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Ukraine: shootings despite the cease-fire announced by Moscow, new American aid

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Steph Deschamps / January 7, 2023

Artillery duels continued Friday in Bakhmut, the frontline hot spot in eastern Ukraine, and shelling in other areas despite Moscow’s announcement of a 36-hour unilateral ceasefire, and as the United States pledged massive new military aid to Kiev.

 

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This will be worth $3 billion and will include the supply of Bradley armored infantry vehicles, troop transports and howitzers, the White House revealed.

 

This victorious year has just begun,” the Ukrainian presidency immediately rejoiced, adding that the American “package” also includes Himars precision missiles and Sea Sparrow anti-aircraft missiles.

 

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This “will make us much more ready to face any escalation on the part of Russia and the strikes that this terrorist state inflicts on us, whether it is a holiday or a weekday,” said in turn the head of state Volodymyr Zelensky in person in the evening.

 

For the first time, we will have Bradley armored vehicles, which is exactly what we need. New guns and new projectiles, including high precision. New rockets. New drones. This is a timely and strong move,” he added.

 

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He also welcomed “the significant step forward” of Germany, which indicated the same day that it would send 40 “Marder” tanks in the first quarter, following the lead of France, which announced on Wednesday a forthcoming delivery of AMX-10 RC light battle tanks.

 

In Bakhmut, which Russian soldiers have been trying to conquer since the summer, AFP journalists heard shooting on both the Ukrainian and Russian sides after the start of the truce announced on Thursday by President Vladimir Putin.

 

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However, their intensity was lower than in previous days.

 

Dozens of civilians were gathered in a building used for the distribution of humanitarian aid, where volunteers held a small party for the Orthodox Christmas – celebrated on Saturday, distributing tangerines, apples and cookies, an hour before the theoretical entry into force of the Russian ceasefire.

 

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For Pavlo Diatchenko, a local policeman, the truce is a Russian “provocation” that will not help the inhabitants of Bakhmut, whose streets are largely destroyed and deserted. “They are bombed day and night and almost every day there are people killed,” he lamented.

 

The Russian army assured to respect the ceasefire, accusing the Ukrainian troops of “continuing to bombard the cities and Russian positions”.

 

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The deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, reported two Russian strikes on Kramatorsk (east) that hit a residential building without causing casualties. Earlier, before the truce, he had mentioned a Russian bombing on Kherson, in the south.

 

In the Lugansk region (east), local Ukrainian authorities mentioned 14 artillery strikes and three Russian assaults and civilians who “stay all day in their cellars ».

 

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The pro-Russian separatist authorities in eastern Ukraine have, at the same time, reported Ukrainian shelling on their stronghold of Donetsk.

 

Appearing to comply with a call from the Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow Kirill, but also a proposal from the Turkish head of state Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Mr. Putin asked his army to observe a “ceasefire on the entire line of contact between the belligerents from 12:00 noon on January 6 until 24:00 on January 7.

 

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A date that corresponds to December 25, Christmas Day, in the Julian calendar still followed by the Russian Orthodox Church.

 

Ukraine, however, has questioned the sincerity of the Russian initiative, seeing it as an “act of propaganda.

 

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According to its president Volodymyr Zelensky, it is an “excuse to at least stop the advance of our troops in the Donbass”, a vast industrial region in the east, and to supply Russian soldiers with equipment and ammunition, while making them “get closer” to Ukrainian positions.

 

Vladimir Putin had called on Ukrainian forces to respect this truce in order, officially, to give the possibility to the Orthodox, majority in Ukraine as in Russia, to “attend religious services”.

 

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The United States, via the State Department spokesman, Ned Price, denounced Friday a “cynical” approach, in view of the shooting observed during the day in eastern Ukraine.

 

The day before, U.S. President Joe Biden had already suspected Russia of just trying to “give itself air.”

 

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“The answer that comes to all of us is skepticism in the face of so much hypocrisy,” commented on Friday the head of diplomacy of the European Union Josep Borrell.

 

Paris saw it as a “crude attempt on the part of Russia to hide its responsibility, while it continues to multiply abuses and relentlessly bomb the entire Ukrainian territory.

 

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This ceasefire “will not advance the prospects for peace”, commented British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, calling for a withdrawal of Russian forces.

 

Such a truce will bring “neither freedom nor security” to Ukraine, said German diplomacy.

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Shooting in Hamburg, Germany, leaves two dead

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Sylvie Claire / March 27, 2023

Two people died in a shooting that took place Saturday night in Hamburg (Germany). According to the police, a man would have shot another individual before turning the weapon against him.
 
It could be a settlement of accounts between motorcycle gangs, the German press reported Sunday.
 
Earlier this month, the city of Hamburg was the scene of a shooting that left 7 dead and 12 wounded among the Jehovah’s Witness community.
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Actor Peter Hardy, known for his role in “Neighbours”, was found dead

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Steph Deschamps / March 20, 2023

Peter Hardy is gone. The “Neighbours” actor died of drowning on a beach in Australia.
   
The world of cinema is in mourning this Sunday. We learned that Peter Hardy died on Thursday. The Australian actor died of drowning on a beach in Fremantle near Perth, Australia. According to several local sources, he was snorkeling at the time of the facts.
 
Peter Hardy was known for his role in the soap opera “Neighbours”. He had a career of almost 40 years on the big and small screen. He had also participated in the musical “Mamma Mia”.
 
The actor was 66 years old.
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War in Ukraine: the International Criminal Court will not let go of Vladimir Putin, the international arrest warrant remains valid for life

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The arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC) for Russian President Vladimir Putin will remain valid even if Russia’s war against Ukraine ends.
 
“There is no statute of limitations on war crimes,” ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan told BBC Radio on Monday.
 
The latter highlights Vladimir Putin’s alleged responsibility for the war crimes committed in Ukraine since Russia invaded the country. The arrest warrants against the head of state and his commissioner for children’s rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, will therefore remain hanging over their heads for the rest of their lives, he said. “Unless they appear before the independent judges of the court and the judges decide to drop the charges. »
 
The arrest warrants are essentially symbolic. A trial seems to be out of the question for the time being.
  
The British lawyer and chief prosecutor in the trial of former Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic in The Hague told Sky News reporters that because of the arrest warrant for him, Vladimir Putin has become a wanted criminal. “This label will stick to him for the rest of his life, unless he is tried and acquitted or, which is almost unthinkable, the ICC withdraws the arrest warrant,” he explained. “The arrest warrant is a very, very important and encouraging step,” he said.
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