Cover image: A Russian court last week ordered the remand in custody of the journalist, who has worked for the Moscow bureau of the “Wall Street Journal” since January 2022, on suspicion of spying for Washington. Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is in Turkey on Friday to discuss the future of the Ukrainian grain export deal. During a press conference with his Turkish counterpart, Mevlüt Çavusoglu, he affirmed that peace negotiations were only possible if they aimed at establishing a ” new world order “ without American domination and took “in consideration of Russian interests”.
- The Russian army advances in Bakhmout, eastern Ukraine, according to the British Ministry of Defense. Friday, in his daily report, the latter returns to the battle to control the city, located in the oblast of Donetsk, in which the Russian and Ukrainian armed forces are engaged. He notes that Moscow’s forces advanced into the city center and seized the left bank of the Bakhmoutka River, allowing him to threaten the main supply route for the Ukrainians.
- In Beijing, Emmanuel Macron failed to convince Chinese President Xi Jinping to make a move about the war for 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 Briansk, where a Ukrainian pilot had already been arrested the day before.
- 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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