Despite everything, the channels between Moscow and Washington are open. And maybe it’s no coincidence that right at the end of the summit Born In Vilnius, the Russian director of the External Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergei Naryshkin, decides, through the Tass agency, to read the phone call with his US colleague, the director of the CIA William Burns. The Americans had leaked it and said they had nothing to do with the Prigozhin mutiny. Naryshkin, who has met with the 35 mercenary commanders and their boss over the past few days, claims that the Wagner march on Moscow was just a distraction, “a pretext,” and that Burns actually wanted to talk about something else, about future regulations .
Prigozhin, the American general: “Probably dead, meeting with Putin was simulated”
THE DIALOGUE
The interview would have lasted an hour and although no concrete promises were made, it is possible that the two heads of department could soon speak “in person”. Naryshkin confirms that “the conversation took place at the end of last month, and the pretext for calling the American colleague was the events of June 24, the day of the game in the Kremlin. “However, it seems to me that this was more of a pretense, because the main part revolved around something else: we thought about it, we thought about what to do with Ukraine.” A statement that could be aimed at discord to sow if Burns really talked to the Russians who are overseeing the war, while the constant language norm of the Americans and their allies is to leave to the Ukrainian side any decision on the timing of ending the counteroffensive and give the start of the negotiation . From Vilnius, Zelenskyi also reiterated that his people would fight for the liberation of every village with a single Ukrainian resident. “We have not arranged a meeting with Burns – says Naryshkin – but the telephone conversations and the possibility of a personal meeting remain.”
THE SITUATION
The rebellion of the Wagners has its consequences. General Surovikin, head of Russia’s air force and contact for Prigozhin, is said to be “now retired and unavailable for the time being,” according to Duma Defense Commission chairman Andrei Kartapolov. For some under arrest. Defense Minister Shoigu, on the other hand, gives the numbers of the “failure” of the Ukrainian counter-offensive, which “would not have achieved its goals in any direction”. And exactly: 1,244 armored vehicles destroyed, including 17 German Leopard tanks and 12 American Bradley armored vehicles, 914 military vehicles, 2 anti-aircraft missile systems, 25 multiple rocket launchers and 403 artillery systems, as well as 176 Himars missiles, 27 Storm Shmadow and 483 drones.
THE CLUSTER BOMBS
He adds that if the US sends cluster bombs, Russia “will be forced to use them too, we have better ones and more diverse ones”. However, the statements contested by the Institute for War Research, which they consider to be unfounded and “very exaggerated”, are so exaggerated that Russian military bloggers accuse the Ministry of Defense of not counting casualties from June 4, but from the beginning of the war “. And they doubly so The number of Ukrainian soldiers killed has also increased: 26,000.The Americans are reportedly considering the use of long-range Atacms missiles with a range of 300 kilometers.The news includes the letter from the ambassadors of Sweden, Denmark and Germany to the UN Security Council regarding the “traces of submarine explosives found in samples taken from a boat,” a yacht owned by a Ukrainian It remains unclear who instigated the sabotage of the North Stream 2 gas pipeline: individuals or a state The appeal calls for caution.
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