Trump foiled the veto, “conspiracy” and tensions between Paris and Moscow

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Fact of the day

A Russian strike on the center of the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson on Monday killed at least four people and wounded others, according to Roman Marochko, the head of the local military administration. “Among the dead are three men aged 45 and 50 who were in the car, and (the fourth) a woman who was on the street at the time of the attack,” he lamented on Telegram, adding that another injured man was hospitalized. . The soldier accused Russia of seeking to “kill and injure civilians” in Kherson, a city symbolic of the Ukrainian resistance, from which Kremlin troops withdrew in November 2022 after seizing it for several months.

The deadly strike comes two days after a bomb blast at a bakery in Lysytchask, in occupied eastern Ukraine, was blamed by Moscow on Kiev troops. According to Russian emergency services, it left at least 28 dead. Among them, there will be three official representatives of the Russian occupation, and in particular Colonel Oleksiy Potelashchenko, the “Minister of Emergency Situations of the People’s Republic of Lugansk”. Kien has yet to officially react to the allegations.

Number of days

6. This is the number of “explosive devices” that Georgian security services say they intercepted on board a “mini-van of Ukrainians”. Thus Tbilisi claims to have foiled “a plot” aimed at transporting these explosives into Russian territory. A Ukrainian of Georgian origin is alleged to be the “mastermind” of the cartel, named Andrey Sharashidze. Seven Georgians, three Ukrainians and two Armenians may have taken part in the transport without knowing they contained explosives, according to the security services of this former Soviet republic in the Caucasus, which was invaded by Russia in 2008.

Relations between Kyiv and Tbilisi deteriorated in 2021 when Georgia’s pro-Western former president Mikheil Saakashvili, who also holds Ukrainian citizenship, was detained. This episode of the famous “conspiracy” is unlikely to correct them.

Today’s statement

” Only an idiot, or a hard-left democrat, would vote for this horrible bill (including $60 billion in aid to Kiev)” »

Donald Trump issued a warning on his social network Truth Social this Monday to prevent Republicans in Congress from voting for an agreement on this highly anticipated package in Ukraine. After long months of negotiations, the American Senate unveiled a text on Sunday evening, which, in addition to 60 billion in aid to Ukraine, 14 billion for Israel and reform of the American immigration system. “We need a separate bill on the issue of migration, it should not be connected in any way to aid to a foreign country,” says the former president, a candidate for November’s presidential election.

Without the support of Republicans in the House, most of whom are loyal to Donald Trump, the text supported by Biden may not succeed. Because, to be adopted, this major bill must be approved by both houses of Congress. Democrats have a majority in the Senate, but Republicans control the House. Remember that Donald Trump has claimed that if elected he would resolve the conflict between Russia and Ukraine “within 24 hours”.

Today’s trend

Russian Ambassador to France Alexei Mechkov was summoned to the French Foreign Ministry on Monday, which reiterated France’s condemnation of the Russian strike that killed two French humanitarian workers in Ukraine last Thursday. The summons comes amid heightened tensions between Paris and Moscow, as part of Emmanuel Macron’s announced visit to Ukraine.

Regarding the two French humanitarian workers who died in Berislav, Paris condemned the act of “barbarism” by Moscow. The Kremlin did not directly react to this clarification imposed on its ambassador. “We hope that what has happened will lead the opinion of the French people to reflect more on the merits of their leaders’ hostile and dangerous line with regard to the conflict in Ukraine,” declared their spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, on Monday.

But France is also criticized for creating Russia in the information sector. And especially on the numerous statements from Moscow on the “French mercenaries” who died in the strike in Kharkiv on the night of January 16-17. False advertisements and false graffiti also circulate on the Internet to support the idea that Western public opinion has grown weary of Volodymyr Zelensky’s support. But “Russia cannot count on any exhaustion of Europeans in their support for Ukraine,” Emmanuel Macron warned last Thursday.