
“Be prepared to stop energy exports from Russia so as not to pay billions for the war,” he said during a videoconference intervention.
5:53 am | Mariupol: ICRC ready to lead evacuation operations on Friday
The International Committee of the Red Cross said it was ready “to direct” the evacuation operations of besieged civilians in the city of Mariupol from Friday on condition of having the necessary guarantees, according to a press release from the organization.
“It is vital that these operations can take place. The lives of tens of thousands of people in Mariupol depend on it,” said the press release from the ICRC, which has already tried several times to organize evacuations but was unable to carry them out due to security problems.
5h45 | New attempt to evacuate civilians stranded in Mariupol
A new attempt to evacuate the many civilians stranded in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol was on track on Thursday, with the International Committee of the Red Cross saying it was ready to lead the “life-saving” operation, provided guarantees were in place.
The ICRC has already tried on several occasions, but in vain, to organize evacuations from Mariupol, a strategic port in south-eastern Ukraine, on the Sea of Azov, besieged and shelled relentlessly since the end of February by the Russian forces.
5h29 | Russia: intimidation is increasing against opponents
Tag “Z” or “collaborator” on the doors of homes, anti-Semitic message: intimidation has multiplied in recent days against opponents and critics of the Russian offensive in Ukraine.
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5h07 | Ukraine: pro-Russian separatists claim major territorial gains
The pro-Russian separatists of the Ukrainian Donbass claimed Thursday to control almost all of the Lugansk region and more than half of that of Donetsk, Moscow having made the conquest of these territories of eastern Ukraine its priority.
These claims could not be independently verified.
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5h05 | Possible meeting of the heads of Russian and Ukrainian diplomats “within one or two weeks”
The Russian Foreign Ministers, Sergei Lavrov, and Ukrainian, Dmytro Kouleba, could meet “within one or two weeks”, assured Thursday their Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Cavusoglu.
“There could be a higher-level meeting, at least between ministers, within a week or two,” Cavusoglu said in a television interview, adding that it was “impossible to put a date forward.” but that Turkey wished to host such a meeting “as a sincere mediator”.
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5h02 | Kyiv sends 45 buses to evacuate civilians to Mariupol, where Moscow has announced a truce
The Ukrainian government sent 45 buses on Thursday to evacuate civilians from Mariupol, a besieged city in southeastern Ukraine, after Moscow announced a truce to allow their departure, announced Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk.
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3h58 | Britain urges India to take action against Russia
2h11 | Putin’s advisers are afraid to tell him the truth, according to British and American intelligence
President Vladimir Putin is misled by his advisers who are “afraid to tell him the truth” about his “flawed” war strategy in Ukraine where Russian troops sabotage equipment and accidentally shoot down their own plane, British intelligence and Americans.
Close allies, whose spies work to highlight Russia’s failures and Kremlin divisions, said Putin’s advisers were ‘too scared’ to tell him the full truth about Moscow’s setbacks on the battlefield and the real impact of sanctions.
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