The escalation in hostilities that began last week between the U.S. and Iran, after Donald Trump declared the ceasefire sealed in the preliminary agreement from a month ago suspended, intensified this Tuesday. U.S. forces launched a third consecutive attack against the Persian country in the early hours of this Tuesday, by order of the U.S. president, who had announced it hours earlier, as well as the “reestablishment” of the blockade on Iran in the Strait of Hormuz.

When in February 2022 Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, whose very right to exist he denied, he could not have imagined that four and a half years later soldiers and pilots from Kyiv would parade in Paris as heroes and allies. The military parade this Tuesday on the Champs-Élysées, on the occasion of Bastille Day, the French national holiday, was a demonstration of European unity and a tribute to Ukraine for its courage.