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Related: About this forumFrench president vows to launch 'humanitarian operation' in Mariupol with Greece and Turkey in the
next few daysFrance intends to launch an international rescue operation in the devastated Ukrainian city of Mariupol, President Emmanuel Macron said Friday.
The "exceptional humanitarian operation" would begin within "the next few days," Macron said, adding that he would finalize the details over the next 48 hours in a call with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, Le Monde reported.
Around 100,000 people remain trapped in the port city, which has been bombed and besieged by Russian forces for weeks now. On Friday, local authorities said some 300 people were killed last week after Russia bombed a theater that was being used as a shelter. The United Nations said it has also received evidence of mass graves in Mariupol, with one containing 200 corpses.
Macron said the mission to evacuate the city's remaining inhabitants would be conducted with the help of Turkey and Greece. All three nations are members of NATO.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/french-president-vows-launch-humanitarian-205607733.html
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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Mar 2022
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PortTack
(32,491 posts)1. Pray god this happens!
Tetrachloride
(7,701 posts)2. Turkey in control of the Straits into the Black Sea
Egypt in control of the Suez Canal.
Straits of Gibraltar are tight enough
Not a lot of places for Putins navy to go to.
Good luck to this 3 nation effort.
bucolic_frolic
(42,478 posts)3. Impressive the way these European countries are sticking together
It's a big deal to many of them, they have small economies, they often aren't a perfect symbiosis of ideologies and political systems, yet look at them, and look at the way PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN has rebuilt NATO and the US reputation around the world. In a nick of time too.