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11:52 am: Another shelling, this time in Nikolaev, near Odessa, in the south of the country, killing nine people, according to the local governor. Residential areas, including a cancer center and an eye hospital, were particularly affected by the strikes yesterday.
11:49 am: Foreigners may have been among the victims of the strikes in Yavoriv, according to a Time journalist. “I was there yesterday,” he writes on Twitter. This is a serious escalation from Russia. (…) The coordinator of foreign volunteers in Ukraine told me that the base was a rallying point for thousands of them who came from all over to help Ukraine.”
11:40 am: 35 people were killed and 134 injured in Russian strikes on a Ukrainian military base near the Polish border, according to the region’s governor Maksym Kozitsky. The initial report reported nine deaths and 57 wounded at the base, located in Yavoriv.
11:38: Attacks on a military base near Lviv, attributed by Ukrainian authorities to Russia, have killed 35 people, according to a new report handed over by the region’s governor.
10:30 am: “It will take several years to develop a system that will allow, if the Russians leave, to keep the ISS in orbit.”
The International Space Station will “fall into the atmosphere” in “a few months” if Russia stops adjusting its orbit, according to the space expert. However, he considers Russian threats in this regard “a very symbolic manifestation.”
10:24 am: Our special correspondents Boris Luhmann and Laurent Macchietti visited in the Kiev Zoo, which became a haven for caretakers and their families, a future aquarium was installed in the basement. Outside, the animals can hardly stand the sounds of sirens and knocks, to the point that the elephant at the zoo was given painkillers.
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10:43 am: Meanwhile, in Kyiv, the siege of the Russian army becomes more and more evident. Moscow forces destroyed the nearby Vasilkov airport yesterday and are 25 kilometers from the capital, according to Ukrainians. Only the roads to the south remain free.
10:12 am. The stricken base near the Polish border has in recent years served as a training ground for Ukrainian forces under the supervision of foreign instructors, including American and Canadian ones. It is on this base that part of the military aid delivered by Western countries arrives.
10:05 am: According to an initial assessment provided by Ukrainian military authorities, nine people were killed and 57 injured in Russian strikes on a military base in the west of the country. The attack took place in Yavoriv, about 40 kilometers northwest of Lviv.
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9:59 am: France announces a one million euro fund to host Ukrainian artists and cultural figures, as well as cultural students. This device will also be “open to Russian dissident artists,” the ministry said.
9:15 am: Go to the newsstand before it rains. Some are again at the mercy of the war in Ukraine, seen from Lvov, Odessa or France.
10:37 am: Here are the first titles for this Sunday, March 13th:
• Clapping at the end of the Paralympic Games in China. Fourth in the medal table, France finishes the competition with 12 podiums, including two last night: Arthur Bochet won gold in the slalom and the Chalençon-Davier pair won silver in the open relay in cross-country skiing.
• Western Ukraine is not spared. According to the local administration, Russian troops shelled a military base located in the Lviv region, about twenty kilometers from the Polish border. In the south of the country, Mariupol is hoping for the arrival of a humanitarian convoy. Follow our live broadcasts.
• Chinese health authorities report that they have identified almost 3,400 cases in 24 hours, a record number since the epidemic began in February 2020. They rush to stop outbreaks by locking down affected areas populated by millions.
• Anger and calls for calm on the Island of Beauty. Eleven days after the attack on Ivan Colonna prison in Bastia, a mass demonstration under the slogan “truth and justice” is expected at 15:00 for an independence activist still between life and death.
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