What are the objectives in the war between Ukraine and Russia?

The question is cutting Europe in two 

Le Monde

While the conflict has been going on for more than a hundred days, Emmanuel Macron's recent little phrase on his concern 'not to humiliate Russia' with a view to negotiations that are still improbable, this little phrase has widened the gap between the two opposing camps.

On the one hand,

Le Monde

the Baltic countries, Poland, without forgetting the United Kingdom, supporters of a continuation of the war in the prospect, even distant, of a Russian defeat.

On the other, France, Germany and Italy, holding a more moderate line, anxious both to help Ukraine and to negotiate with Moscow in order to facilitate a ceasefire.

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 the weapon of wheat

La Croix.

La Croix

 the war in Ukraine is not just a European affair.

Even if it takes place on our continent, it has repercussions all over the world.

It disrupts many markets, particularly in the energy and agri-food sectors.

The wheat trade, of which Russia and Ukraine are the first and fourth exporters, is strongly affected.

Many countries in the Mediterranean basin and Africa depend on it, but also the UN agencies responsible for preventing famines.

The failure of yesterday's meeting between the Russian and Turkish foreign ministers is therefore bad news

The cross.

(…) Russia obviously does not intend to loosen its grip, even if it means causing a rise in wheat prices which aggravates the situation in poor countries.

It uses its own exports as a diplomatic weapon to convince many countries of the South not to support the front of Western countries.

Where has the right gone? 

the Republicans are playing their survival

Le Figaro

The projections are hardly encouraging with an expected group of around fifty deputies when the party hopes for more than 80, against nearly 100 in the outgoing Assembly. 

But where has the right gone?

Le Figaro

After the rout, the stampede?

Not content with collapsing in the first round of the presidential election, the classic right, during the legislative campaign, chose, like a hermit crab, to go back into its shell,

Le Figaro.

After the Macron surge, the Le Pen wave, the Zemmour foam, she is waiting for the Mélenchon tide to recede.

Time is on its side, say its 'strategists', without seeing that voters will end up getting used to this absence.

In what state will the right emerge from these legislative elections? 

Le Courrier Picard

The polls predict the election of around fifty deputies on June 19: a figure which does not however reflect the political weight that this small group of elected representatives could represent in the future assembly. 

Le Courrier Picard

 if Emmanuel Macron does not obtain an absolute majority, he will have to deal with this right, as weakened as it may be, to pass his laws.

Even losing two-thirds of its deputies, the right would then become the center of gravity of the National Assembly

Le Figaro

 in the event of an impossible absolute majority in the Assembly, the right would see itself as a pivotal group with which the power should count to reform.

(…) The LRs exclude any 'government contract' but rather specific positions, over the texts to be voted on.

Becoming the pivotal group would be an opportunity for LR to become a central player in the reforms

Liberation

Liberation

has consulted emails and police reports which point to the shortcomings of the AFM, the Agence France Museum, created by France to advise the Emirati museum, in particular during the acquisition of a stele and a sarcophagus of illicit origin. 

Liberation, the AFM is therefore directly linked to this traffic: “certain Egyptian coins having been acquired with false documents.