War in Ukraine: Thread of Events for Friday, June 16, 2023

Several African presidents are scheduled to travel to Kyiv and Moscow on Friday and Saturday, where they will meet with Volodymyr Zelensky and then Vladimir Putin. “The delegation will carry a message of peace, at least, to make the belligerents understand the suffering of this war to the weakest peoples of the world and especially to the people of Africa,” Congo’s president, Felix Tshisekedi, announced on Monday.

Meanwhile, the Kremlin master travels to St. Petersburg this Friday as part of an economic forum. For this event, the former capital of the Russian Empire was placed under the highest surveillance. An event Putin did not hesitate to qualify Zelensky as a “disgrace to the Jewish people.”

On the diplomatic side, French President Emmanuel Macron will meet Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over lunch at the Elysee Palace, where a number of issues are to be discussed, including the war in Ukraine.

On Thursday, on the sidelines of a meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Ukraine’s allies agreed to a new supply to Kyiv.Hundreds“Air defense missiles. These missiles are supposed to protect essential Ukrainian infrastructures in support of a counterattack launched against Russian forces. This Friday, the defense ministers of NATO member states meet again. They should meet in particular the representatives of Sweden, a candidate country to join the alliance.

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