- French President Emmanuel Macron and the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, will try Thursday, April 6 in Beijing to carry the voice of Europe on the conflict in Ukraine during an interview with Xi Jinping, a close ally of Vladimir Putin. The two European leaders will be received at 9.45 a.m. (Paris time) at the Palais du Peuple.
- The French president said on Wednesday that it was not in China’s interest to supply arms to Russia for its offensive in Ukraine, which would make Beijing complicit in violating international law.
- China would commit “historical error” if she decided to supply lethal weapons to Russia to help it fight its war in Ukraine, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday.
- Volodymyr Zelensky met Andrzej Duda in Poland for his first official visit to the country. During this meeting, the Polish President declared that his country, which has already delivered eight Mig-29s to Ukraine and will send six more soon, was ready to deliver to Kiev, ” in the future “its entire fleet of Mig-29 fighters.
- Europe is going to equip itself with a “cyber shield”including a “reserve cyber army”European Commissioner Thierry Breton announced on Wednesday, before the International Cybersecurity Forum. “With the war in Ukraine, cyberattacks jumped 140% in Europe last year”recalled the European Commissioner, who will present a new regulation on April 18, the Cyber Solidarity Act.
- The ruble fell Wednesday to its lowest level in almost a year against the dollar, weakened by the fall in income from Russian exports, capital outflows and the reorientation of part of the Russian economy towards other currencies, in particular the yuan. The Russian currency fell as low as 80.50 rubles to the dollar on Wednesday, the first since mid-April 2022.
- The head of the IAEA is in Russia to negotiate the security of a Ukrainian plant. Rafael Mariano Grossi traveled to Kaliningrad, an enclave bordering the Baltic Sea, on Wednesday for talks aimed at securing the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant.
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