Caution. The heads of G7 diplomacy issued a stern warning on Tuesday (April 18) to countries that would provide assistance to Russia in Ukraine. Meeting since Sunday in Japan, the foreign ministers of the main industrialized countries have promised to make people pay “high price” to countries that would provide assistance to Russia in the conflict. They also pledged to continue to “intensify” sanctions against Russia and to step up efforts to prevent their circumvention by third countries. The final communiqué of their meeting also judges “unacceptable” there “irresponsible nuclear rhetoric” of Russia and its threat to deploy arms in Belarus. Follow our live.
Vladimir Putin visited the Kherson region. The Russian president traveled to the Kherson region in southern Ukraine to meet the military deployed there as part of the Russian operation launched more than a year ago, announced Tuesday. the Kremlin.
Brazil is getting “the echo of Russian propaganda”. Brazilian President Lula received Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday to promote international mediation on the war in Ukraine. This visit is not viewed favorably by Washington, which accuses Brasilia of being “the echo of Russian and Chinese propaganda without taking into account the facts”.
Russian political opponent Vladimir Kara-Murza sentenced. This historian, awarded the 2022 Vaclav-Havel Human Rights Prize, was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Monday for “high treason”, spreading “false information” and illegal work for an “undesirable” organization. Many Western countries have denounced the severity of the sentence.