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Supported promises and official signatures did not miss on Wednesday and Thursday at the third summit between Russia and 48 African delegations who travelled to Moscow. A new demonstration of force orchestrated by the Kremlin that fails to make forget its military, economic weaknesses and the recruitment of mercenaries.
Considered one of Russia's main supporters in Europe, Serbian nationalist leader Aleksandar Vucic lost the parliamentary elections against the student movement on Sunday. But it is still too early to say that Serbia will cut off the bridges with Moscow. Explanations.
Despite the Western sanctions, Vladimir Putin welcomes the main gas-exporting countries to Moscow on Tuesday. A demonstration of diplomatic power, while supply tensions are driving prices away as winter approaches.
Kiev and Moscow announced that they had started a truce Tuesday morning in Olechky, a city in southern Ukraine under Russian occupation. Objective: to conduct a humanitarian operation in this isolated locality, where the inhabitants lack everything.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was ready on Sunday to suspend attacks on Russian oil refineries if Moscow stopped its own strikes against Ukrainian energy infrastructure. In an interview with the American channel ABC, he also replied to Donald Trump that it was Ukrainians who "choose a particular leader".
Russian strikes on Zaporijjia, in the south-east of Ukraine, killed 15 people on Saturday, with Kiev denouncing Russia's "thank you" after the announcement of a controversial agreement between Moscow and Washington on diesel delivery.
Donald Trump announced on Friday that he had negotiated the delivery of massive amounts of Russian diesel to the American and global markets, lifting sanctions against Moscow, to the great damn of Volodymyr Zelensky who denounced a "unworthy" decision.
France is strengthening its military cooperation with Madagascar. On a visit to Antananarivo, Catherine Vautrin, the French Minister of the Army, announced a drone donation to the Malagasy army, on the background of the rapprochement between the Great Island and Moscow.
Catherine Vautrin, French Army Minister, was on Tuesday in Madagascar for a few hours' visit. She announced a donation of drones to the Malagasy army, while the Great Island has come closer to Moscow since the military came to power a year ago. Aurélie Kouman's correspondence.
On Wednesday, the World Health Organization, the United States and the European Union called on Russia to be more transparent after the death of a laboratory worker working at a pestilence study institute, while reports point to a possible second suspicious case. "No health problems related to infectious pathology have been detected," the Russian public health agency said.
Recognized as a specialist in the crimes committed by the Russian authorities in Chechnya and an ardent critic of Vladimir Putin, Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead in the lobby of her building in Moscow on 7 October 2006. Twenty years later, his publisher in France, Jean-François Bouthors, gave him the floor in a punched novel where the journalist's spirit came back to haunt the Russian president.
Russia carried out large-scale strikes on Ukraine on Wednesday, targeting energy infrastructure and housing and killing at least 20 people, according to a first assessment. Kiev accuses Moscow of intensifying attacks on the capital, which is targeted almost daily.
A dead labantine and #hospitals in quarantine: in #Siberia, suspicions of a case of #pulmonary pest are worrying, while #Moscow formally denies the return of this contagious and deadly disease. WHO reported that it was checking the situation even if the risk of contamination was low.
On Tuesday, the Russian authorities reported that Moscow was the target of an attack of 650 drones during the night, killing two people and wounding nine people in the outskirts of the capital. Most of the aircraft "were destroyed by air defence" reported the mayor of the capital.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrived in Kiev on Sunday for a surprise visit, following a warning from Moscow calling on foreigners to leave the Ukrainian capital. Shortly after his arrival, a Russian strike hit the North Bridge in the Ukrainian capital. Follow live the events in Ukraine.
Gulliver Cragg, correspondent of France 24 in Kiev, returns to Friedrich Merz' surprise visit to Ukraine, in a context of strong tensions with Moscow. He gave an update on the challenges of this move and Germany's support for Ukraine.
The Russian leader insists that Moscow "threats no one" and merely responds to the statements of Western leaders.
Two Russian drones struck on Thursday a major Kiev bridge over the Dnieper River and connecting the east and west of the city, announced the mayor, in a context of sharp intensification of the Moscow strikes on the Ukrainian capital.
At the UN rostrum, Volodymyr Zelensky warned the world on Wednesday 23 September: the Russian threat "will not stop at the borders of Ukraine". A few hours later, Moscow struck Ukraine with its drones and missiles, killing at least eight more. China could then be the only one to have a major influence on Vladimir Putin. The details of Gulliver Cragg, correspondent France 24 in Kiev.
Vladimir Putin's party has unsurprisingly won a large majority in Sunday's legislative elections, marked by computer hacking and Ukrainian drone attacks to which Moscow has promised a response.
