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On the front page of the press, the declaration of Volodymyr Zelensky, who communicated, yesterday, for the first time, the figure of Ukrainian losses: 31,000 soldiers killed, according to him, since the start of the war two years ago .
The New York Times
specifies that the Ukrainian president, however, refused to disclose the number of wounded or missing, saying that Russia could use this information to assess the number of Ukrainian soldiers on the ground.
According to the American daily, the figure put forward by Volodymyr Zelensky differs “clearly” from that put forward by American officials, who estimate that this figure is closer to 70,000 killed, and that the fighting could have caused between 100,000 and 120,000 wounded in the ranks of the Ukrainian army.
After two years of war, whether on the Ukrainian or Russian side, assessing the number of dead or wounded soldiers remains very difficult.
Last December, a declassified American intelligence report estimated
the number of Russian soldiers killed between the start of the war and August 2023 at
1,20,000 . A figure this time significantly higher than that put forward by
the Russian-speaking news site Meduza
,
which says
having compared the official lists of Russian losses (6,000 dead only last July, according to the Kremlin), and data from civilian organizations recording inheritances, and which resulted in the figure of “at least 75,000 » soldiers killed, or 120 Russian soldiers killed on average every day in Ukraine.
Now heading to Morocco, where Stéphane Séjourné, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, is due to meet today with his counterpart Nasser Bourita.
Le Figaro
announces a visit “to warm up ties between the two countries after a series of diplomatic crises”, the Pegasus affair, French restrictions on visas, or even the Western Sahara issue, which had led the king's entourage Mohammed VI to denounce the “arrogance” of Emmanuel Macron.
As for the Moroccan press,
the Atlas Info site
mentions a meeting “supposed to illustrate the great progress made in recent weeks to break the polar cold which characterized relations between the two countries in recent years”.
According to the Moroccan site, the crisis between Rabat and Paris finds its origin in “the French refusal” to recognize “the sovereignty of Morocco over its Saharan provinces”, refusal attributed to “the fear (of Paris) of displeasing the political regime -Algerian military”, Algiers having made the French recognition of the Moroccan nature of the Sahara “a red line, even a declaration of war”.
Le 360
, another Moroccan site, also speaks of a meeting “under the sign of the warming of relations between the two countries, but also and above all of the resumption of business”.
As for the French press, there is still a lot of talk about Emmanuel Macron's eventful visit on Saturday, to say the least, to the Salon de l'Agriculture.
The day after this visit, the boss of the RN, Jordan Bardella, in turn met the farmers, whose anger he attributed to the policies of the head of state, described, in passing, as a “pathological liar”.
A delayed and remote duel described as a “farm arm” by
Libération
, which announces that the campaign for the Europeans began this weekend at the Salon de l'Agriculture.
Same analysis from
La Croix
, which sees in this Salon the theater of “the staging of the confrontation between the majority and the National Rally”.
For
L'Opinion
, the question for Emmanuel Macron is now to know "how to get back on track after the big failure" on Saturday.
The person concerned responds himself in
Le Figaro
, where Emmanuel Macron defends himself by in turn attacking the RN, accused of being behind the troublemakers at the Salon.
In his sights, one union in particular, the Rural Coordination, of which “several local decision-makers are very officially involved in the National Rally”, according to the president, who cites the signs and messages brandished by the demonstrators on Saturday as proof. : “I am not fooled by anything.
The Salon has always stirred politics, this is nothing new.
But when you have hundreds of people with flags demanding Frexit, these are not agricultural movements, they are factual.”
We won't leave each other on this.
Before you say see you tomorrow, take a look at the
Guardian
, which reports the misadventure of an Irish woman who claimed a whopping 650,000 pounds in damages from her insurance company in court.
She claimed that a car accident in 2017 had left her disabled to the point of no longer being able to work.
Bad luck for her, the justice system got its hands on a photo showing her throwing a spruce tree measuring more than 1.5m during a fir tree throwing competition in 2018. Competition that she also had won hands down - unlike her trial, which she therefore lost.
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