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The European states gathered within the coalition of the “Willing” to help Ukraine meet American emissaries as we speak in Paris for a gathering that goals to deliver out the “convergence” on the safety ensures to be offered to Kiev and to specify the contours of the “multinational force” that ought to enter the scene after a attainable truce with Russia.

Elysée sources outline as we speak’s assembly, at which Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni can be anticipated, because the end result of the efforts that Emmanuel Macron started a 12 months in the past, after Donald Trump’s arrival on the White House, to stop the United States from “abandoning Ukraine”.

“We – explained one of the French president’s advisors – have succeeded in this operation of reconvergence between Ukraine, Europe and America”. Today, in a snow-covered French capital, Macron awaits his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky and the American emissaries Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner for a lunch on the Elysée. The subsequent assembly, within the early afternoon, will deliver collectively 35 nations, 27 of which might be represented by heads of state or authorities. The heads of NATO and the European Union are additionally anticipated. At the top of the afternoon, a press convention is scheduled with Macron, Zelensky, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

Moscow: 129 Ukrainian drones shot down throughout the evening

Meanwhile, on the entrance, a Ukrainian drone assault hit the Russian metropolis of Tver throughout the evening, inflicting one dying and two accidents. This was reported by interim governor Vitaly Korolev, in response to whom fragments of a downed drone triggered a fireplace in a residential constructing: one particular person died and two others have been rescued on the spot. An investigation into the incident has been launched. The raid got here on the eve of a Paris assembly of Willing leaders geared toward in search of progress on a plan to finish the battle.

The Russian Defense Ministry mentioned that 129 Ukrainian drones have been intercepted in a single day in additional than 20 areas, together with Bryansk and Belgorod, on the border with Ukraine. Moscow says that air defenses shot down 129 Ukrainian drones over Russian areas tonight. This was reported by the Tass information company, citing the Russian Ministry of Defense.