China is currently providing “lethal aid” to Russia for use in its war against Ukraine, British Defense Minister Grant Shapps denounced on Wednesday. “We have evidence that Russia and China are collaborating on the development of combat equipment for use in Ukraine,” he said in a speech at the London Defense Conference. He also warned that NATO needed to “wake up” and increase defense spending across the alliance.
Financial support for Ukraine thanks to frozen Russian assets, sanctions against Moscow, Chinese commercial threat: global tensions are at the top of the agenda of the big financiers of the G7, meeting from this Thursday in the north of Italy. The finance ministers and central bankers of the seven richest countries in the world will meet until Saturday in Stresa, on the shores of Lake Maggiore, to prepare the ground for the summit of heads of state and government scheduled for mid- June in Puglia.
Hello everyone. Like every day, the editorial staff of 20 minutes is mobilized to give you all the information on the conflict. On the front, the Russian region of Belgorod is targeted almost daily by Ukrainian strikes. Russian troops launched an offensive on May 10 across the border, in the Ukrainian region of Kharkiv.