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news of the day
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping are more united than ever. On the second day of the Chinese president’s visit to Russia on Tuesday, the two leaders signed an agreement aimed at ushering relations between their two countries “into a new era” of cooperation. The opportunity also to discuss the peace plan proposed by Beijing to end the war in Ukraine. The Russian president accused Ukraine of not wanting this plan.
“We believe that many points of the peace plan proposed by China (…) can serve as a basis for a peaceful settlement (of the conflict), when the West and kyiv are ready for it. However, we do not observe such a disposition on their side for the time being, ”said Vladimir Putin, after discussions with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.
Russia and China have also said they are “concerned” by NATO’s growing presence in Asia “concerning military and security issues”, the heads of state said, accusing the Atlantic Alliance of ” undermine regional peace and stability”.
sentence of the day
As I set foot in Boutcha today and witness all the brutality that has taken place there, I feel a strong sense of outrage. »
The Japanese Prime Minister expressed his “indignation” after visiting Boutcha, a martyr city near Kiev that has become a symbol of the atrocities committed since the Russian invasion, as part of his first “historic” visit to Ukraine.
Fumio Kishida went to Boutcha by train in the early afternoon, shortly after arriving in the Ukrainian capital and before his meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky, AFP journalists noted on the spot. “The whole world is shocked by the atrocities committed in the town of Boutcha,” he added.
The number of the day
500,000 barrels per day. Russia has announced to extend the reduction in its crude production until the end of June, more than a month after ordering this reduction in retaliation for the various international sanctions targeting its oil.
“In accordance with the current market situation, the decision to voluntarily reduce production by an amount of 500,000 barrels per day will be valid until June 2023 inclusive,” the deputy prime minister in charge of agriculture told reporters. Energy, Alexandre Novak, quoted by Russian press agencies. He specified that Russia was “on the verge of reaching the target level of reduction” announced on February 10. “It will be reached in the next few days,” he continued.
The trend of the day
Ukraine carried out a drone attack on an oil pumping station in a Russian border region on Tuesday, without causing any casualties, the regional governor announced. “The Ukrainian armed forces used a drone to attack the territory of the Novozybkov oil pumping station belonging to Transneft. No casualties are to be deplored, ”said Alexander Bogomaz, head of the Russian region Briansk, on Telegram.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense also claimed, via Telegram, the destruction of “Russian cruise missiles “Kalibr NK” during their transport by rail” in annexed Crimea, in the city of Djankoï. This source did not give more details or confirm the direct involvement of the Ukrainian army in these “destructions”. Comments denied by Moscow, which says for its part that it repelled a drone attack.