In the video... a guard at the Elysée suddenly fainted while receiving Macron, the President of Slovakia

Yesterday evening (Wednesday), the Elysee Palace in Paris witnessed an unexpected situation during the reception ceremony for Slovak President Peter Pellegrini, after a member of the Republican Guard fell unconscious while performing military ceremonies, prompting French President Emmanuel Macron to intervene to check on him and help him.

The accident occurred when the Slovak President's convoy arrived at the presidential palace, while guard members were lined up on the stairs carrying their swords, prompting French President Emmanuel Macron and a number of palace staff members to intervene to check on the guard and help him.

Circulating scenes showed the guard being transported from the accident site to receive medical care, before the reception ceremony was completed and Macron continued the official protocol with his Slovakian guest.

No official information was released about the guard’s health condition or the reasons for his fainting, while some coverage indicated that the accident might be related to fatigue or standing for a long time.

Yesterday, the latest round of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations concluded in the Emirati capital, Abu Dhabi, under American auspices, while it seemed that the issue of “regional concessions” still constitutes the most prominent obstacle on the way to achieving a major breakthrough. The dialogue round on the second day lasted about two hours, after which the delegations left without announcing details.

Vladimir Medinsky, Moscow's chief negotiator in the talks, said yesterday that Russia does not see any possibility of exchanging territory with Ukraine within any agreement. On the other hand, Kiev renewed its rejection of the possibility of making territorial concessions, and refused to withdraw forces from the areas still under its control in the Donbas region.

Moscow rejected the nature and level of European participation in discussing the issues at hand. Medinsky launched a sharp attack on the European parties, and said that he did not know why they were in the Emirati capital during the tour, and called on them to “stay in hotels.”

The governor of the Russian Leningrad region, Alexander Drozdenko, said in a post on the Telegram application today, Wednesday, that a drone attack caused a fire in the Ust-Luga port area on the Baltic Sea, in northwestern Russia, resulting in the injury of three workers.

Ukraine later claimed responsibility for the attack on the port, which caused a fire and damaged part of the fuel tank network.

The Ukrainian General Staff said via Telegram: “According to preliminary information, the tank network was severely damaged by drone strikes on the port’s oil infrastructure,” noting damage to five tanks.

Drozdenko said that a power plant was shut down as a result of the attack, during which 150 drones were shot down over the Leningrad region, which also has a major oil refinery and the city of St. Petersburg, the birthplace of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Ust-Luga is a major port for exporting oil, its derivatives, grains, and other commodities.

Officials said NATO scrambled fighter jets overnight after at least four drones entered Baltic airspace during Ukrainian strikes on Russia, triggering short alerts to citizens of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia telling them to take shelter.