French press review
In the spotlight: the sinking of the Russian cruiser Moskva, engaged in the war in Ukraine
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Satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies showing the cruiser “Moskva” in the port of Sevastopol in Crimea on April 7, 2022. AP
By: Norbert Navarro
3 mins
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The
Moskva
was
nothing less than the flagship of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea.
Towed empty for repair after damage whose origin is controversial, this cruiser, which listed severely at the end of its ropes, ended up sinking during its tow.
"
A spectacular loss
", launches
Les Échos
, the worst suffered by a military fleet "
since the Falklands war in 1982. And the worst suffered by Russia since the Second World War
", reports the economic daily.
For Russia, it is “
a humiliation
”, enhances
Le Figaro
.
It remains to be seen whether the
Moskva
sank following a fire or whether it was hit by Ukrainian missile fire.
For
Le Figaro
, in any case, the Ukrainians “
want a revenge (…) Their fleet had been reduced to almost nothing after the annexation of Crimea in 2014
”.
The war in Ukraine, precisely. While he is campaigning - electoral - Emmanuel Macron,
ipso facto
, is absent from the Ukrainian scene
“
Where did the super-diplomat Macron go?
asks
Le Parisien
.
He "
who
flew to Moscow
and Kiev before the war in Ukraine, phoned
Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky
every day or so since the Russian invasion, and made sure to organize a big operation relief in Mariupol
?
Called back to the realities of the presidential campaign, embarked on
a complicated second round against Marine Le Pen
, the candidate took precedence over the president
"
, notes Le Parisien,
"
diplomatic activism has become rare
".
Result ?
In the theater of war, the Ukrainians have coined a new word for this activism, “
that of 'macroning': which basically means
'to be agitated, but without really helping'!
», translates
Le Parisien
.
This same newspaper also reports that, faced with the influx of refugees from Ukraine, the outpouring of generosity of the French cannot be denied.
According to
Le Parisien
, in fact, the mutual aid platform HelloAsso, approved by the Banque de France to receive donations in favor of Ukrainians, collected “
more than 2 million euros from 18,000 people (…) the average donation is therefore 117
€ per person
”, calculated this daily.
“
For the moment, there are 43,000 Ukrainian refugees in France
”, points
out Le Parisien
.
The war in Ukraine will be discussed in Rome on this Good Friday for Christians. With a Russian-Ukrainian Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum in the Italian capital
As the front page of the newspaper
La Croix
points out , “
two families, Russian and Ukrainian, should wear the crucifix for one station (…) to show what binds them beyond anything that can separate them
”.
And the Catholic daily wants to see in it “
a gesture of immense hope in this promise
”.
This press review began with a shipwreck. To conclude, another shipwreck. And what a shipwreck
!
That of the Titanic
Today, April 15, 2022… Exactly one hundred and ten years ago, on the night of April 14 to 15, 1912, this transatlantic liner sank, after hitting an iceberg overnight.
As L'Humanité
reminds us
, “
out of the 2,227 passengers, 1,522 are dead or missing.
Only 705 survived the freezing waters.
And (…) the archives show (that) the excess mortality of third-class passengers (was) due to their distance from the lifeboats
”, underlines the communist daily, in a tribute to the film
Titanic
, by the “
visionary
” James Cameron, “
the work that configures our imagination on this maritime disaster
".
The
Moskva
yesterday, one hundred and ten years ago, the Titanic, James Cameron's film twenty-five years ago... so many fortunes from the sea, today, in the French press...
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