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news of the day
A French journalist, working for the channel BFM TVwas killed Monday in Ukraine and his colleague wounded while accompanying civilians on board a humanitarian bus, bringing to eight the number of reporters killed since the beginning of the Russian invasion.
The head of French diplomacy, Catherine Colonna, said in a tweet that the reporter had been “killed by a Russian bombardment on a humanitarian operation while exercising his duty to inform”, condemning a “double crime which targets a humanitarian convoy and a journalist”.
The minister “demanded” “a transparent investigation as soon as possible to shed full light on the circumstances of this tragedy”.
The phrase
“I come to show France’s solidarity with the Ukrainian people (…) in the face of Russian aggression. »
This sentence is also signed Catherine Colonna, the new head of French diplomacy visiting kyiv on Monday. The Minister spoke with President Volodymyr Zelensky and his Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba, “to discuss in particular the blocking of grain and oilseed exports from Ukraine which raises real risks of food insecurity”.
The number
900,000. The amount (in dollars) of the Eurovision trophy of the Ukrainian group Kalush Orchestra. The latter indeed decided, after the competition, to put his trophy up for auction in order to help kyiv repel the Russian invasion. The famous crystal microphone was sold for 900,000 dollars, or nearly 839,000 euros according to the Ukrainian Instagram page of the music competition. The funds will be donated to the Ukrainian Armed Forces and should be used to purchase drones.
The trend of the day
Ukrainian fighters from the Azov regiment who surrendered after fighting in Mariupol in Ukraine will face trial and face the death penalty, an official in the pro-Russian separatist territory of Donetsk said on Monday. “All the prisoners of war are on the territory of the DNR”, declared on Russian television Yuri Sirovatko, Minister of Justice of this self-proclaimed republic located in the east of the country.
“In concrete terms, we have 2,300 prisoners of war from [l’aciérie] Azovstal,” he said, adding that the regiment “Azov is considered a terrorist organization” and that all “will be subject to criminal investigations” with a view to trial.