French President Emmanuel Macron postpones trip to Ukraine

 A visit by French President Emmanuel Macron to Ukraine should take place in the coming weeks, the French Presidency said on March 10. It is the third time a planned trip to the country has been postponed since February, Reuters reports.

Macron had initially said he planned go in February to sign a bilateral security accord with President Volodymyr Zelensky. That was postponed with Zelensky eventually coming to Paris to conclude the accord.

Diplomats said a second date had been planned at the start of March before being pushed back to later this week.

The postponement comes just days after a Russian missile missed Ukraine's president and the prime minister of Greece by hundreds of metres when it slammed into port infrastructure in the Black Sea city of Odesa. Macron had also been due to visit Odesa.