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21h49 : The Nord Stream gas pipeline turbine is still in Germany, the Siemens group has just announced to the German channel N-TV, after being repatriated from Canada where it underwent maintenance operations. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is due to visit the Siemens plant in Mülheim-an-der-Ruhr, where it is located, tomorrow and make a statement. Russia has sharply reduced gas deliveries via Nord Stream, and invokes the absence of this turbine. Western countries believe that this reduction in flows is due to political choices by the Kremlin.
9:10 p.m : It is carrying the first authorized load of Ukrainian grain since the start of the war in Ukraine. the Reasonable, a freighter flying the Sierra Leonean flag, arrived off the northern coast of Istanbul on the Black Sea at the end of the day. Party of Odessa with 26,000 tonnes of maize destined for Lebanon, the ship must spend the night anchored off the coast of Turkey. It will then be inspected tomorrow morning by an international team at the entrance to the Bosphorus, said the Turkish Ministry of Defense.
19h48 : Spain has finally decided not to hand over its Leopard tanks to Ukraine. “They are in a truly deplorable state”said Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles. “We cannot give them away because they would pose a danger.” Earlier this month, Madrid announced the delivery of ten Leopard 2A4 tanks stored in Zaragoza.
14h06 : The Russian Supreme Court classified the Ukrainian Azov regiment as a “terrorist organization”, announces the state agency Tass. A decision that could increase the charges to which its fighters prisoners of Russia are liable. Our journalist Valérie Crova explained this morning how this regiment rebuilt after the fall of Mariupolwhere many of its members were located.
13h05 : “All the peoples who once inhabited the great and powerful USSR will once again live together in friendship” : a message published last night on the official page of former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, on the Russian social network Vkontakte, has cause for concern for the former Soviet republics. In particular, the text qualifies Kazakhstan as a state “artificial” who commits a “genocide” of its Russian minority, and asserts that Georgia cannot exist without being part of Russia. But this message was deleted in a few minutes, and a spokesperson for Medvedev said this morning that his account was hacked, and that he is not the author of this text.
11:15 a.m. : “I can’t forget, I have my phone next to me, I watch the news all the time. But it’s true that I rested a bit, it’s like a dream.”
Secours populaire allows beneficiaries to enjoy holidays in Casterino, a town in the Roya valley affected by storm Alex two years ago. This year, these are Ukrainian families who were able to “forget” the war during a stay.
(BENJAMIN RECOUVREUR / RADIO FRANCE)
09h40 : Hello the Reasonable set off yesterday from the port of Odessa with 26,000 tons of corn on board. It will unload its cargo in Tripoli, Lebanon.
09h39 : Loading wheat or corn? Intended for which population? Thank you to specify.
09h32 : The first ship loaded with grain to leave Ukraine since the start of the war should arrive in Istanbul “after midnight” local time, according to Turkish authorities. It will be checked there by a team from the Joint Coordination Center which supervises the application of the agreement between kyiv and Moscow on grain exports, before entering the Mediterranean and heading for Lebanon.
08h00 : Mid-July, at the funeral of Adrien Dugay-Leyoudec in Clermont-Ferrand, his presence intrigued more than one: a Ukrainian army officer, seated in the front row, close to the parents of the young man’s family French fighter dead on the front in Kharkiv. Moral support, logistical support, financial support… Let me tell you in this survey how kyiv tries to treat foreign fighters as its own soldiers.
08h02 : Statues, street names, books… Across the country, many Ukrainian cities have undertaken a process of “derussification” to highlight national history, while the Soviet Union “imposed the names of foreign characters who have no connection with Ukraine”. But not all Ukrainians agree.
