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news of the day
Sébastien Lecornu traveling to kyiv. After having collected in front of the “Wall of Heroes”, a memorial dedicated to the soldiers who died on the front since 2014, the Minister for the Armed Forces spoke with his Ukrainian counterpart Oleksii Reznikov, on the occasion of his first visit to Ukraine since the start of the conflict.
“My visit to kyiv underscores the military support that France has provided to Ukraine since the beginning of the war – reliable and lasting support. With Oleksii Rezniklov, we have studied the needs of the Ukrainian army to continue this aid in 2023, ”tweeted Sébastien Lecornu, who also met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday at midday.
The minister also attended Ukrainian army training. Since the start of the war, France has notably supplied 18 Caesars (guns mounted on trucks) to the Ukrainian army.
A ranking by the Kiel Institute for the World economy in December places France in 10th position, behind the United Kingdom, Poland or Germany, for its military support for kyiv, provided mainly by the United States.
sentence of the day
I want to point out right away that 2022, of course, turned out to be very, very difficult”
Alexei Miller, the boss of the Russian gas giant Gazprom, recognized on Wednesday a “very difficult” year 2022 for his group, marked by “radical changes in the energy market”.
In the midst of a crisis between Moscow and the West, exports are now turning to Asia. However, in 2021, Russia was, via Gazprom, the world’s leading gas exporter and the leading gas supplier to the European Union.
But, given the war in Ukraine, the 27 EU member countries have since greatly reduced their imports, to less than 10% of all their imported gas, according to Brussels.
The number of the day
6.884. Like the number of civilians killed since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to the UN human rights agency. The conflict also injured at least 10,947 civilians over the period from February 24 to December 26.
On December 15, the agency estimated that more than 18 million people need humanitarian aid in Ukraine.
The trend
In a speech delivered on Tuesday evening, Volodymyr Zelensky set the course for 2023. “The next year is crucial for Ukraine”, asserted the leader, who indicated that his country continued to prepare its defense and security forces as part of Russia’s continued aggression.