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LeMonde
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- LeMonde
Zelensky urges 'unity' with Trump and a trial for 'war criminal' Putin
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday, June 25, said close ties between Europe and the United States under Donald Trump were key to ensuring Kyiv defeated the Russian invasion, as he urged a trial for President Vladimir Putin. Zelensky signed an accord with the Council of Europe to set up a special tribunal to try top officials over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, as he made his first visit since the start of the conflict to the France-based rights body. But after a face-to-face meeting with Trump earlier the day at the NATO summit in The Hague, Zelensky made an impassioned call for close ties between Europe and the US president. "We need a strong connection with him (Trump)," Zelensky, who had a public spat with the American leader in the Oval Office earlier this year, told the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. "We need unity between Europe and the United States and we will prevail," Zelensky said, adding: "We need unity in Europe first of all." The special tribunal would prosecute the "crime of aggression" in the full-scale invasion, which Russia launched in February 2022, and could, in theory, try senior figures up to Putin. "We need to show clearly aggression leads to punishment and we must make it happen together, all of Europe," Zelensky continued after signing the accord with Council of Europe secretary general Alain Berset. "There is still a long way to go. Justice takes time but it must happen," he added, saying the accord is a "real chance to bring justice for the crime of aggression." Help us improve Le Monde in English Dear reader, We'd love to hear your thoughts on Le Monde in English! Take this quick survey to help us improve it for you. "It will take strong political and legal courage to make sure every Russian war criminal faces justice, including Putin," Zelensky said. 'No exceptions' Berset said the next step to set up the tribunal, which the Council of Europe hopes could start work next year, would be an enlarged agreement to "allow the widest possible number of countries to join, to support, and to help manage the tribunal." It has not yet been decided where the tribunal would be based but Zelensky said The Hague would be "perfect." "International law must apply to all, with no exceptions and no double standards," said Berset. This is the first time such a tribunal has been set up under the aegis of the Council of Europe, the continent's top rights body. The 46-member Council of Europe is not part of the EU and members include key non-EU European states such as Turkey, the UK and Ukraine. Russia was expelled in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine and its supporters want to see justice served for Russia's all-out invasion in 2022 and European foreign ministers endorsed the creation of the tribunal in a meeting in Lviv in western Ukraine on May 9. The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague has already issued arrest warrants for Putin over the abduction of Ukrainian children and four of his top commanders for targeting civilians. But the ICC does not have the jurisdiction to prosecute Russia for the more fundamental decision to launch the invasion – otherwise known as the "crime of aggression." According to the Council of Europe, the tribunal will be set up within the framework of the body "with the mandate to prosecute senior leaders for the crime of aggression against Ukraine." It said the tribunal "fills the gap" created by the "jurisdictional limitations" of the ICC.
AFP
2 hours ago
- AFP
Clip shows China blast, not Iranian strike on Israel
"Massive explosions continue to rock Tel-Aviv as Iranian missiles hit ammunition Depot. Iran never wanted this war. It was imposed on us just like the Iraq war," says a June 14, 2025 Facebook post. The post, viewed tens of thousands of times, shows a huge, fiery explosion over a city at night. Image Screenshot of a video on Facebook taken June 24, 2025 Similar posts spread across X in several languages as the countries exchanged deadly rocket fire in June 2025. The war between the two arch enemies began June 13 when Israel launched a major bombing campaign targeting Iranian nuclear facilities and senior military figures, to which Iran responded with waves of missile attacks. The United States joined the conflict June 22, launching strikes on Iran's Fordo, Isfahan and Natanz nuclear sites. US President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire that took effect June 24 after Tehran fired ballistic missiles at a US base in Qatar. But the explosion video is unrelated -- and was previously misrepresented in 2022 when social media users falsely linked it to the war in Ukraine. A Google reverse image search surfaced the same video in various news reports from August 2015 covering dramatic explosions that ripped through an industrial part of the Chinese city of Tianjin. The incident, which devastated the city's port and surrounding residential areas, left at least 135 dead and more than 580 injured. US citizen Dan Van Duren, an eyewitness and survivor of the blasts, reportedly recorded the footage. Image Screenshot comparison of the video in the false posts (L) and the eyewitness footage provided to the BBC A separate video that AFP obtained at the time from the Chinese state media outlet CCTV shows a similar scene. AFP has previously fact-checked posts that mischaracterized other videos of the Tianjin explosion as unrelated events. More debunked claims about the Iran-Israel conflict can be found here.
LeMonde
3 hours ago
- LeMonde
Trump teases new nuclear talks with Tehran, says ceasefire between Israel and Iran going 'very well'
President Donald Trump said Wednesday, June 25, that the fledgling ceasefire between Israel and Iran was going "very well" and teased new nuclear talks with Tehran, as leaked US intelligence cast doubt on the damage done to the Islamic Republic's atomic program. He also told reporters that Israel and Iran were "both tired, exhausted" after 12 days of war, going on to say that talks with Tehran were planned for "next week." "We may sign an agreement. I don't know," he added. "I mean, they had a war, they fought, now they're going back to their world. I don't care if I have an agreement or not." Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian had said on Tuesday his country was willing to return to negotiations, but would continue to "assert its legitimate rights" to the peaceful use of nuclear energy. Trump insisted that US strikes had resulted in the "total obliteration" of Iran's nuclear capabilities, setting the country's program back by "decades." "They're not going to be building bombs for a long time," said Trump, who added that the ceasefire since Tuesday was going "very well." But US media had earlier cited people familiar with a preliminary US intelligence report as saying that weekend strikes did not fully eliminate Iran's centrifuges or stockpile of enriched uranium. The US bombardments sealed off entrances to some facilities without destroying underground buildings, setting Iran's nuclear program back by several months, according to the Defense Intelligence Agency report. 'A significant hit' The Israeli military said it had delivered a blow to Iran's nuclear program, but added that it was "still early to assess the results of the operation." "I believe we have delivered a significant hit to the nuclear program, and I can also say that we have delayed it by several years," military spokesman Brigadier General Effie Defrin said in a televised press conference. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday hailed a "historic victory" in the 12-day conflict and vowed to thwart "any attempt" by Iran to rebuild its nuclear program. Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei branded NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte's gushing note to Trump on the US strikes as "disgraceful, despicable and irresponsible." While Iranian officials have yet to disclose the exact scale of the damage resulting from US and Israeli strikes on nuclear facilities, Baqaei told Al Jazeera English that they had been "badly damaged." Israeli ground troops had operated secretly Israeli military chief Eyal Zamir said Wednesday that commandos had operated secretly inside Iran, "deep within enemy territory and created operational freedom of action for us" during the war. He was the first Israeli official to say publicly that Israeli soldiers had operated on the ground in the Islamic Republic. The head of Israel's Mossad intelligence service, meanwhile, thanked the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for its help in "joint" operations during the war. He said the CIA "supported Mossad in making the right decisions," spy chief David Barnea said. The extent of the purported help provided by the CIA is unknown. Iran will hold state funerals on Saturday for senior military commanders and top scientists killed during the war. Hossein Salami, the Revolutionary Guards chief killed by Israel on the war's first day on June 13, will be laid to rest in central Iran on Thursday. According to the Iranian health ministry, Israeli strikes during the war killed at least 627 civilians. Iran's attacks on Israel killed 28 people, according to Israeli figures.
