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"Like 1945": Putin is confident of victory - but the West puts the next damper on Russia

2022-05-25T03:08:44.442Z


"Like 1945": Putin is confident of victory - but the West puts the next damper on Russia Created: 05/25/2022, 04:57 By: Bedrettin Bölükbasi, Cindy Boden NATO is once again issuing a warning to Russia about nuclear weapons. Shortly before May 9th, Putin is confident of victory. News ticker on negotiations. Escalated Ukraine conflict: Putin remains confident of victory and draws parallels to 194


"Like 1945": Putin is confident of victory - but the West puts the next damper on Russia

Created: 05/25/2022, 04:57

By: Bedrettin Bölükbasi, Cindy Boden

NATO is once again issuing a warning to Russia about nuclear weapons.

Shortly before May 9th, Putin is confident of victory.

News ticker on negotiations.

  • Escalated Ukraine conflict:

    Putin

    remains confident of victory and draws parallels to 1945.

  • American First Lady

    in

    Ukraine

    : US First Lady Jill Biden visits Ukraine and meets with Volodymyr Zelenskyy's wife Elena Zelenskaya.

  • NATO Secretary General warns Russia

    against

    using

    nuclear

    weapons

  • News ticker on negotiations and international efforts in the Ukraine war

Update from May 9, 7:40

a.m.: Selenskyj believes that Ukraine does not have enough heavy weapons to liberate Mariupol by military means

(update from May 8, 9:40 p.m.).

Meanwhile, the G7 countries have jointly agreed to exit Russian oil imports

(update from May 8, 7:10 p.m.).

You can read more news about negotiations and international efforts in the Ukraine war in our current news ticker.

Ukraine-Russia talks: "Ukraine does not have enough heavy weapons to liberate Mariupol by military means"

Update from May 8, 9:40 p.m .:

The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj has currently ruled out the liberation of the port city of Mariupol, which is occupied by Russian troops.

"Ukraine does not have enough heavy weapons to liberate Mariupol by military means," Zelenskyy said at a press conference with Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who was in Kyiv on a solidarity visit.

At least it was possible through diplomatic channels to get civilians out of the besieged Azovstal steelworks, Zelensky said.

For the remaining Ukrainian soldiers, however, an evacuation would be difficult.

"Russian soldiers, the Russian army, the army command and the political leadership of the Russian Federation do not want to let our soldiers out," said the Ukrainian leader.

Kyiv has asked Turkey, Israel, France, Switzerland, the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross to mediate.

Most recently, the head of the largest Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the Moscow Patriarchate, Onufri, asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to allow the Ukrainian soldiers to leave.

Ukraine diplomacy: Visit from Moscow to Mariupol - Deputy Prime Minister visits Mariupol

Update from May 8, 8:40 p.m .:

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin visited the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, which was largely occupied by Russian troops.

He visited the "liberated" areas of the "Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics," Khusnullin wrote in the Telegram news service.

"I visited Mariupol, Volnovacha, Luhansk and other cities and talked to the residents," the deputy minister said.

Ukraine diplomacy: G7 want to get rid of Russian energy - sanctions further tightened

Update from May 8, 7:10 p.m .:

The G7 countries have jointly agreed to exit Russian oil imports.

"The G7 as a whole committed today to ban or phase out imports of Russian oil," the White House said after a video conference of G7 leaders.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy also took part in the deliberations.

The US announced tightening of sanctions against Russia.

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The suspension of Russian oil imports to the G7 countries will hit Russian President Vladimir Putin's "main artery of the economy" hard and deprive Moscow of an important source of revenue to finance its war in Ukraine, the White House statement said.

Washington did not provide any further information on the specific obligations of the G7 countries.


The US government also announced further sanctions against Russian state media and other companies and individuals.

The three Russian television channels Perwy Kanal, Rossija-1 and NTW are among those affected by the punitive measures, as the White House announced.

The measure prohibits US companies from supporting the broadcasters through advertising or the sale of equipment.

"US companies should not be involved in financing Russian propaganda," a senior White House official said.

The blacklisted channels are directly or indirectly controlled by the Kremlin.

Ukraine diplomacy: British Foreign Secretary "horrified" - London wants to hold Putin accountable

Update from May 8, 4:55 p.m .:

British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss was shocked by the Russian attack on a school in Luhansk Oblast.

Ukraine fears at least 60 deaths in the incident.

Truss wrote on Twitter that she was "appalled" by the attack.

The intentional shelling of civilians and civilian infrastructure is tantamount to "war crimes".

"We will ensure that Putin's regime is held accountable," Truss said.

Ukraine diplomacy: After Jill Biden, now also Trudeau in Ukraine - visit to Irpin near Kyiv

Update from May 8, 4:40 p.m .:

After the US President’s wife Jill Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also traveled to Ukraine unannounced, according to Ukrainian information.

Trudeau visited the city of Irpin in the greater Kiev region, the Ukrainian news agency

Ukrinform reported

, citing Irpin Mayor Oleksander Markushin.

She also published a photo showing the head of government of the NATO country in front of destroyed houses.

Markuschin wrote on Facebook that Trudeau was shocked by the destruction in Irpin.

"I hope for the support of Mr. Justin Trudeau to organize the efforts of the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada to rebuild the infrastructure in Irpin," the mayor also stressed.

Ukraine Diplomacy: American First Lady in Ukraine - Jill Biden meets Zelenskyj's wife Elena

Update from May 8, 4:01 p.m .:

US President’s wife Jill Biden surprisingly visited Ukraine.

Traveling US journalists reported that the First Lady entered Ukraine from Slovakia on Sunday and stayed there for almost two hours.

In the city of Ushorod she met with refugees.

She also met the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Olena Zelenska.

Biden and Selenska had a bilateral conversation for about an hour.

According to journalists traveling with her, Jill Biden said: "I wanted to come for Mother's Day.

I thought it was important to show the Ukrainian people that this war must stop.” The US stands with Ukraine.

Selenska thanked Biden for the "brave" visit and said through a translator: "Because we understand what it means for the First Lady of the USA to come here during a war, where military action is taking place every day, where even today the air sirens are still going on every day." sound.”

Russia-Ukraine negotiations: Putin is confident of victory

Update from May 8, 1:20 p.m .:

Russian President Vladimir Putin has shown himself confident of victory with a view to Ukraine and has drawn parallels to the Second World War.

"Like 1945, victory will be ours," Putin said on Sunday.

"Today, like their ancestors, our soldiers fight shoulder to shoulder to liberate their homeland from Nazi filth."

"Unfortunately, today Nazism is raising its head again," the Russian president said in a passage addressed to Ukrainians.

"Our sacred duty is to prevent the ideological heirs of those who have been defeated" from getting "their revenge."

He wished all residents of Ukraine a “peaceful and just future”.

Russia traditionally celebrates victory over Nazi Germany on May 9th.

A large military parade is planned for Monday in Moscow to mark the occasion.

Russia justifies its military operation in Ukraine with the intention of wanting to “demilitarize” and “denazify” the neighboring country.

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (archive image) © Kay Nietfeld/dpa

Russia-Ukraine negotiations: Jill Biden meets Ukrainian refugees in Romania

Update from May 7, 6:33 p.m .:

Jill Biden, wife of US President Joe Biden, met Ukrainian refugees on a visit to Romania on Saturday.

"You are incredibly strong," the first lady said in footage broadcast on Romanian television after listening to stories from Ukrainian mothers and children of their escape from Russian attacks.

"We stand by you, I hope you know that," she added.

  • Over 810,000 Ukrainians have crossed the border into Romania since the Russian war of aggression began.

  • Most of them then went on to other countries.

  • Around

    80,000

    were accommodated

    in Romania

    , around

    half of them children

    .

At the same time, Dunja Mijatovic, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, on Saturday condemned the extent and seriousness of human rights abuses as a result of Russia's war of aggression.

After a four-day visit to Kyiv, she wrote in a statement that people in Ukraine had witnessed appalling atrocities.

"Each of them deserves justice and must not be forgotten."

"Human rights do not end in war, they do not fade into the background." Mijatovic called for humanitarian aid for victims of war to be expanded and support for the prosecution of crimes to be maintained.

Ukraine-Russia talks: US Secretary of State Blinken accuses Putin of "twisting history"

Update from May 7, 3:12 p.m .:

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of historical revisionism with a view to commemorating the end of the war in 1945.

"President Putin is trying to twist history to justify his unprovoked and brutal war against Ukraine,"

he said in Washington.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian people "valiantly defend their country, their democracy and the legitimate future of Ukraine" in a free and peaceful Europe.

Ukraine-Russia talks: NATO chief sends Putin 'clear' nuclear weapons warning

First report:

Kiev/Moscow - The Ukraine war started with Russia, a nuclear power - which means that the fear of the use of nuclear weapons is always omnipresent.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has again warned Moscow of this.

"Our message is clear: if nuclear weapons were used, there would only be losers on all sides," he told

Welt am Sonntag

.

"A nuclear war cannot be won and should never be fought, including Russia."

Russia's President Vladimir Putin has indicated since the war began that he was prepared to use Russia's tactical nuclear weapons in the conflict.

According to Stoltenberg, however, NATO has no indication that Russian nuclear weapons have been raised to a higher level of readiness since the beginning of the war on February 24.

According to Stoltenberg, the defense alliance expects a further intensification of the Ukraine war in the coming weeks.

"We must prepare for Russian offensives and even more brutality, even greater hardship and even more destruction of critical infrastructure and residential areas," he said.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg (archive image) © Dwi Anoraganingrum/Future Image/Imago

Ukraine-Russia negotiations: NATO boss calls for further arms deliveries from the West

The NATO chief also spoke out in favor of further arms deliveries from western countries to Ukraine.

"In the long term, Ukraine cannot only defend itself with Soviet-era weapons, but must switch to modern Western weapons," he said.

"Ukraine urgently needs more heavy weapons, the West should step up supplies, do more and prepare for a long-term engagement."

US President Joe Biden has already announced further arms deliveries.

The US provided Ukraine with "additional artillery ammunition, radars and other equipment," he said on Friday (May 6).

A high-ranking US government official put the value of this armaments package at $150 million.

You can read more about the reactions from Germany to the Ukraine war in this news ticker.

Ukraine-Russia negotiations: UN Security Council issues joint statement for the first time

Diplomatic news at this time also comes from the

UN Security Council

: more than two months after Russia invaded Ukraine, it agreed

on a joint statement for the first time

.

The most powerful UN body declared unanimously on Friday - i.e. also with the consent of aggressor Russia - that it was "deeply concerned" about the conflict in Ukraine.

While the agreement is seen as the panel's weakest possible statement, it is also a glimmer of hope that stalled diplomacy on New York's East River could get some movement.

"The Security Council expresses strong support for the Secretary-General's efforts to seek a peaceful solution," the statement said.

Norway and Mexico wrote the text of the declaration.

An earlier version said the Security Council in New York supported UN Secretary-General António Guterres' role as a mediator in the Ukraine war.

This wording has been deleted.

Russia had previously prevented Security Council decisions on the Ukraine war.

When asked what prompted Moscow to agree, a diplomat said, while guaranteeing anonymity, that "all the good stuff" had been removed from the draft.

(AFP/dpa/cibo)

Source: merkur

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