Headlines: France to deliver 155 mm Caesar guns to Ukraine

Headlines France to deliver 155 mm Caesar guns to Ukraine

In a newspaper interview West FranceEmmanuel Macron has indeed revealed that guns of this type were going to be provided to them, and that forty Ukrainian gunners were going to be trained in France.

We deliver substantial equipment, from Milan to Caesar “, in particular said the Head of State to this regional daily. Being specified that the Milano are French anti-tank missiles carried on the shoulder, and the caesar 155mm guns of very long range and very high precision, West France underlines the character of “novelty” of this presidential statement, while evoking the delivery (unconfirmed) of “a dozen” guns caesar. Comment by West Franceafter the Rafales of the Air and Space Force and the frigates of the Navy, it is the turn of the Army to see the “family jewels” leave the edge “. However, this daily does not comment on the sensitive nature of these deliveries to Ukraine. On the contrary, he describes this presidential confidence collected by him as “ small scoop “.

Boy, what scoop? This is clearly not the opinion of the newspaper. Le Figaro. Which in any case devotes an article to him in its own right, specifying that the Milan missiles are “ already arrived in Ukraine and that the caesar are “ in delivering “. Le Figaro also indicates that the Ukrainian artillerymen called upon to handle these enormous guns would be trained ” in France from Saturday “. Today, therefore.

Presidential, ultimate apnea

D-1 for the presidential election. At the dawn of this final duel, France holds its breath. And not just France. ” Strange vigil of armsremark in One Le Figaro. Politics, in recent days, despite the debate, despite the meetings, seemed deafened. The great democratic meeting that is the presidential election relegated to the rank of secondary concerns. Yet war is in Europe, the global economy is holding its breath, the Islamist threat is still simmering and general instability is set to be accentuated by the possibility of a perilous political alternation. “says this daily.

Because warn Le Figarothe truth of the ballot boxes is not that of the polls, it is therefore necessary to maintain, despite all the converging signals, vigilant caution. At the time of the balance sheet, there is a concern that the expected result will not manage to dissipate. That of civic disaffiliation, of the depoliticization of public life. Sluggish campaign, appalling controversies, untraceable gravity, dismissal of hope, the great presidential deliberation was reduced to battles of images and figures “, deplores this newspaper, evoking “ this decisive moment in our history “.

Decisive, this moment? “ Is this the most decisive election of the Fifth Republicwonders the site of the magazine Challenges ? If France – and the world – hold their breath, it is because the colossal stake, inherent in any presidential election, is further exacerbated by the possibility of seeing the far right take power. And lead a world power, a member of the UN Security Council, endowed with nuclear weapons, States Challenges. The result is being closely scrutinized abroad, where we are watching with anguish for an aftershock of the populist earthquakes of Brexit and the election of Donald Trump in the United States. “.

Drogba, the fear of the FIF red card

The election of the president of the Ivorian Football Federation, finally, with the choice of its new president today, in Yamoussoukro, capital of Côte d’Ivoire. Didier Drogba is a candidate, but ” not favorite “. This is what signals The Teameven if the turnout “of the former Ivorian football star as, in particular, of the English club Chelsea, “ already sounds like his first victory “. The French sports daily stresses that in Côte d’Ivoire, “ as in Cameroon, with Samuel Eto’o, the street has already voted. But it’s not her who decides “. The Team points out that in Yamoussoukro, the atmosphere is very tense despite the smiles on the face of it. The fear of overflows, in the event of Drogba’s failure, worries “.

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