• Russia launched its "military operation" in Ukraine on Thursday, February 24.

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  • This Friday, April 29, the international community largely reacted to the missile attacks on kyiv confirmed by Moscow.

    The strikes took place while UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres was visiting the Ukrainian capital.

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news of the day

Russia confirmed on Friday that it had indeed carried out a strike the day before with "high precision" weapons against kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, in the midst of a visit by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

"Russian forces have destroyed with long-range high-precision weapons the workshops of the space company Artyom in the city of kyiv," said the Russian Ministry of Defense, during a briefing.

This is the first bombardment in kyiv since mid-April.

The Russian army also destroyed Thursday with "high precision missiles" "three power stations located near railway junctions", including Fastov in the kyiv region, according to the ministry.

"It says a lot about Russia's true attitude towards international institutions, about Russian leaders' efforts to humiliate the UN and everything the organization stands for," Volodymyr Zelensky commented in a video.

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sentence of the day

Once again the Russians are showing their contempt for human life.

This time, they add the contempt they have for the United Nations.

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These are the words launched by Jean-Maurice Ripert, former French ambassador to Russia, this morning on France Info.

“This strike comes as Antonio Guterres' visit was based on the request for cooperation with the International Criminal Court to denounce and judge war crimes committed against civilians by the Russian army.

The message is clear: Russia will not cooperate,” he added.

The number of the day

200. This is “approximately” the number of French people left in Ukraine, according to Etienne de Poncins.

According to the French ambassador in kyiv, he was a guest of BFMTV this morning and clarified that most of them were Franco-Ukrainians who did not wish to leave.

Only “a handful” would like to leave Ukraine but cannot, while some have returned to the country despite embassy recommendations.

The trend of the day

How far to go?

In the context of the conflict in Ukraine, the Western countries are advancing on a crest line, intensifying their armed aid to kyiv while taking care, for the time being, to avoid any direct intervention which would make them appear as co-belligerents in the eyes of from Moscow.

At this stage, based on the law of armed conflict, this red line has not been crossed by NATO countries, despite the intensification of military support, underlines Julia Grignon, researcher at the Strategic Research Institute of the Military School (Irsem).

“The fact of financing, equipping or training armed forces is not enough to bring a State into armed conflict.

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On the other hand, the deal would be quite different if they decided to participate directly in the hostilities by sending troops on the ground – a scenario excluded at this stage by the West, led by the United States.

The question of co-belligerence could also arise if Western countries took part in military planning and the supervision of military operations – as was the case during the international coalition fighting against the Daesh organization in Iraq and Syria.

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