French press review
Featured: The Battle of Kiev
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Men of the Ukrainian National Guard take position in the center of Kiev, following the military operation launched by the Russian army, February 25, 2022. © REUTERS / Gleb Garanich
By: Norbert Navarro
3 mins
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“
Hold
on”, enjoins the front page of
Liberation
!
Yesterday morning in the suburbs, now in the outskirts of the center of the Ukrainian capital, targeted, the fighting is taking place in the very heart of the Kiev agglomeration.
Gunfire, sirens, checkpoints locked by armed men, fingers on the trigger, soldiers prone on a bridge, missiles pointed at the enemy, flabbergasted townspeople, the special envoys of the written press recount in unison the chaos which settles in a city “
attacked on several fronts
”, announces those of
Figaro
.
In Kiev, the war has changed scenery.
“
The city of seven hills
” now has everything from the “
station hall, where you carry blankets, backpacks, thermoses, dogs and cats
”, says
Le Parisien
.
Here, in the bowels of the deepest metro in Europe, camp “
homeless people… right next to their homes
”, notes this daily.
Cross portraits also of Ukrainian President Zelensky “
ready for sacrifice
”, according to
Le Parisien
, “
warlord
”, according to
Le Figaro
.
In Kiev, the code name of the Russian military mission is baptized by this newspaper "
Operation Zelensky
".
According to
Le Figaro
, in fact, “
the ex-comedian caught in the turmoil of History has attracted the implacable hatred of his Russian counterpart.
To the point of making him one of the main stakes in the battle for the capture of Kiev.
"The 'Z' (for such is its nickname) carries a target behind it: its elimination - political or physical - constitutes one of the objectives assigned to the forces of Moscow
".
In the East, nothing new
Meanwhile, in the east of Ukraine, the self-proclaimed "
republics
" allied with Moscow intend to restore their "
sovereignty
" in this region of Donbass without delay.
In an interview with
Le Figaro
, Denis Pushilin, "
president
" of the People's Republic of Donetsk (separatist entity recognized last Monday by Moscow) said that "
in the very next few days, his troops plan to reach the borders of the former oblasts (regions ) and to establish control over all the territories
”, and of the People's Republic of Donetsk, and the People's Republic of Lugansk (the other pro-Russian entity in Donbass).
Laurent Bigorgne, the night at the post
Suspected of having, without his knowledge, administered ecstasy to one of his collaborators, the director of the Institut Montaigne has been in police custody since yesterday morning, reports
Le Parisien
.
An investigation targeting Laurent Bigorgne was opened by the Paris prosecutor's office on the head of "
harmful substance administration
".
Having publicly presented himself as "
a close friend
" of the French president, he whose name "
has been cited several times as that of a potential Minister of National Education
" by Emmanuel Macron, the director of the he
Institut Montaigne, think-tank of liberal inspiration, “
is targeted by a complaint filed four days ago by one of its closest collaborators and executive of the Institut Montaigne
”, reports
Le Parisien
.
Which newspaper reports that the complainant told the investigators that one evening, “
invited by her boss to have a drink at her home
” in Paris, she felt bad after drinking a “
glass of champagne
”;
she would then have gone to a hospital where "
a toxicological expertise
" would have confirmed the presence, in her body, of a "
synthetic drug
" called "
ecstasy
", being by
Le Parisien
specified that the young woman is "
absolutely not
not a drug
user.
This daily also reports that the apartment of the director of the Institut Montaigne was "
searched by the investigators and that the ga
rde on sight of
Laurent Bigorgne
"
can last 48 hours before a possible indictment
".
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