As Ukraine talks of an imminent counter-offensive to retake ground from Russian forces, since February 2023 the UK has trained 10,000 Ukrainian recruits. On the menu: combat techniques in trench warfare, but also training for the Air Force or the use of British Challenger 2 tanks. Great Britain has been responsible for the crucial training of these soldiers, 20,000 Ukrainians are yet to be educated by the British Army this year (2023). Our correspondent Marie Billon went to one of these training centers on a military base in England.
This is a major symbolic turning point since the Russian invasion of the whole of Ukraine just over a year ago. These two arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court for war crimes against Russian President Vladimir Putin and his commissioner for the rights of the child Maria Lvova-Belova, accused of “the illegal deportation” of thousands of Ukrainian children to Russia. A strong warning addressed to the Kremlin. Decryption of our correspondent at the ICC in The Hague, Stephanie Maupas.
Since the beginning of Moscow’s aggression, kyiv has been concerned to bring this war to a legal level. There is therefore an enormous work of collecting evidence of war crimes, which is done: Listing of exactions, rapes, tortures, and bombardments of civilians. Ukrainian justice works almost in real time, this is unprecedented in the history of conflicts, to the point that some people wonder: What if we wanted to bring justice too quickly in Ukraine? It is the European Eye of Franceline Beretti.
How to ensure access to water for the entire population ? With the increasing number of droughts and dwindling water reserves, almost all European countries are faced with this puzzle. While France is torn over the use of gigantic water reserves supposed to help the agricultural sector cope with climate change, in Spain, the use of these large basins is also debated. The Spaniards would like to do without it, in favor of expensive desalination plants. thus in Barcelona, 25% of the water that comes out of the inhabitants’ taps comes from the sea. Our correspondent Elise Gazengel visited the largest desalination plant for human consumption south of Barcelona.