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2:23 pm : Swimming ThroughThe performance “Swimming Through” is a call to action in support of the Ukrainian people faced with genocide committed by Russia.
2:26 pm : A pond is colored blood red in front of the Russian embassy in Vilnius (Lithuania). City officials refer to a “Artistic performance aimed at drawing the world’s attention to Russia’s war crimes”† Swimmer Ruta Meilutyte has released a video of her walking through the waterhole.
2:32 pm † “Russians have a hard time, so this sense of wanting to be humiliated should be even stronger in my opinion. Rape is a weapon of humiliation and terror.†
Guest of franceinfo, the lawyer and international detective Céline Bardet, declares that: rape “is a weapon of humiliation and terror”† The founder of the NGO We Are NOT Weapons Of War, which fights against sexual violence in conflict, calls for an international study to quantify the use of rape as a weapon of war.
2.30 pm. : Vladimir Solovyov, on the air every night on the Rossiya 1 channel, is one of the main propagandists of the Kremlin, which has made him the target of European sanctions. This morning fire broke out in front of his villa in Loveno (Italy), reports La Republica (in Italian), but the disaster caused little damage to this house under renovation. At the same time, anti-war inscriptions were found in his other Italian villa, in Pianello del Lario.
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2:01 pm : It’s time to take stock of the news.
After the publication of Senate report In response to the growing influence of private consultancies on government policy, the National Financial Prosecutor has opened a preliminary investigation by the chief of “aggravated money laundering of tax evasion” regarding the McKinsey company and the issue of its tax status in France.
# The Prefect of the North has banned the production of pizzas at the Buitoni factory in Caudry, after several serious cases of contamination of children with the bacteria Escherichia coli and deaths, possibly related to the consumption of these products, the Nord Prefecture announces at. Friday, the public prosecutor’s office in Paris announced that an investigation had been opened for “manslaughter”.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke to the UN Security Council after the discovery of massacres attributed to Russian troops in Boucha. †We must remove Russia’s veto power., he demanded. According to experts, an impossible measure.
13:46 o’clock : After the discovery of the Boutcha massacres, the problem of rape is also starting to pop up† Although it is very difficult at this stage to document and quantify these crimes, in Ukraine more and more cases are being listed by human rights organizations and the evidence is piling up on the side of the Ukrainian authorities to prove them. Evidence, however, is difficult to gather.
12:34 pm : New sanctions have been proposed by the European Commission against Russia. The proposals from Brussels are to be discussed by the representatives of the Twenty-seven before a meeting of European foreign ministers on Monday. But for now, the sanctions adopted have so far had little impact on the daily lives of Russians†
12:10 pm : High time to take stock of the morning’s news:
#M After the publication of Senate report In response to the growing influence of private consultancies on government policy, the National Financial Prosecutor has opened a preliminary investigation by the chief of “aggravated money laundering of tax evasion” regarding the McKinsey company and the issue of its tax status in France.
† The Prefect of the North has banned the production of pizzas at the Buitoni factory in Caudry, after several serious cases of infection of children with the bacterium Escherichia coli and deaths, possibly related to the consumption of these products, the Nord prefecture announces at. Friday, the public prosecutor’s office in Paris announced that an investigation had been opened for “manslaughter”.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke to the UN Security Council after the discovery of massacres attributed to Russian troops in Boucha. †We must remove Russia’s veto power., he demanded. According to experts, an impossible measure.
11:42 : Another country. Greece announces it will expel 12 Russian diplomats following similar decisions made in recent days from other European countries. In all, nearly 200 Russian diplomats were expelled from Europe in 48 hours of reports of Boutcha’s death.
10:35 am : In Ukraine, teams specializing in pyrotechnics continue to work to clear the territory of explosives and ammunition. This is how it has been since the beginning of the war “26,526 explosives, including 1,366 aerial bombs, were neutralized”, according to the Ukrainian Ministry of the Interior. A special number has been set up to report their presence to the authorities. A total area of 5,507 hectares was surveyed.
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10:11 am : The European Commission yesterday proposed to the Twenty-seven to tighten sanctions against Moscow by halting their purchases of Russian coal, which represent 45% of EU imports, and by closing European ports to Russian ships. But a possible embargo on oil (25% of European purchases) and gas (45% of EU imports) is the subject of heated debate among member states, with Germany publicly expressing its reluctance.
10:04 am † The European Union will have to take “sooner or later” sanctions against Russian oil and gas, says European Council President Charles Michel, who “humanitarian crimes” committed in Boutcha “and many other cities” in Ukraine.
09:28 : Governor of Luhansk . Region an evacuation order issued to the residents (in Ukrainian), fearing that rail access will be cut off in the future. Yesterday, he said, the Russian army temporarily destroyed a railway in the neighboring Donetsk region. Today, five humanitarian corridors are planned. Several cities, including Roubizhne, have been bombed and dozens of residents are already flocking to the stations.
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09:32 : Several of you have been asking us in recent days how we can ensure that the bodies of civilians found in Boutcha, near Kiev, are real, with Russia denouncing a Ukrainian staging. “Les Révélateurs”, the fact-checking unit for images and videos of France Télévisions, details on Twitter how they were going to verify the Ukrainian statements.
08:26 : The United States announces the release of additional security assistance to Ukraine of up to 100 million dollars (92 million euros). It is about “to meet an urgent Ukrainian need for additional Javelin anti-tank systems”According to the Pentagon spokesman. In total, US security assistance since the beginning of the Russian invasion has amounted to 1.7 billion dollars (1.6 billion euros).
08:21 † “To revise the Charter of the United Nations, which stipulates that Russia is one of the permanent members of the Security Council, there are two procedures (…), i.e. an extraordinary meeting of all states in a new conference of states, or a banal meeting of the General Assembly, but each time it is closed upstream by an agreement of the Security Council with veto power.
The emeritus professor at Sciences Po has explained on franceinfo why the Ukrainian president’s proposal does not apply. †Therefore, if we want to strip Russia of its veto right, it will be able to exercise its veto right to remove its veto right. So we are in a legal impossibility.
08:17 : Several headlines are also interested in the intervention of Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, before the UN yesterday. The latter requested that Russia expelled from the Security Councilan impossible measure to implement, the experts say. 
07:35 † “I am trained in investigative methods, ethical issues, witness identification, digital evidence collection, image verification or satellite analysis”
How do we track down evidence of war crimes when they occur? Jonathan Pedneault, a researcher with the NGO Human Rights Watch, traveled to Ukraine to investigate the charges against Moscow. He granted us an interview, to find here†
06:55 : Childcare in a crèche is allowed “favor” Learning French for the young children involved. It will also allow their parents “to have in particular delay time to focus on their proceedings in France”. Nurseries must report their available places to the prefect of their department.
06:54 : Ukrainian children who arrived in France after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could be cared for free of charge in a nursery this year, the National Family Allowance Fund (CNAF) announced yesterday. The Cafes “will bear the costs of their reception directly”she added.
06:29 : We immediately take stock of the news of the moment:
The socialist Anne Hidalgo, the ecologist Yannick Jadot, the candidate LR Valérie Pécresse, the candidate of the NPA Philippe Poutou and that of Reconquest! Eric Zemmour took part in the program “Elysée 2022”, on France 2 last night. Find our decoding of six of their claims.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke to the UN Security Council after the discovery of massacres attributed to Russian troops in Boucha. †We must remove Russia’s veto power.he demanded. This is what to remember from yesterday†
• The public prosecutor’s office of Bobigny (Seine-Saint-Denis) assured during a press conference that he “The testimonies collected so far do not show that the attack was committed for discriminatory reasons.” Here’s what we know about this tragedy†
† Food “inadequate”financial documents “insincere”budget surpluses on public allocations… The research report on Orpea underlines serious dysfunctions within Ehpad’s private group, which are already mentioned in the book the gravediggers†
