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• The “evacuation” operation of the last Ukrainian soldiers entrenched in Mariupol continues, said the Ukrainian president, without specifying the number.

  Volodymyr Zelensky also spoke about it on Tuesday by telephone with Emmanuel Macron.

  The French president promised him that France will intensify its arms deliveries “in the days and weeks to come”.

• This Wednesday opens in kyiv the first trial of a Russian soldier for war crimes since the invasion of the country.

  He is accused of having killed an unarmed civilian.

• Sweden and Finland will file, also this Wednesday, their candidacy for NATO.

  The main obstacle comes from within the alliance: Turkey, whose ratification is imperative like that of each of the 30 members of NATO, reaffirmed Monday its hostility to these memberships.

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6:54 am: Summary of Tuesday's news

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6:52 a.m .: The war enters a “prolonged phase”, according to kyiv

Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said on Tuesday that the war with Moscow was entering a “protracted phase”.

“Russia is preparing to carry out a long-term military operation,” he also declared before the European Union Defense Ministers and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

According to him, Russian troops are currently fortifying their positions in the territories they occupy in the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions, in order to "go into defensive mode if necessary".

“Currently, the main efforts of the Kremlin are focused on attempts to encircle and destroy the regrouping of Ukrainian armed forces in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions”, in the east of the country, partly in the hands of pro-Russian separatists, he continued.

6:49 am: First trial in kyiv for war crimes

kyiv is symbolically dragging the conflict into the judiciary this Wednesday.

Ukrainian justice will begin its first trial for war crimes since the entry of troops from Moscow on its territory, that of a Russian soldier accused of having shot an unarmed civilian.

Vadim Shishimarin, 21, will appear from 2 p.m. before the Solomiansky District Court in kyiv, where he will have to explain himself on the death of a 62-year-old man on February 28 in northeastern Ukraine. .

Charged with war crimes and premeditated murder, the soldier faces life imprisonment.

According to the Ukrainian authorities, he cooperates with the investigators and acknowledges the facts.

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War in Ukraine: kyiv will for the first time try a Russian soldier for war crime

6:40 a.m.: War crimes investigations

In The Hague, the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, announced the deployment to Ukraine of a team of 42 investigators and experts, the largest mission in terms of staff ever sent on the ground.

The goal is to shed light on the crimes committed during the Russian invasion.

Also on Tuesday, the United States announced the creation of a "conflict observatory", initially endowed with six million dollars, to "collect, analyze and widely share evidence of war crimes" that it attributes to Russia. in Ukraine.

6:35 a.m.: Meeting of Sweden and Finland with NATO

Finland and Sweden will file their candidacy for NATO on Wednesday.

Membership applications will be submitted at the alliance headquarters in Brussels to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at 8 am by the ambassadors of the two Nordic countries.

While Vladimir Putin seemed to put the mute on Monday on Russian threats of reprisals for a Swedish-Finnish membership, the main obstacle now seems to come from within the alliance: Turkey, whose ratification is imperative like that of each of the 30 members of NATO, continues to reaffirm its hostility to these entries.

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