Tag: Europe

The city’s mayor Vitali Klitschko reported explosions in the Dniprovskiy district, calling on residents to “stay in the shelters”.

Ukrainian soldiers near their vehicle equipped with a missile launcher turned towards Soledar, January 13, 2023. (MAXPPP)

Several explosions sounded on Saturday January 14 morning in kyiv, noted AFP journalists. Ukrainian officials say strikes targeted key infrastructure in Ukraine’s capital. (more…)

The capture of Soledar by the Russians, this Friday, denied by the Ukrainian forces, is of essential importance for Moscow. Soledar, a small town in eastern Ukraine, is home to a salt mine whose galleries are coveted by the Russians to protect their soldiers from Ukrainian strikes.

Russian army tanks in action this Friday, January 13 in the Donetsk region. (MAXPPP)

Communication battle over the control of Soledar in Ukraine. Russia claimed on Friday, January 13, to have taken control of this city in eastern Ukraine “which is of great (more…)

A traffic of glass eels, the fishing of which is highly regulated, has been dismantled in the south-west of France. The price per kilo of this species, very rare, is negotiated up to 900 euros.

28 kilos of glass eels were seized by customs officers. The glass eel is the fry of the eel, a vulnerable species. Its fishing is supervised, and its export prohibited outside Europe. (more…)

The various resolutions taken internationally against Russia in the face of the war in Ukraine were “rapid and simultaneous” greets Benedicte Jeannerod, France director of Human Rights Watch on France Inter. For her, other conflicts deserve the same attention.

The United Nations Security Council gathered to discuss the conflict in Ukraine on September 22, 2022. (AFP)

The war in Ukraine has triggered “an unprecedented international reaction”, welcomed on France Inter, Benedicte Jeannerod, France director of Human Rights Watch even if “it is not a miracle response”. (more…)

Russia has just named a new commander of the offensive in Ukraine, as journalist Lionel Feuerstein explains, live from Moscow, Thursday January 12. This is the second general appointed in three months.

Russia has appointed a new offensive commander in Ukraine, Valery Gerasimov, as journalist Lionel Feuerstein explained, live from Moscow (more…)

The Russians are threatening a new offensive in northern Ukraine from Belarus. On the spot, the Ukrainian soldiers are preparing for this scenario and monitoring the border.

On images released by the Russian Ministry of Defense, we see Russian soldiers on maneuvers a few kilometers from Ukraine. (more…)

According to Dmitry Rogozin, the shrapnel that injured his back was fired from a French Caesar cannon supplied to kyiv.

The head of the Russian space agency, Dmitry Rogozin, on December 8, 2021 at the Baikonur cosmodrome, in Russia. (AFP)

France will receive a strange package. The former head of the Russian space agency (more…)

For its part, the Ukrainian army mentioned the figure of 400 Russian soldiers killed.The rubble of the garrison building hit by Ukraine on January 3, 2023 in Makiivka (Ukraine). (AP / SIPA)

These are the heaviest losses in a single attack admitted by Russia since the start of the invasion in February. (more…)