Cover image: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the Kremlin in Moscow on April 5, 2023. Gavriil Grigorov / AP
- Sergei Lavrov arrived in Türkiye on Thursday April 6, where he is due to meet his counterpart, Mevlüt Cavusoglu, on Friday. The Russian foreign minister must address in particular the future of the agreement on Ukrainian cereal exports of which Ankara is one of the promoters. He could also meet Recep Tayyip Erdogan, campaigning for his re-election on May 14.
- In Beijing, Emmanuel Macron failed to convince Chinese President Xi Jinping to make a move on Ukraine. The French president asked his Chinese counterpart to help him “bring Russia to its senses” and urged him not to deliver weapons to Moscow, during an interview that ended with calls for peace talks.
- The Kremlin excludes mediation from China. “The situation with Ukraine is complex, there is no prospect of a political settlement”Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday.
- Russia said Thursday it repelled a group of « saboteurs » ukrainians who were trying to infiltrate its territory via the border region of Bryansk, where a Ukrainian pilot had already been arrested the day before.
- Ukrainian forces in Bakhmut “not going anywhere”, declared, Thursday, Evgueni Prigojine, the founder of the Wagner Group. The Ukrainian president said on Wednesday in Warsaw that “the enemy has no[vait] not take control” de Bakhmouth.
- The origin of the sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipelines, “a complex matter”remains uncertain, according to Swedish justice. Almost six months after the explosions that hit 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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