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The evacuation of civilians should be able to continue today in Ukraine. A new truce must indeed come into force on Wednesday, assured the Russian army. However, this announcement did not prevent the Russians from shelling the small town of Malyn on Tuesday evening, according to the Ukrainian emergency services. Evacuations have also continued in the Kiev region, despite fire on humanitarian corridors, according to the head of the local administration Oleksiï Kouleba.
To defend its airspace Kiev is still waiting for its fighters. And it should last. Washington on Tuesday rejected Poland’s proposal to make its Mig-29 planes available to the United States and then deliver them to Ukraine. The offer is above all the source of “serious concerns” for NATO. “We don’t believe Poland’s proposal is viable,” the Pentagon also said. This game of three-cushion billiards could indeed be seen by Moscow as a direct declaration of war on the Atlantic Alliance and therefore on the United States.
The protagonists will not be in the box to hear the sentences. After three weeks of debates, the special assize court of Paris must deliver its verdict this Wednesday against the defendants in the trial of the assassination of the priest Jacques Hamel. The three accused present are members of the entourage of the two 19-year-old jihadists Adel Kermiche and Abdel-Malik Petitjean, who burst into the church of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray on July 26, 2016. They had been killed by police shortly after the attack. On Monday, the prosecution requested between seven and fourteen years in prison for three of the accused today aged 25, 36 and 27, prosecuted for “terrorist criminal association”. Life for “complicity” in the murder was requested against a fourth man, absent: the alleged instigator of the attack, the French Rachid Kassim, presumed dead in Iraq.