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A small Ukrainian plane crashed on Wednesday, April 5, in a Russian region bordering Ukraine, announced the security services (FSB), quoted by Russian press agencies. “The plane crashed near the village of Butovsk in the Bryansk region for unknown reasons”, explains the FSB. The pilot, a Ukrainian citizen, “who tried to flee to Ukrainian territory, was arrested by a unit of border guards”he adds.
Vladimir Putin accuses Western secret services of being behind “terrorist” attacks. “There is every reason to believe that the potential of third countries and Western special services is involved in the preparation of acts of sabotage and terrorism” both in the occupied Ukrainian territories and in Russia, the Russian president said on Wednesday, three days after the death of a famous military blogger in a bomb attack in Saint Petersburg.
Warsaw promises new planes. The Polish President declared on Wednesday April 5 that his country was ready to deliver to Ukraine, “in the future”, its entire fleet of MiG-29 fighters (about thirty) of Soviet design. However, this would go through “an agreement of its NATO allies”, said Andrzej Duda, during a press conference with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky. Poland has already sent eight of these devices and will do the same for six more soon.
Volodymyr Zelensky in Poland. The Ukrainian president arrived in Poland on Wednesday. “This is an official visit”, during which he must mainly discuss with Andrzej Duda. Nevertheless, Volodymyr Zelensky also wants “meet Poles and Ukrainians living in Poland”the head of the international policy office, Marcin Przydacz, told private Polish radio RMF FM.
beijing may “play a major role” For “find a way of peace” in Ukraine. This is what Emmanuel Macron estimated on Wednesday April 5 at the start of a three-day state visit to China. “China has precisely proposed a peace plan (…) It is indeed a question of a desire to have a responsibility”, declared Emmanuel Macron in front of the French community. Due to its proximity to Russia, it is “the only country in the world in a position to have an immediate and radical impact on the conflict, one way or the other”estimated the Elysée earlier.