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Negotiation push? Lavrov deputy open to talks: "If the West is really interested"

2022-12-07T04:05:17.385Z


Negotiation push? Lavrov deputy open to talks: "If the West is really interested" Created: 07/12/2022, 04:50 By: Franziska Schwarz French President Emmanuel Macron called for a dialogue on security guarantees for Russia. The Kremlin is now open. News ticker on war diplomacy. Drones at Russian military airports : Putin convenes Security Council Orbán uses Macron's US criticism for his own purpo


Negotiation push?

Lavrov deputy open to talks: "If the West is really interested"

Created: 07/12/2022, 04:50

By: Franziska Schwarz

French President Emmanuel Macron called for a dialogue on security guarantees for Russia.

The Kremlin is now open.

News ticker on war diplomacy.

  • Drones

    at Russian

    military airports

    : Putin convenes Security Council

  • Orbán

    uses Macron's

    US criticism

    for his own purposes: "Rethink Russia sanctions"

  • German

    ambassador

    apologizes for

    Merkel's Russia policy

    : "Ignored warning signals"

  • This

    news ticker

    on

    diplomatic events

    surrounding the

    Ukraine war

    is updated regularly.

Update from December 6, 9.45 p.m

.: Russia is apparently open to negotiation talks with the West.

The Kremlin is ready for a dialogue about security guarantees, the Russian state news agency Ria Novosti reported on Tuesday evening.

One could imagine talks, said Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, Sergei Lavrov's deputy.

"If we hear that the West is really interested in this, we will come back to the subject," the Tass news agency quoted the politician as saying.

French President Emmanuel Macron had previously suggested security guarantees for Russia - and thus triggered mixed feelings in German politics.

The move comes at a time when the EU classified Russia as a "terror sponsor".

The German MEP David McAllister (CDU) told our editorial team that the aim was to further reduce the dialogue with Russia: "Russia must continue to be ostracized internationally and diplomatic relations should be reduced to the absolute minimum."

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EU condemns Russia as a "terror sponsor" - German leader of the left explains: "That's why I voted against"

Update from December 6, 6:32 p.m

.: Dmytro Kuleba has now contacted the senders of packages with bloody animal eyes.

"Stop terrorizing our consulates and just relax and don't waste your money on postage.

You're not getting anything with these actions," Ukraine's foreign minister said, according to the

Kyiv Independent

.

According to the government, Ukrainian missions abroad have already been the target of suspicious mail in twelve countries in the past few weeks. 

Latvia withdraws its license from Russian TV station Dozhd

Update from December 6, 4:06 p.m

.: Latvia has withdrawn the broadcasting license from the independent Russian television station Doschd.

The Media Council sees a "threat to national security" - Putin spokesman Peskov reacted with mockery to the ban on broadcasting.

Update from December 6, 3:29 p.m

.: A possible “shadow fleet” of Vladimir Putin’s Russia continues to employ observers.

According to energy expert Adnan Vatansever, it could increase the risk of environmental disasters.

He said this to the

mirror

according to the pre-notification.

"Most of these ships are quite old," Vatansever said.

The risk of accidents is high.

Earlier there were reports that Russia could build its own fleet of about 100 used tankers to circumvent the Western price cap on Russian oil.

According to an EU representative, however, the structure should be “very complicated” in the short term.

He also reckoned that Russia would have trouble attracting customers.

Drones at Russian military airports: Putin convenes Security Council

Update from December 6, 2:41 p.m .:

Vladimir Putin has now convened his country’s Security Council because of alleged Ukrainian drone attacks on military bases in Russia.

High-ranking representatives of the security authorities discussed with the head of the Kremlin how the country's "internal security" could be guaranteed.

Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov also told reporters that the authorities would take "necessary" measures to protect the country from Ukrainian attacks.

A drone had previously hit a military airfield in the Kursk region near the border.

On Monday (November 5), Moscow had already blamed Kyiv for drone attacks on two airfields far inland.

The Kremlin has thus underscored a harsh judgment by the British secret service: If Moscow classifies the explosions as targeted attacks, this would probably be one of “the most serious failures” in protecting its own troops since the beginning of the war, according to London sources.

Picture from November 6: Vladimir Putin at a conference in the Kremlin © Mikhail Metzel/Imago

Russian state news agency reports 'French people's delight' over Putin video

Update from December 6, 2:32 p.m

.: "The French were happy about the video of Putin on the Crimean bridge", is the headline of a current report from Ria Novosti.

The Russian state news agency based this assessment on online reader comments under an article in the French daily

Le Figaro

.

Users referred primarily to the rapid reconstruction of the bridge.

"According to many, this proves once again that the economic war against Russia only harms the West," Ria Novosti concluded, based on four selected reader contributions.

EU aid to Ukraine: Hungary blocks another 18 billion euros

Update from December 6, 1:13 p.m

.: Hungary under Prime Minister Viktor Orbán continues to block EU financial aid of up to 18 billion euros for Ukraine.

The representative of Hungary voted against their release at a public consultation of the EU finance ministers.

It must be decided unanimously.

According to Czech Finance Minister Zbynek Stanjura, the other 26 member states now want to look for an alternative solution, which is considered complicated.

According to diplomats, Hungary wants to prevent the other member states from blocking EU aid totaling more than 13 billion euros for Budapest with its blocking stance.

The EU Commission recommended freezing the funds last week, partly because of massive problems in the fight against corruption in Hungary.

Orbán uses Macron's US criticism for his own purposes: "Rethink Russia sanctions"

Update from December 6, 10:33 a.m

.: "The costs of this war are distributed unequally on both sides of the Atlantic": With these words, Emmanuel Macron recently criticized in a CBS interview that relations with the USA are currently "not synchronous". be.

“Europe buys gas and oil.

The USA, in turn, produce these raw materials.

But our industries and private households do not buy at the same price,” explained the French President.

Rather, there is “a big gap”.

A current point of contention between the EU and the US is the high profits that US energy exporters are making by supplying LNG to Europe.

In addition, Macron attacked the "America First" economic policy during his recent visit to the US.

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban has now joined him - but has drawn rather unpleasant conclusions from a French perspective: "Macron is right," he tweeted on Monday (December 5), adding: "It is high time to reconsider the Russia sanctions." .” One of Macron's advisors said in November that Europe is suffering most from the sanctions against Russia.

Emmanuel Macron and Victor Orban (left) at the informal EU summit in Prague in October © Kay Nietfeld/dpa

German ambassador apologizes for Merkel's Russia policy: "Warning signals ignored"

Update from December 6, 9:34 a.m

.: The German ambassador to the United States, Emily Haber, has admitted that the federal government has made mistakes in dealing with Russia in recent years.

The improvement in relations with Moscow over several decades has strengthened the assumption on the German side that interdependence leads to stability, transparency and ultimately to systemic changes, Haber wrote in a guest article for the

Washington Post

on Monday (December 5).

But that turned out to be wrong.

"We have ignored warning signs to the contrary and failed to take criticism from our allies and partners as seriously as we should have - particularly regarding the geopolitical implications of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline."

On Monday, Chancellor Olaf Scholz also announced a "turning point" in an English-language medium.

Angela Merkel on her farewell visit to Vladimir Putin © Sergey Guneev / Imago

US Secretary of State Blinken warns of a sham ceasefire

Update from December 6, 6:51 a.m

.: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warns of a sham ceasefire if Russia does not succeed in forcing the Ukrainian people to give up.

"If Russia is unsuccessful in its current attempt to get the Ukrainian people to give up - and they will not be successful - then one can imagine that Russia is looking for an alternative that would be a sham solution," said Blinken at one

Wall Street Journal

event

in Washington.

There will be no movement in the conflict as long as Russia shows no interest in a meaningful diplomatic solution.

"We need a just and lasting peace, not a sham peace."

Putin visits the Crimean bridge in a German car: Kremlin chief controls Mercedes

Update from December 5, 3:33 p.m

.: Vladimir Putin visited the partially destroyed bridge to Crimea.

Pictures from Russian television channels on Monday (December 5) showed the Kremlin chief at the wheel of a Mercedes in which he is said to have crossed the bridge.

It was the Kremlin chief's first visit to the annexed peninsula since the Russian war of aggression began.

The bomb-damaged bridge connects Crimea to mainland Russia.

The Russian authorities had blamed Kyiv for the shelling.

Putin has previously been photographed shirtless on horseback and shirtless fishing.

In the most recent media-effective pictures, however, he wears a jacket:

Also, on Sunday (December 4), Putin signed an amendment to the law banning "propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations," state news agency Tass reported.

According to the Ukrainian media project

Nexta

, LGBT rallies in the vicinity of public buildings, universities, schools, hospitals, airports, train stations, churches and aid facilities will now also be officially banned in Russia.

Embassies and consulates of Ukraine receive packages with animal eyes

Update from December 5, 1:36 p.m

.: Suspicious packages: Ukrainian missions abroad have already received such packages in twelve target countries this year.

This was announced by Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleh Nikolenko from Kyiv.

There have been a total of 21 incidents in embassies or consulates in the past few weeks.

Last week, several Ukrainian diplomatic missions received packages containing bloody animal eyes.

First report from December 5

: Minsk/Munich - For the first time since the Russian attack on Ukraine, Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has visited Belarus.

At a meeting with his authoritarian long-term ruler Alexander Lukashenko on Saturday (November 3), it was not just about thanking the Russian soldiers stationed in the neighboring country.

"They really feel at home here," said Shoigu about the Russian military, whose effectiveness is increasingly being questioned internationally.

Putin ally Lukashenko in Ukraine conflict: "We don't want war"

According to the state-run Belarusian news agency Belta, Lukashenko further explained: “We are not hiding in the bushes here.

We state our views openly. Neither you nor we wanted and do want a war.” He emphasized that he didn't want to intimidate anyone, but he dished out against his opponents.

Lukashenko said that neither he "nor the country's security services see that they are ready to negotiate comprehensively and humanely.

You see, in our opinion, how the war could continue.

Well then, in that case, the special military operation will never end.”

Belarus supports Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin's war of aggression against Ukraine - for example by allowing Russian missiles to be launched from its territory.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy currently rejects Moscow's "conditions" for negotiations.

Lavrov spokeswoman dismisses Putin's nuclear threats: "West's attempt at diversion"

Almost at the same time there seemed to be "forgiving" tones from Moscow: the Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova had accused the top US diplomat Victoria Nuland at the weekend of wanting to "blame" Russia for nuclear threats - and dismissed them far and wide.

"Nuland has once again harmed herself: first, she inflated alleged nuclear threats from Russia with the help of the media and think tanks she controls, and now she is trying to distract from them," Zakharova wrote on Telegram, according to Russia's state news agency TASS.

Rather, Moscow had "repeatedly stated" that the use of nuclear weapons was "unacceptable."

According to Tass, she was referring to statements that Nuland made to the Ukrainian portal

Ukrajinska Pravda

.

(frs with material from AFP and dpa)

Source: merkur

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