Paris has 2,000 French Foreign Legion troops in Poland, and Macron plans to send them straight into Ukraine. That's according to Russian intelligence, while Moscow's top diplomat says Western warmongering is undermining the entire architecture of European security. Despite the reluctance of some EU member states, Brussels is working hard to ship more cash to Ukraine. A unnamed EU official told Politico that it's not of question of IF but WHEN EU states will agree to use Russian frozen assets to aid Kiev. Donald Trump secures a rare earth mineral deal with Japan. It comes just a day ahead of his meeting with Xi Jinping in China, where the pair are expected to discuss the economic war that Washington's been waging.