Tumultuous atmosphere ahead. The National Assembly decides, Tuesday March 12, on the aid strategy for Ukraine during a debate and a symbolic vote. The Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, will kick off the debates around 4:30 p.m., before the intervention of the political groups then a vote, without binding value, expected around 8 p.m. The outcome of the vote could be favorable, with the support of LR. “We have no other choice. We are obviously for Ukraine”, we say within the right-wing group. Two years after the outbreak of war, the Macronists hope to point the finger at the “ambiguities” of the RN and LFI with regard to Russia. The vote of each group will be “interesting”, underlines the President of the Assembly Yaël Braun-Pivet. Follow our live stream.
In Russia, two fuel depots on fire. Two fuel depots were attacked by drones on Tuesday morning in Orel and Kstovo, two Russian towns located respectively 160 km from the Ukrainian border and 450 km east of Moscow, regional governors announced. The attacks both started a fire, according to these governors. There are no victims, according to them.
Joe Biden will try to reassure Polish leaders. The American president will try on Tuesday to reassure the Polish president and Prime Minister, whom he is receiving at the White House. The meeting comes as the US intelligence community, in a report to the Senate released Monday, warns that “the dynamic is changing more and more in favor of Moscow” in the war against Ukraine, currently deprived of aid from the United States due to a political deadlock in Congress. The American president intends to reaffirm with his counterpart Andrzej Duda and Prime Minister Donald Tusk a “unwavering commitment to the defense of Ukraine in the face of brutal Russian aggression”the White House said.
“The Russian advance has been stopped.” After setbacks for his army against Russian forces, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was optimistic on Monday, saying that “Russia’s advance has been stopped”. In an interview with the French television channel BFMTV and daily The worldhe stated : ‘I can give you the latest information: the situation is much better than during the last three months.’