The essentials of February 19 at 6 p.m.
- Russian authorities will keep Alexeï Navalny’s body for at least “fourteen days” for “expertise”, according to his entourage
“The investigators told Alexei’s lawyers and mother that they will not return his body, on which a so-called “chemical expertise” will be carried out for fourteen days”specified on X the opponent’s spokesperson, Kira Iarmych.
- Alexeï Navalny’s widow promises to continue her fight
“Three days ago, Vladimir Putin killed my husband, Alexei Navalny. [Vladimir] Putin killed the father of my children »says his widow, Yulia Navalnaïa, in a video broadcast Monday on the social networks. The investigation into the death of Alexeï Navalny is ” in progress “ and did not allow ” For now ” to draw conclusions, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov announced on Monday, at a time when the Russian opponent’s relatives are calling for his remains.
- Josep Borrell calls on the European Union to express its support for the Russian opposition, after the death of Alexeï Navalny
” In tribute to [Alexeï] Navalny and to honor his memory, we will propose to ministers to rename our sanctions regime for respect for human rights in his name. The main responsible is [Vladimir] Putin himself »he underlined, before a meeting of Union foreign ministers, to which the wife of the Russian opponent, Yulia Navalnaïa, was invited.
- The Russian army is exploiting the slowdown in Western aid to Ukraine, underlines the ISW after the capture of Avdiïvka
The Ukrainian army reported on Monday “heavy fire” by Russian forces near Robotyne, a town in the Zaporizhia region in southern Ukraine, recaptured during its summer counter-offensive, declared Dmytro Lykhoviy, spokesperson for Ukrainian forces in this area. The reduction in Western aid to Ukraine allows the Russian army to launch “opportunistic offensive operations” in several sectors of the front, observes the Institute for Study of War (ISW).
- Ukrainian president visits the front
Volodymyr Zelensky went to the front line in the Kupiansk region on Monday, the Ukrainian presidency announced in a communicated. The Head of State, she specifies, visited the command post of the battalion of the 14e mechanized brigade and took stock of the situation with Lieutenant Colonel Oleksiy Trubnikov.
- The ICRC investigates the fate of 23,000 missing since the start of the war
“Over the past two years, the [Comité international de la Croix-Rouge] received more than 115,000 tracing requests from families in Ukraine and Russia, by telephone, through its online platforms, by mail or during face-to-face interviews »declared the institution.
- Europe “should have moved into a war economy”, believes Raphaël Glucksmann
On BFM-TV/RMC. Raphaël Glucksmann, head of the socialist list in the European elections, judges ” mad “ that Europe is not “passed into war economy”two years after the start of the Russian offensive in Ukraine.
- Ukrainian Air Force says it shot down two Russian planes
Two Russian planes were shot down in eastern Ukraine, General Mykola Oleshchuk, commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, reported on Monday. Telegram. According to him, these are a Su-34 and a Su-35S.