LIVE – War in Ukraine: Airborne warning sirens sound again in kyiv

General Vincent Desportes said on BFMTV on Tuesday that “there are extreme cracks in Russia” in the context of the war in Ukraine.

“There is a decrepitude of the Russian army but also of the security services or the police” he adds.

General Vincent Desportes nevertheless intends to remain cautious. “We can say that the Ukrainian army has the advantage but that does not mean that the Russian army will lose”.

Guest of BFMTV, General Vincent Desportes responded to Emmanuel Macron, saying that “war never changes in nature”.

However, he believes that the Russian strikes on Monday are “a step back, a resumption of the war on terror that Vladimir Putin started on February 24”.

“Vladimir Putin says ‘I am not dead’, ‘I am able to react brutally'”, analyzes Vincent Desportes.

Nineteen people were killed and 105 injured in Monday’s massive Russian strikes on Ukraine, according to a new toll announced by authorities on Tuesday.

“According to preliminary data, 19 people died and 105 were injured,” the state emergency service said on Telegram.

New bombardments took place in the night from Monday to Tuesday on the city of Zaporizhia, a recurring target in recent weeks of Russian strikes.

According to Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Emine Dzheppar, Russia fired at least fifteen rockets.

“Their targets were an educational institution, a medical institution and residential buildings,” she adds.

Belarus “would be well advised not to” enter the war in Ukraine, said Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna on France Inter on Tuesday. The issue of Belarus will “most certainly be on the agenda” of the G7, which meets on Tuesday, because “we must issue a warning to this country: any additional support for Russia’s war in Ukraine would lead to additional sanctions “, while Belarus is already under sanction.

Warning sirens sounded again this Tuesday morning in the Ukrainian capital of kyiv, according to a BFMTV journalist on the spot. However, no big bang has been heard so far, which suggests that the city has been spared.

Warning messages encouraging the population to go to shelters were sent, saying that there was a high probability that kyiv would be hit during the day.

“Crimea is part of the territory of Ukraine,” said Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna on France Inter on Tuesday. Russian President Vladimir Putin justified the “massive” bombing by kyiv’s “terrorist” attack on Saturday against the bridge linking Russian territory to Crimea, a Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014.

“I do not see what motivates the reactions of Russia on a territory which does not belong to it”, declares Catherine Colonna.

“It is important to have a channel of communication” with Russian President Vladimir Putin declared on France Inter this Tuesday Catherine Colonna, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs. For her, “isolation would be the worst policy”. “A nuclear power plant in a combat zone is a situation that must not remain unanswered,” she explains, for example.

“There will be an after, and Russia will always be our neighbour,” added the minister.

“Vladimir Putin’s Russia has taken an additional step in the attacks carried out since the beginning of this war”, declared on France Inter this Tuesday Catherine Colonna, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs. She denounces “violations of war, violations of international law” with “war crimes” committed by Russia which, in particular, “deliberately targets civilians”.

Russian bombardments on a scale unmatched in months on kyiv and other cities in Ukraine will be Tuesday at the center of the discussions of the members of the G7, which British Prime Minister Liz Truss must call on not to “weak one iota”. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is due to participate in this emergency virtual meeting scheduled from 12 p.m. GMT (2 p.m. in France), Berlin said.

According to London, Liz Truss, head of government for a month, should declare that “no one wants peace more than Ukraine. And for our part, we must not falter one iota in our determination to help win”.

The deadly Russian bombings that hit Ukraine on Monday morning left at least eleven dead and 89 injured, according to the latest police report, including five in kyiv, targeted for the first time since June 26 by missiles.

“They are trying to destroy us all, to wipe us off the face of the Earth,” Volodymyr Zelensky reacted on Monday morning as Russian missiles hit Ukrainian cities.

But “Ukraine cannot be intimidated”, he then launched in his evening speech, promising to “repair everything that has been destroyed”.

More people will be forced to flee their homes in Ukraine, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi warned on Monday, after Russian bombings on Monday. Since Russia launched its invasion on February 24, more than 7.6 million Ukrainian refugees have been registered across Europe.

“I fear that the events of the past few hours will cause new displacements,” said the Italian diplomat to journalists.

Ukraine on Monday accused Russia of being a “terrorist state” at the UN for having killed civilians by massively striking kyiv and major cities, bombings denounced by the United Nations and the West.

“Russia has once again proven that it is a terrorist state that must be deterred in the strongest possible way,” said Ukrainian Ambassador to the UN Sergiy Kyslytsya.

Welcome to this live broadcast devoted to the situation in Ukraine in the aftermath of massive strikes by Russia on several Ukrainian cities.