Sébastien Lecornu's visit, which includes a working meeting to discuss future French support for Ukraine's war effort, marks his first trip since the invasion began.
In Kyiv, officials warned the capital would see emergency power outages all winter, despite workers racing to repair infrastructure damaged by shelling.Lecornu will have a “working meeting” with his counterpart Oleksii Reznikov, Ukraine’s defense minister,
as part of his visit, French officials told The Washington Post. The pair will discuss “the support already provided and the support to come,” a French defense ministry spokesperson said, before holding a news conference at 7 a.m. . Lecornu will then meet with Zelensky. While France has provided support for Ukraine, many Ukrainians have criticized French President Emmanuel Macron, who continued phone contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin after the invasion.
Referring to Russia’s economic growth for 2023, First Deputy Minister Andrew Belousov said: “3 percent will not be achieved next year. It will certainly be lower. I think it will hover around zero. Our forecast is approximately minus one percent, maybe slightly less,” according to, as Kyiv City Council deputy chairman Petro Panteleev warned: “We will live in such realities all winter.
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