Twelve injured after a drone attack in Soumy Oblast
Twelve civilians, including two children, were injured in a Russian drone strike on the city of Okhtyrka, in the Soumy Oblast, northeast of Ukraine, according to local authorities.
The American chief of staff will meet on Tuesday evening with his European counterparts
The American chief of the armies of the armies, General Dan Caine, will meet Tuesday evening with European military leaders about Ukraine, according to a Pentagon official. The participants in the meeting will discuss the “best options for a possible peace agreement in Ukraine,” said the official on condition of anonymity.
Macron remains on alert against Putin
What are the real intentions of the Kremlin? In response to this question, kyiv considers that, even if a peace agreement is found, Moscow will retry an invasion. Emmanuel Macron seems to think the same: Vladimir Putin is “a predator, an ogre at our doors” who “needs to continue to eat (for) his own survival”, he accused, speaking of “threat to Europeans”.
Trump ready for air support but no ground troops in Ukraine
Donald Trump said he was ready on Tuesday that the United States provides air military support as security guarantees to Ukraine in the event of a peace agreement with Russia, while excluding soldiers on the ground, a mission devoted to European allies. “They are ready to send troops on the ground,” said the American president on Fox News, in reference to French, German and British leaders whom he had received the day before in the Oval Office.
The city of Budapest envisaged for a tripartite meeting
If the bilateral meeting is successful between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, a tripartite meeting could follow with Donald Trump.
Tuesday evening on Fox News, the secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent replied that Budapest “could” welcome this Putin-Trump-Zelensky summit, as the newspaper says Politico.
Where could the Putin-Zelensky summit stand?
If, according to participants in Monday meetings at the White House, Vladimir Putin agreed to meet Volodymyr Zelensky, there is a thorny question: what place for this summit?
On the phone on Monday evening with Donald Trump, the Russian president offered to see his Ukrainian counterpart in Moscow, according to three sources close to the file. But Volodymyr Zelensky refused, according to one of these sources.
For this possible tête-à -tête, Emmanuel Macron proposed Geneva in Switzerland, a neutral country, who said he was willing to offer “immunity” to the Russian president, despite his indictment before the International Criminal Court, provided he comes “for a peace conference”.
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After the meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, then the reception of Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Monday, a meeting between the Ukrainian and Russian presidents must be held. If such a summit actually came to be done, the question of his place is for the moment very far from being decided.
