Ukraine: 20,000 people evacuated Tuesday from besieged Mariupol
Some 20,000 people were able to leave Mariupol, a major port city in southeastern Ukraine besieged by Russian forces, via a humanitarian corridor, the Ukrainian presidency announced. "Today, around 20,000 people left Mariupol" in 4,000 cars, deputy head of the presidential administration Kyrylo Tymoshenko said in a statement.
In total, around 29,000 people were evacuated from several besieged towns across Ukraine on Tuesday alone, according to the same source. After a series of failures, for lack of a Russian-Ukrainian ceasefire, evacuations have accelerated in Mariupol, while in the city, the inhabitants lack water and food.
The French government unveils a "resilience plan" in the face of the consequences of the Ukrainian conflict
The government unveils on Wednesday the "resilience plan" promised by Emmanuel Macron to deal with the economic consequences of the conflict in Ukraine, which is leading to soaring energy and raw material prices. It will not be a new “whatever the cost” as during the health crisis, the government has already warned, but specific measures for the companies and sectors most affected. "It will be very sectorized," insisted the Prime Minister last week. With the key all the same several billion euros put on the table, through various devices that Jean Castex must detail during a press conference at 4:00 p.m.
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Two journalists, a Franco-Irish Fox News cameraman and a Ukrainian woman accompanying him, were killed near kyiv in an attack that also left one injured, the American television channel announced on Tuesday, referring to a "heartbreaking day". for journalists covering the war in Ukraine.
Nearly 800 Ukrainian children who have arrived since the start of the conflict are currently attending school in France, said Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer, traveling to an elementary school near Paris with Brigitte Macron.
A Russian TV worker who broke into a pro-Kremlin newscast to denounce the offensive in Ukraine has been freed with a simple fine after her arrest sparked international outrage.
The case of the "sextape" back in Versailles: sentenced at first instance to a one-year suspended prison sentence, the center-forward of the French football team Karim Benzema will be retried by the Court of Appeal on 30 June and July 1, a few months before the World Cup.