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- Sergey Lavrov arrived in Türkiye on Thursday, April 6. There he is due to meet his counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu on Friday. The Russian Foreign Minister should specifically address the future of the agreement on Ukrainian grain exports, of which Ankara is one of the promoters. On May 14 he will meet with Recep Tayyip Erdogan in his re-election campaign.
- In Beijing, Emmanuel Macron failed to convince Chinese President Xi Jinping to take action on Ukraine. The French president asked his Chinese counterpart to help him “Bring Russia to its Senses” and urged him not to supply arms to Moscow, ending with calls for peace talks during an interview.
- The Kremlin rejects China’s mediation. “The situation with Ukraine is complicated, there is no possibility of a political solution”Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday.
- Russia said Thursday it had expelled a group “Saboteurs” Ukrainians A Ukrainian pilot had already been arrested earlier in the day trying to infiltrate through the Bryansk border region.
- Ukrainian forces in Pakmut “Going Nowhere”, On Thursday, Evgueni Prigojine, founder of the Wagner Group, announced. Ukraine’s president said Wednesday in Warsaw “Not to the enemy[vait] Don’t Control” of Bakhmout.
- Origins of Nord Stream gas pipeline vandalism, “A Complicated Matter”According to Swedish justice, it remains uncertain. Almost six months after the explosions that hit the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines, responsibility for the underwater attack remains a mystery, despite ongoing criminal investigations in Germany, Sweden and Denmark.
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