Emmanuel Macron will bring together the heads of political parties at the Elysée on Thursday March 7 in the morning to discuss “the situation in Ukraine”, AFP learned from the presidency and several political leaders on Friday March 1. The meeting is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. in the format of the “Saint-Denis Meetings”, already led by the President of the Republic in recent months with the leaders of the majority and opposition parties represented in Parliament, said the ‘Elysée, confirming information from Figaro. Follow our live stream.
Security agreement between the Netherlands and Ukraine. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte signed a security agreement with Ukraine during a trip to Kharkiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced. The agreement notably provides for two billion euros in military aid from the Netherlands to kyiv this year.
“Everything to avoid war.” France is doing everything possible to avoid a collapse of Ukraine without waging war on Russia, insisted the head of French diplomacy, interviewed on France Inter radio. “Everything we do is to avoid war and obviously not to add a level of worry to the French”assured Stéphane Séjourné, questioned about the possibility of sending European soldiers to Ukraine mentioned at the start of the week by the French president.
Navalny’s funeral. Russian opponent Alexeï Navalny, who died on February 16 at the age of 47 in an Arctic prison, was buried at the Borissovo cemetery in Moscow, surrounded by some of his relatives, AFP noted .