2024-02-03 15:47:58
Here is the key information from the last 24 hours relating to the conflict:
– Two French people killed in a Russian strike in Ukraine. France confirmed on Friday that two French people had been killed and three others injured in a Russian strike in Ukraine, specifying that it was “humanitarian”, according to a message on X from the head of diplomacy Stéphane Séjourné, denouncing ” Russian barbarism. The national anti-terrorism prosecutor’s office announced the opening of an investigation motivated by several grounds for accusation, including “launching a deliberate attack against a civilian object not being a military objective”.
– Zelensky’s reaction after the death of the two French people. The Ukrainian president spoke of the death of these two French people, saluting two “courageous” humanitarians who “helped people”. “We will always be grateful for their humanity,” he wrote on social networks, stressing that the “Russian terror” did not take into account the “nationality of the victims”.
– The ICJ competent to rule on a case brought by Ukraine. The highest court of the UN considered itself competent on Friday to judge a case brought by Ukraine against Moscow over the 2022 invasion, which Russian President Vladimir Putin had justified by accusing kyiv of carrying out a “genocide “.
– 40,000 Ukrainians without power. Drone attacks reported by the Ukrainian authorities plunged tens of thousands of people into darkness this Friday morning in the center and northeast of the country. In Kryvyï Rig, a drone strike deprived some 40,000 people of electricity, said the governor of the Dnipro region Serguiï Lyssak.
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