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He brushes the proposal aside. Vladimir Putin declared, Friday June 5, that he had quickly read the “open letter” de Volodymyr Zelensky. “I don’t see the point of a meeting. This is only in the interest of the Ukrainian side in order to stop the advance of our armed forces”declared the Russian president in Saint Petersburg, adding that it was necessary “let the specialists work, develop solutions, and then we can meet”.
This response from the Russian president comes the day after the outstretched hand of his Ukrainian counterpart. Volodymyr Zelensky proposed a meeting between kyiv and Moscow and a “complete ceasefire” time for negotiations. By rejecting a meeting, Vladimir Putin “chooses war again”denounced the Ukrainian president immediately on Friday.
• Ukraine admits that the drone that exploded in Romania was one of its own. The surface drone “of the Ukrainian navy was disrupted by enemy electronic warfare systemslost control and found himself near the Romanian coast”the Ukrainian navy said on Facebook.
• Emmanuel Macron welcomes “a good initiative” from Ukraine. The President of the Republic considered that the time had arrived for a resumption of discussions with a view to obtaining a lasting peace between Ukraine and Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky proposed a face-to-face meeting to Vladimir Putin on Thursday, in an open letter as well as a “ceasefire complete”. “My wish is rather to look to the future and say how we can reorganize a dialogue to build a ceasefire and peace”a déclaré Emmanuel Macron à Tivat, au Monténégro “And I think it’s time, given how the situation is evolving.”
• Russia and Ukraine exchanged 185 prisoners of war each. The two countries carried out a new exchange of prisoners on Friday, with “185 Russian soldiers repatriated from territory controlled by the kyiv regime”. “In exchange, 185 prisoners of war of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were handed over”declared the ministry, specifying that the United Arab Emirates had served as mediators.
• A maritime drone exploded in the Romanian port of Constanta. The drone – which exploded in a port on the Black Sea without causing any injuries – is “of the type used during the war in Ukraine.” L’engin a été découvert “near the headquarters of the Romanian Agency for the Safety of Human Life at Sea”. This incident comes a week after an aerial drone crashed into an apartment building in the Romanian town of Galaèi, 13 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, injuring two people.
• At least seven dead in Russian strikes in Ukraine. At least four people were killed Friday morning in a Russian strike on a company manufacturing dairy products near kyiv, regional authorities announced. Deadly Russian strikes occurred on Thursday evening in the regions of Zaporizhia, in the east of the country, where a woman was killed by a drone attack, as well as in Kherson, in the South, where the victim is a 75-year-old man. In the Dnipropetrovsk region, Russian drone and artillery attacks then killed a woman in the town of Pavlograd.
