08:27 – Macron receives the new Canadian Prime Minister on Monday, Ukraine will be mentioned
The new Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, made this first trip abroad to Paris and London on Monday. His goal: to assert alliances in Europe in a context of extreme tensions with Washington. MM. Carney and Emmanuel Macron will also discuss “the war of aggression waged by Russia against Ukraine” and “projects at the heart” of the “strategic partnership” between the two countries, specifies the Palais de l’Elysée. During this working lunch, the two leaders finally want to “build stronger economic, commercial and defense ties”, it specifies.
08:15 – “I’m going to talk to President Putin on Tuesday,” said Trump
US President Donald Trump said on Sunday to Monday to Monday that he planned to meet on Tuesday with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as part of the American-Russian rapprochement to put an end to the war in Ukraine. “I’m going to talk to President Putin on Tuesday. A lot of work was done over the weekend,” he said. “We are talking about this, sharing of certain assets,” he said, evoking “land” and “electric factories”. “We want to see if we can end the war. Maybe we can, maybe not, but I think we are likely,” said the ex-real estate magnat from the presidential plane Air Force One who brought him back to Washington from Florida.
08:10 – Russia requires “concrete” guarantees
A possible peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia? If the Kremlin no longer appears completely closed, it now requires “concrete” guarantees to achieve it. As indicated by a Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alexander Grouchko, in an interview with the Izvestia newspaper published this Monday, March 17: Russia will ask “that concrete security guarantees are part of an agreement”, without mentioning the 30-day truce proposal made by the United States and accepted by Ukraine. “Among these guarantees must include the neutral status of Ukraine and the refusal of NATO countries to accept it within the alliance,” he added.