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8:09 p.m. : It is 8 p.m., we take stock of the news of the day:
The European combat aircraft is becoming clearer. An agreement has been reached, notably between Dassault and Airbus. Emmanuel Macron salutes “a big step forward”.
“Palmost half” of the energy system is “out of order” after the Russian strikes, according to the Ukrainian Prime Minister. Follow our live.
#MILLAS The driver of the school bus, in which six children died in 2017, is sentenced to five years in prison, four of which were suspended. She appealed her conviction.
#UNEMPLOYMENT_INSURANCE The deputies of the Nupes announce to lodge an appeal before the Constitutional Council about the bill on unemployment insurance.
6:04 p.m. : It is 6 p.m., we stop for a moment on the titles:
“Palmost half” of the energy system “out of order” after the Russian strikes, according to the Ukrainian Prime Minister. Follow our live.
#MILLAS The driver of the school bus, in which six children died in 2017, is sentenced to five years in prison, four of which were suspended. She appealed her conviction.
A soldier died last night during an exercise, in the Var. He was hit by a train, announced the Ministry of the Armed Forces.
#UNEMPLOYMENT_INSURANCE The deputies of the Nupes announce to lodge an appeal before the Constitutional Council about the bill on unemployment insurance.
4:40 p.m. Poland has refused the Russian delegation entry to its soil for an OSCE ministerial meeting scheduled for early December in Lodz (center), the spokesman for the Polish Foreign Ministry told AFP.
3:42 p.m. : Denys Chmygal claimed “additional support” of the EU to deal with this situation, during a press conference in Kyiv with Valdis Dombrovskis, the Vice-President of the European Commission.
3:40 p.m. : almost half” of the energy system “out of order” after the Russian strikes, announces the Ukrainian Prime Minister.
3:19 p.m. : The Netherlands summoned the Russian ambassador, after Moscow denounced a verdict “Politics” in the trial for the crash of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in 2014.
“By doing so, Russia is discrediting the Dutch rule of law. This is absolutely unacceptable”said the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a statement to AFP, the day after the sentencing of two Russians and a Ukrainian to life imprisonment.
2:16 p.m. : Ukrainian experts are already working at the site of the tragedy in Przewodów caused by Russian missile terror against Ukraine. I am grateful to the Polish side for granting them access. We will continue our cooperation in an open and constructive manner, as closest friends do.
2:16 p.m. : Ukrainian experts began their work on the Polish site hit by a projectile on Tuesday, announced Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba. “I thank the Polish side for granting them access.”
1:35 p.m. : “I have not seen it yet” torture “on such a scale”. Dmytro Loubynets, in charge of human rights in the Ukrainian Parliament, described yesterday on national television the abuses observed in Kherson after the departure of Russian forces. Here’s what we know so far about these accusations against the Russian armywhich occupied this large city in the south of the country for eight months.
(METIN AKTAS / ANADOLU AGENCY / AFP)
1:29 p.m. : Do południowej granicy Polski eskortowały nas samoloty F16! ✈️ Dziękujemy i pozdrawiamy panów pilotów! 🇵🇱 https://t.co/7WLuM1QrhZ
1:29 p.m. : Poland prefers to take precautions after the fall of a projectile on its territory, Tuesday, at the border with Ukraine. Thus, two F-16 fighter jets yesterday escorted the plane of the national football team, in the direction of Qatar. This mission was carried out on Polish territory, up to the southern border.
12:16 p.m. : In Ukraine, the city of Kherson was liberated just a week ago. After nearly nine months of Russian occupation, the Ukrainian army was able to recover the city, helped from within, by a handful of resistance fighters. One of them tells franceinfo.
(BULENT KILIC / AFP)
12:01 : Midday, here is a new point on the news of the morning:
Sweden’s preliminary investigation concludes that Nord Stream gas pipelines have been sabotaged end of September.
Sergei Aksionov, the governor installed by Moscow after the annexation of Crimea in 2014, announces that “fortification works are carried out under [s]we control the territory of Crimea in order to guarantee the safety of Crimeans”. This decision comes after the withdrawal of Russian forces from Kherson. Follow our live.
#ENERGY There is a risk “raised” tensions on the French electricity network in January, warns the manager of the electricity transmission network (RTE). This risk of tension is linked to a slower-than-expected restart of shutdown EDF nuclear reactors.
#FUEL “Half of French households” will benefit from “workers’ fuel allowance” from January 1, announces the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, in an interview with Echoes (article for subscribers). Eligible households will receive their “payment at the beginning of the year”.
11:21 a.m. : This is a first since the beginning of the war. This evening, a train will leave kyiv to go to Kherson, announces the army, which gave the green light to the railway company Ukrzaliznytsya. Some 200 passengers will be on board, and they will arrive tomorrow morning. The train cars were painted by Ukrainian artists, to celebrate the recovery of the city.
11:17 a.m. : Ukrainian presidential adviser Kyrylo Timoshenko claims on Telegram that residents of Kherson “need a lot of help”. “The Russians not only killed, mined, but also robbed towns and villages. In fact, there is nothing”, he assures.
10:55 : Nearly 4.8 million Ukrainians have arrived in Russia since the beginning of the war, announces the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations.
11:15 a.m. : Sergei Aksionov, the governor installed by Moscow after the annexation of Crimea in 2014, announces that “fortification works are carried out under [s]we control the territory of Crimea in order to guarantee the safety of Crimeans”. This decision comes after the withdrawal of Russian forces from Kherson.
10:14 a.m. : “The work of analysis (…) continues in order to be able to draw more certain conclusions on the incident”, continues in his press release the prosecutor in charge of this Swedish preliminary investigationMats Ljungqvist. “The investigation is large and complex.”
09:58 : “The investigation shows that it is a case of sabotage”, declares the prosecutor in charge of the preliminary investigation carried out in Sweden in a statement (in Swedish). “Several seizures were made and, among other things, foreign objects were found. During the analyzes carried out, explosive residues were identified on several of the foreign objects seized.
09:53 : On September 26, four huge gas leaks were detected on the Nord Stream gas pipelines linking Russia to Germany. Preliminary underwater inspections had reinforced suspicions of sabotage, as the leaks had been preceded by explosions, according to investigators.
09:59 : The preliminary investigation carried out by Sweden concludes that the Nord Stream gas pipelines were sabotaged at the end of September.
09:48 : “We will continue to increase the sanctions” against Russia, declares on franceinfo Thierry Breton, European Commissioner for the Internal Market. Thierry Breton accuses Vladimir Poutine of having a behavior “unacceptable, scandalous, inhuman”.
09:17 : 9 a.m., let’s make a new update on the news:
More than ten million Ukrainians were without electricity this morning, after new Russian strikes which targeted several cities yesterday. According to the Prosecutor General’s Office on Telegram, the strike that hit Vilniansk, near Zaporizhya, left ten people dead. Follow our live.
#FUEL “Half of French households” will benefit from “workers’ fuel allowance” from January 1, announces the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, in an interview with Echoes (article for subscribers). Eligible households will receive their “payment at the beginning of the year”.
The Marseille criminal court renders its judgment at the beginning of the afternoon on the responsibility of the driver in the accident between a school bus and a TER in December 2017 in Millas (Pyrénées-Orientales), which killed six people.
Pyongyang today launched an intercontinental ballistic missile that fell off the coast of Japan. North Korea “repeats acts of provocation with unprecedented frequency. We strongly reiterate that this is absolutely unacceptable”denounced the Japanese Prime Minister, Fumio Kishida.
08:48 : 🗣 Missile fell in Poland ➡️ “The origin is Vladimir Poutine’s war”, criticizes Thierry Breton. “The Ukrainians are defending themselves. We’ll see the allocation. We live there the consequences of this war.” He salutes “the immense courage” of V. Zelensky.
09:02 : “We live there the consequences of this war.” On franceinfo, the European Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, returns to the missile which killed two people in Poland on Tuesday, near the Ukrainian border. “The Ukrainians are defending themselves (…) We will see for the attribution” concerning the projectile at the origin of the drama, he declares, stressing that “the origin is Vladimir Putin’s war”.
08:07 : According to the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine on Telegram, the strike that hit Vilnyansk, near Zaporizhya yesterday killed ten people. A previous toll reported four deaths.
08:01 : “These strikes are strongly condemned. They are acts constituting war crimes.”
Guest of franceinfo this morning, Anne-Claire Legendre, spokesperson for the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs, talks about the Russian strikes that targeted several Ukrainian cities yesterday, and the fact that Russia continues to target infrastructure civil. “These acts are serious violations of international humanitarian law”, she points out.
06:13 : Emmanuel Macron calls on Asia-Pacific countries to join the “growing consensus” against the war in Ukraine at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. “France’s number one priority is to contribute to peace in Ukraine and to try to have a global dynamic to put pressure on Russia”, said the president, who counts for this “to work very closely with China, India, the whole region, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America”. “This war is also your problem”he launched.
06:07 : 6 a.m., here are the main news headlines:
Several Ukrainian cities again suffered Russian strikes yesterday. “About ten million” Ukrainians were deprived of electricity as a result, according to Volodymyr Zelensky.
kyiv yesterday denounced a number “horrible” cases of torture in Kherson under Russian occupation. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba also announced the arrival of a Ukrainian delegation to Poland after the missile that killed two people on Tuesday. Here is what to remember from yesterday.
Parliament finally passed the bill “carrying out emergency measures” in sight “full employment”which paves the way for a new reform of unemployment insurance in 2023. The text provides in particular for a modulation of compensation according to the economic situation. Here are the main points of this reform.
The Marseille criminal court renders its judgment at the beginning of the afternoon on the responsibility of the driver in the accident between a school bus and a TER in December 2017 in Millas (Pyrénées-Orientales), which killed six people.