Jean-Yves Le Drian

Israel has informed the U.S. that it plans to conduct a limited-scale ground operation in Lebanon that could begin imminently, an American official told the Washington Post.

The planned operation will be smaller in scale compared to Israel’s last war against Hezbollah in 2006, the official emphasized.

New civilian casualties, a plan to accelerate Ukraine's accession to the EU, expelled human rights organizations: read the highlights of the war in Ukraine over the past 24 hours.

52 victims in a railway station attack

The EU has imposed sanctions on Russia, RT reports.

EU foreign ministers on Tuesday unanimously agreed on new sanctions against Moscow for recognizing separatist regions in eastern Ukraine and deploying troops there, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said.

Moscow has promised a "Strong and Painful" Response to US Sanctions

The time period that really needs to be addressed is the one that follows shortly after February 20th.
Pro-Russian forces in eastern Ukraine have accused Ukrainian government forces of today's artillery and mortar attacks in three separate incidents, Russia's Interfax news agency reported.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, who is in Bucharest, met virtually today with nine of his Eastern European counterparts to discuss the crisis over Ukraine, Reuters reported. According to information from ClubZ, the Bulgarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Teodora Genchovska also participated.

"If Russian officials are serious when they say they don't want a new war, Russia must continue diplomatic engagement and pull back military forces it amassed along Ukraine's borders and in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine", Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Twitter.
"Diplomacy is the only responsible way," Kuleba added.

Yesterday's meeting between the Prime Ministers of Bulgaria and North Macedonia Kiril Petkov and Dimitar Kovachevski in Sofia provoked reactions among international figures and media.

The United States and Britain sought on Sept. 19 to smooth tensions with Paris over a new security pact with Australia, with U.S. President Joe Biden requesting early talks with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Sept. 19 rejected France's accusations Canberra lied about plans to cancel a contract to buy French submarines, saying he had raised concerns over the deal "some months ago".

France has recalled its ambassadors to the U.S. and Australia for consultation, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian announced on Sept. 17, after Canberra ditched a deal to buy French submarines in favor of U.S. vessels.