Cover photo: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Çavusoglu on April 7, 2023 in Ankara. AP
- Sergei Lavrov arrived in Türkiye on Thursday, April 6. There he meets his counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu on Friday. In particular, the Russian foreign minister must deal with the future of the agreement on Ukrainian grain exports, of which Ankara is a supporter. He could also meet Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is running for re-election on May 14.
- In Beijing, Emmanuel Macron failed to persuade Chinese President Xi Jinping to take action against Ukraine. The French president asked his Chinese counterpart to help him “bring Russia to some sense” and urged him not to ship arms to Moscow during a meeting that ended with calls for peace talks.
- The Kremlin rules out mediation by China. “The situation with Ukraine is complex, there is no prospect of a political solution,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday.
- Russia said on Thursday it had fought off a group of Ukrainian “saboteurs”. trying to enter its territory through the Bryansk border region, where a Ukrainian pilot had been arrested the day before.
- Ukrainian troops in Bakhmut ‘are not going anywhere’ declared on Thursday Evgueni Prigojine, the founder of the Wagner Group. The President of Ukraine reiterated in Warsaw on Wednesday that “the enemy has none[vait] Don’t Take Control” by Bakhmout.
- The origin of the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines, “a complex matter”, remains uncertain, according to the Swedish judiciary. Almost six months after the explosions that struck the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines, responsibility for the underwater attack remains a mystery despite ongoing criminal investigations in Germany, Sweden and Denmark.
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