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Lavrov wants to draw a new red line – Kremlin critics accuse West: “Very stupid attitude”

2022-06-11T03:08:58.609Z


Lavrov wants to draw a new red line – Kremlin critics accuse West: “Very stupid attitude” Created: 06/11/2022, 04:58 By: Bedrettin Bölükbasi, Felix Durach Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov has warned the West against supplying certain weapons. He accuses Selenskyj of a lack of willingness to negotiate. The news ticker. Escalated conflict in Ukraine: Russia's foreign minister has warned the west


Lavrov wants to draw a new red line – Kremlin critics accuse West: “Very stupid attitude”

Created: 06/11/2022, 04:58

By: Bedrettin Bölükbasi, Felix Durach

Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov has warned the West against supplying certain weapons.

He accuses Selenskyj of a lack of willingness to negotiate.

The news ticker.

  • Escalated conflict in Ukraine:

    Russia's foreign minister

    has warned the

    western powers

    against

    supplying weapons

    and has spoken of an "unacceptable escalation".

  • Lavrov

     accuses

    Zelenskyy of a lack of seriousness

    : The Russian Foreign Minister accused Ukrainian President Zelenskyy of a lack of willingness to negotiate.

  • Lavrov

    accused the

    West

    : The countries had declared "total war" on Russia.

  • For the first time,

    Russian regional

    deputies called for the

    end of the war

    : now they have to reckon with severe consequences.

  • News ticker about the

    negotiations and diplomacy in the Russia-Ukraine war

Update from May 28, 3:45 p.m .:

The discussion about arms deliveries continues.

The West is looking for a solution to the Ukraine war.

You can read the latest news on Ukraine-Russia negotiations in our new news ticker.

Update from May 28,

6:33 a.m .: Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky is urging the West to deliver heavy weapons to Ukraine.

"If the Ukrainians are not supplied with the weapons they are requesting, there will soon be fighting around Kiev again," the 58-year-old told

Bild

(Saturday).

He thinks Western politicians are most afraid of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“They think they are not in a war.

Because of this, they also believe that supplying certain weapons could lead to an escalation or turn them into a war party.

Khodorkovsky called this a "very stupid attitude" because, from Putin's point of view, Western politicians and countries are already at war with Russia.

Asked whether the war will strengthen or weaken Putin's government, Khodorkovsky replied: "It depends on how this war will end.

If Putin doesn't win the war, the regime will be weakened.” Initially, the Russian president announced that his goal was to “denazify” Ukraine and capture Kyiv.

“So if he can't capture Kyiv, he already hasn't won the war.

The problem is that if he conquers part of Ukraine, the war will only stop for a certain time - and not for long.”

Update from May 27, 5:28 p.m .:

After a phone call with Russia’s President Putin, Austria’s Chancellor Karl Nehammer is confident.

Putin has signaled a compromise in grain exports and in dealing with prisoners of war.

According to Putin, the International Red Cross should have access to the prisoners of war, reports Nehammer from the conversation.

In addition, Nehammer also felt flexibility with a view to the grain crisis.

He says: "Putin has given signals that he is quite ready to allow exports via the seaports".

Overall, the Chancellor describes the call as "very intense and very serious".

His country is trying to keep in touch with all parties to the conflict as part of its “active policy of neutrality”.

After the talks with Nehammer, Putin dismissed the West's accusations that his country was to blame for the global grain crisis as "unfounded".

According to the Kremlin boss, the "anti-Russian sanctions of the USA and the European Union" are responsible for this.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy was on the phone with Italian Prime Minister Draghi.

The topic of the conversation was the grain crisis.

However, the two apparently could not find a goal-oriented solution.

But according to Draghi's office, they want to keep in touch.

Russian regional MPs dare to criticize Ukraine war

Update from May 27, 5 p.m.:

For the first time, two Russian regional MPs have publicly called for the end of the Russian attack on Ukraine.

Leonid Vasyukevich, deputy of the regional parliament in East Primorye, said during a session: "If our country does not stop the military operation, there will be even more orphans in our country." The newspaper

Kommersant

goes even further and demands: "We demand the immediate withdrawal of Russian troops." His parliamentary colleague Gennady Chulga agrees with his demands.

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With Vasyukevich and Chulga, MPs from the Russian Communist Party (KPRF) have spoken out against the Russian deployment in Ukraine for the first time since the war began three months ago.

Although a few applause could be heard, according to their statements, the two were deprived of their right to vote in the regional parliament for the duration of the day with 27 votes to five.

The parliamentary group leader also threatened “the harshest punitive measures”.

Oleg Koshemyako, governor of Primorsky Krai, accused Vasyukevich and Chulga of "discrediting the Russian army (...) fighting against Nazism".

Ukraine negotiations: Lavrov accused of "total war" on the West

Update from May 27, 1:15 p.m .:

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accuses the West of having declared “total war” on Russia.

Western countries would ban Russian writers, composers and other cultural figures, Lavrov claimed in a ministerial meeting, according to British newspaper

The Guardian

.

"The West has declared war on us, on the entire Russian world," the Russian foreign minister said.

One can "say with certainty" that this situation will prevail "for a long time".

"The US and its satellites are doubling, tripling, quadrupling their efforts to contain our country," Lavrov said.

He also accused Western governments of promoting "Russophobia" - which has reached "unprecedented proportions" in the respective countries.

Ukraine negotiations: Russia wants to increase grain exports - export target of 50 million tons

Update from May 27, 12:35 p.m .:

According to Agriculture Minister Dmitry Patrushev, Russia wants to significantly increase its grain exports.

This grain year, Russia has already exported more than 35 million tons, including 28.5 million tons of wheat, Patrushev said at a grain fair.

By the end of the grain year at the end of June, the volume will exceed 37 million tons.

In the coming grain year, "we estimate our export potential at 50 million tons."

According to the Kremlin, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a telephone call to Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi that Moscow was ready “to make a significant contribution to overcoming the food crisis by exporting grain and fertilizers, provided that the politically motivated restrictions imposed by the West were lifted will".

Putin has dismissed accusations from the West that Russia has been blocking Ukrainian grain exports since the beginning of its military operation in Ukraine as "unfounded".

Ukraine negotiations: Zelenskyj considers Putin talks necessary - "want to regain life"

Update from May 27, 12:10 p.m .:

According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj, talks with Vladimir Putin will probably be necessary to end the war.

The British newspaper The Guardian quoted the British newspaper The Guardian

from a speech by Zelenskyj for an Indonesian think tank as

saying that Ukraine is not longing for talks with Putin, but one has to accept the reality that this may be necessary to end the war .

"There are things to be discussed with the Russian ruler," said the Ukrainian President.

From a meeting with Putin it is hoped that "the life of a sovereign country with its own territory" will be regained.

Ukraine talks: US blames Russia for grain shortage

Update from May 27, 7:08 a.m

.: A looming shortage of grain in parts of the world is now massively occupying diplomacy around the Ukraine war.

The US blames Russia for the grain export blockade - and has rejected Russian demands that sanctions against the country be lifted in exchange for Ukrainian grain stocks being released.

"It is Russia that is actively blocking the export of food from Ukrainian ports and increasing world hunger," said White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre.

A lot of grain is stored in silos in the Ukraine and on ships that cannot be shipped because of the Russian naval blockade.

According to Jean-Pierre, the sanctions would not prevent either the export or the necessary financial transactions.

Ukraine-Russia negotiations: Lavrov accuses Zelenskyy of lack of seriousness

First report from May 26

: Moscow – Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned the West not to fuel the situation in the Ukraine war by supplying certain arms.

The 72-year-old was reacting on Thursday not least to Kiev's demands for NATO multiple rocket launcher systems in order to be able to carry out counter-attacks against Russian troops in Donbass.

Among others, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba called for such a system to be made available by the western military alliance.

Ukraine negotiations: Lavrov threatens the West – Russia names “unacceptable escalation”

According to the Russian news agency Tass, Lavrov called on the Western powers to refrain from delivering heavy weapon systems to the war zone.

Providing Ukraine with weapons that could be used to attack Russian territory is "a serious step towards an unacceptable escalation."

In the foreign broadcaster RT Arabic, which is loyal to the Kremlin, Lavrov appealed to the "reason" of Western politicians.

He hopes that there are still enough reasonable people in the West who would understand that.

"There are still a few of them left," added the 72-year-old.

However, it is not known which politician Lavrov is referring to with his statements.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned the West against further arms deliveries to Ukraine.

© Russian Foreign Ministry/imago-images

Ukraine war: Lavrov accuses Selenskyj of unwillingness to negotiate

Lavrov was also dissatisfied with a view to possible negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv.

The defense minister accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of a lack of willingness to negotiate.

Zelenskyy had announced that he would not be ready for direct talks with Vladimir Putin until Russian troops withdrew to the February 24 borders.

"You don't have to explain or prove to anyone that this isn't serious," Lavrov said, according to the Interfax agency.

"It suits the West to also support this intellectually unsupported intransigence," he says.

Previously, Kyiv had accused the Russian leadership of not being interested in serious negotiations.

Rather, Moscow would now try to detach them from Kyiv by issuing Russian passports to the residents of the occupied territories in eastern Ukraine.

In the first few weeks after the Russian attack, Moscow and Kyiv were still negotiating.

But talks ground to a halt when the atrocities committed by Russian soldiers after retreating from Kiev suburbs like Bucha came to light.

Unlike Ukraine, Russia had only sent second-tier politicians with no real influence.

(fd/dpa)

Source: merkur

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