Month: July 2022
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History, on this day : la rafle du Vél’d’Hiv’
die Banalität des Bösen, sagte Hannah Arendt On July 16 and 17, 1942, the French police rounds up in Paris 13,000 Jews, including 4,000 children, who are later taken to Auschwitz German Konzentrationslager, Poland, where 99% will be assassinated. After the crushing German victory in May-June 1940, French venerated marshal Philippe Pétain has started ruling…
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Daily pictures : phoney war and real carnage
On Bastille day, the Fête nationale française, July 14, 2022, servicemen from Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Czech Republic parade with the French army. No Ukrainian army on the Champs-Elysées avenue but in the evening, during the fireworks in Paris, one of the pyrotechnical scene displays the Ukrainian colors on the…
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Daily pictures : GMLRS over Novaya Kakhovka
At about 8:30 pm UT, on July 11, 2022, a powerful explosion rocks Novaya Kakhovka, near its hydroelectric power plant on the Dnieper river. Quickly, local authorities report severe damage in nearby residential areas. The military context On the left bank of the Dnieper river, about 75 km upstream Kherson and farther, the Black sea,…
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Daily pictures : Chasov Yar
On July 10, 2022, US TV channel CNN titles Russian strike on residential building kills 15 in eastern Ukraine, officials say At least 15 people have been killed after a Russian strike hit an apartment block in the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian authorities said Sunday, adding that many others may still be trapped…
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Daily pictures : spoil of war
On July 8, 2022, seized military vehicles and Western weapons are displayed to the public in freed Lisichansk, Lugansk People’s Republic. Servicemen of the 6th republican Cossack regiment, alongside Chechen national guard and other Russian forces, have driven the Ukrainian army out of the city on July 2 In its proxy war against Russia, NATO…
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Daily pictures : Snake island
On July 7, 2022, an amphibious raid raises the Ukrainian flag on Zmeiny (serpentine) island, that the Anglo-Saxons are calling Snake, a 17-hectare rock in the Black sea. The island is about 35 km east of the Ukrainian coast near Romania border, 140 km south of Odessa. The Russian navy stormed it on February 24,…
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Daily pictures : Veronica
On July 5, 2022, the shelling kills in Donetsk a 10-year-old girl, Veronica. One more child, one more civilian, the Ukrainian shelling have killed more than 4,000 civilians in Donbass since April 2014. The Ukrainian forces are usually targeting civilian areas in Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, where no troops are stationed, no military value…
Nicolas Cinquini 