Ukraine: a military base hit near Poland, an American journalist killed

A new session of talks between Russian and Ukrainian officials is being held on Monday morning, under more positive auspices than the previous ones, even if the conflict has spread in recent days to western Ukraine, at the gates of NATO. . In the early hours of Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky again urged NATO to establish a no-fly zone over his country, warning that failing to do so the organization risked seeing "Russian rockets" falling on its member states.

During the night from Saturday to Sunday, Russian forces struck the military base of Yavoriv, only about twenty km from the border with Poland, a member country of NATO, and about forty km from the big city of Lviv, where many displaced people live. In Irpin, on the outskirts of kyiv, an American journalist, Brent Renaud, was shot dead on Sunday and another injured. They were driving with a Ukrainian civilian, also injured. Brent Renaud, a 50-year-old freelance photographer and filmmaker, is the first foreign journalist killed since the start of the war.

After the pandemic, the war in Ukraine penalizes the French economy

Barely recovered from the Covid 19 pandemic, the French economy will be penalized by the war in Ukraine, which should slow growth while accelerating the rise in prices, according to the Banque de France. French growth should thus be cut in 2022 by 0.5 to 1.1 percentage point compared to what would have happened without the conflict, estimates the institution. The French gross domestic product (GDP) will increase by 3.4% if the price of oil averages over the year at 93 dollars, but by only 2.8% if this price reaches 119 dollars. Without the war, growth would have been 3.9%, estimate central bank economists. Banque de France chief executive Olivier Garnier clarified at a press conference that both scenarios were "possible", adding that he was unable "to say which is more likely" and that there could be some. have others. The Banque de France has thus not calculated the effect that a halt in Russian gas and oil supplies would have.

Paralympics-2022: the Games are over, China and Ukraine on top

Goodbye Beijing, see you soon Milan-Cortina: the Paralympic flame went out on Sunday at the Winter Games, after 10 days of exceptional performances by athletes from the host country and Ukrainians, faced with the invasion of their country. France, with 12 medals (including 7 gold) finished in fourth place in the ranking, thus equaling its best historical performance (1994, 2006, 2018). The young skier Arthur Bauchet, standard bearer at the closing ceremony, ended his Games in style by winning the slalom (standing category), his fourth medal of the Games, the third in gold.

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