French and Riviera News Thursday 29th December 2022

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Ukrainian President thanks France - The Ukrainian President has welcomed an announcement made by France’s Minister for the Armed Forces on Wednesday in which he declared that France wanted to “work to meet kyiv's military needs in the coming weeks”. Traveling to the Ukrainian capital on Wednesday, the French Minister for the Armed Forces promised to further help Ukraine. An announcement welcomed by the Ukrainian president who in his daily address confirmed discussions on the “reconstruction of Ukraine and a new stage in strengthening its air defence" ending with saying "Thank you France!"

Ukrainian oligarch and regular on the Côte d’Azur arrested in Courchevel – Meanwhile locally a Ukrainian oligarch member of the “Monaco Battalion” and a regular on the Côte d'Azur has been arrested in the French ski resort of Courchevel. Kostyantin Zhevago was wanted by his country in a corruption case. The youngest billionaire in Europe and among the five richest Ukrainians in the country, he was part of the famous "Monaco Battalion", named after Ukrainian oligarchs, VIP refugees on the Côte d'Azur, fleeing the war against Russia. Arrested by the French authorities he will now be extradited to Ukraine suspected of an embezzlement case of 113 million dollars and money laundering.

Zhevago spent summers on the Côte d’Azur and winters in the Alps and his yacht called “Z” often sailed between the Pri