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Russian President Vladimir Putin stated in an interview with India Today that some proposals from the US plan to end the war in Ukraine are unacceptable for the Kremlin, saying that any agreement is still far from being concluded. He also spoke about the negotiations with Witkoff, which he said took a very long time. “It lasted 5 hours. Honestly, even I got tired. Five hours is too much,” Putin said. Putin stated that his five-hour talks on Tuesday at the Kremlin with Witkoff and Kushner were “necessary” and “useful”, but also “hard work”, and some proposals were unacceptable. Putin…
Russia is using the same narratives it previously used to justify its war in Ukraine, but this time they are directed against the Republic of Moldova and the Baltic states, members of NATO, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). Recently, the head of diplomacy in Moscow, Sergei Lavrov, accused authorities in the Baltic states and in the Republic of Moldova of adopting “racist laws” and of discriminating against the Russian population. The Institute for the Study of War stated that Lavrov’s claims closely resemble the Kremlin’s narratives used to justify the war in Ukraine. “The OSCE…
Volodimir Zelenski’s plane was followed by four military-type drones before landing, on Monday, at Dublin airport. The drones took off from a location in the northeast of the Irish capital and headed towards the flight path of the aircraft in which the Ukrainian president was traveling, violating a no-fly zone, notes The Independent. Irish authorities are investigating the incident, but cannot yet comment on the most important details: where the drones came from and who controlled them. It seems that the drones missed their target, which was Zelenski’s plane, and veered towards the LÉ William Butler Yeats, a military ship…
The Mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, stated during a broadcast on “Moscow 24” that all economic sectors of the capital are experiencing an acute labor shortage, estimating the deficit at about 500 thousand specialists. “Of these, 70% are skilled workers, namely people with technical professions and advanced practical skills,” the mayor clarified. According to him, the lack of skilled workers has been a constant problem, but currently “the situation has worsened even more”. Sobyanin explained that this deficit is fueled by demographic factors and the accelerated pace of economic development. The mayor further added that, in the past, the educational…
Margarita Simonian, chief editor of the state television Russia Today, confessed that she was unpleasantly surprised by the conditions in Russian hospitals. The Russian propagandist, who is undergoing cancer treatment, recounts how, during a visit to one of the hospitals with her 12-year-old daughter, the medical staff yelled at them right at the reception, writes Dialog.ua. Simonian recounted that the hospital employees spoke in a loud tone and continued to be rude even after they recognized her. One of the employees allegedly told her directly: “Tell the minister that we are not paid to speak nicely.” She added that she…
The Foreign Minister of Poland stated on Wednesday, in Brussels, after the NATO meeting, that Europe and the Alliance are building their security “against Russia”, not together with Russia. The NATO-Russia Council “no longer exists,” says Radosław Sikorski, emphasizing that the focus is on ensuring Europe’s security against Russia, not together with it. The Polish Foreign Minister, Radosław Sikorski, told reporters that the NATO-Russia Council, a consultative forum established in 2002, “no longer exists,” according to The Guardian. He said that the body was “created at a time when it seemed that European security could be built together with Russia,…
From August until now, approximately 120,000 Ukrainians have taken advantage of relaxed travel restrictions and crossed the border into Poland to escape the war, reports Tvp World. Before the relaxation of restrictions at the end of August, all men aged between 18 and 60 were prohibited from crossing the border, except under exceptional circumstances. Now, all men aged between 18 and 22 can leave Ukraine, with Border Guard figures showing that between August and the end of November over 120,000 people entered Poland. Some of these numbers could be multiple entries and exits by the same individuals, warned the Border…
Russian authorities have removed from the public space detailed statistics on the number of disabled people, in the context of a sharp increase in the number of wounded on the Ukrainian front — the figures estimated by Western intelligence services being in the order of hundreds of thousands. According to the “If we are to be exact” (Esli byt tochnym) project, the Social Fund has ceased the publication of centralized data from the Federal Register of Persons with Disabilities, which also included the causes of disability — among which are war injuries. The detailed figures by regions, the number of…
The proposed EU loan for reconstruction in Ukraine as a result of the war waged by Russia is “the worst of all options”” and Belgium’s fears in relation to this subject are not taken into account, accused on Wednesday Belgian Foreign Minister, Maxime Prévot, quoted by The Guardian. He came to the meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers, in the context where, on the same day, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, presents the loan plan for Kiev based on frozen Russian assets and held in Belgium by Euroclear. “It is the worst of all options, because of the risks and because there is no precedent in this regard”, argued Prévot. Belgian Minister sends the EU to borrow from markets to…
Hungary and Slovakia intend to sue the European Union, in a joint action at the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU), if the plan to gradually ban imports of Russian natural gas is implemented. Hungarian Foreign Minister, Péter Szijjártó, announced that as soon as the final vote on this agreement is given in Brussels, “we will immediately challenge it,” reports The Moscow Times. Szijjártó argues that the plan agreed on December 3 poses a threat to the energy security and economies of both countries. The head of Hungarian diplomacy called the decision of the EU institutions a “dictate from…