“I know a lot of people thought I was exaggerating.” At a fundraiser in Los Angeles, US President Joe Biden said on Friday that his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky had no “didn’t want to hear” the warnings of the United States before the outbreak of the Russian invasion in February. Follow live the news of the conflict Saturday June 11 with franceinfo.
Macron soon in Ukraine? Emmanuel Macron is due to travel to Romania on Tuesday to support the French forces deployed in the country to strengthen NATO’s eastern flank. Could he take the opportunity to go to Ukraine, for the first time since the beginning of the war? Asked about this on Friday, the Elysée simply stressed that the head of state was “available”, provided that this visit is “as useful as possible”, according to The world.
Paris ready to help unblock the port of Odessa. France is ready to help lift the blockade of the Ukrainian port of Odessa, in order to get cereals out of Ukraine, the blockage of which is causing a world food crisis. “We are at the disposal of the parties so that, basically, an operation is put in place which would allow access to the port of Odessa in complete safety, that is to say to be able to allow boats to pass despite the fact that the sea is mined”an adviser to President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday.
Ukrainian bombardment of Kherson. On the ground, Ukrainian forces said on Friday that they had bombed Russian positions in the Kherson region (south) – almost all of which has been occupied since the first days of the invasion. kyiv fears a rapid annexation by Moscow.