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Humanitarian convoys and shelling in eastern Ukraine. 2,000 vehicles were able to leave on Tuesday via a humanitarian corridor in Mariupol according to the municipality. But up to 300,000 people are said to still be holed up in cellars, deprived of everything. In eastern Ukraine, the airport of the city of Dnipro suffered “mass destruction” after two Russian bombardments overnight, according to regional authorities. Russian strikes are increasing on the capital, which is experiencing “a dangerous and difficult moment”, declared the mayor of Kyiv. Relive the day of the conflict in Ukraine.
Courage has the face of a woman: Marina Ovsiannikova denounces the war in prime-time in Russia. By defying Kremlin censorship live on television Monday, the Pervy Kanal journalist won admiration around the world, while exposing herself to relentless legal action. She was finally fined 30,000 rubles (256 euros). Our article.
Zelensky acknowledges that Ukraine will not join NATO, diplomatic activity intensifies. The Ukrainian president multiplies the signals of opening in the direction of the Kremlin. In one of his most outspoken statements on the subject since the beginning of the conflict, Volodymyr Zelensky considered that he “must recognize” that Ukraine will not be able to join NATO, even though this issue is one of the main reasons put forward by Russia to justify its invasion of its country. At the same time, a fourth session of negotiations was held remotely between the Russians and the Ukrainians, who continue to demand a ceasefire. The Kremlin considered premature any “prognosis” on negotiations with Kyiv, after an adviser to the Ukrainian presidency deemed a peace agreement possible by May. “Deep contradictions” persist in the talks, which will continue on Wednesday, but a “compromise” is still possible, judged Tuesday an adviser to the Ukrainian president, Mykhaïlo Podoliak. For his part Zelensky estimated that the Russians had “already begun to understand that they will achieve nothing through war”. Our article.
Covid-19: China faces the biggest outbreak of the epidemic since 2020. China on Tuesday reported 5,280 cases of Covid-19 in the past 24 hours, the highest tally since the first epidemic wave in early 2020. Several cities and regions are again put under a bell. Our article.
Tribute to the homeless: “All the people who are on the street have seen people die”. A silent march organized by the collective Les Morts de la rue took place this Tuesday in Paris in tribute to the 623 homeless people who died in the street in 2021. In the procession, homeless people, who came to question this carnage. Our report.
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Presidential campaign: #PasDeDébatPasDeMandat, by Adèle Haenel, Annie Ernaux, Barbara Stiegler… Faced with Emmanuel Macron and his “tacit renewal” strategy, which has made no secret of its desire to continue its momentum but worse, a collective including Ariane Ascaride, Laurent Binet or Alice Zeniter… is responding with the hashtag #PasDeDébatPasDeMandat. The gallery.
“There are twenty-six days left” and Eric Zemmour’s presidential campaign is taking a toll. Less than a month before the election, the far-right candidate missed his appearance on the big TF1 show. Already in difficulty in the polls, bogged down by the war in Ukraine and bogus media sequences, his giant meeting in ten days could revive him. Our analysis.
Pregnant lawyers then fired from EY: “They managed to make me feel guilty for having a child”. Two former employees of one of the largest auditing and consulting firms in the world (formerly Ernst & Young) contest their dismissal for “insufficiency”, criminal for one of them. They accuse the firm of having put them aside because of their pregnancy and of having seriously hampered their careers. Our survey.
Why is the sky orange on Tuesday? Carrying sand from the Sahara, a wind – the Sirocco – has transformed the blue or gray skies of Western Europe. A phenomenon that could continue all week, and which contributes to the deterioration of air quality. Our article.
Biodiversity: “The protection of 30% of ecosystems is a minimum”. Since Monday, negotiations have been held in Geneva to prepare for COP15 of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Juliette Landry, researcher at the Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations, traces the issues of these preparatory discussions, while a report warns of the disappearance of a million species in the coming decades. Our interview.