Ukraine today called for an immediate meeting of the UN Security Council to discuss urgent measures aimed at achieving de-escalation and practical steps to ensure the security of its country.
The Ukrainian foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, has requested the meeting by order of President Zelensky, according to what he has said in networks.
For his part, the Russian, Vladimir Putin, will decide this Monday if he makes any kind of recognition of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, controlled by pro-Russian separatists, according to AFP.
From the Kremlin they assure that its annexation is not proposed, but only its recognition.
Last week, the Russian Parliament urged Putin to recognize the independence of both regions.
In one of them, in Donbas, the tension is
increasing.
The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, has confirmed that he will meet next Thursday in Geneva with the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, to address the security guarantees required by Russia and the escalation around Ukraine, reports Efe .
Lavrov made this announcement during the meeting of the Russian Security Council called in an extraordinary way by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Shortly before, the Russian Army has claimed to have killed five Ukrainian soldiers after having prevented an alleged incursion into its territory.
The accusation comes after numerous warnings from Kiev that Moscow might seek a pretext to launch a military operation.
Also this Monday, the EU foreign ministers will discuss the conflict at a meeting to which Kuleba is invited.
Biden accepts a summit with Putin on Ukraine proposed by Macron
Violence raises fear of open war in Donbas
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Biden convenes the US National Security Council on the Ukraine crisis
US President Joe Biden has quietly convened the US National Security Council to discuss the growing tension between Russia and Ukraine.
He has done so after Putin's statements about the possibility of carrying out some kind of recognition of the two separatist regions of eastern Ukraine.
Washington suspects that this move anticipates a Russian attack.
The meeting was made public after a Reuters reporter saw Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrive at the White House with Secretary of Defense and General Mark Milley.
(Reuters)
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The EU sanctions five Russian deputies representing Crimea and Sevastopol
The European Union (EU) today sanctioned five deputies of the Duma (Russia's lower house) who were chosen to represent the Crimean peninsula and the city of Sevastopol in the Russian legislative elections on September 19.
The sanctioned persons will not be able to enter the community territory and in addition, the goods and assets they have in the EU will be frozen.
(EFE)
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German Chancellor condemns Russia's plans to recognize Donetsk and Lugansk regions
Scholz warns Putin against recognizing the breakaway republics German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (in the image of Europa Press) has "condemned plans in Russia to recognize the so-called Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics as independent states" in a conversation telephone call held this afternoon with Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to the German government, Scholz has conveyed to Putin that, to do so, "it would be in flagrant contradiction with the Minsk agreements on the peaceful settlement of the conflict in eastern Ukraine and it would be a unilateral violation of these agreements." During the conversation, the foreign minister "urged" the Russian president to reduce tension "immediately" and withdraw the military forces he maintains on the border with Ukraine. Scholz emphasized,according to the summary sent by his press department that "especially in eastern Ukraine, comply with the ceasefire and show signs of relaxation."
Scholz's call comes amid intense diplomatic efforts to try to prevent an attack from Russia.
French President Emmanuel Macron also called Putin yesterday and offered to host a summit at the highest level with Russia, Ukraine and allies to establish a new security order in Europe, the Elysee Palace reported.
The German Executive assured this morning that it appreciates that the US president, Joe Biden, "has offered a direct meeting" with the Russian president, said a spokesman for Scholz.
"We hope that Russia accepts the offer and we can make the necessary preparations so that the summit can be held soon," he added.
The government spokesman assured that the situation is "extremely dangerous" due to the concentration of Russian troops along the border and added that,
Contrary to what was announced, Moscow has not withdrawn its troops from Belarus.
On the contrary, he assured: "he has prolonged his military maneuvers indefinitely."
Reports Elega G. Sevillano
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Borrell reports live on the meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council
The head of EU foreign policy, Josep Borrell, speaks live about the meeting of the Foreign Affairs Council of 27. "Our diplomatic mission remains operational. The security of Ukraine is our security", said the European High Representative who also He has warned Putin that the EU is ready to react together in the event that the Russian president launches an offensive in Ukraine or advances in the recognition of the breakaway regions of Donetsk and Lugansk.
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Ukraine calls for a UN Security Council meeting
Ukraine has requested this Monday an immediate meeting of the UN Security Council to address urgent measures aimed at achieving a de-escalation that guarantees the security of its country.
Foreign Minister Dmitro Kuleba has invoked article 6 of the Budapest Memorandum (1994), which granted Ukraine security guarantees in exchange for giving up the nuclear arsenal inherited from the former Soviet Union, in a message on Twitter, in which has clarified that the request for this urgent meeting at the United Nations has come from an order from the president, Volodímir Zelenski.
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Russian and French foreign ministers meet on Friday
The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov (in the image), will travel to France on the 25th to try to find formulas to defuse the tension in Ukraine, as confirmed by his French counterpart, Jean-Yves Le Drian, with whom he has had a phone conversation this afternoon.
According to a note published by the French Foreign Ministry, Lavrov will hold "preparatory consultations" in Paris for the meeting of the so-called trilateral contact group sponsored by the OSCE, together with Russia and Ukraine.
Le Drian has pointed out that this meeting was accepted by the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, during the conversation he had yesterday, Sunday, with his French colleague, Emmanuel Macron.
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Putin has said that today he will decide whether to recognize the territories controlled by pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine
"I have listened to your opinions. The decision will be adopted today," Putin said at the end of an enlarged meeting of the Russian Security Council.
The announcement comes a week after Russia's parliament passed a resolution urging the president to recognize the independence of Ukraine's Donetsk and Lugansk regions, self-proclaimed republics in 2014. The state Duma (Russia's lower house) called for the “immediate dispatch” of that initiative.
Putin has not made public his position on the independence of Donetsk and Lugansk, but recognizing them as republics would be the end of the Minsk peace accords, signed in 2015 by representatives of Moscow, Kiev and the separatist leaders, under the mediation of France. and Germany.
These pacts laid the foundations for a ceasefire in the Ukrainian regions and marked the way to the end of the conflict.
Russia presents them as the only possible channel for peace, in addition to accusing Ukraine of failing to comply with what was agreed.
(Agencies / EL PAÍS)
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Sweden reduces the staff of its Embassy in Ukraine and studies the possibility of closing the diplomatic legation
The Swedish authorities have announced a withdrawal of a large part of their staff from the Embassy in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, due to the increase in tension with Russia, and while they are studying the possibility of closing the diplomatic legation.
The Swedish Foreign Ministry has indicated that it has decided to "take home most of its employees due to the high risk of intervention" in Ukraine by Russia.
Foreign Minister Ann Linde has called for "analyzing the possibility of closing the embassy, as other countries have already done," according to information from the
Sveriges radio station.
Collected by Europa Press.
For the moment, it will be the members of the security personnel who will be in charge of making the pertinent diplomatic reports and the consular services.
However, the Foreign Ministry has asked citizens to refrain from non-essential trips to Ukraine due to a possible increase in clashes in the border area.
In recent weeks, several countries have asked their citizens to leave the country and have reduced non-essential personnel in the territory.
In addition, they have ordered the temporary closure of their embassies or have moved them to other cities.
(EP)
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Lavrov confirms that he will meet with Blinken
The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, has confirmed that he will meet next Thursday in Geneva with the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, to discuss the security guarantees required by Russia and the escalation around Ukraine, "With your consent, that meeting is scheduled for this week, on February 24 in Geneva," he said at an extended meeting of the Russian Security Council chaired by President Vladimir Putin, reports Efe.
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Moscow claims to have killed five Ukrainian soldiers on Russian soil
The situation is critical in eastern Ukraine.
The Russian Army claims to have killed five Ukrainian soldiers during an alleged incursion into its territory.
The accusation raises tensions in the region to a new level and comes after numerous warnings from Kiev that Moscow could seek a pretext to launch a military operation.
This information has been known the same day that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has urgently convened his Security Council.
By Javier G. Cuesta
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Russia says almost 70,000 people have fled Donetsk and Lugansk
The head of Russia's Federal Security Service said Monday that almost 70,000 people have fled the Donbas region to Russian territory, Reuters reports.
On February 18, the separatist leaders of Donetsk and Lugansk called on the civilian population to flee to neighboring Russia for fear of an attack by the Ukrainian Army.
Kiev has categorically denied that it intends to launch an offensive against the regions controlled by the secessionists.
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Moscow claims to have killed five Ukrainian soldiers on Russian soil
The situation is critical in eastern Ukraine and seems to be getting worse as the days go by.
The Russian Army has assured this Monday that it has killed five Ukrainian soldiers by thwarting an alleged incursion into its territory.
The accusation raises tensions in the region to a new level and comes after numerous warnings from Kiev that Moscow could seek a pretext to launch a military operation against their country.
This information has been known the same day that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has convened the Russian Security Council urgently.
"The penetration of the Ukrainian sabotage group was detected on the morning of February 21 in the Mitiakísnkaya area, in the Rostov region," says the statement from the Russian Defense Ministry, which ensures that "five saboteurs were killed" and two BMP transport vehicles destroyed when they entered Russian territory.
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Javier G. Cuesta
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Ukraine announces a principle of agreement with the EU to advise its Army
Ukraine's Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, assured this Monday that his country and the European Union had reached an "agreement in principle" to deploy a "military training advisory mission" in that country, but that it does not imply sending "combat forces".
"We have reached an agreement in principle by which the EU will deploy a military training advisory mission in Ukraine. These are not combat forces," Kuleba said today after meeting in Brussels with his European counterparts to discuss the current tension with Russia. for his military deployment on the Ukrainian border and the clashes in Donbas.
However, European sources told Efe that the announcement by the head of Ukrainian diplomacy "has a little more nuance",
and that the high representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, will clarify them this afternoon at the press conference after the meeting held today by the European foreign ministers.
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Air France and the Lufthansa group cancel their flights to Kiev
The French airline Air France announced on Monday the suspension of the two flights it had planned for this Tuesday to and from Kiev "as a precaution", given the situation in Ukraine.
Air France justified this decision because "the safety of flights, customers and crew is an absolute imperative."
The decision comes a week after the Dutch airline KLM, with which Air France has an alliance, suspended its flights to Kiev from Amsterdam, while signaling that its planes would not fly over Ukrainian airspace.
On the other hand, the airlines of the Lufthansa group have decided to temporarily cancel most of their flights to Ukraine as of Monday because tensions have intensified in the east of the country.
Lufthansa, a group to which the German airline Lufthansa, the Austrian Austrian Airlines, the Swiss Swiss, Brussels Airlines and Eurowings belong, has reported that its airlines cancel regular flights to Kiev and Odessa until the end of February.
They maintain regular flights to Lviv (Lviv), a city in western Ukraine.
(Agencies)
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Putin convenes an extraordinary meeting of the Russian Security Council
El presidente de Rusia, Vladímir Putin, ha convocado este lunes una reunión extraordinaria del Consejo de Seguridad de Rusia, un órgano que reúne a los máximos responsables políticos y militares del país. "Esta es una [reunión] irregular", ha dicho el portavoz de Putin, Dmitry Peskov. Además, el presidente ruso tiene previstas varias llamadas internacionales. Informa María Sahuquillo
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Rusia desmiente tener una lista de personas para capturar o asesinar si invaden Ucrania: "Es absolutamente falso"
El portavoz del Gobierno de Rusia, Dmitry Peskov, ha negado este lunes que el Kremlin tenga una lista de ciudadanos ucranios para matarlos o enviados a campos de detención después de un ataque, invasión y ocupación del país por parte de Moscú, tal y como asegura Estados Unidos y publica hoy The New York Times. En una carta dirigida a Michelle Bachelet, la alta comisionada de las Naciones Unidas para los derechos humanos, EE UU indica que las fuerzas rusas planean cometer violaciones de los derechos humanos, incluidas torturas o secuestros de civiles. "Es absolutamente falso", ha subrayado Peskov. (Reuters)
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El Kremlin ve prematuro hablar de una cumbre entre Putin y Biden
El Kremlin no descarta una eventual cumbre entre los presidentes de Rusia, Vladímir Putin, y de EEUU, Joe Biden, para abordar la tensión militar en torno a Ucrania, pero ha considerado este lunes prematuro hablar de esta posibilidad. "Por supuesto, no lo descartamos. Si es necesario los presidentes de Rusia y de EEUU pueden decidir en cualquier momento mantener contactos, ya sea por teléfono o físicamente. Será su decisión", señaló el portavoz del Kremlin, Dmitri Peskov. Al mismo tiempo subrayó que en estos momentos no hay planes específicos para una posible cumbre, y, por tanto, es prematuro hablar de ello. "Una reunión es posible si los jefes de Estado lo consideran apropiado. Ahora mismo hay un claro entendimiento de la necesidad de continuar el diálogo al nivel ministerial", aclaró Peskov. Según dijo, hasta el momento hay contactos previstos entre el secretario de Estado de EEUU, Antony Blinken, y el ministro de Exteriores de Rusia, Serguéi Lavrov, así como entre este último y su homólogo francés, Jean-Yves Le Drian. "Partimos del hecho de que Lavrov se reunirá con su homólogo estadounidense esta semana. Tampoco descartamos contactos entre los ministros de Rusia y Francia", señaló. (Efe)
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Ucrania saluda la cumbre Biden-Putin y espera un acuerdo de retirada de tropas rusas
El ministro ucranio de Relaciones Exteriores, Dmytro Kuleba, saludó este lunes en Bruselas la organización de una cumbre entre los presidentes de Estados Unidos y Rusia, y dijo que espera un acuerdo sobre una retirada de las tropas rusas en la frontera. "Pensamos que vale la pena intentar cualquier esfuerzo tendente a una solución diplomática (...). Esperamos que los dos presidentes salgan de la sala con un acuerdo sobre la retirada de las tropas rusas", declaró Kuleba al llegar a una reunión con sus homólogos de la Unión Europea.
Kuleba ha pedido además "decisiones específicas" del bloque europeo para apoyar al Ejército ucranio o mejorar su ciberseguridad. En este punto, ha ido un paso más allá para pedir que los Veintisiete aprueben parte del arsenal de sanciones que prepara contra Moscú por la crisis de seguridad. "Hay razones legítimas para imponer algunas sanciones ahora y demostrar que la UE no solo está hablando de sanciones, sino que está lista para andar el camino", ha abogado Kuleba antes del encuentro en el que discutirá con los ministros europeos la evolución de los acontecimientos en el este de Ucrania. (AFP)
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El regreso de las tropas rusas dependerá de lo que haga Occidente, dice Minsk
Las tropas rusas solo regresarán a sus guarniciones cuando exista una necesidad objetiva para ello, y dependerá en gran medida de las acciones de Occidente, afirmó hoy el jefe del Estado Mayor General de las Fuerzas Armadas de Bielorrusia, Víktor Gulévich, quien recalcó que la decisión la tomarán Minsk y Moscú cuando proceda. "Las unidades de las Fuerzas Armadas rusas regresarán a sus puntos de despliegue permanente solo cuando exista una necesidad objetiva para ello, y cuando lo determinemos nosotros mismos. Este es puramente un asunto interno nuestro", señaló, después de que Rusia prolongara la permanencia de sus soldados en territorio bielorruso.
En una sesión informativa con 22 agregados militares de 20 países acreditados en Minsk, el general afirmó que la retirada de los soldados rusos "en gran medida, también dependerá de nuestros colegas occidentales". "Las fuerzas y los medios que se desplegaron en la región de Europa del Este, incluso cerca de la frontera estatal de la República de Bielorrusia, es uno de los factores que influyen en el desarrollo ulterior de la situación", recalcó Gulévich. Por lo tanto, agregó, "Bielorrusia tiene derecho a exigir la retirada de las agrupaciones de tropas estadounidenses y países miembros de la OTAN de las fronteras de la República y del Estado de la Unión" que conforma con Rusia. (Efe)
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La Unión Europea apoya las conversaciones entre EE UU y Rusia
El jefe de la diplomacia de la Unión Europea, Josep Borrell, ha aplaudido este lunes el intento de encontrar una solución pacífica a la crisis ucrania por parte de Rusia y Estados Unidos. "Las cumbres, a nivel de líderes o de ministros, en cualquier formato, el diálogo y sentarse en una mesa para evitar una guerra, son necesarios", ha dicho Borrell. "Apoyaremos cualquier conversación diplomática, es la mejor manera de solucionar la crisis", ha afirmado después de que Francia anunciara que el presidente de EE UU, Joe Biden, y el presidente de Rusia, Vladímir Putin, han acordado conversar cara a cara. (Reuters)
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