Ukraine-Russia negotiations?
Zelenskyj rejects Kremlin demand - Poland supplies important weapons
Created: 2022-06-07 21:54
By: Bedrettin Bölükbasi, Franziska Schwarz
Ukraine-Russia negotiations: There was a scandal in the UN Security Council about the Russia envoy - and an ex-president is raging.
The news ticker.
Medvedev
rages against
"Russia enemies"
: The Russian ex-president attacked alleged enemies of Russia with harsh words.
Lithuania
wants a stronger
NATO presence
in the
Baltic States
: President Gitanas Nauseda wants decisions at the Madrid summit.
Theft allegations
against
Russia
: The Russia representative at the United Nations leaves the meeting.
This
news ticker on diplomacy in the Ukraine war
is continuously updated.
Update from June 7, 8:46 p.m .:
According to Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Poland is currently signing an extensive contract for the delivery of weapons to Ukraine.
It is "one of the largest, if not the largest, arms export contract in the past thirty years," said Morawiecki on Tuesday during a visit to the armaments company Huta Stalowa Wola in the south-east of the country.
The Polish weapons would be very important for the combat zones in eastern Ukraine, Morawiecki added.
Ukraine will receive part of the funds for the purchase from the EU and pay part of it itself.
The Prime Minister of Poland did not say what kind of weapons it is exactly and what the scope of the arms deal is.
Ukraine-Russia negotiations?
Zelenskyj rejects Kremlin demand
Update from June 7, 6:59 p.m.:
In an interview with the
Financial Times
, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made it clear that his government would not accept any cessions to Russia.
Moscow is demanding that Kyiv cede territory to end the war.
Ukraine will not become more willing to talk because of a lack of money, fuel or because of the destroyed infrastructure.
"We have already lost too many people for this," says Zelenskyj.
The President also believes that an end to the war is only possible on the “battlefield”.
He spoke of a "victory on the battlefield".
However, Ukraine still lacks the technology for this and for a counterattack.
In addition, Selenskyj hopes for further sanctions against Russia.
Although one is grateful for the steps taken so far, however: "They do not influence Russia enough".
Selenskyj attributes this to the fact that the sanctions have not yet been comprehensive.
He called for a total boycott of Russian oil and gas.
Update from June 7, 4:40 p.m .:
The Russian State Duma has passed two draft laws intended to free Russia from the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice, as reported by the British newspaper
The Guardian
.
According to one of the draft laws, the decisions of the Court of Justice for Russia should no longer be implemented from March 16.
"The European Court of Justice has become an instrument of the political struggle against our country in the hands of Western politicians," the British newspaper quoted State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Viktorovich Volodin as saying.
Some of the court's judgments are in "direct contradiction to the Russian constitution, our values and our traditions," Volodin said.
Referendum in Kherson?
- Ukrainian territory is to be linked to Russia by referendum
Update from June 7, 4:20 p.m .:
Pro-Russian authorities in Cherson, occupied by Russian troops at the beginning of the Ukraine war, apparently want a referendum to connect the Ukrainian area in northern Crimea to Russia.
According to the deputy chief of the Russian-appointed regional military administration, Kirill Stremouzov, Kherson will follow Crimea's example, as reported by the Russian state agency
TASS
.
The Crimean peninsula was illegally annexed by the Russian military in 2014 and tied to Russia by an internationally unrecognized referendum.
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According to Tass
, Stremousov announced that a referendum on joining Russia would be held in the near future
.
However, they are not working on it yet, as they are first taking care of the everyday problems of the population in Cherson.
After a possible connection to Russia, according to the pro-Russian official, they also want to organize elections.
Medvedev rages against "Russia enemies" - Ex-President speaks of "bastards"
Update from June 7, 3:15 p.m .:
Ex-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sent an angry message against alleged enemies of Russia.
"I hate them.
They are bastards and degenerate people,” Medvedev wrote in a message on the online service Telegram.
He will "do everything to make them disappear".
Medvedev, 56, wrote that these people wanted "death for us, for Russia".
He gave no further details.
Since the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine on February 24 and the subsequent Western sanctions, Medvedev has published increasingly harshly worded articles in online networks.
In May, Medvedev wrote that the West could not impose "crazy sanctions" on Russia on the one hand and expect the country to export food on the other.
Dmitry Medvedev next to Vladimir Putin.
(Archive image) © Alexander Zemlianichenko/dpa
Ukraine-Russia negotiations: Johnson against "bad peace" - "Zelenskyj must not be forced"
Update from June 7, 1:45 p.m .:
After a cabinet meeting with ministers, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson stressed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy should not be “forced” to accept a bad peace agreement with Russia.
"He has said it is imperative that President Zelenskyy is not forced to accept a bad peace," the British newspaper
The Guardian
quoted a spokesman for Johnson as saying.
The prime minister pointed out that bad peace agreements are unsustainable.
Lithuania wants a stronger NATO presence in the Baltic States - "Madrid must be the summit of decisions"
Update from June 7,
7:01 a.m .: Lithuania's President Gitanas Nauseda is pushing for a stronger NATO presence in the Baltic States in view of the Ukraine war.
"The NATO summit in Madrid must be the summit of decisions," Nauseda told the German Press Agency before Chancellor Olaf Scholz's brief visit to Vilnius on Tuesday.
It is hoped that the summit will agree on a transition from deterrence to forward defence, from battalion to brigade, from air surveillance to air defence.
The summit, which will take place at the end of the month, will primarily focus on a further increase in troops on NATO's eastern flank.
As part of his one-day trip, Scholz also wants to visit German soldiers at the Pabrade military training area.
In Lithuania, the Bundeswehr has been leading a NATO unit to deter Russia at the Rukla base since 2017.
Even before the start of the war, the multinational formation had been reinforced from around 1,200 to around 1,600 soldiers by additional forces from Germany, Norway and other countries.
With currently more than 1000 emergency services, the Bundeswehr provides the largest contingent.
Ukraine-Russia talks: Allegations of theft against Russia - Russian ambassador to UN leaves room
Update from June 6, 8:17 p.m
.: During a speech by EU Council President Charles Michel, Russia’s UN Ambassador Vasily Nebensja left the UN Security Council.
Michel had previously addressed the Russian representative directly at the Council meeting on the war in Ukraine on Monday in New York, accusing the Kremlin of stealing grain from Ukraine, among other things.
As a result, Nebensia, who had previously given a speech and repeatedly rejected allegations made against Russia by representatives of other countries, left the council.
"You can leave the room, dear Mr. Ambassador, maybe it's easier not to listen to the truth," Michel commented.
Wassili Nebensja (l), UN ambassador from Russia, gestures in the direction of journalists.
(Archive) © Mary Altaffer/dpa
Ukraine-Russia negotiations: Zelenskyj warns that the grain crisis will escalate
Update from June 6, 7:54 p.m
.: The Russian war of aggression in Ukraine has also pushed up grain prices.
Russia and Ukraine together typically cover 30 percent of world wheat exports.
Volodymyr Zelenskyj now warns of an escalation.
The blocked amount of grain destined for export from Ukraine could triple to 75 million tons by “autumn”, said the President of Ukraine.
"We need sea corridors and are discussing them with Turkey and the United Kingdom" and the United Nations, said Zelenskyy.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said last week that there were "no problems exporting grain from Ukraine".
Ukraine, on the other hand, accuses Russia of blocking its ports and rejects the export options proposed by Moscow.
Negotiations in the Ukraine war: London wants to deliver Leopard tanks to Kyiv
First report
: London/Kiev - Weapons from the West are only prolonging the Ukraine conflict, Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin recently threatened.
Britain under Prime Minister Boris Johnson now wants to help Ukraine against the Russian aggressor by supplying the country with long-range missile systems - so that Ukraine can "win" the war against Russia, according to British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace.
The British government said it would send several M270 missile systems with a range of up to 80 kilometers to the country, according to BBC information there should initially be three.
"As Russia's tactics change, so must our support," Wallace said in a statement.
The planned delivery means "a significant boost to the capabilities of the Ukrainian army".
It was intended to improve protection for Ukrainians "against the brutal use of long-range artillery that Putin's troops have used indiscriminately to flatten cities."
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The high-precision weapons would enable Ukraine to better defend itself against the brutal attacks of Russia, which leveled cities with its long-range artillery.
Ukrainian troops are to be trained in weapons in Great Britain.
The delivery was closely coordinated with the United States, which had recently announced the delivery of long-range weapons.
Putin had threatened to attack other targets in Ukraine if this were to happen.
The British government has so far pledged £750 million (€874 million) in military aid to Ukraine.
The aid includes, among other things, the delivery of air defense systems, thousands of anti-tank missiles and hundreds of armored vehicles.
(AFP/dpa/frs)