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War in Ukraine: the Russian truce is over, the hostilities have not stopped

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January 8, 2023

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Sylvie Claire / January 8, 2023

Ukrainians celebrated Orthodox Christmas on Saturday in the middle of the war, sometimes even in underground shelters, and the 36-hour truce announced unconvincingly by Vladimir Putin ended without the hostilities really having ceased.

The world has seen once again today how untrue are all the words spoken up to the highest level in Moscow,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a video message published in the evening. “They talked about a so-called ceasefire … but the reality is that Russian shells continued to hit Bakhmut (east, ed.) and other Ukrainian positions,” he added, hammering that the only solution was “the expulsion of Russian occupiers from Ukrainian lands. »

The ceasefire, decreed by Moscow from Friday midday, ended at midnight Saturday, Ukraine accusing the Russian army of not having respected it, and Russia accusing in return the Ukrainians of having prevented its application by forcing it to retaliate. Kiev had rejected the Kremlin’s announcement from the outset, still described as “fake” on Saturday by the Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhaïlo Podoliak, claiming that it was a ruse to gain time. Washington, Paris, London, Berlin and the EU have also denounced Moscow’s “hypocrisy ».

Journalists in Chassiv Iar, in eastern Ukraine, have in fact seen sustained shelling throughout the morning. In Bakhmut, the epicenter of the fighting located further north, AFP had already heard Friday artillery fire from both sides of the front, in the hours following the establishment of the unilateral ceasefire by Russia.

The shooting was at most of lower intensity than in previous days. According to the Ukrainian Prosecutor’s Office, two people were killed and 13 wounded in Bakhmut during the course of Friday, in a town largely destroyed by fighting and where both sides are facing heavy losses. According to Ukrainian authorities, Russian troops also shelled the southern region of Kherson on Friday, killing one rescue worker and wounding seven others.

In the region of Zaporijjia (south-east), according to the local administration, a UN mission distributing humanitarian aid in Orikhiv was “caught under fire” by the enemy. The two countries, at war since February 2022, were celebrating on Saturday the Orthodox Christmas, the majority religion in Russia as in Ukraine.

The 7th of January of the civil calendar (Gregorian) corresponds to the 25th of December of the old Julian calendar that the Orthodox Church continues to follow, out of step with the Catholics since the 16th century. On the Russian side, Vladimir Putin attended alone a religious service in a church in the Kremlin on Friday at midnight, deviating from his habit of attending the liturgy in public, in the provinces or on the outskirts of Moscow. In a message broadcast on Saturday by the Kremlin, he addressed his congratulations to Orthodox Christians.

Church organizations “support our soldiers” fighting in Ukraine, the Russian president said. On the Ukrainian side, hundreds of faithful attended a historic liturgy on Saturday in the famous monastery of the Caves of Kiev, formerly under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate but passed in December into the fold of the independent Ukrainian Church.

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Shooting in Hamburg, Germany, leaves two dead

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March 27, 2023

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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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March 23, 2023

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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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March 23, 2023

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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.