the Moskva, it was nothing less than the flagship of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea. Towed empty for repair after damage whose origin is controversial, this cruiser, which listed severely at the end of its ropes, ended up sinking during its tow.
” A spectacular loss “, spear The echoesthe worst suffered by a military fleet “ since the Falklands War in 1982. And the worst suffered by Russia since the Second World War “Says the business daily.
For Russia, it is a humiliation », raises Le Figaro. It remains to be seen whether the Moskva sank following a fire or if it was hit by Ukrainian missile fire. For Le Figaroin any case, the Ukrainians “ hold a revenge (…) Their fleet had been reduced to almost nothing after the annexation of Crimea in 2014 “.
The war in Ukraine, precisely. While he beats the campaign – electoral – Emmanuel Macron, ipso factois absent from the Ukrainian scene
” Where did the super-diplomat Macron go? “, asks himself The Parisian. Him ” who flew to Moscow and in kyiv before the war in Ukraine, telephoned with a lot of staging to Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky almost every day since the Russian invasion, and was keen to organize a major humanitarian operation in Mariupol ? Called back to the realities of the presidential campaign, embarked on a complicated second round against Marine Le Penthe candidate took precedence over the president »notes Le Parisien, “ diplomatic activism has waned “. Result ? In the theater of war, Ukrainians coined a new word for this activism, “ that of “macroner”: which roughly means “get agitated, but without really helping”! », translated The Parisian.
This same newspaper also reports that, faced with the influx of refugees from Ukraine, the outpouring of generosity of the French cannot be denied.
According to The Parisianindeed, the mutual aid platform HelloAsso, approved by the Banque de France to receive donations in favor of Ukrainians, collected “ more than 2 million euros from 18,000 people (…) the average donation is therefore 117 € per person “, calculated this daily. ” For now, there are 43,000 Ukrainian refugees in France “, point The Parisian.
The war in Ukraine will be discussed in Rome on this Good Friday for Christians. With a Russian-Ukrainian Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum in the Italian capital
As reported in the front page of the newspaper The cross“ two families, Russian and Ukrainian, should wear the crucifix for one station (…) to show what binds them beyond anything that can separate them “. And the Catholic daily wants to see ” a gesture of immense hope in this promise “.
This press review began with a shipwreck. To conclude, another shipwreck. And what a shipwreck ! That of the Titanic
Today, April 15, 2022… Exactly one hundred and ten years ago, on the night of April 14 to 15, 1912, this transatlantic liner sank, after hitting an iceberg overnight. As reminded Humanity“ of the 2,227 passengers, 1,522 are dead or missing. Only 705 survived the freezing waters. And (…) the records show (that) the excess mortality of third class passengers (was) due to their distance from the lifeboats “, underlines the communist daily, in a tribute to the film titanicof ” visionary “James Cameron,” the work that configures our imagination on this maritime disaster “.
the Moskva yesterday, one hundred and ten years ago, the Titanic, James Cameron’s film twenty-five years ago… so many fortunes from the sea, today, in the French press…