Cover photo: Emmanuel Macron at the People’s Palace in Beijing, April 6, 2023. Thibault Camus / AP
- French President Emmanuel Macron and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen try to carry Europe’s voice in Beijing on Thursday, April 6 on the conflict in Ukraine during an interview with Xi Jinping, a close ally of Vladimir Putin.
- The French President said on Wednesday that it was not in China’s interest Supplying arms to Russia for its offensive in Ukraine, which would make Beijing complicit in violating international law.
- China would be making a “historic mistake”. if she decides to supply lethal weapons to Russia to help him fight his war in Ukraine, Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday.
- Volodymyr Zelensky met Andrzej Duda in Poland for his first official visit to the country. During this meeting, the President of Poland stated that his country, which has already delivered eight Mig-29s to Ukraine and will soon send six more, is ready to deliver the entire fleet of Mig-29 fighters to Kiev “in the future”. .
- Europe will equip itself with a “cyber shield”, including a “reserve cyber army”, announced EU Commissioner Thierry Breton on Wednesday. before the International Cybersecurity Forum. “With the war in Ukraine, cyber attacks in Europe increased by 140 percent last year,” reminded the EU Commissioner, who will present a new regulation on April 18, the Cyber Solidarity Act.
- The ruble fell to its lowest level in almost a year against the dollar on Wednesday. weakened by the decline in Russian export earnings, capital outflows and the rebalancing of part of the Russian economy towards other currencies, particularly the yuan. The Russian currency fell as low as 80.50 rubles to the dollar on Wednesday, the first time since mid-April 2022.
- The head of the IAEA is in Russia to negotiate the safety of a Ukrainian facility. Rafael Mariano Grossi traveled to Kaliningrad, an enclave on the Baltic Sea, on Wednesday for talks on securing the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.
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