05/28/2023 14:46:54
Russian Ambassador to UK: Putin ready for peace talks
Russia is ready for peace talks with Ukraine but will not give up its terms. This was stated by the Russian Ambassador to the UK Andrei Kelin in an interview with the BBC. “We want peace, but under certain conditions, of course,” the diplomat said. “Two things are important to us.” The first is that Ukraine does not pose a threat to Russia. And second, that Russians in Ukraine are treated like any other foreign citizen. Just like the French are treated in Belgium or like the Italians and Germans in Switzerland, no different. Otherwise it would be a serious violation of the Declaration of Human Rights.” According to Kelin, Russia’s current military goal is to liberate the Donbass from occupation. He also rejected the hypothesis that Ukraine could win, calling it “a great idealistic mistake”. We can make peace tomorrow if the Ukrainian side is ready for negotiations, but at the moment, unfortunately, there are no prerequisites for this because the President of Ukraine has banned any negotiations,” he added, explaining that Moscow excludes the use of nuclear weapons in the country War against Kiev, although fears of an escalation remain due to Western arms sales to Ukraine.
05/28/2023 14:18:27
Prigozhin: We are leaving Bakmut, which is now offensive in the west
“Our plans are to leave Bachmut by June 1st. We may not have time to deliver everything to the military (the regular Russian army), it may take a few more days. Provided the army has operational space for an offensive in the west from June 5th. As the Minister of Defense has already said, after capturing Bakhmut, the Russian army has every chance of launching a major offensive with capturing Kramatorsk, Sloviansk, Druzhkovka, Konstantinovka and Chazov-Yar, i.e. the “Ring of Donbass”. This is what the founder of the Wagner militia, Yevgeny Prigozhin, writes in Telegram.
05/28/2023 11:30:01
Lavrov: F-16 in Kiev unacceptable escalation
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called plans by Western countries to send F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine an unacceptable escalation. Tass writes it. “This is certainly an unacceptable escalation. I hope that there are sensible people in the West who understand this,” Lavrov told the Moscow TV show. Kremlin. Putin”.
05/28/2023 11:03:28
Lukashenko appears again in a message
After the rumors about his health condition fueled by Belarusian dissidents, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is back in touch with a message published by his press service and published by Tass congratulating the leader of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and all Azerbaijanis on the occasion of the country’s national holiday, the Independence Day. “I am deeply convinced that the strategic partnership between Minsk and Baku, based on mutual interest and traditionally friendly and trusting relations, will continue to strengthen and take on new forms and directions,” he writes.
05/28/2023 11:02:56
Kiev: Moscow has reduced its troops in Belarus
“The number of Russian troops on the territory of Belarus has decreased significantly compared to a few months ago: before it could be 10-11 thousand, now it is several thousand. But despite this, we continue to strengthen our border line,” Andriy Demchenko, spokesman for the border guard service, told Ukrinform. According to Demchenko, the area near the border is being mined to prevent a possible breakthrough by Ukraine.
05/28/2023 10:18:29
Bomb attack on Kiev and Kharkiv region: two civilians killed
Two civilians, a woman and a man, were killed in the shelling of the Kharkiv region in eastern Ukraine last night, regional military chief Oleg Sinehubov said. Attacks occurred in Chuhuiv, Kharkiv and Kupyansk. Intense shelling also in Kolodyazne, Krasnoye Pervoye, Fikholowka, Novomlinsk, Dvurechnaya, Zapadnoye, Masyutovka, Kislovka, Berestowye and Volchansk: there are injuries and destruction.
05/28/2023 09:05:49
Kiev: Bombed cities east and west of Ukraine
Airstrikes by the Russian army hit Zhytomyr in western Ukraine at 5 a.m. this morning, public broadcaster Suspilne reported. Regional military chief Sergei Lysak said that Nikopol in the eastern region of Dnepropetrovsk was also bombed during the night: “Six houses and two buildings were destroyed.” The pipeline and power lines were damaged. “There were no dead or injured – that’s the main thing,” he wrote on Telegram.
05/28/2023 09:05:10
Rain of drones on Kiev, the mayor: 52 shot down
The Ukrainian army tonight shot down 52 drones manufactured in the country’s airspace, out of the 54 launched by the Kremlin army on the eve of Kyiv Day, when the capital celebrates the anniversary of its founding 1,541 years ago with concerts, fairs and exhibitions . The Ukrainian Air Force announced the shooting down of the Shadeds launched from Russia’s Bryansk and Krasnodar regions, suggesting the attack was carried out in multiple waves for five hours, Rbc-Ukraine reported. According to ambiguous information, a 40-year-old man was killed and a woman injured in a district of Kiev.
Ukrainian War, which took place today, May 28th. “God, our heavenly Father, bless our decisive offensive, our holy revenge, our holy victory.” Commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Valeriy Zaluzhny, invokes the blessings of heaven and proclaims in a motivational video marking the start of the long-awaited counter-offensive in Kiev suggests that “the time has come to take back what is ours”. But Ukrainian hermetics remain in place, with Presidential Advisor Mykhailo Podolyak speaking of preparatory operations and National Security Council Secretary Oleksiy Danilov describing the start as “imminent.” So the facts speak for themselves: just a few hours after the Zaluzhny video, explosions were reported in the Russian-held Berdyansk district. The detonations were heard twice in the city center, in the port area and in the village of Novopetrovka, where “a large number of Kremlin troops” are stationed. Not only Berdyansk is shaken by the violent roar of war. Explosions erupted in the settlement of Nikolske in the occupied Mariupol district after an attack on the city that symbolized the horror of an invasion and, according to the pro-Russian Donetsk authorities, fired storm shadow missiles at the area of the Azovstal Steel Plant. Then the war returned to Belgorod: in the morning, the governor of the Russian region Vyacheslav Gladkov reported that a drone damaged an administrative building of Gazprom. In the afternoon shelling hit the Shebekino district: “One person was killed” and “among the wounded are two teenagers” aged 15 and 17, Gladkov said. And not only Belgorod has been affected by the attacks, which have reached as far as central Russia, where according to broadcaster Telegram Baza a drone attacked an oil refinery in the Tver region. Given Ukraine’s goals, Russia is preparing by strengthening its defenses in the occupied territories. And according to military intelligence in Kiev, the invaders are planning false flag operations to stem the counteroffensive and end hostilities. A “large-scale provocation” would affect “the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant with the simulation of an accident,” the 007 Ukrainians accused. In the same area, “the Russian occupiers have started a provocation using chemical weapons,” during which “the real victims will be the soldiers of the occupying Russian army.” created on his body as false evidence to indict Ukraine,” the intelligence report said. In the afternoon, meanwhile, Kiev reported that a 73-year-old woman was killed in one of “108 Russian attacks in one day” on the region. So the terrain is where the war game is played. Kiev is convinced of this, while Germany begins training its armed forces in the use of US Abrams tanks. There is no question of a dialogue with Moscow: “There is no force that can force Ukrainian society and the government to talk to the Russians today, as long as Russian troops are on our territory,” affirmed the head of the Ukraine office, Andriy Yermak. On the other side of the front, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Galuzin declared that “in order to achieve a just peace, Ukraine must return to its status as a neutral country” and “refuse to join NATO and the EU”, conditions which are unacceptable for Kiev. A diplomatic solution therefore remains a long way off, even if, after days of criticism and controversy, a new ray of hope is emerging on the Chinese initiative. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said he had contacted his colleagues in Warsaw, Berlin, Paris and Brussels “and none of them have confirmed that there have been any announcements or negotiations, including recognition of the occupied territories as Russia”. Hopefully, then, while other “consortia” remain on the table to find a diplomatic solution to the conflict, including the peace mission desired by Pope Francis and entrusted to Cardinal Matteo Zuppi. “These missions are never impossible, let alone a facade,” said Archbishop Paolo Pezzi, Archbishop of Moscow and President of the Bishops of the Russian Federation, in an interview with SIR. “We pray that this mission will be a first step towards a just and lasting peace.” Even if the time is not yet right for Zelenskyy: “But in order to pass on peace as a legacy to our children, we must arrive at the day when we can say that we have ended this war with our victory.”
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