It seems to have no end the spiral of tension triggered between Moscow and Paris. President Emmanuel Macron «declares that France is ready to directly participate in the military conflict in Ukraine“, has the Kremlin spokesperson denouncedDmitry Peskov, after the French president announced his intention to send Mirage fighters to Kiev and of create a «French brigade» composed by 4,500 Ukrainian soldiers fighting against the Russians.
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In the last few hours Moscow’s Defense Ministry announced that Russian soldiers had captured another villagethat of Paraskovievkain the eastern Donetsk region. Italywhich has already said it is against the use of Western missiles to strike Russia, he reiterated his distance from France. “Macron’s is not Italy’s position, we must not follow anyone, we must avoid escalation”, underlined the Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani. According to the leader of the Rassemblement National, Marine Le Pen«one gets the feeling that Macron wants a war». But the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyspeaking before the National Assembly the day after taking part in the celebrations for the eightieth anniversary of the Normandy landings, he thanked the Elysée for “not having abandoned Ukraine at a decisive moment”.
French citizen stopped in Moscow: “He had not registered as a foreign agent”
The verbal clash between France and Russia is accompanied the legal case of a French citizen arrested in Moscow on charges of not having registered as a foreign agent and having collected information on Russia’s military activities. The man, Laurent Vinatier, appeared today before a court in the capital, which transformed the detention into arrest until August 5, waiting for the proceedings to take their course.
Meanwhile, the pro-Russian authorities of the city of Luganskin eastern Ukraine, said 4 people died and 43, including 4 children, were injured in the collapse of a five-storey building hit by a bombardment by Kiev forces. The Ukrainian military have “committed a crime against the civilian population using weapons supplied by the West”, denounced the Ministry of Defense of Moscow, according to which the Ukrainians launched five American Atacms missiles on “residential areas” of the city, of which four were shot down. One hit the building instead.
The Kiev Air Force said that Russian forces targeted Ukrainian critical infrastructure last night by launching 5 cruise missiles and 53 kamikaze drones towards various regions of the country. Air defenses shot down 48 drones and all 5 of Moscow’s cruise missiles. Finally, two women were injured during the night following attacks by Russian forces in the Nikopol district, in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine, according to the governor.
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