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EU agrees to partial embargo on Russian oil

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's repeated demands will finally have been heard.

The leaders of the 27 EU countries reached an agreement overnight from Monday to Tuesday, which should make it possible to reduce their imports of Russian oil by some 90% by the end of the year.

The objective is to cut off the financing of the war waged by Moscow in Ukraine.

To do this, the Heads of State and Government, meeting at an extraordinary summit in Brussels, agreed on a gradual embargo concerning oil transported by boat, ie 2/3 of European purchases of Russian oil.

On the other hand, a temporary exemption has been provided for oil transported by pipeline, in order to lift Budapest's veto.

War crimes investigation after the death of a BFMTV journalist

Press freedom has been dramatically attacked in Ukraine.

Journalist Frédéric Leclerc-Imhoff, 32, died doing his job, Emmanuel Macron announced on Monday.

He was "killed by a Russian bombardment on a humanitarian operation while exercising his duty to inform", also tweeted Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna.

The National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office for its part announced the same day the opening of a war crimes investigation after the death of this BFMTV journalist killed in eastern Ukraine while accompanying civilians on board. humanitarian bus near Severodonetsk.

Darmanin explains the fiasco on Saturday around the Stade de France

Through the voice of Gérald Darmanin, the government gave its version of the facts of the fiasco around the Champions League final.

In summary: “regrettable” incidents and a ruined party, but the worst was avoided.

Invited by the TF1 newspaper to explain the failures at the Stade de France on Saturday, the Minister of the Interior defended the police, stressing that there had been "no death or serious injury ".

The minister blamed the counterfeiters, with, according to him, between 30,000 and 40,000 people "with a forged ticket or without a ticket" who tried to access the stadium.

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