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00:00Emmanuelle Chasse, our correspondent in Ukraine, is with us in duplex.
00:04Hello, Emmanuelle.
00:05First question, where is this Ukrainian incursion coming from?
00:09Well, Philomé, you are talking about the establishment of an operation of counterterrorism
00:19by Russia in three frontal regions, not only Kursk, where the fighting continues, but
00:26also Bryansk and Belgorod.
00:28So, concretely, that means that the Russian authorities have more prerogatives,
00:34notably that of evacuating, even by force, civilians, for example.
00:38They can also enter by force into any building.
00:43It's a bit the equivalent of our alerts in France, for example,
00:47Vigipirate, which would be absolutely at the maximum.
00:49So, it's telling you the whole situation of chaos that results from these Ukrainian incursions,
00:54which continue.
00:56There are videos that circulate, notably on Russian social networks.
01:01You said it, it's always the operational silence here in Ukraine.
01:05There are videos that show scenes of escape of the inhabitants.
01:10On social networks, we also see Ukrainian soldiers waving a Ukrainian flag,
01:17therefore in Russian territory.
01:19For the moment, it is not possible to verify all this information.
01:22What we do know is that the fighting continues.
01:26It is true that there are no comments on the operations in progress,
01:29since in fact they are, and that by strategy,
01:32Kiev will not give details.
01:35On the other hand, there are some comments that we had already talked about.
01:39The most emblematic one, in the end, is that of President Zelensky,
01:43evoking the fact that Russia feels on its own territory
01:48what it is doing to the Ukrainians.
01:51Another development in this region of Kursk is,
01:56we know it by the atomic agency with President Rafael Grossi,
02:02which calls for the utmost caution.
02:05So, we saw that there was an electric power plant of this nuclear power station
02:10that had been disconnected.
02:11So, are the fights coming closer?
02:14All this is very difficult to verify,
02:16but all we know is that the extremely chaotic situation continues in this region.
02:21Meanwhile, Emmanuelle, in Ukraine itself,
02:23the Russian forces bombed a supermarket in Kostiantynivka,
02:28in the east, in the Donetsk region.
02:30The balance is very heavy.
02:32What happened?
02:32Why was this city targeted?
02:38Well, listen, Kostiantynivka is regularly targeted by artillery,
02:43by Russian missiles.
02:45Why?
02:45Well, because it is very close to the front line
02:49and, inevitably, targeted in this way.
02:53Yesterday, a supermarket and a post office were targeted.
02:5714 people died, 43 injured.
03:00I went there at the end of the day.
03:04It's an apocalyptic scene.
03:06There is absolutely nothing left of this supermarket.
03:09By targeting this kind of civil infrastructure,
03:11well, Russia is going against international law,
03:15even if we suspect that when Russia targets this type of city,
03:20it probably also hopes to target soldiers, even out of combat.
03:24But targeting a soldier out of combat is also a crime.
03:28So it adds to the long list of operations of this kind
03:33carried out by Russia in Ukraine.
03:35Thank you very much, Emmanuelle Chaz.