• 6:01 am: More than 70 million people worldwide have fallen into poverty in three months 

Soaring food and energy prices around the world have pushed 71 million people living in low-income countries into poverty since March and in just three months, says a report by the United Nations Program for Development (UNDP) published on Thursday.

This acceleration of poverty "is considerably faster than the shock of the Covid-19 pandemic", notes the UNDP in a press release, which partly blames the war in Ukraine for the soaring prices, which Russia denies.

  • 2:52 am: report with the French gendarmes who document war crimes in Ukraine

In the kyiv region, where Russian troops withdrew in early April, investigations are underway to document war crimes committed by Moscow.

For six weeks, French experts from the Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie worked in the destroyed buildings, the houses, equipped with their ultra-modern equipment.

They accumulated a great deal of evidence which they handed over to the Ukrainian courts.

France 24 followed them.

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A French expert from the Criminal Research Institute of the National Gendarmerie collects evidence of war crimes in the kyiv region, in July 2022. © France 24 screenshot

  • 1:05 am: Evacuation of civilians from Sloviansk continues in the face of Russian advances

Civilians continue to evacuate the bombed city of Sloviansk in eastern Ukraine.

This city is the next objective of the Russian forces in their plan of total conquest of the Donbass basin, their priority after four and a half months of conflict.

"The evacuation is underway. We are taking people out of the city every day," said its mayor Vadim Liakh.

"There are currently 23,000 inhabitants left" in Sloviansk, which had around 110,000 before the conflict, he added in a video.

Since the start of hostilities, "17 have died and 67 have been injured".

In this city that has been bombed for several weeks, "the essential infrastructure is still functioning, but there has been no central water supply network for a month and a third of the city regularly finds itself without electricity", underlined Vadim Liakh. .

"My main piece of advice: evacuate!", the governor of the Donetsk region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, had launched on Tuesday evening to the address of the population of Sloviansk, stressing that, "during the week, there was no day without bombardments".

With AFP

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