While Ukrainian transport infrastructure was badly damaged by the Russian invasion, the French government promised on Sunday April 23 to provide boats, buses and railway tracks to Kiev. At the end of a four-day visit to Ukraine, the Minister Delegate for Transport, Clément Beaune, called on French companies, “right now”To “to be there, especially in the transport sector”.
In the meantime, France has promised to do “donation of pilot boats”, to send “additional buses to Ukraine to provide school transport, in addition to the thirty vehicles already delivered”, and of “provide 20,000 tons of rails, to rebuild several hundred kilometers of railways”. Follow our live.
kyiv denounces an “absurd version” of the history of Crimea. After controversial remarks by the Chinese ambassador to France, the adviser to the Ukrainian presidency, Mykhaïlo Podoliak, called him on Sunday to “do not repeat the propaganda” Russian. Friday on LCI, Lu Shaye had affirmed that Crimea, Ukrainian territory annexed by Moscow in 2014, “was at the very beginning to Russia.
Pope Francis calls not to forget the Ukrainians. Five days before his visit to Budapest, the sovereign pontiff called for us not to forget “our Ukrainian brothers and sisters still afflicted by this war”. Pope Francis will visit Hungary, a central European country led by nationalist and Russophile Prime Minister Viktor Orban, on Friday.
Six Leopard tanks sent to Ukraine. The Spanish Minister of Defense announced on Saturday that the six Leopoard tanks promised by Madrid had gone to sea the day before. “There are four more Leopards under repair and when that is done they will also go to Ukraine”she added.
More than twenty German diplomats expelled from Russia. The Russian Foreign Ministry announced on Saturday the expulsion of “more than twenty” German diplomats. In a press release, he mentions “retaliatory measures” after “the new mass eviction” of Russian diplomats in Germany.
