Emmanuel Macron will speak on the European elections and the situation in Ukraine and Gaza in the 8 p.m. news on TF1 and France 2 live from Caen on Thursday. At 8:15 p.m. he will answer questions from Gilles Bouleau and Anne-Sophie Lapix during a special edition organized in the wake of the commemorations of the Allied landings in Normandy during the Second World War, on June 6, 1944.
Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday accused China of working to “prevent” countries from participating in a peace summit on Ukraine, which Beijing criticized because Russia was not invited. China has indicated that its President Xi Jinping will not participate in this summit and US President Joe Biden has not yet committed. More than a hundred countries and organizations have committed to participating in this Summit scheduled for June in Switzerland, said the Ukrainian president, urging countries in the Asia-Pacific region to join.
Hello everyone. Like every day, the editorial staff of 20 minutes is mobilized to provide all the information on the conflict. Yesterday, a thousand people attended the funeral in central kyiv of a renowned journalist and volunteer nurse killed at the front last week. Irina Tsybukh, 25, known as Cheka, was on rotations in northeastern Ukraine, where Russian forces launched a massive ground offensive in May, seizing swaths of territory and forcing the civilians to be evacuated.
Last year, she wrote a letter to be published if she were to be killed while serving on the front line in the Donetsk region: “I’m not sorry to die, because in the end, I live life that I want to lead (…) Be worthy of the actions of our heroes, do not be sad, be courageous”.