According to Russian media, the authorities are preparing to launch a large one Recruitment campaign to recruit 400,000 soldiers, the regional administrations try to achieve the goal by forcing men to recruit. The intelligence service of the British Ministry of Defense writes it in its report published on Twitter and explains that Moscow has chosen a “model of volunteer work”, also to minimize dissent. However, it is highly unlikely that the campaign will attract 400,000 real volunteers. However, it will take more than just personnel to rebuild the fighting power in Ukraine.
Xi evaluates Zelenskyy’s invitation
China has told Ukraine through diplomatic channels that it is “carefully evaluating” President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s invitation for President Xi Jinping to visit Kiev or at least have a direct phone call following the leader’s recent summit in Beijing. Moscow with Vladimir Putin. This was stated by Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba during a video intervention at a meeting sponsored by Britain’s Chatham House. According to Kuleba, the 12 points Xi mentioned on the sidelines of his visit to Russia on a hypothetical future peace were a way to “test the waters.”
Von der Leyen, China has a role to play in promoting peace
“We are concerned about what is behind China’s return to the global stage. As a permanent member of the Security Council, China has a responsibility to uphold the principles and values underlying the UN Charter. And it has a responsibility to play a constructive role in promoting a just peace. But this peace can only be just if it is based on defending Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.” This was said by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in her speech on EU-China relations, where the number one European executive is next week will go. “Far from being discouraged by the heinous and illegal invasion of Ukraine, President Xi maintains his ‘friendship without borders’ with Putin’s Russia. But there has been a shift in the dynamics of China-Russia relations, and sees Putin’s weakness as a way to increase his influence over Russia. And it is clear that the balance of power in this relationship – which has favored Russia for most of the last century – has now been reversed.”
007 Russians, few in Putin’s circle knew about the invasion
Only three or four people close to Vladimir Putin knew about the preparations for the invasion of Ukraine. Together with the Russian leader, the decision to start the war was made in particular by Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev. This was stated by the spokesman for the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Service Andriy Yusov in an interview with Gazeta.ua. “The decision to start a war – he said – is the consequence of the Russian model of government. Russia is a closed society, even within the top-down dictatorial system. The consequences are catastrophic,” said Jussow.
Dissident, if Putin died, the war would end tomorrow
“If Vladimir Putin slipped on a banana peel and died tomorrow, the war in Ukraine would end immediately,” Leonid Volkov, chief of staff to the jailed leader of the Russian Federation, a key opposition figure in Russia, told Australian ABC TV channel Alexei Navalny. “The invasion has neither the support of Russian public opinion nor the elites – he says – and is solely a presidential project.”
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