March 26, 2023 5:01 p.m
Media: “Wagner Group controls Azom smelter”
The group wagner would have taken “full control” of the smelter azome, north of the city of Bakhmut. This was reported by some Russian media, including RIA Novosti, based on a video posted in the room showing militia fighters throughout the plant. There are currently no comments or confirmations from the Ukrainian side.
March 26, 2023 5:00 p.m
Orlando Bloom came to Kiev for Unicef
The British actor Orlando Bloom came to Kiev as a goodwill ambassador from Unicef , reported the press service of the Ukrainian railway company Ukrzaliznytsia. “We are pleased to welcome Orlando to Ukraine and thank Unicef for a number of joint projects, which we will tell more about tomorrow,” read the message published on the company’s Telegram channel.
March 26, 2023 4:01 p.m
Borrell: “Russian nuclear weapons? EU ready to respond with further sanctions”
The stationing of Russian nuclear weapons in Belarus would represent “an irresponsible escalation and a threat to European security”. The High Representative of the EU wrote in a tweet Joseph Borrell. “Belarus can still stop this escalation”, “it is his choice. The EU – writes Borrell – is ready to respond with further sanctions”.
March 26, 2023 3:34 p.m
Kiev: “Putin is afraid of losing the war”
Ukraine sees Russian President’s plan Wladimir Putin to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus for fear of possible defeat. This is what the adviser to the Ukrainian Presidential Office wrote on Twitter Mykhailo Podoliak adding that he considers Putin “very predictable”: The announcement shows that Putin is afraid of losing the war against Ukraine, said the Ukrainian presidential adviser Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Moreover, Podolyak added, by doing this, Russia is committing a crime and violating the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
March 26, 2023 2:55 p.m
NATO: “Dangerous and irresponsible nuclear rhetoric from Moscow”
There Born Denounces Russian nuclear rhetoric, calling it “dangerous and irresponsible” after President’s announcement. Wladimir Putin the use of tactical weapons in Belarus. “There Born remains vigilant and is monitoring the situation closely,” said a spokesman for theAtlantic Alliance, but assures that “he has seen no change in Russia’s nuclear posture that prompts us to adjust ours”. The speaker then he defines the reference to the presence of nuclear weapons as “entirely misleading”. allied countrieswho “act with full respect for themselves obligations International“, while Russia has repeatedly “violated its obligations to control Weapons, suspension of his participation in the New Start contract”.
March 26, 2023 2:50 p.m
Kyiv calls for an emergency meeting at the UN on nuclear weapons in Belarus
Ukraine has asked for an emergency meeting UN Security Council about Russian nuclear weapons Belarus. Diplomatic sources report about it.
March 26, 2023 2:08 p.m
Putin: “Crossing all red lines with guns in Kiev”
The Russian President Wladimir Putin is convinced that thewest surpasses everything red lines, and even the deepest red lines to arm Ukraine. “Yes, they do, they do it since the beginning in 2014, when they facilitated a coup d’état in Ukraine,” Putin replied to a question from journalist Pavel Zarubin in an interview with channel tv Rossiya-1. The tax office reports it.
March 26, 2023 1:51 p.m
Crosetto: “I don’t think Putin will go nuclear”
“I do not think so Putin will arrive nuclear but I fear it will be a very long war fought at the cost of many lives. AND Putin he’s ready to do it.” The Secretary of Defense said, Guido Crosettointerviewed by Myrta Merlin via video link from the UN headquarters in New York on the occasion of the “Change The World” forum. When asked about it Myrta Merlin on the fear of achieving nuclear power, Crosetti he replied: “It is not a problem of gear up but to think about defense systems Complexbecause in the coming years we will need it defend us“. When asked whether the war in Ukraine is a clash of cultures Crosetti he replied that “it is a clash more than a war of civilizations culturalwhere they want to subjugate those who don’t think like us”. “You can’t fight everyone wars – added minister – but there is a way counteract them: distribute wellbeing And riches across all countries and not just a few. We must tear down the walls and borders that separate us. Gone are the days of the cold wars. We need cultural heroes for our children.”
March 26, 2023 1:40 p.m
Vucic: “Putin’s arrest warrant is a wrong decision”
For the Serbian President Aleksandar Vucicthe warrant of arrest International Criminal Court against the Russian President Wladimir Putin was a completely wrong political decision that will have a high cost in terms of human life for both Russians and Ukrainians and grave consequences for the economy of the whole Europe.
In statements today on private television Pink, Vucic reiterated his critical stance on the Federal Court of Justice’s decision International Criminal Courtindicate that Putin will have to to negotiate. “But how can we talk to him? How do you intend to come to an agreement?” he remarked president Serbianwho at the same time asked himself “how many more lives will all this cost Russians and garlic Ukrainians“, in addition to the negative consequencesEuropean economy. “I think that’s all politically Negative for everyone I haven’t hidden since first moment“, he added. “They think they’re close victory, but I’m not. All are very far from it victorynobody is around Victory. In war, sometimes one person wins, sometimes everyone loses. I’m afraid that in this case everyone will lose and nobody will win,” he said Vucic.
March 26, 2023 1:39 p.m
Kiev: “Number of Russian troops in Belarus drops to 4,000”
The number of Russian military personnel stationed on the territory Belarus it has dropped to about 4,000: the spokesman for the Border Guard Service of Ukraine, Andriy Demchenko, as reported by Ukrinform. “Currently, according to our data, on the territory of Belarus just over 4,000 Russian soldiers remain, but they are mainly involved exercises together or in training courses. This number is slightly lower than that in priority. This is because the Russia he moved them Unit who have undergone training from Belarusian territory to their own territory for further deployment, including in the east of our country, where large-scale combat operations are taking place,” the spokesman said. Demchenko also stated that the work of mechanical engineering to strengthen them boundary line, to prevent invasion or allow Ukrainian forces to repel enemy attacks. This created a two-kilometer strip of land along the entire border between the Belarus and the Russia, Regardless of whether property rightsis controlled by the State Border Guard Service to strengthen the line of defense and prepare for a possible attack by Russian forces.