Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin confirmed a long -awaited telephone conversation this Tuesday, March 18, which will be officially the second between the two leaders since the Republican return to power in January. The two heads of state will discuss the truce project in Ukraine, while Moscow has laid down conditions deemed unacceptable by kyiv. “I think the two presidents will have a really good and positive discussion this week,” said on Sunday on Cnn The American special envoy Steve Witkoff.
Info to remember
⇒ Donald Trump will try to rally Vladimir Putin to his truce project in Ukraine
⇒ The American president wants to “save” the Ukrainian soldiers “in a very bad posture”
⇒ Emmanuel Macron meets the future German Chancellor in Berlin
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Polish ministers and defense balls for the withdrawal of the treaty prohibiting anti -personnel mines
Polish defense ministers and the three Baltic States said on Tuesday that their countries should leave the international convention prohibiting anti -personnel mines, invoking the need to strengthen their defenses after the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. “With this decision, we send a clear message: our countries are ready and can use all the measures necessary to defend our territory and our freedom,” the ministers said in a joint statement.
Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Poland, from the border countries of Russia, believe that “since the ratification of the Convention on the Prohibition of Anti -personnel Mines (Ottawa Convention), the situation in terms of security in our region has fundamentally deteriorated”, according to this text. “In light of this unstable unstable security environment marked by the assault of Russia and the permanent threat it makes weigh on the Euro-Atlantic community, it is essential to assess all measures aimed at strengthening our deterrent and defense capacities,” said ministers.
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Russia says it has neutralized 46 Ukrainian drones
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday that it had neutralized 46 Ukrainian drones in different Russian regions overnight, where the attacks made six injured according to local authorities. “Over the past night, 46 Ukrainian air drones were destroyed or intercepted,” said the Russian Defense Ministry in a statement, stating that the regions of Belgorod, Briansk and Koursk, borders of Ukraine, as well as that of Orlov had been targeted.
In Belgorod, capital of the eponymous region, a man was seriously injured following the falls of the debris of a drone and is in intensive care, according to the regional governor Viatcheslav Gladkov. In the Koursk region, five civilians were injured in drone attacks, one of which occurred near a van which transported bread, wrote on Telegram the acting regional governor Alexandre Khinsteïn.
08h05
Moscow and Beijing use a “massive digital arsenal” to manipulate democracies, according to the EU
China and Russia use a “massive digital arsenal” to interfere and manipulate Western democracies, the European Union warned on Tuesday. “The manipulation and interference of information constitutes a major threat to EU security,” said the head of European diplomacy Kaja Kallas, in a report.
“We must not underestimate the power that all of this has on us, nor the intentions of their authors,” she added. In her latest annual report on the subject, the EU indicates that last year, she identified disinformation attacks against more than eighty countries and more than two hundred organizations.
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Emmanuel Macron will meet the future German Chancellor during his trip to Berlin
A “working meeting” is scheduled between the future German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and the French president Emmanuel Macron during the latter’s trip to Berlin on Tuesday, the conservative Cdu party said yesterday. The meeting between the two men is planned in the evening, said a spokesperson for the CDU party led by Friedrich Merz.
Emmanuel Macron goes to Berlin to be received by the outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz in order to prepare the European Council for the weekend in Brussels. The French president is expected at 6:00 p.m. at the Chancellery for an exchange that will focus on international subjects of the moment: negotiations on Ukraine, strengthening of European defense, trade tensions with the United States, competitiveness of the European Union.
07:10
Towards a recognition of Crimea by Donald Trump?
Donald Trump had spoken of “sharing” to be made between Moscow and kyiv on Sunday. The American president recently mentioned discussions on the “lands” and the large Ukrainian nuclear power plant in Zaporijjia. According to the American media Semaor, the Republican is planning to recognize Crimea, annexed in 2014, as a Russian region, thus accessing a major claim by Vladimir Putin.
During the weekend, the unpredictable 78-year-old billionaire had also abruptly introduced a new element in the discussions on Ukraine, without without specifying the fate of Ukrainian troops allegedly surrounded by the Russians, and for which he would demand the leniency of Vladimir Putin. “The situation is bad in Ukraine, the situation is bad in Russia,” Donald Trump, who refuses to make a difference between the two countries, and in particular to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Monday in February 2022.
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A highly anticipated phone call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin
Donald Trump, who prides himself on having a privileged relationship with the master of the Kremlin, will try this Tuesday to rally Vladimir Putin to his truce project in Ukraine, while Moscow posed conditions deemed unacceptable by kyiv. “Tomorrow morning, I will speak to President Putin concerning the war in Ukraine,” Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform on Monday.
“Many elements of a final agreement have been agreed, but many are still” to negotiate, he added. The American president, at the turn of a visit Monday in a prestigious Washington performance hall, said that one of his goals was to “save soldiers (Ukrainians) who are in a very bad posture”. Donald Trump reiterated that his goal was to arrive at a ceasefire first, then to a peace agreement.