War in Ukraine: Zelensky writes to Trump; the Quai d’Orsay summons the Russian ambassador

Zelensky demande à Trump plus de missiles antiaériens

Volodymyr Zelensky asked Donald Trump to provide kyiv with more missiles for Patriot air defense systems against a backdrop of an intensification of Russian attacks, according to a letter from the Ukrainian president addressed to his American counterpart unveiled on Wednesday May 27.

In this letter signed on Tuesday, Volodymyr Zelensky asked him to“Helper” l’Ukraine à “obtain this vital protective tool against Russian terror – the Patriot PAC-3 missiles and additional systems – in order to stop Russian ballistic missiles and other Russian missile attacks – on Ukraine.

“We understand that the United States continues to bear responsibility for its own defense and the protection of its allies and partners.”continues the Ukrainian president, “cYet, after all we have been through together, have we not earned our place among your allies? »

The Quai d’Orsay summons the Russian ambassador

France announced that it had summoned the Russian ambassador after Moscow’s call for foreign diplomats to leave kyiv before new strikes on the Ukrainian capital, already bombed by Russia last weekend.

“Following the massive strikes last weekend and in the face of unacceptable threats weighing on Ukrainian civilians and foreign diplomats, the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs is summoning at the request of the Minister the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Franceâ€wrote a spokesperson for the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a press release.

For several days, Russia has been threatening an escalation in its attacks on Ukraine, in revenge for a Ukrainian strike that killed, according to Moscow, 21 people in a high school in occupied Ukrainian territory.