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Moscow informs France of the “unacceptable” nature of arms deliveries to Ukraine

2022-09-20T16:38:29.932Z


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Referendums planned by the pro-Russian authorities in Ukrainian territories, Ukraine threatening to liquidate the Russian threat, Moscow raising its voice in the face of the delivery of arms by France to Ukraine...

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Moscow informs France of the “unacceptable” nature of arms deliveries to Ukraine

Russian diplomacy told France on Tuesday of the

“unacceptable”

nature in its eyes of Western arms deliveries to Ukraine, supplies which facilitated a Ukrainian counter-offensive.

“Emphasis was placed on the unacceptability of the continued force-feeding of Ukraine with Western weapons, including French ones, which the Kiev regime uses to bomb civilian installations and infrastructure

,” said the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Foreign Affairs in a press release, after a deputy minister, Alexandre Grouchko, received the French ambassador, Pierre Levy.

Read alsoWar in Ukraine: arms deliveries slow

Pro-Russians urgently convene annexation "referendums" by Russia

The authorities installed by Moscow in four regions of Ukraine announced Tuesday the urgent holding from September 23 to 27 of

"referendums"

of annexation by Russia, in the midst of a Ukrainian counter-offensive.

The separatist powers of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions announced these votes, as did the Russian occupation authorities of Kherson and Zaporijjia (south).

These elections, scheduled for this week, will take place as Ukraine enters its 8th month of war and all these areas are the subject of fighting.

These

“referendums”

, on the model of the one which formalized the annexation of the Crimean peninsula (south) by Russia in 2014, denounced by Kiev and the West, have been the subject of preparations for several months.

The timetable seems to have accelerated with the Ukrainian counter-offensive which forced the Russian army to retreat to the northeast of the country.

It was the head of the self-proclaimed "Parliament" of Lugansk, Denis Miroshnichenko who was the first to announce that the ballot would take place, over four days from Friday.

Soon after, the official Donetsk news agency announced an identical timetable, as did the heads of the Kherson and Zaporizhia occupation administrations, Vladimir Saldo and Yevgeny Balitsky.

Read alsoWar in Ukraine: the pro-Russians will organize referendums on attachment to Moscow from September 23

Ukraine threatens to “liquidate” the Russian threat

Ukraine warned on Tuesday that the Russian threat would be

"liquidated"

, the head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, Andriï Iermak, denouncing Russian

"blackmail"

motivated by

"fear of defeat".

In a tweet, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense estimated that Moscow was repeating the referendum of annexation of Austria by the Nazis in 1938, and that it would know

"the fate of Hitler of 1945".

The head of diplomacy Dmytro Kouleba assured that Ukraine would

"continue to liberate its lands".

Read also Donbass annexation referendum: kyiv promises to “liquidate” the Russian “threat”

The announcements come as Moscow suffered severe setbacks in early September, withdrawing from the Kharkiv region in the face of pressure from kyiv forces, strong in supplies of Western weapons and equipment.

The Ukrainian army has also launched a counter-offensive on the Kherson region in the south.

This one is less dazzling, but kyiv also recorded gains there.

It is also on the offensive in the Lugansk region (east), which Moscow had conquered in its entirety in the spring at the cost of months of deadly fighting.

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“These fictitious referendums are not acceptable”, denounces Scholz

“It is very clear that these mock referendums are not acceptable and are not covered by international law

,” German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told reporters on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. .

"All this is only an attempt at imperialist aggression that we want to dress up like this

," added the Chancellor, calling on Russia to withdraw its troops.

Read also Referendums of pro-Russian territories: Will Vladimir Putin decree general mobilization?

Putin defends 'sovereign' policy ahead of UN General Assembly

Russian President Vladimir Putin promised on Tuesday to continue his

"sovereign"

foreign policy before the United Nations General Assembly, marked this year by Moscow's offensive in Ukraine.

Although he sent his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to New York, no speech by Vladimir Putin is planned for the General Assembly this year, in the context of the Russian intervention in Ukraine, widely condemned in the world.

But on Tuesday in Moscow receiving the credentials of recently arrived foreign ambassadors, the Russian head of state made a speech that could have had its place at the 77th edition of the diplomatic high mass.

Read also Putin appears as an anti-Western godfather

“Development towards multipolarity unfortunately encounters resistance from those who strive to maintain a hegemonic role in world affairs and to control everything: Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa”

, Vladimir Putin said in a veiled allusion to Washington.

“It has to be said: those in a position of hegemony have been doing quite well for quite some time, but it can't go on like this forever.

It is impossible,”

he added.

“We, Russia, will not deviate from our sovereign trajectory.

As a permanent member of the UN Security Council, we intend to further promote a unifying international agenda (...

, added the Russian president, who in February launched his troops to attack neighboring Ukraine.

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Bombed Ukrainian power plant: Moscow increases its "nuclear blackmail"

Russia has reinforced its

"nuclear blackmail"

against Kiev with its bombardment on Monday of the site of a second Ukrainian power plant, that of Pivdennooukrainsk (South), said Tuesday the director of this installation Igor Polovitch.

With the bombing of this plant,

"the second phase of their nuclear blackmail has started,"

he said, while the site of another Ukrainian atomic installation, that of Zaporijjia (South) had already been bombed several times. in recent months, raising fears of a nuclear accident.

AFP was able to note on Tuesday the presence of a deep crater, strewn with pieces of shells, a few hundred meters from the Pivdennooukraïnsk power plant, in the Mykolaiv region, during a press visit organized by the Ukrainian nuclear power plant operator Energoatom.

Dozens of meters from the crater, a building that AFP could not visit seemed to have its doors and windows blown out by the explosion.

On the other side of the hole, another building, less destroyed, had also lost most of its windows.

According to Pivdennoukraïnsk security chief Ivan Gebet, police and prosecutors searched the bombing site on Monday for shrapnel, which they took away to identify the projectile.

Read alsoNuclear risks in Ukraine: what are the dreaded accidents?

kyiv will receive Slovenian tanks after an "exchange" between Berlin and Ljubljana

Ukraine, in the midst of a counter-offensive against Russia, will receive 28 battle tanks from Slovenia, which in exchange will have military equipment delivered by Germany, including 40 trucks, the German government announced on Tuesday.

"Together, we are thus completing direct arms deliveries to Ukraine in order to support it in its courageous defensive struggle against Russian aggression

," German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht said in a statement.

The Slovenian tanks are of the M 55 S type, a highly modernized version of the Soviet T-55 tank and

"are equipped with an advanced weapon system"

, according to Christine Lambrecht.

In compensation, Germany

"provides 40 military trucks (15t), 35 trays and five fuel tanks from industrial stocks

," added the minister.

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Erdogan calls for a 'dignified' exit from the conflict for both sides

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on the United Nations on Tuesday to find a

"dignified"

exit from the war in Ukraine.

“Together, we must find a reasonable diplomatic solution that will offer both parties a dignified exit from the crisis,”

said the head of state from the podium of the UN General Assembly in New York.

Read alsoHow Erdogan's diplomacy made Turkey essential on the international scene

Foot: Russia excluded from the Euro-2024 draw

Russia, sanctioned because of the military invasion of Ukraine, has been excluded from the draw for the qualifications of the Euro-2024 football next month in Frankfurt, announced Tuesday the Russian Federation and UEFA.

"The reason stems from UEFA's decision in February to suspend the participation of Russian national teams and clubs in the organisation's competitions, and this de facto 'until further notice'

," the Russian federation announced on Tuesday. in a press release.

Following the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces on February 24, UEFA, the European football body, and Fifa, the international federation,

Read alsoFoot: Russia excluded from Euro 2024

This sanction applied from the Women's Euro, at the start of the summer in England, where Portugal replaced the Russian selection, and to the upcoming Men's Football World Cup in Qatar (November 20-December 18) .

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) rejected in July the appeal of the Russian Football Federation which contested this suspension.

The exclusion of Russia from qualifying for the next Euro was confirmed on Tuesday by UEFA, whose executive committee is meeting on the Croatian island of Hvar.

Source: lefigaro

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