Have you missed the latest events on the war in Ukraine? 20 minutes takes stock for you every night. Here is the essentials of this Thursday, July 10, 1,233rd day of the conflict.
The fact of the day
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that he had expressed “disappointment” and “frustration” to his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Thursday in the face of the lack of progress on peace in Ukraine, while saying that they had exchanged “new ideas”.
“This is not a new approach. It is a new idea or a new concept that I will bring to the president [Donald Trump] To discuss it “this evening, Marco Rubio told the press, specifying in a rather vague way that it was not an initiative leading” automatically to peace “but” which could potentially allow the door to be opened “to a possible path.
Marco Rubio castigated the lack of “flexibility” of Russia during this meeting held on the sidelines of a meeting of the heads of diplomacy in the Southeast Asian countries in Kuala Lumpur.
The Declaration of the Day
« Faced with the intensification of Russian attacks, we cannot lack funding »
The Ukrainian president urged his partners to invest more in defense in the face of Russian attacks at a conference on the reconstruction of his country in Rome.
“This is what we need to focus as a priority: we have to stop Russian drones and missiles. This involves more air defense and investment supplies in interceptor drones, air defense and missiles, “said Volodymyr Zelensky.
The figure of the day
50.000. This is the number of mobilizable men who will be used in the Franco-British joint expeditionary force, future international force for the guarantee of a ceasefire. “We pass this joint force from the level of a brigade to that of an army corps, that is to say that can go up to 50,000 men, capable of being employed in a major commitment” and “capable of aggregating other European partners and being made available” of NATO, said Emmanuel Macron.
The trend
The European Union is already projecting itself into the future. It promised to mobilize 2.3 billion euros for the reconstruction of Ukraine, by creating, among other things, a special fund intended to also mobilize private capital, the European Commission said on Thursday.
“With 2.3 billion euros of signed agreements, we aim to unlock up to 10 billion euros in investments to rebuild houses, reopen hospitals, relaunch businesses and secure energy,” said its president Ursula von der Leyen, cited in a press release.
Our file on the war in Ukraine
The EU also plans to launch a “European flagship fund for the reconstruction of Ukraine”, with 220 million euros, to attract private investments. It will be “the largest investment capital fund” to help kyiv, assured Ursula von der Leyen, in a speech in Rome before a conference on the reconstruction of Ukraine.
