Liberation

while hunger and thirst are beginning to be felt in the bombarded cities, and the emergency medicines there are almost exhausted, it has now been three days since Vladimir Putin has been playing the world with a new record of cynicism: pretending to accept the principle of setting up humanitarian corridors, allowing the evacuation of civilians and the delivery of food and medicine, in order to immediately bombard them.

We think of Grozny, Aleppo,

Liberation, we think above all of tomorrow – Odessa, Kiev and the other cities of Ukraine, European democracy besieged by a dictator who has already proven that the most elementary humanitarian rules are totally foreign to him. 

Vladimir Putin has no use for international law,

La Croix.

The “Russian Federation” was thus conspicuous by its absence, yesterday in The Hague, during the opening before the International Court of Justice of the United Nations of the procedure initiated by Ukraine to put an end to the Russian invasion (…) .

At almost the same time, Russia announced the opening of humanitarian corridors… some of which would join its own territory or that of Belarus – a proposal immediately rejected by the Ukrainian government.

Two expressions of absolute cynicism,

La Croix, with which Moscow carries out its warlike hostilities, two additional translations of the contempt with which Putin treats the question of international humanitarian law emanating from the Geneva conventions.

In pursuit of his proclaimed goals - the 'denazification' of Ukraine, its 'neutralisation' and, ultimately, total control of a country he does not consider not as such – Vladimir Putin displays his regime's contempt for human life, whether that of civilians or that of his troops.

The resistance of the Ukrainians having defeated his initial strategy of Blitzkrieg, the Russian president is now engaged in an all-out war, of which civilians are the first victims.

(…) To the destruction, the carnage, the exodus – already nearly 2 million people on the roads of exile – now risks being added an immense humanitarian catastrophe. 

 the Ukrainians are uniting in the resistance

Le Figaro

 the birth of a nation

Thirty years after its independence, Ukraine, a state formed from shreds of empires with 130 nationalities, whose minorities represent 22% of the population, was always looking for an identity and collective heroes.

And now the Russian tsar, whose brutality consistently produces effects opposite to those he wishes, provides him with dozens of them every day.

(…) Putin's biggest mistake

Le Figaro, is undoubtedly to have ignored the patriotism and solidarity of this people who refuse to be conquered.

The Courrier Picard

 This is the scenario that Westerners dream of.

But the outlook remains confused.

The scenario of a reform-liberal successor begging forgiveness for Putin's sins would be great,

it would also be great to win the lottery…

 stalemate 

of “a puppet regime in Kiev. 

Le Courrier Picard

 nuclear confrontation 

 with localized impacts 

 essentially intended for Western audiences to scare us.