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news of the day
A high-ranking American envoy is visiting Brazil in the hope of renewing a dialogue with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, whose controversial remarks on the conflict in Ukraine had angered Washington. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the United States ambassador to the UN, will hold talks in Brasilia on Tuesday with Brazilian government officials, then on Wednesday will travel to Salvador, the heart of the Afro-Brazilian community, to talk about racial equality.
But, said an official on condition of anonymity, Linda Thomas-Greenfield will have the opportunity to “take stock” of Lula’s statements. “Our position is that a number of countries around the world, including Brazil, can play a positive role in trying to end the conflict,” he added. “But we must ensure that any peace is just and lasting” and based “on the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity”, the official said. Lula sparked controversy when he said on April 17 in Beijing that the United States should stop “encouraging war” in Ukraine and that the European Union should “start talking about peace”.
sentence of the day
Canada will continue to provide them with military, humanitarian and financial assistance.”
Justin Trudeau wanted to support his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. The two heads of state announced on Monday the continuation of their long-term cooperation program. Canada has already trained more than 36,000 Ukrainian soldiers since September 2015 and this mission has been extended until March 2025. The country announced in March that its mission to train Ukrainian engineers was extended until October and expressed his decision to provide combat medicine training.
The number of the day
228. Denmark will donate 228 million euros of equipment, ammunition and air defense material to Ukraine to “strengthen [s] has the ability to carry out an offensive in the coming months,” the Danish Ministry of Defense announced on Tuesday. Amounting to 1.7 billion crowns, “this is Denmark’s largest donation to date,” the ministry said in a statement. With this donation, which includes armored and demining vehicles, mortar shells and mobile field bridges, Danish military aid to Ukraine amounts to 11 billion crowns (1.47 billion euros or $1.61 billion) since the start of the Russian invasion.
The trend of the day
Exacerbated by the consequences of the conflict in Ukraine, the demographic crisis affecting Russia is unbalancing the country’s economy, which is already in the midst of restructuring. The alert was given in mid-April by experts from the High School of Business (HSE) in Moscow: according to their scenarios, Russia will have to welcome on average between 390,000 and more than a million migrants each year until the end of end of the century if it does not want to see its population decline irremediably.
The report is alarming, but it translates “a general demographic situation which is really not very good”, declares to Arnaud Dubien, the director of the Franco-Russian Observatory in Moscow. To this underlying trend was added in 2020 the Covid pandemic, which hit Russia hard, with some 400,000 dead according to the official report, a figure largely underestimated according to observers. A sign of this deep demographic crisis, the Russian giant lost a total of 600,000 inhabitants in 2022, 1.04 million the previous year and nearly 688,700 in 2020.