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4:32 p.m .: The Ukrainian army claims to have built a strategic bridge in the Kherson region in the south of the country, which is occupied by Russian forces. It was rendered “unusable” according to the Southern Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. On August 8, the Ukrainian army announced that it had hit another bridge in the same region.
4:27 p.m.: The Slovak company Slovnaft and the Hungarian MOL have offered the Ukrainian authorities to settle the payment necessary for the transit of Russian oil, explains the Russian newspaper Kommersant (in Russian). This agreement allowed oil supplies to resume.
4:27 p.m .: Deliveries of Russian oil to Hungary and Slovakia are secured again. The Russian concern Transneft has just announced in a press release that pumping towards the Druzhba pipeline will be resumed. The company said yesterday that its payment for the July 28 transit right was denied due to European sanctions. The Ukrainian company UkrTransNafta had therefore ceased its services.
4:20 p.m.: Marina Ovsiannikova was arrested and searched at her apartment this morning. She faces up to fifteen years in prison for demonstrating her opposition to the war in front of the Kremlin on July 15 and calling Vladimir Putin in particular a “murderer.”
4:21 p.m .: At the end of her interrogation by the investigative committee, Russian journalist Marina Ovsiannikova was charged with “spreading false information” about the army, franceinfo learned from her lawyer Dmitri Zakhvatov. She was taken into custody and faces up to ten years in prison.
3:35 p.m.: US actor Steven Seagal is currently in Donbass to film “a documentary”, according to Donetsk separatist leader Denis Pushilin. The latter adds (in Russian) that his host went to Olenivka prison, the target of strikes for which Kyiv and Moscow deny responsibility. Steven Seagal has often championed Vladimir Putin’s cause in recent years.
(DENIS POUCHILIN / TELEGRAM)
1:02 p.m .: Russia’s control of the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant “endangers the region,” the G7 states said. “We demand that Russia immediately return full control of the plant to its rightful sovereign owner, Ukraine,” the western countries added. Moscow is accused of wanting to connect the Ukrainian nuclear power plant to the power grid of Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014.
11:26 am: Marina Ovsyannikova’s lawyer, on his way to find his client at the investigative committee, confirmed this information to franceinfo. She had already been given two administrative penalties, but this time the case is criminal.
11:24 a.m.: “At 6 a.m., while I was still sleeping, ten members of the investigative committee and the police broke into my apartment,” she wrote on Telegram. Investigators hold her responsible for a July 15 demonstration in front of the Kremlin, at which she accused Vladimir Putin of a “murderer.”
11:26 am: Russian journalist Marina Ovsyannikova announces that she is the subject of a criminal investigation for “falseness” aimed at discrediting the Russian army.
(AFP)
9:03 am: It’s 9 am! Let’s take a look at the news:
• Several fires broke out yesterday in the Gironde near Landiras. The blazes have already devastated 6,000 hectares of pine forests, the prefecture said this morning. The “fire is very virulent and has spread to the Landes department. The communes of Hostens, Saint-Magne and sectors of Belin-Béliet have been evacuated,” or about 3,800 people, according to a press release.
• About 3,000 campers and residents of two villages in the Aveyron had to be evacuated as a precaution yesterday after a fire that devastated 700 hectares of vegetation, but progress stopped without being brought under control.
•The heatwave is regaining ground in the South West with locally predicted maximum temperatures of up to 40 degrees. A total of 16 departments from the Loire-Atlantique to the Hautes-Pyrénées are placed in the heat protection orange.
• Thirteen civilians were killed in Russian bombing last night in the Dnipropetrovsk region of central-eastern Ukraine, Governor Valentin Reznitchenko announced.
After a dangerous operation that lasted all night, the beluga was released from the Seine and placed in the back of a truck that took the road to Ouistreham at dawn, the next leg in the race against time to save this whale in a ‘ alarming” state of health.
08:28: Thirteen civilians were killed in Russian bombing last night in the Dnipropetrovsk region of central-eastern Ukraine, Governor Valentin Reznitchenko said.
08:08: “You finally understood that I will not give up my beliefs, that I will still use the word war and will consider it the most terrible crime that can be committed in the 21st century.”
His courage demands admiration. The Russian journalist, who interrupted the state TV newspaper in March to denounce the war in Ukraine, has returned to live in Russia despite the danger. In an interview with franceinfo, she explains that the opposition to the war started by Vladimir Putin must be heard.
(AFP)
8:06 am: As Europe officially stops buying Russian coal today, Le Figaro notes that many EU member countries are reopening their power plants, which are big emitters of CO2.
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