Ukraine War Anniversary: Russia's 'Death Economy' & Ukrainian Resistance

Ukraine War Anniversary Coverage

• 🇫🇷 French front pages highlight the fourth anniversary of the war in Ukraine, with headlines like "Four years of war, keep holding on."
• 🇺🇦 Publications note Ukrainian resistance, emphasizing that despite exhaustion, Ukrainians remain defiant.
• 🇷🇺 La Croix focuses on Russia's "death economy," reporting increased benefits for new recruits to meet a monthly target of 35,000 soldiers to compensate for losses.
• 🇨🇭 Swiss media compares the current war to Russia's "patriotic wars" of 1941-1945, noting the aims of the current conflict remain unclear to the Russian population.
• 🎨 Cartoonists depict Vladimir Putin celebrating four years in his bunker and Volodymyr Zelensky struggling on the road to peace, hindered by Putin and a non-participating Trump.

UK Front Pages: Peter Mandelson Arrest

• 🇬🇧 British newspapers report the arrest of Peter Mandelson, former British ambassador and politician, on suspicion of misconduct in public office.
• 📰 The Daily Mail links his charges to those of Prince Andrew, while the Financial Times details accusations of transmitting confidential information to Jeffrey Epstein.
• ⚖️ The Telegraph updates that Mandelson has since been released on bail.

Jeffrey Epstein Investigations

• 🇫🇷 Le Monde investigates Jeffrey Epstein's "troubling intimacy" with former French Culture Minister Jack Lang, as well as his links to Robert Maxwell.
• 🏦 Midi Libre delves into Epstein's connections with banker Arianne de Rothschild, who initially denied but later admitted to a personal relationship.

US Hockey Teams and Donald Trump

• 🏒 The US men's and women's hockey teams won Olympic gold medals.
• 🗣️ Donald Trump congratulated the men's team but mocked the women's team in comments that caused online backlash.
• 🏆 The women's team, with a history of multiple Olympic and World Championship wins, declined an invitation to the State of the Union citing timing issues.

Tour Montparnasse Renovation

• 🗼 Paris's Tour Montparnasse, often called the city's