Vladimir Putin denounces to Emmanuel Macron “a cynical propaganda campaign” against Russia

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  • On the eleventh day of the Russian offensive against Ukraine on Sunday, shelling targeted several towns and Vinnytsia airport, 200 kilometers from Kiev, which was ” completely destroyed “ says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The latter claimed that the Russian army intends to bombard the port of Odessa. The sirens sounded in the port city, according to a photographer from the World on the spot.
  • Twenty-four hours after a first failure, the new attempt to evacuate civilians from the port city of Mariupol (450,000 inhabitants), in the south-east of Ukraine, has been interrupted according to the International Committee of the Cross. Red.
  • According to the UN, 1.5 million people fled Ukraine in ten days. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, says it is “of the fastest growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II”.
  • Emmanuel Macron spoke for an hour and forty-five minutes with Vladimir Poutine, affirmed the Elysee. The Russian president had also exchanged during the day with his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who demanded a “urgent general ceasefire” in Ukraine, according to a press release from the Turkish presidency.
  • A time planned for Saturday or Sunday, the third session of talks between the Russians and the Ukrainians will finally be held on Monday, a member of the Ukrainian delegation announced on Facebook.
  • Vladimir Putin warned on Saturday that a no-fly zone would make the countries involved co-belligerents. This claim by Kiev had been formally rejected by NATO, but the Russian president obviously wanted to draw a red line again. He also warned of a possible loss by Ukraine of its statehood if the Ukrainian authorities did not change their policy.

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