Ukrainian: « Turn off » A La Russian American
« Who works who « could be (and) last 24 hours a basic question around the Gordian geopolitical » bond « of the Ukrainian, amid a new bump and denials for the future of negotiations in terms of ending in the end of the most devastating war.
While the US president was again optimistic about progress in the endless efforts to cease fire in the Ukrainian territories yesterday, yesterday’s report by the US Wall Street Journal said that the last day of the recent two -hour telephone. Leaders that the Kremlin does not want to end the war in Ukraine, as it is sure to win.
Deny (partly)
The Kremlin partially denied the information. « We do not know what Trump said to Europeans after telephone communication, » but « we know what Trump said to Putin » and « contradicts what was written in the article you mentioned, » Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in question.
On the occasion, he also denied other information from the Wall Street Journal that – after Constantinople – there is an agreement on a second meeting of Russian and Ukrainian officials in the Vatican in mid -June, possibly with the participation of an American delegation under the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Minister Markos Roumou.
Ready for exchanges
« There is no specific agreement on the forthcoming meetings, » Peskov commented in the wake of Finnish President Alexander Stub’s statements that a technical meeting between the warring sides could be held next week, in the presence of Americans and Europeans, but also by the Russian Foreign Minister. Ukraine the ability to strengthen its position on the fronts of the war.
For the rest, the Kremlin said it was ready for the exchange of prisoners of war with Kiev – 1,000 on each side – agreed in the meager result in Constantinople last week: the first directly between Russia and Ukraine since 2022.
In the interim, the Russian Armed Forces announced that they have destroyed a new flock of Ukrainian drones in flight to Moscow overnight, as well as the occupation of yet another settlement in Donetsk, Eastern Ukraine.
Friedrich Mertz
« Russia’s aggressive revisionism threatens not only Ukraine’s security but also the security of Europe and the Euro -Atlantic space, » Germany’s new Chancellor Friedrich Mertz from Vilnius, Lithuania, said yesterday. « We stand firmly on the side of Ukraine, but we also stand together as Europeans as a whole – and, whenever possible, we play in the same team as the US, » he said.
« It is reasonable to be frustrated or worried – even annoying – from the result of Donald Trump’s telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin this week, but not surprise, » commented Bloomberg columnist Mark Champion. « The US president has not failed to end this war because he never tried. »
« From the outset, » he says, « his focus was to achieve a re -launch of relations with Russia, which would bring financial benefits to the US. American participation in the war was an obstacle that had to be removed to happen. The best perspective was through a peacekeeping settlement and not by abandoning Ukraine. It was not necessary, however. «
In the meantime, Germany announced yesterday the largest after the end of World War II, a troop off borders for permanent establishment in another country. These are 4,800 soldiers and 200 civilian staff transported to Lithuania, as part of its defense reinforcement against a possible Russian attack.
