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6:33 p.m. December 12, 2022
G7 leaders, meeting for a virtual summit on Monday, decided to set up a “platform” in charge of “coordinating financial aid” to Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced. “The aim is to quickly build this platform with the participation of Ukraine, international financial institutions and other partners,” said the German head of state at a press conference in Berlin, comparing the reconstruction of Ukraine with the United States’ Marshall Plan for post-war reconstruction of Europe Second World War.
G7 leaders — the United States, Germany, Canada, France, Britain, Japan and Italy — discussed Ukraine via video conference on Monday. A new support conference for Ukraine on emergency aid and long-term reconstruction of the country will be held in Paris on Tuesday.
“We are convinced that it was our unity, our determination that isolated the Russian President (Vladimir Putin) and we call again Vladimir Poutine stop the senseless killings in Ukraine and withdraw their troops,” said Scholz, whose country chaired the G7 this year.
The most important information to remember:
– G7 members decided to set up a “platform” to “coordinate financial aid” for Ukraine
– A Frenchman who went to Ukraine to fight is awaiting repatriation
– At least two dead in Kherson region after Russian shelling
a Frenchman wounded in battle awaiting repatriation
A Frenchman went to fight alongside the soldiers Ukrainians against Russia jumped on a mine in Donbass (east) at the end of November and is now awaiting his repatriation organized by the Quai d’Orsay, the person concerned and the Foreign Ministry told AFP.
‘I was wounded in a forest on November 27 as our battalion began to advance into the Lugansk region, northeast of ‘Svatove’ in eastern Ukraine, where fighting is raging against Russian forces Maxime Bronchain, 32, who is currently being treated at a military hospital in the capital, AFP said by phone.
“I jumped on a mine, I injured my left foot badly. An American who was with me then jumped on a mine when he came to my aid. He died during his evacuation,” explains the Frenchman who there was a reconnaissance unit of about twenty foreign fighters, “including 5 French,” within the International Legion.
He has had five surgeries since his injury and declined amputation but is now afraid of losing his foot. In contact with the French embassy in Ukraine, he is now waiting to be returned to France. “There is a high risk of infection and Ukrainians lack morphine,” said his brother Florent, who was contacted by AFP.
At least two dead in “massive” Russian shelling in Kherson
At least two people were killed and five others injured in “massive” Russian bombings on Kherson on Monday, the regional governor said. According to Yaroslav Yanushevich, Russian troops attacked a district in the center east of Kherson. “Currently there are two dead and five injured,” he wrote on Telegram.
Ambulances are on their way to another area also hit by shelling where the number of casualties is not immediately known, he added. Shortly after the start of their invasion of Ukraine, which began at the end of February, Russian troops occupied the city of Cherson, which had a population of just under 300,000 at the time, and almost the entire region of the same name.
The city of Kherson was recaptured by Ukrainian forces in a counteroffensive in November, leading to the retreat of Russian forces crossing onto the left bank of the Dnieper. Before withdrawing in November, Russian forces destroyed basic public service infrastructure in the city and have since repeatedly shelled Kherson, according to local authorities.
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