The tone is solemn this Monday, March 3. “The front line continues to get closer to us,” said this morning on France Inter the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, referring to the war in Ukraine. Words that arrive the day after a summit in London where fifteen European leaders were invited, including French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Their host, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, said at the end of this meeting that “a certain number of countries” had wanted to join “a coalition of good wishes” to defend a future peace agreement. “Europe must do the bulk of work, but to defend peace on our continent, and to succeed, this effort must be strongly supported by the United States,” he added.
Info to remember
⇒ “The front line continues to get closer to us,” warns Jean-Noël Barrot
⇒ A debate on the war in Ukraine scheduled for Monday in the National Assembly
⇒ Zelensky and its European allies refine their response to Donald Trump
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“The front line continues to get closer to us”, alerts Jean-Noël Barrot
The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, estimated this Monday about the war in Ukraine that “the front line continues to get closer to us”. “Never the risk of a war on the European continent, in the European Union has been so high because for almost fifteen years, the threat continues to get closer to us, the front line continues to get closer to us,” said Jean-Noël Barrot, on radio France Inter, affirming that European countries were now fully aware of it, after a summit in London.
08:50
The Pentagon orders a break from cybers operations against Russia
The American Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered a break in all cyber operations in the country against Russia, including offensive actions, several American media reported on Sunday. This break is part of a broader process of reassessment of American operations vis-à-vis Russia, and its duration is not clearly defined according to the New York Times.
Solicited by AFP, the Pentagon did not comment, invoking the necessary preservation of operational security. Like other clandestine operations, actions in the cyber field are practically never commented on by the authorities.
08:40
A debate on the war in Ukraine in the Assembly
The French Parliament will debate this Monday at the Assembly and Tuesday in the Senate of the situation in Ukraine and Security in Europe. Note that these are symbolic debates, since there will be no vote at their end. Representatives of the various political factions will be able to challenge Prime Minister, François Bayrou, and will share their own analysis of the situation.
“It is a question of having the point of view of all the parliamentary groups on the new sequence that opens, that of the ceasefire and the consolidation of lasting peace,” explained to the microphone of Franceinfo Bruno Fuchs, Modem Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Assembly.
08:30
Ukraine and its allies refine their response to Donald Trump
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Monday working with his European allies to “common positions” to try to convince US President Donald Trump to take into account their interests in the face of Russia. “(We) will define our common positions-what we want to get, and what is not negotiable. These positions will be presented to our American partners,” he said on Telegram after a meeting in London on Sunday with his allies.
The priority is to achieve “a solid and sustainable peace, and (at one) good agreement concerning the end of the war,” said the Ukrainian head of state. Embranched by the rapprochement between Washington and Moscow and ranged by the virulent attacks of which Volodymyr Zelensky was the subject of Kiev’s allies on Friday in the White House on Friday, Kiev tried to tighten the ranks on Sunday.
Referring to the fears caused by this rapprochement, Donald Trump, for his part, tried on Sunday evening on his social social network than “we should spend less time worrying about Putin, and more time worrying about the gangs of rapist migrants” in particular.
08:20
Volodymyr Zelensky must yield or leave, suggests Washington
Is Donald Trump ready to let go of Volodymyr Zelensky? High US officials have left the idea that the Ukrainian leader may have to leave after the unprecedented clash with the American president on Sunday. The anger caused by the fiasco of the Friday meeting at the White House seems far from falling back. “We need a leader who can deal with us, deal with the Russians at one point and put an end to this war,” said President Trump’s national security advisor Mike Waltz. “Replacing me will not be so easy,” warned the Ukrainian president.
The latter reiterated ready on Sunday to sign the agreement on minerals negotiated with the United States but whose signature could not take place after his altercation with Donald Trump. “The agreement on the table will be signed if all parties are ready,” said Volodymyr Zelensky before leaving London, during an interview with British journalists.
08h00
Paris and London offer a truce in Ukraine
France and Great Britain offer a truce of a month in Ukraine “in the air, on the seas and energy infrastructure,” said French president on Sunday Emmanuel Macron in declarations at Figaro. Earlier in the day, before a summit on Ukraine in London, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced that Paris and London were working on “a plan” to stop the fighting. The advantage of such a truce is that “we know how to measure it” while the front is immense, “the equivalent of the Paris-Budapest line”, said the French president.