Emmanuel Macron has not yet decided if and when to visit Kiev but is preparing to launch a pincer diplomatic-operational operation on the Ukrainian, Moldovan and Romanian front to give France a new international prestige in the light of the activism of the British Boris Johnson.
The elections are near in France and Macron does not want to make mistakes but wants to show internally and externally that he is the right man in a particular historical moment. So he wants to play the most complicated and high-risk card: take over the wheat dossier, the one where his Turkish colleague Erdogan failed.
"We are available to the parties - declared a councilor of the presidency - so that an operation is organized that allows access to the port of Odessa in total safety, so as to allow ships to pass despite the waters having been mined ". France would move as it usually does, by itself involving other countries in the game.
For now, Paris is thinking of supplying Ukraine with more howitzers Caesar of French manufacture and from the Elysée comes the hope that Ukraine "wins" the war and "the territorial integrity of the country is restored".
In the meantime, the date of Macron's visit has been decided Romania e Moldova. On Tuesday the president will meet the French troops stationed in Bucharest and then he will be a Chisinau to renew the support of Paris for the country.
Nothing is known about the meeting in Moscow between Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov and US Ambassador John Sullivan. The parties merely report to the Russian agencies, “They discussed some issues of the bilateral agenda".
Meanwhile, Moscow is open to dialogue, he said Serghei Lavrov, but "it takes two to tango, while our western partners have so far danced the break-dance alone ".
It is not, however, about the affair of the two British soldiers and the Moroccan, who fought in the ranks of the Ukrainian army in Mariupol, sentenced to death by a Donetsk court. A sentence thatUN defined a "war crime”While the US secretary of state Antony blinken asked Russia to "respect international humanitarian law, including the rights and protections afforded to prisoners of war".
Lavrov was lapidary: "the sentence has been passed "Under the laws of the Dpr" (the self-styled Donetsk People's Republic) and you must not interfere with the judicial system of the Republic", Urging"do not speculate on the subject".
The British premier Johnson, ordered his ministers to do “Everything in their power"To obtain its release"working with the Ukrainian government". And while its head of Defense Ben Wallace flew to Kiev, the spokesman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, answered in a short time, calling the reaction of Great Britain to the sentencing of Aiden Aslin and Shaun "hysterical". Pinner.