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The fact of the day
The Ukrainian Air Force said on Monday it had shot down two Russian airborne command planes over the Sea of Azov. Russia has not confirmed, but this would constitute a major blow to an area it is supposed to control. “I thank the Air Force for this perfectly planned and executed operation in the Azov Sea region! “, reacted the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army Valery Zalouzhny, who claims the destruction of an A-50, an airborne detection and command device, and an Il-22, an aircraft also serving as a surveillance post. commandment.
This second aircraft, however, would have managed to land in Anapa, in the south of Russia, but the damage is such that it is considered “destroyed”, according to the spokesperson for the Ukrainian Air Force, Yuri Ignat.
Today’s statement
“Since at least 2014, the year the National Front political party obtained a first loan from a structure close to President Putin, this party and its executives have been corrupted in such a way as to propagate Russian propaganda intended to spread chaos in France and Europe »
The Radical Left Party contacted the Paris prosecutor this Monday over alleged links between Jordan Bardella’s National Rally and Moscow, under article 40 of the penal code, announced its president Guillaume Lacroix. Based on several journalistic investigations, including the latest from the Washington Post on December 30, 2023, the PRG believes that it emerges that the RN, and before it the National Front, as well as its leaders, “are guilty of several crimes and misdemeanors”, such as “intelligence with a foreign power”, “delivery of information to a foreign power” and “corruption and breach of trust”.
The number of the day
4.2 billion. The UN calls not to abandon Ukraine and wants to raise 4.2 billion in 2024. The world organization fears a drop in funds allocated for humanitarian aid to the Ukrainian population and refugees who fled the Russian invasion . The UN humanitarian coordinator for Ukraine, Denise Brown, explained that “according to the indications she received from member states, (funding) will decrease this year”. And “if we do not have the level of humanitarian funding we need based on data and priorities, our aid will decline,” she warned.
“Do you remember Ukraine? […] A year ago, we would have only talked about Ukraine, and now, for several weeks, we have heard very little about it,” worried the UN humanitarian affairs coordinator, Martin. Griffiths, at the launch of the humanitarian appeal in Geneva in front of the media.
Today’s trend
Russia claims this Monday to have sentenced more than 200 Ukrainian prisoners of war to heavy prison terms. Russian authorities accuse these soldiers, many of whom were captured during the siege of Mariupol in 2022, of abuses against civilians. However, it was the Russian army which carried out a devastating siege of Mariupol, causing, according to kyiv, tens of thousands of deaths. Alexander Bastrykin, the chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee, declared that “200 Ukrainian servicemen (had been) sentenced to long prison terms for killing civilians and mistreating prisoners” of war.
Russia intends to “continue” to try soldiers from the Kiev army, including “senior officials,” he assured in an interview with the state agency Ria Novosti, published Monday. Moscow, on the other hand, has never investigated the war crimes of which its soldiers are accused, such as the Boutcha massacre, which Russia has described as Western staging.