Emmanuel Macron persists. “Perhaps at some point – I don’t want it, I won’t take the initiative – it will be necessary to have operations on the ground, whatever they may be, to counter the Russian forces.”declared the President of the Republic in an interview with Parisian, published Saturday March 16. The head of state “alert the population”told him that “there is a real danger”estimated on franceinfo, the next day, the MoDem deputy Bruno Millienne, highlighting “hidden designs of Vladimir Putin to recreate the Russian empire”. According to him, the war in Ukraine is not so far from France. “It could blow up in our faces at any time, and we have to be ready.”, he warned. Follow our live stream.
France is not isolated, according to Emmanuel Macron. On the possibility of sending troops to Ukraine, “many countries in Europe, and not the least, are totally on our line”assures the President of the Republic in The Parisianimplying that it is Poland or the Baltic countries.
Russia claims to have shot down 35 Ukrainian drones. This is what the Russian army said on Sunday morning, on the last day of the presidential election that Vladimir Putin will inevitably win.
New attack on a Russian refinery. A new drone attack, which Russian authorities blame on Ukraine, caused a fire at a refinery in southern Russia. Krasnodar regional authorities also report one death who may have died of a heart attack.