Here we go again-Ukraine once again

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Dargo

Without the markets of the West that majority of mankind will go into a depression, production can quickly transfer to other regions.

I so then I have missed why they have a globalisation problems since so many years. Where are the overwhelming majority of quantities of rare earths located? Which country is the pharmacy of the world? What place is the global hotspot of chip production that, if stopping, would bring the global economy to a standstill? Which country, that gets heavily sanctioned currently, nevertheless exports ressources as if there was no war raging, and forms ties with thankful third world countries who now can afford these ressources? Which countries have no problems with shrinkling workforces, both low-education labour and specialised expert jobs? - China. Russia. India. Taiwan. Russia. Asia.

The big economic players in South America and Africa are Brazil, South Africa, and Kenya, Nigeria. Two of these belong to the BRICS club. And BRICS is not about being friends with the Western economies. BRICS is a dedicated anti-Western economic alliance.

Both China and India each have a population of 1.4 trillion. Thats where the future music plays.

If we could switch production to other places that easily and quickly and stay competitive nevertehless (which we can't), we already would have done so. Plus some of us are big exporters ourselves, namely Germany. We need these countries to buy our stuff.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Dargo

Tanks are on both sides, low in numbers and a $2000,- drone can destroy them for Russia to profit from trade with India and China it must build infrastructure that takes years to get on the same export as they had with Europe. India and China have the power to determine the price, so the income will be lower for Russia. For a real war production, Russia lacks the numbers in workforce the soviet could use its gulags that Russia does not have in numbers now and a klepto system is not good either as Russia is a kleptocracy it will lose on that also. We have placed serious levels of orders with ammo and arms suppliers, problem is they need to build production lines for that and that takes time.

Potential russian tank reserves are in the thousands. And they are active on ALL their backyards where they mothballed them. The Russian already have lost more tanks than all NATO countries in Europe have in service alltogether.



The Russian (Iranian) drones are primitive maybe, but right that is what makes them militarily valuable - to maintain them you do not send them back to the factory, but you have the soldier in the trench improvising a solution and get it working again.



Russian income from selling rsesseruces did not implode as was expected in the west last year. In fatc they camke better through the inflaiton and eco9nomic crisi8s than amynbWetsenr countries. When nowadays I hgear media saying the Russi soon will pay th eeocnom ic price, then I think two thingS: first, it will be the normal people doping so and that are people Russioan government never have cared for, and seocnd, its wishful thzinling. Russia will not become unable to fiannc eits war. Yoiu can wait til hell freezes over, it will not happen.



Production in Russian factories is cheaper, workers earn lower wages. The same defence budgets gets you more ships and missiles in Russia, than in Wetsenr countries. What the Ukraine does not have, are: time, and money. They are completely depending on the good will of donators. Much of the American aids for example are no donations at all, but credits.



I refered a few days back to an article by a reporter close wioht Brussels who said internal sources and aisiders say the claims made about orders for replacmeent of leased material and ammo are exaggerated, have not taken place, pratcically. These isndiers said that NATO at that tioem was not aware that signfiicant ammounts of orders for repalcements and filling up expe3nded reserves have been place din NATO'S countries. In Germany there is a lot of talking and negotiating done, but almost no binding orders placed, instead the politicians demanded the industry to pre-produce at their own risk. They did that already last year (although german laws forbid that, btw) - and much of that stuff now still waits to get ordered by the state. Stoltenberg soem days agao also warned that NATO is way laggign behind in ordering replacement ammo and equipment, and that things do not move fast enough.



You always see it more rosy. I always see it more grim. If the truth would be in the middle, that already would be an improvement, but I think in reality things are not even there. And at least in case of Germany I am very sure of that. The new defenc emonister may want to do thigns fatserk, but he too must fight the petrified system, and the stubborn pacifists both in the SPD and the Greens. Media poaiont it as if the Greens are all for more wepaons and chase the SPD in front of them, but that is only on e half of the truth. There is a wing called "Realos" that indeed want much more aid for Ukraine, but the Greens by core and genes are an extrnely leftist, Maoist and poacifistic party, and always were that. There is very strong resistence to more defence spendings. And in the SPD anyway, plus the SPD's traditional Russophilia. there is some very strict opposition in both parties to do more regarding military things.

[Jimbuna]

Zelensky wants Xi Jinping meeting following China's peace plan

By George Wright & Jaroslav Lukiv
BBC News

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he plans to meet China's leader Xi Jinping to discuss Beijing's proposals on ending the war in Ukraine.

Speaking on the first anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion, he said the proposal signalled that China was involved in the search for peace.

"I really want to believe that China will not supply weapons to Russia," he said.

China's plan calls for peace talks and respect for national sovereignty.

However, the 12-point document does not specifically say that Russia must withdraw its troops from Ukraine, and it also condemns the usage of "unilateral sanctions", in what is seen as a veiled criticism of Ukraine's allies in the West.

The Chinese authorities have so far not publicly responded to Mr Zelensky's call for a summit with Mr Xi.

Meanwhile, Russia hailed the Chinese peace proposals. "We share Beijing's views," the foreign ministry in Moscow said in a statement.

Earlier this week, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Beijing was considering supplying weapons and ammunition to Russia - a claim strongly denied by Beijing. On Friday, American media again reported that the Chinese government was considering sending drones and artillery shells to Moscow.

Asked about the Chinese plan, US President Joe Biden told ABC News on Friday: "[Russian President Vladimir] Putin's applauding it, so how could it be any good?

"I've seen nothing in the plan that would indicate that there is something that would be beneficial to anyone other than Russia," he added.

China appears to be siding with Russia, though it would like to find a way of rescuing President Putin by arranging some kind of face-saving peace deal, says the BBC's World Affairs Editor John Simpson.

The Chinese proposals follow a visit by the country's top diplomat Wang Yi to Moscow, where he met President Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday.

After the talks, Mr Wang was quoted by China's state-run Xinhua news agency as saying that Beijing was willing to "deepen political trust" and "strengthen strategic coordination" with Moscow.

Western officials gave the latest proposals a lukewarm reception. Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg said Beijing "doesn't have much credibility" because it had "not been able to condemn the illegal invasion of Ukraine".

President Putin launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, and Russian troops made significant advances during the first few days in Ukraine's north, east and south.

But the attack on the capital Kyiv was soon repulsed and the Ukrainian military was later able to retake large areas.

The conflict - the biggest in Europe since World War Two - has since become a grinding war of attrition.

At a lengthy news conference in Kyiv on Friday, Mr Zelensky also said victory "will inevitably await us" if allies "respect their promises and deadlines".

Poland said it had already delivered four German-made Leopard II tanks to Ukraine and was ready to deliver more. Germany has said it will provide 14 Leopard tanks, with Spain and Canada also sending tanks.

The US - by far the biggest provider of military aid to Ukraine - has pledged to send 31 of its M1 Abrams tanks and the UK is providing 14 Challenger 2 tanks.

The Ukrainian leader added that his country had failed to engage sufficiently with countries in Africa and Latin America after many nations in those continents abstained during a UN General Assembly vote on a resolution condemning Russia's invasion.

"We didn't work well for many years, we didn't pay attention, I think it's a big mistake," he said.

Asked if he could name his worst moment of the war so far, Mr Zelensky said Bucha, a town outside Kyiv where Russian troops are accused of having killed civilians in the early part of the war. The small town had been under Russian control until Ukrainian troops fought back last April to reclaim it.

"What I saw. It was horrible," Mr Zelensky said, visibly moved.

The US marked a year since Russia invaded Ukraine by announcing a new range of sanctions against Russia and new aid for Ukraine.

The latest restrictions target more than 100 entities both within Russia and worldwide, including banks and suppliers of defence equipment. The US said it wanted to stop those helping Russia exploit loopholes to get sanctioned materials.

The White House's fresh round of aid for Ukraine is worth $12bn (£10bn), comprising $2bn from the Department of Defense including ammunition and drones and $10bn from the State Department including budgetary support to the Ukrainian government.

A further $550m will be supplied to both Ukraine and neighbouring Moldova to strengthen their energy infrastructure.

Moldova is Europe's poorest country and has been heavily impacted by the war. Its leaders have warned for several weeks that Russia is plotting to seize power.

It comes days after US President Joe Biden flew to Kyiv for a surprise visit and held talks with Mr Zelensky.

On Friday, the EU also approved its 10th round of sanctions against Russia, imposing restrictions on technology that has a civilian and military dual use.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64762219

[Skybird]

The British say Russia has run out of Iran-made drones.

That is unpleasant for Russia since many of the missiles shooting these drones down costed much more than the drones themselves. Also they were nice decoys distracting Ukrainian air defences away from more capable Russian cruise missiles.

But Iran is still there and can provide new ones, if Russia wants them. I am quite confident that this is what we will see. For their their purpose and in their role, these Iranian drones were quite good and extremely cost-efficient.
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FOCUS:
Putin himself is said to be lied to about the exact course of the war and the situation of the Russian army, according to a Financial Times report. "No one is telling Putin the truth," a close Putin confidant told the newspaper. For its research, the Financial Times spoke with six longtime Putin confidants, people involved in the war, and current and former high-ranking officials in the West and Ukraine.
By keeping a low profile, the Kremlin officials would be protecting themselves more than anything else. Most members of Putin's presidential administration and economic cabinet have told friends that they oppose the war but feel they can do nothing about it, the report said. "It is really a unique war in world history when the entire elite is against it," one former senior official said.
Given Putin's failed war plan, the president would now look for new reasons to justify his deployment, the report added. "He tells people close to him, "It turns out we were completely unprepared. The Army is a wreck. Our industry is a mess. But it's good that we found out this way and not when NATO invaded us," a former official told the newspaper. The FSB intelligence service in particular is said to have convinced Putin before the war began that there would be no great resistance in Ukraine.
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[Skybird]

Da haben wir's nun. Long feared, now it comes true. Of course, they don't say it openly, but the Europeans are fed up with the tremors the war means for them, and so they are now blatantly threatening to cut off Ukraine's water by cutting it off from supplies from the West if it is not willing to cede territory to Russia. FOCUS writes with reference to the Wall Street Journal:
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Report: Scholz and Macron discuss secret NATO plan for end of war with Selenskyj

Berlin, Paris and London want to convince Ukraine to begin peace talks with Russia later this year. The Wall Street Journal reports this, citing officials from the three governments. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron, for example, had already told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selenskyj at their January meeting in Paris that he needed to consider peace talks with the Kremlin. He said they had recalled that Germany and France also had to make peace after World War II. However, when and under what conditions talks would take place would still depend on Ukraine, officials said.

Under the draft agreement from the German, French and British governments, Ukraine would be encouraged to hold talks in which it would receive weapons, ammunition and military support from its Western partners to continue defending itself after the war ended. This support would include NATO-standard weapons systems. British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak presented this draft last week and said it would be discussed at the Nato annual meeting in July.

However, he said the background to the draft is also that governments in Berlin, Paris and London doubt that Ukraine will be able to drive Russian troops out of eastern Ukraine and Crimea. "If the war continues long enough with this intensity, Ukraine's losses will become unbearable," a senior French official said. "And no one believes they will be able to take back Crimea." Moreover, the West would want to try to change the Kremlin's calculus. If Moscow saw that the West was willing to increase its military support toward Ukraine, it could convince the Kremlin that it cannot achieve its military goals.

The German government declined to comment on the report, as did the U.S. government. The French and British governments did not respond to the Wall Street Journal's inquiry.
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The Ukraine cannot fight on without weapon deliveries from the West, it is completely depending on us. Thats the sober fact and there is no way around accepting this fact.

The next victim I have the displeasure to announce here: the rearming and restrengthening of NATO will be culled next. We have more important things tpo waste moeny on. Green deals and climate-related money annihilation programs and mass migration projects, for example.

I think by the end of this year parts of the sanction we have now in place, will already be cancelled.


If Zelensky will not comply with the Western "suggestions", he will be forced to do so, by cutting him off from Western supplies.


America will not stop this dagger in the back. It has acchieved what it wanted from the war: a massive weakening of Russia and a massive destruction of Russian armed forces. You can see their real attitude when you compare the ammount of military support they could provide if only they wanted, and the much, much smaller ammount they actually do provide. If the Us really wanted it, this war could already have been over and Russian forces in Ukraine either kicked out or wiped out. Remember, it must have been the Americans who enabled a deal with Russia that allowed Moscow to withdraw 30,000 defeated troops and weapons from Cherson over three almost destroyed bridges and withou gettign bombed into oblivion by the Ukrainian during their organised and sorted retreat. There is no other explanation that makes sense than that Washington intervened in Kyiv to not strike at them. The Ukrainians were set up and supplied and ready in that part of the front.

Russia will get away with its strike. In this meaning, it will win the war, and keep its latest loot. Ukraine looses, and will be industrially and economically fundamentally crippled. Possible that in some years or decades historians will write that allowing Ukraine to gain a victory and approach the EU and NATO for membership from a position of strength was never an option seriously considered in Western capitols, sinc ehtis would have come at the cost of influence by Paris and Berlin.

States have no friends. States have interests. Pathetic speeches and symbolic acts in front of cameras are only stage effects, Theaterdonner. They mean nothing, no matter the words.

[Skybird]

Der Tagesspiegel:
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The internal dispute at Rolls-Royce Power Systems, the manufacturer of tank engines, shows that replacement procurement and upgrades will be much more complicated than many people imagine.

Can the [Leopard-2] tank engine manufacturer [who belongs to RR, Skybird] ramp up production quickly or not? The management and works council of Rolls-Royce Power Systems on Lake Constance have been publicly arguing about this since the end of January. What is true cannot be judged conclusively from the outside. But the case is an example of how the country's replacement procurement and planned upgrade will be much more complicated than some people imagine.

The first step is the orders, with which politicians are taking an irritatingly long time. After that, production has to ramp up. This requires skilled workers and labor, which are as scarce in the defense industry as anywhere else - and even more so at Lake Constance. In view of the small quantities involved, tank engines are largely handmade.

Many of the suppliers have full order books and are working to capacity until next year. Making room for the short-term wishes of politicians is easier said than done in operational reality. Without good arguments, even defense orders will take a back seat for the time being. And then all the materials have to be available. In view of all these imponderables, it is all the more important that politicians finally place their orders.
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WHICH ONE YEAR INTO THE WAR THEY STILL HAVE NOT DONE.

[Skybird]

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung:
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Poland's double game

The tenth sanctions package was supposed to show the EU's unity vis-à-vis Moscow. But Poland presents a proposal that leaves other states stunned - and prevents an agreement for the time being.

The European Union has failed to achieve its goal, which it has been declaring for weeks: to bring the tenth package of sanctions against Russia into force on the anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine. When EU ambassadors met Friday morning for what was presumed to be the final round, the Polish representative put forward a proposal that left others "stunned": within a maximum of 14 months, imports of synthetic rubber from Russia were to gradually drop to zero.

This was a problem for Italy in particular. The tire manufacturer Pirelli depends on these imports. No problem, replied the Poles. There are substitutes on the European market, said their ambassador Andrzej Sados. To be precise: in Poland itself, where the Synthos Group of multi-billionaire Michal Solowow is based, the largest producer of synthetic rubber on the European market.

Some see this as a "double game": on the one hand, Poland is the hardliner when it comes to sanctions against Russia, but on the other hand, it has its own business interests in mind. The Polish side said that this was not an argument. For all import blocks on Russian goods, there are companies in the EU that profit from them.

What was striking, however, was that the Polish proposal came only at the last second - which was interpreted as an attempt to catch them off guard. It would now be negotiated at the highest level, Ambassador Sados announced. Should mean: between the heads of government. Other delegations, however, doubted whether such talks had taken place. The assumption was: Poland is playing high poker, assuming that it will get its way as time runs out.
Germany rejects Poland's account

One more thing Sados said Friday morning: "We are waiting for the final position of two member states that want to continue importing these products from Russia." That referred to Italy and Germany, as explained later. According to the Polish account, the German tire industry has the same interests as the Italian one. This was rejected by the German side. It was made clear two days ago that they could live with just about any compromise. There had been no high-level negotiations with Warsaw.

The EU Commission had proposed on Thursday to limit imports of synthetic rubber to 560,000 tons per year after a transition period of six months. The problem with that: the EU has not imported that much in the past decade. In fact, total Russian exports for this product group were 1.1 million tons in 2021, according to UN figures; of that, a good third went to Europe. Russia generated a total of $1.9 billion in revenue.

Diplomats were waiting Friday for another meeting of ambassadors to be convened. If a compromise was reached by then, the proposal would be formally adopted by written procedure. That will take at least three to four hours. After that, at least another four to five hours are needed, during which the latest status of the decisions is translated into all official languages and checked by legal linguists. Only then can they be published in the Official Journal of the EU and enter into force. It is now impossible that this will happen on Friday, it was said in the afternoon.

Poland had recently attracted negative attention because, contrary to its promise, it continues to import considerable quantities of crude oil from Russia via the northern route of the Druzhba pipeline. The EU Commission had criticized this as a violation last week, as the F.A.Z. reported. Since then, it has come back to the issue in two more meetings, but Warsaw has not been willing to relent.

It argues that these imports could only be stopped if all oil imports by land were sanctioned. The current embargo only covers imports by sea. This, in turn, is mainly due to Hungary's resistance, which has not changed. Critics argue that Warsaw knows this and is hiding behind Budapest.

Actually, the tenth sanctions package with further export and import restrictions was supposed to document the unity of the European Union. In fact, however, the opposite effect occurred on Friday: The wrangling of states over car tires was a reminder of how much all measures are about national interests of the member states.
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[Skybird]

DIE WELT
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The battle for Bachmut in eastern Ukraine has been going on for months, with Russian troops recently moving ever closer to the town. According to WELT reporters on the ground, many more Ukrainian soldiers may have fallen in the area than officially admitted.

Meanwhile, observations by WELT in the particularly embattled Donbass in the east of the country suggest that not only the Russian but also the Ukrainian casualty figures could be significantly higher than officially admitted.

The Ukrainian military leadership had said Thursday that a total of 145,850 Russian soldiers had been killed since the war began on Feb. 24, 2022, including 790 on Wednesday alone.

The Defense Ministry in Moscow said Friday that attacks were continuing along the front in the eastern Ukrainian region of Donetsk. It said up to 240 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed in the past 24 hours.

Russia had last spoken in December of some 6,000 soldiers killed in its own ranks; more recent figures are not available. American estimates suggest that some 200,000 Russians have either been killed or wounded in Ukraine so far. Conversely, at year's end, the Kremlin spoke of more than 61,000 Ukrainian soldiers killed, while Kiev put that figure at 13,000 casualties in early December.

In recent days, the situation for the Ukrainian army had worsened, particularly in the east of the country. Fierce exchanges of fire have been taking place especially in the town of Bachmut in Donetsk oblast, which has been contested since July.

Since December, Wagner mercenaries have been launching ever new offensives on the formerly 70,000-person town, from which the last remaining residents are currently being evacuated. According to unconfirmed reports, the Russian army is losing several hundred soldiers a day in the advances.

However, Ukraine is also suffering high losses in the defense of the city, as WELT was able to research on the ground. According to medics transporting wounded soldiers from Bachmut to hospitals, 200 wounded arrived at one assembly point alone on Wednesday.

At least five more of these points exist in the area, according to WELT information. Assuming - as military experts do - a ratio of 3.5 to 4 to 1 between the injured and the dead, one would therefore arrive at more than 250 soldiers killed for that day.

This number may sound small compared to the Russian army's estimated casualties, which are many times higher. But according to this calculation - daily fluctuations taken into account - considerably more than 10,000 soldiers could have died in the area in the past three months, during which the Russian army's attacks near Bachmut have intensified.
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In the West the relevance of Bachmut gets always played down and underestimated, I disagree on that. The city is a central fortress in the second defence line the Ukrainians have build in the East, there are three such defence lines. If Bachmut gets lost the ukrainians must fear Russian direct attacks on the third and last defence line, possibly creating and widening a breach.



Also, 20-30 kilometers west of Bachmut are densely populated urban areas that would come under artillery fire if Russian artillery could move into Bachmut and near to the city. I also would point out that a major road supply line, from north to south, runs west of Bachmut that the Russiansd could interdict by artillery strikes then and that plays a crucial role for Ukrainian forces in the whole region, including the second and third defence line in the area.



Bachmut is of very high tactical relevance, I therefore conclude, its the key to the locked second defence line in that region. I strictly disagree with an earlier American assessment from some weeks ago when Washington told Ukraine it should not fight over Bachmut endlessly for it had "no significant strategic value and would not mean a breakthrough". I totally disagree with that, I see that the fall of Bachmut could be the openinng for such a breakthrough in the aftermath of Bachmut's fall.


Its a bit like in chess: the king has castled short, and then f2 or h2 (White), f7 or h7 (Black) get weakened, get put under pressure. A typical tactical threat, leading to certain strategic motivesevery educated chess player must have some ideas about. The threat is positional and thus: structural.

The Ukrainians must find a counter-thread to Bachmut falling. A plan B. If they let the city fall and cannot react to that to get compensation or retake it, then much more than just the surrounding area in the East is at risk. If the Americans do not see that, then I can only scratch my head. My bet is they see it very well and try to distract from it and gloss over the high risk and potential threats there. If they really do not see it, then they would have red too many wrong books. Bachmut is far more important than the media tell us.

[Catfish]

Now they are coming for Berlin

https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/...13871521251330

[Skybird]

Germany gets slammed at every Eurovision Song Contest every year and is still there - those singing Russian comrades cannot scare us. We have Volksmusik. And Diether Bohlen. These could peel the eardrums out of any aggressor's ears.

[mapuc]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Germany gets slammed at every Eurovision Song Contest every year and is still there - those singing Russian comrades cannot scare us. We have Volksmusik. And Diether Bohlen. These could peel the eardrums out of any aggressor's ears.

Vielleicht Ein bißchen Frieden jaa

Back to serious discussion

Markus

[Jimbuna]

Russia interrupts UN minute's silence

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-64766558

[Jimbuna]

[Jimbuna]

Zelensky will send USA new list of necessary weapons, - head of Congressional Committee on Foreign Affairs McCall

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky informed the US representatives that he plans to send them a list of weapons that, in his opinion, are necessary to speed up the end of the war with Russia.

Zelensky, who met with House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul and four other House GOP members, told the group he plans to send them a list of weapons, including F-16 fighter jets, that he believes are needed to accelerate the end of the war with Russia, reports Censor.NET with reference to RBC-Ukraine.

"There is broad bipartisan support between the United States, our NATO partners and European allies to support Ukraine against Russian aggression... We had a very productive meeting with President Zelensky. We talked primarily about what his needs are when it comes to winning the this war. And he provides this delegation with a list of weapons that Ukraine needs to win," McCall said. Source: https://censor.net/en/n3402213

Russia stopped supplying oil to Poland through Druzhba pipeline

The largest Polish oil company PKN Orlen SA stopped receiving oil through the Druzhba oil pipeline from Russia.

This was reported by Chief Executive Officer Daniel Obaitek, Censor.NET reports with reference to Economic Pravda.

He noted that only 10% of raw materials were from Russia, which the company plans to replace with other supplies.

Orlen said the supply cut would not affect consumers, which it said it had prepared for. The company did not name the cause of the situation. Source: https://censor.net/en/n3402194

G20 meeting ended without joint statement: they did not agree on formulation of Russian war


The meeting of the G20, held in India, nevertheless ended without a joint statement - due to the reluctance of Russia and China to agree on terms acceptable to the other regarding the Russian Federation’s war against Ukraine.

This is reported by Censor.NET with reference to "Euro Integration".

India, as the presiding country, itself published the final document. It included fragments from the declaration of the November G20 summit in Bali and noted that paragraphs 3 and 4 were agreed to by all participants except Russia and China.

The 3rd paragraph mentions UN resolutions condemning Russia's aggression against Ukraine and demanding the immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Russian troops from the territory of Ukraine.

"The majority of participants strongly condemn the war in Ukraine and emphasize that it is causing enormous human suffering and deepening problems in the global economy, hampering growth, accelerating inflation, disrupting supply chains, increasing risks in the energy and food sectors, increasing the risks of financial instability. Other views and assessments of the situation and sanctions were also heard. The G20 is not a platform for solving security problems, but we recognize that they can significantly affect the global economy," this part of the document states.

Paragraph 4 emphasizes that it is extremely important to ensure compliance with international law and a multilateral system for ensuring peace and stability, including respect for the principles of the UN Charter and the protection of civilians and infrastructure in armed conflicts.

"The use or threat of nuclear weapons is unacceptable. Peaceful conflict resolution, crisis response efforts, diplomacy and dialogue are vital. Our era must not be an era of war," the document states. Source: https://censor.net/en/n3402193

[Jimbuna]

Putin will eventually be killed by inner circle, says Zelensky

As Russia is subject to increasingly tough economic sanctions, Putin's regime will become ever more fragile and provoke his rivals to get rid of him, he told the journalist Dmytro Komarov in a documentary.

"There will certainly be a moment when the fragility of Putin’s regime is felt in Russia," he said.

"Then carnivores will eat a carnivore. It is very important, and they will need a reason to justify this.

They will remember. They will find a reason to kill a killer.

Will it work? Yes. When? I don’t know."

Putin keeps a close circle, impenetrable but to a few close advisers whose loyalty stretches back decades. However, a rift has emerged between the Russian army and the Wagner mercenaries as each blames the other for failures on the battlefield while trying to claim credit for triumphs for themselves.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world...ec036c81f357d4