European leaders are trying to calm down, Erdogan wants to organize a meeting

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news of the day

The Turkish president tries to put on his best costume as a mediator. This Thursday, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, visiting Kiev, again offered to host “bilateral talks” in Turkey between Russia and Ukraine. “As we indicated earlier, Turkey is ready to play its part in resolving the crisis between two friendly countries, which are its neighbors in the Black Sea,” the Turkish president said.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, however, said in a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Turkey will continue “to defend the territorial integrity of Ukraine, including Crimea”.

sentence of the day

“We constantly call on our American partners to stop fueling tensions”

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov urged the United States to “stop” aggravating the Russian-Western crisis around Ukraine on Thursday. This speech was made the day after the American decision to send 3,000 additional soldiers to Eastern Europe.

According to him, “Russia’s concern is clear and perfectly justified”, given that it is “Americans who are being sent to European countries”. The day before, Russian diplomacy had deemed “destructive” the announcement of the dispatch of these reinforcements.

The number of the day

Two million. This is the number of people who live near the front line in eastern Ukraine and are at risk of being displaced if active fighting resumes, the Norwegian Refugee Council has warned.

“The lives and safety of millions of people in eastern Ukraine hang in the balance as we await a political breakthrough to break this impasse,” NGO secretary general Jan Egeland said in a statement. communicated.

The trend of the day

Across the Atlantic Joe Biden is camped on a position of response but in Europe, mediators are taking shape. While France holds the rotating presidency of the EU, Emmanuel Macron is increasing contacts to relaunch the implementation of the Minsk peace agreements in eastern Ukraine. He exchanged twice in three days with Vladimir Putin, must speak to him again this Thursday as well as to his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, and does not rule out going to Moscow and Kiev.

“Russia does not want to talk to Brussels. In Germany, the new coalition has not yet taken its marks. So Macron is the voice of Europe in the dialogue with Putin”, summarizes Tatiana Kastouéva-Jean, expert at the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri). The new German Chancellor, Olfa Scholz, however, is due to go to Moscow on the 15th.