During Russia's hail of bombs on Ukraine: Putin convenes top-level meeting

Created: 10/10/2022 10:11 am

By: Bedrettin Bölükbasi

In the Ukraine war, Putin and those around him are threatening to use nuclear weapons.

According to a Turkish newspaper report, a rethink in the Kremlin appears to be possible.

The news ticker.

• Further

  support

  for

  Ukraine

  : Federal government is working on a package

• Röttgen

  warns against

  intimidation

  : With a view to Putin's nuclear threats, the CDU foreign politician called for sticking to the facts.

• This

  news ticker on the diplomatic developments in the Ukraine war

  is constantly updated.

Update from October 10, 9:55 a.m .:

Russian President Vladimir Putin has called a meeting with his Security Council for Monday.

This was confirmed by Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov of the Russian news agency TASS.

However, Peskov left open whether the meeting will also deal with the Ukrainian attacks on the Crimean Bridge.

"We will inform you after the results of the meeting," the Kremlin spokesman said.

The deputy chairman of the Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, had announced retaliation for the attacks on the Crimean bridge at the weekend.

The Russian President meets with his Security Council at regular intervals, also to discuss current developments in the Ukraine war.

Ukraine-News: UN General Assembly discusses Russian annexations in Ukraine

Update from October 10, 6.10 a.m .:

The UN General Assembly will start deliberations on the recent illegal annexations of parts of Ukraine by Russia on Monday (9 p.m. CEST).

At the end of the session, which could drag on until Wednesday due to the large number of speakers, the UN body, the largest with 193 member states, is to vote on a resolution condemning Moscow.

Russia had previously called for a secret ballot - apparently in the hope of a better result.

High-ranking diplomats describe this as an unprecedented operation that is unlikely to receive sufficient support.

As expected, a resolution in the UN Security Council condemning the annexations, introduced by the USA and other countries, was blocked by a veto by Moscow.

The process then moved to the General Assembly.

According to diplomats, it needs the support of two-thirds of the countries voting for it to be passed by the body.

In a draft resolution available to the German Press Agency, Russia's actions are condemned as aggression and "violation of the sovereignty, political independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine".

The referendums are illegal, have "no validity under international law and do not form a basis for changing the status of these regions of Ukraine," it said.

Ukraine war: negotiations with the Kremlin?

- Zelenskyj shows no hope for talks

Update from October 9, 10:03 p.m .:

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has confirmed the impossibility of negotiations with Russia.

"The constant terror against the civilian population is Russia's obvious rejection of real negotiations," said Zelenskyj in his video message on Monday night.

"Terror at state level is one of the worst international crimes." Shortly before, Russian President Vladimir Putin had blamed the Ukrainian secret service for the recent attack on the Crimean bridge and spoke of an "act of terrorism".

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“Putin accuses Ukraine of terrorism?

That looks too cynical even for Russia,” Ukrainian presidential office adviser Mykhailo Podoliak responded on Twitter.

Podoljak referred to recent rocket attacks in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia, as a result of which more than a dozen people were reported to have died.

"No, there is only one terrorist state - and the whole world knows who it is."

Ukraine war: Scholz and Biden on the phone and criticize Russia

Update from October 9, 7.40 p.m .:

Chancellor Olaf Scholz and US President Joe Biden have again condemned the Russian annexations of areas in Ukraine.

In their phone call on Sunday, Scholz and Biden also criticized the "recent nuclear threats made by Moscow as irresponsible" and agreed that the use of such weapons would have "extraordinarily serious consequences for Russia", said the spokesman for the federal government, Steffen Hebestreit, With.

The White House said that Biden and Scholz had emphasized that they would continue to work to ensure that Russia was held responsible for its "brutal actions" and that Ukraine received security and economic aid.

Ukraine war: Federal government plans further support for Ukraine

Update from October 9, 4:20 p.m .:

According to a media report, the federal government wants to support Ukraine with military equipment for the winter.

Part of the package are 100,000 warm under jackets and other winter clothing, 100 heatable team tents, hundreds of mobile power generators and pallets of food packages, as the "Spiegel" reported on Sunday.

The financial outlay is therefore eleven million euros.

In addition, the pressure on the federal government to deliver modern tanks to Ukraine has been growing for weeks.

During a visit to Lithuania on Saturday, Federal Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD) referred to the deliveries of Gepard tanks and tanks of Soviet design in ring exchanges, for example via Greece and Slovakia.

Ukraine war: Turkey is working on a new peace initiative

Update from October 9, 2:15 p.m .:

Turkey has repeatedly offered itself as a mediator between Ukraine and Russia in the Ukraine war.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government has maintained good relations with both Ukraine and Russia, while trying to maintain a certain balance.

Ankara is apparently now working on a new peace initiative, according to a report in the Turkish newspaper

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After analyzing all statements made by Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, Turkey has come to the conclusion that Moscow is striving for a new long-term deal with the West, wrote

columnist Özay Sendir.

This was already underlined by Erdogan spokesman Ibrahim Kalin in an interview with the US broadcaster CNN.

According to the newspaper, Turkey has started sharing thoughts about its new initiative with Western governments.

Turkey is planning to put the USA, Germany, France and Great Britain at a table with Russia.

According to Sendir, initial feedback from influential political figures in Washington was positive.

However, her only question was whether one could find an interlocutor in Moscow for such an initiative.

Turkey has affirmed this and at the same time made it clear that Ankara respects the sovereignty and the will of Ukraine.

Ukraine News: Russia threatens nuclear strike - "have the right"

First report from October 9th:

Munich/Berlin – In the Ukraine war, nuclear threats from Moscow are no less.

On the contrary: With every Russian defeat in southern and eastern Ukraine, the Kremlin's nuclear rhetoric increases.

Again and again it is said that Russia has the right to use nuclear weapons and that it is not a "bluff".

Röttgen warns against intimidation: "Keep a cool head and stick to the facts"

The CDU foreign policy expert Norbert Röttgen has now warned against being intimidated by Russian President Vladimir Putin's nuclear threats.

"If we let Putin blackmail us once, then we're permanently screwed," Röttgen told the newspapers of the Funke media group.

The credible deterrence of Putin's threats remains crucial to prevent further escalation.

The USA is “just as indispensable as it is prepared” for this.

The CDU politician called for "keeping a cool head and sticking strictly to the facts".

This includes the fact that Putin wants to continue the war: "As part of this war, he is trying to scare us."

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Ukraine-News: Macron reacts to Biden's "Armageddon" statement - "political fiction"

Most recently, US President Joe Biden warned of the danger of a nuclear "Armageddon" such as was last experienced in the Cuban Missile Crisis.

"We have a guy here that I know pretty well," Biden said, according to British newspaper 

.

The Kremlin boss is not joking, he said.

Those words created even more excitement in the midst of an already tense situation.

Apparently, not everyone welcomes the sensitive warning from the US President.

French President Emmanuel Macron has since responded to Biden's comments and advised caution with such statements.

"We have to speak with wisdom when commenting on such issues," he said

at a press conference on Friday (October 7) after the EU summit in Prague , according to the British newspaper

"I've always refused to engage in political fiction," Macron said, adding, "Especially when it comes to nuclear weapons.

We have to be very careful on this issue."

However, should a nuclear “apocalypse” actually occur, the US could respond in three different ways.