04:40 21 April

Macron-Biden talk: "China's role for peace is important"

Phone conversation between Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron. President French "presented the results obtained with his visit to Beijing and Guangzhou, stressing that China has a role to play in contributing, in the medium term, to the end of the conflict in compliance with the principles and purposes of the United Nations Charter".

The two leaders "agreed on the importance of continuing to involve the Chinese authorities on this basis," an Elysée statement said. "The Head of State also underlined the important contribution of the European Union in support of Ukraine which exceeds, combining the civil and military aspects, 67 billion euros - and also recalled the importance that Europeans continue to arm themselves to assume their responsibilities in sharing the burden of transatlantic security".

04:32 21 April

Night air warning in various regions of Ukraine, possible drone attacks

An air alert was declared overnight in several regions of Ukraine for a possible attack with kamikaze drones and anti-aircraft fire was activated.

Sirens sounded in the Kiev, Chernihiv and Zhytomyr regions. The Kiev Regional Military Administration warned of a possible attack by kamikaze drones and air defense came into operation. Shortly before in Russia, in the center of Belgorod, there was an explosion in the city center: it would have been caused, according to Tass, by the ejection of a bomb by a Russian fighter-bomber plane, two women were injured and four apartments damaged.


04:32 21 April

A Russian jet mistakenly bombs a Russian city, two injured - the video

04:32 21 April

According to Pentagon data leaked online, Ukraine wanted to attack Russians in Syria

Ukraine was planning an attack on Russian forces in Syria, with the help of the Kurds.
This would be revealed by some of the secret Pentagon files leaked in recent days and of which the Washington Post has viewed. From the documents it would seem that Zelensky stopped the operation last December.

The goal would have been to weaken the Wagner group with small targeted drone strikes, in collaboration with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the Kurdish-controlled military force in northeastern Syria.