Emmanuel Macron receives party leaders this Thursday at the Élysée in the Saint-Denis meeting format to discuss the conflict in Ukraine ahead of a parliamentary vote.By raising the possibility of a military presence on the ground last week, he reignited divisions before the European elections.Follow the latest information on the conflict.
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War in Ukraine: attacks in Russia are increasing
ARREST WARRANTS AGAINST TWO RUSSIAN SILITARY
They are now actively sought. The International Criminal Court issued on Tuesday March 5 two arrest warrants against Sergei Ivanovich Kobylach, lieutenant general of the Russian Air Force, and Viktor Nikolayevich Sokolov, vice admiral and commander of the Russian Sea Fleet. black. The body hopes to be able to have them appear for “several war crimes and crimes against humanity during the period between October 10, 2022 and at least March 9, 2023,” specifies the Quai d’Orsay.
BOMPARD AT THE ÉLYSÉE
Find the entire intervention of the coordinator of France Insoumise before the meeting of party leaders at the Élysée:
Manuel Bompard: “We must force” Putin to peace in UkraineSource : TF1 Info
BOMPARD AT THE ÉLYSÉE
“No doubt Putin does not want peace but he must be forced,” insists Manuel Bompard, speaking of Chinese, Indian and Turkish initiatives to create the conditions for a peace agreement. “The stubbornness in the military voice is a dead end for me,” he continues. He will defend France’s action at the United Nations for “the intervention of a peacekeeping force, particularly around nuclear power plants”.
BOMPARD AT THE ÉLYSÉE
“Rather than wanting to be the leader of the war camp, France should take the lead of the peace camp. I have a certain number of proposals to make to it on the subject,” declared Manuel Bompard before the meeting of party leaders with Emmanuel Macron. If this point will mainly focus on Ukraine, the coordinator of France Insoumise also hopes to be able to discuss the situation in the Middle East and in the Gaza Strip with the head of state.
BOURLANGES ON LCI
While party leaders are received at the Élysée to discuss the Ukrainian crisis, Jean-Louis Bourlanges explains “not agreeing with the wording used by the president” on sending ground troops. “I think he could have said things differently and in a more understandable way for his allies and for the French,” said MP Modem on LCI. “But basically, he is right. He says that Ukraine is not a country like any other (…). that if Ukraine falls, if Putin achieves his goals, it is our vital interests to Europeans who are involved. So we cannot stop there. We will then have to move up a gear”, which “remains to be defined”. “But that implies one thing: that we act immediately, very strongly. I have been rowing like crazy for two years to get people to be convinced of that,” he insists.
BOURLANGES ON LCI
Guest of the Morning, Jean-Louis Bourlanges, Modem deputy and president of the Foreign Affairs Committee at the National Assembly, salutes “truly admirable heroes of the Russian resistance” after the death of Alexeï Navalny. “The Russian people are totally enslaved. We are now in a real dictatorship with a totalitarian dimension, with considerable ideological control,” he analyzes. According to him, “Putin’s adjustment variable in the Ukrainian war, which he fought very clumsily, which he largely lost politically, which he did not win militarily, is the suffering of his people” who “are not able to become aware of their situation. They are atomized, submissive.”
“WHERE IS EMMANUEL MACRON TAKING US?”
The Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, accused the RN, favorite in the European elections, of “supporting Russia more than Ukraine” on Wednesday from The Hague. “We are back in the republican arc, visibly (…) When we have sold war equipment in Russia, we abstain”, retorted Thursday on TF1 the deputy RN Sébastien Chenu. “We have always supported Ukraine, all aid until now. We will decide based on the text and the financing plan. Where is Emmanuel Macron taking us?”
HOLLANDE’S TACKLE IN MACRON
Received by his successor at the Elysée on Wednesday evening to discuss the conflict in Ukraine, François Hollande was not tender towards Emmanuel Macron’s communication on military issues. His credo? “The less we say, the better we act. Don’t say what you do, but do what you haven’t said. That’s what allows you to be most effective”he declared after this meeting which was also attended by Nicolas Sarkozy.
War in Ukraine: “The less we say, the better we act,” says François HollandeSource : TF1 Info
EMMANUEL MACRON RECEIVES PARTY LEADERS
The Head of State is bringing together the heads of political parties at the Élysée today from 10:30 a.m. On the agenda of the meeting, the situation in Ukraine and the aid provided to the country.
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“Anything that alters the unity of Europe” aret “contrary to the broadest possible support for Ukraine”, said former socialist president François Hollande after an interview with Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday evening. After his controversial remarks on the potential sending of Western troops to Ukraine, an option rejected by European allies and the United States, the head of state met François Hollande then former president Nicolas Sarkozy, Wednesday evening, before receive party leaders Thursday to discuss the situation two years after the start of the Russian invasion.
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“It is very important that there is the broadest consensus for support for Ukraine, on everything that could be material aid, military aid, at the level of France and at the European level”he insisted, while kyiv is asking for more weapons and ammunition.
For François Hollande, who “met a lot” Vladimir Poutine, “this is what can make (him) think”. “He was always in this search for the balance of power, he wants to impress, so the only possible response is to show that we are with the Ukrainians in total solidarity, that we give them all the necessary support, without us- even participate in any combat whatsoever.he insisted.
Asked more specifically about Emmanuel Macron’s comments regarding possible troop shipments, he replied: “My position on military issues is: the less we say, the better we act.” “Do not say what you are doing, but do what you have not said. This is what allows you to be most effective”he judged.
He further considered that “we all need to deliver more” to Ukraine. “The Germans (must) move faster so that their commitments are kept, the French give as much equipment, including the most sophisticated, to the Ukrainians, and the Europeans more generally not simply offload equipment which is not necessarily the most effective”, he estimated.