Washington wants to avoid escalation. The United States declared on Tuesday, December 6, that they did not encourage Ukrainian drone attacks in Russia, while Moscow accuses kyiv of increasing strikes against air bases on its territory. “We do not encourage and we do not help Ukraine to launch strikes in Russia”the head of American diplomacy, Antony Blinken, told the press. “But what you have to understand is that the Ukrainians live every day with the Russian aggression which continues”he added, accusing Russia of “make winter a weapon” by bombing Ukrainian civilian infrastructure. Follow our live.
Volodymyr Zelensky went to the main front area in the East. The Ukrainian president visited Tuesday near the front, not far from Bakhmout, the main battlefield in eastern Ukraine. “Eastern Ukraine is the axis [du front] the hardest”, declared the leader to the military, on the occasion of the day dedicated to the armed forces. “Thank you for your resilience”, he added, before presenting decorations. In the pro-Russian stronghold of Donetsk, six civilians were killed in Ukrainian strikes, according to local authorities.
A “historic” EU-Balkans summit. The leaders of the European Union and Western Balkan countries demonstrated in Tirana (Albania) their desire to give new impetus to their relations. The President of the European Council, Charles Michel, judged “historical” this EU-Balkan summit. The war in Ukraine has also underlined the importance for Europeans of stabilizing this fragile region of south-eastern Europe, in order to counter Moscow’s influence there.