This is a threat that he has been agitating before kyiv’s eyes for a few days. Monday, March 3, Donald Trump carried out it, suspending military aid to Ukraine while Washington approaches Moscow. At the microphone of the American chain Cnna European official described the freezing of the military aid of “mesquin and erroneous”. For his part, the vice-president of the United States, JD Vance, said he was convinced that the Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky would end up agreeing to discuss peace with Russia, after the fiasco of his meeting on Friday with Donald Trump.
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⇒ The American vice-president says he is convinced that Volodymyr Zelensky will eventually discuss peace
⇒ Donald Trump suspends military aid to Ukraine
⇒ Russia: an oil infrastructure on fire after a drone attack
07:20
Russia announces the return of Ukraine of 33 inhabitants of the Koursk region
Moscow announced on Monday evening the return to territory under Russia control of 33 people from the part of the Koursk region occupied by the Ukrainian army and which had been evacuated in Ukraine. On February 24, Moscow said he had reached an agreement with kyiv to repatriate residents of the region who were in Ukraine. “These are mainly elderly people, but there are also four children. Many of them suffer from serious injury and disease,” Russian human rights mediator Tatiana Moskalkva said on Telegram. According to her, Russia “negotiated with the Ukrainian part” with “the support of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the mediation of the Bélarus”, ally of Moscow by which the evacuated.
07:00
Russia: an oil infrastructure on fire after a drone attack
An oil infrastructure caught fire on Monday evening in the Russian region of Rostov, a border of Ukraine, after a drone attack, said the acting governor Iouri Slioussar. Ukraine regularly strikes military targets and energy sites in Russia, response to the daily strikes of Kremlin which have mourn its territory since February 2022.
“Following a massive drone attack in the Tchertkovski district, a fire broke out” on an oil site, Iouri Slioussar said on Telegram, without giving more details. “The emergency services have rushed to the site” and “the staff was evacuated”, without making any victims, added Iouri Slioussar.
06:50
JD Vance says he is convinced that Volodymyr Zelensky will eventually discuss peace
Vice-president of the United States, JD Vance, said he was convinced on Monday that the Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky would accept to discuss peace with Russia, after the fiasco of his meeting on Friday with Donald Trump. In an interview with the Fox News channel, he considered that the Ukrainian president had “shown a clear refusal to engage in the peace process” desired by the American president.
“I think Zelensky was not yet there yet, and I think, frankly, that he is still not there, but I think he will eventually get there. It is necessary,” said the vice-president in this maintenance recorded before the announcement of a break in American military aid to Ukraine. JD Vance had made the tone suddenly during the incredible meeting of the republican president and the Ukrainian president in the oval office on Friday, reproaching Volodymyr Zelensky for “lacking respect” and summarizing him to “say thank you” in the United States.
Asked to find out if the door of the White House remained open, he replied: “President Trump said clearly and constantly that the door was open as long as Zelensky is ready to speak seriously about peace”. But “we cannot come to the Oval Office or elsewhere and refuse to discuss if only details of a peace agreement,” he said, recalling that Russians and Ukrainians will have to make concessions.
06:40
Donald Trump suspends military aid to Ukraine
Donald Trump made his threat and ordered a “break” in the United States to war against Russia on Monday, March 3, March 3, on Monday, March 3, three days after the White House alter with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “We take a break and review our help to ensure that it contributes to the search for a solution” to the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, defended an official of the White House under the cover of anonymity. “The president clearly said that he was focusing on peace. We need our partners to also agree to achieve this goal,” he added.
It is essentially the military aid already approved under the former administration of Joe Biden and very widely sold but of which there are still equipment and weapons to be delivered.
Donald Trump, who verbally faced the White House on Friday his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, also estimated on Monday that the latter “should be more grateful”, while stressing that the Ukrainian mineral agreement can still be concluded. “I just think it should be more grateful, because this country supported them against all odds,” hammered Donald Trump during a ceremony in the White House.