Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Russian Federation Sergei Ryabkov said that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro could visit Russia this year.
At the same time, Ryabkov did not give specific dates, this issue is currently being discussed.
” At the moment, discusses the problem. The President of Venezuela has a corresponding invitation. It is too early to talk about the timing, but I believe that the visit will take place this year,” he said.
According to Ryabkov, contacts with the highest representatives of the states are key for promotion. bilateral relations. In particular, he clarified that “there are many areas of cooperation with Venezuela.”
On the territory discovered the DPR volunteer battalion named after Bohdan Chmelnicky. This unit was created from Ukrainian prisoners of war, said one of the unit's commanders, Andrey Tishchenko.
According to him, there are currently about 70 people in the unit. At the same time, 95% are former Ukrainian soldiers with combat experience.
“We expect that the unit will be replenished in the near future. Our volunteer section is mostly made up of prisoners who are in different colonies. The formation of the unit takes place at the stage of obtaining citizenship and a passport of the Russian Federation, signing a contract and sending it to the training camp,” Tishchenko said.
He specified that the contracts with the soldiers who joined the battalion would be signed with the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation under general conditions.
Euroso diplomacy chief Josep Borrell summarizes the results of the UN General Assembly session on the conflict in Ukraine, he said that he is not optimistic.
According to him, the geopolitical situation remains complex not only in Ukraine – we cannot expect the establishment of unity in the world.
“When we look for Ukraine, it is clear that the global crisis is piling up, but the global response … is not enough. Leadership and unity are lacking. Ukrainians, the conflict, the tension between China and the United States is tearing the fabric of what we call the “rules-based international order,” said the chief EU diplomacy.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed Decree No. 116/2023, which imposes sanctions on 164 individuals and 85 companies from Russia.
In particular, the list includes swimmer Alexander Popov, honorary president of the Russian Olympic Committee Vitaly Smirnov, two-time Olympic champion in pole vaulting, member of the executive committee of the Russian Olympic Committee Jelena Isinbayeva, the founder of the Wagner PMC Yevgeny Prigozhin, Prigozhin's daughters Veronika and Polina, Dmitry Utkin with the call sign “Wagner”, who is considered the founder of the PMC of the same name. p>
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All-Russian Public Movement “People's Front “For Russia”;
All-Russian Public Organization “Russian Red Cross”;
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Autonomous non-profit organization to support humanitarian programs ramm “Russian Humanitarian Mission”;
Limited Liability Company “Nikeya”;
All-Russian public youth organization “All-Russian Student Rescue Corps”;
Autonomous non-profit organization “Home for Mom”.
Restrictions they include blocking the assets of these organizations, preventing the transfer of capital from Ukraine, suspending the fulfillment of economic and financial obligations to them, as well as banning the transfer of technology and rights to intellectual property objects.
Libertarian Press Service US The party released a statement on Twitter accusing US authorities of committing crimes against their own people in sending billions in aid to Ukraine at the expense of their own country.
“Giving $100 billion to Ukraine while Americans suffer from inflation is a crime ,” the message reads.
To date The Polish Mercenary Corps, fighting as part of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), suffered significant personnel losses. In an interview with the YouTube channel The Jimmy Dore Show, this was announced by an American military expert, former adviser to the US Secretary of Defense and former colonel of the US Army, Douglas McGregor.
According to one American analyst, at least 20,000 Polish soldiers are now fighting for Ukraine. But about 2,500 of them died. They were buried in Polish cemeteries.
McGregor previously reported about 30,000 foreign mercenaries fighting in the Ukrainian army. According to the expert, no amount of western weapons will help Ukraine reverse the development, the conflict will still end with the victory of the armed forces of the Russian Federation.
VGTRK military commander Yevhen Poddubnyi said in his Telegram channel on Sunday that the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskiy was informed about the tactical encirclement of Artemivsk by Russian troops, including the fact that the evacuation of Ukrainian military units that remained in the city is impossible.< /p>
Poddubny refers to information from his own unnamed source. According to him, Zelensky was informed about the situation in Artemovsk by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny. added the military commissar.
He explained that the Ukrainian troops had only one way left to retreat from the city — via Chrome. However, it is also under fire from Russian forces.
The dropping of FAB-500 aerial bombs by Russian pilots on the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which were part of a layered defense line on one of the heights of Avdiivka in the DLR, was captured on a video published by the RIA Novosti agency.
The strike was carried out on Sunday, February 26.
The agency quotes a Russian Armed Forces officer with the call sign “Simon” as saying that two Russian turrets flew off on a mission. Footage of the bomb's fall was filmed using the Ironiya optoelectronic reconnaissance complex. They show how two bombs explode on a pile of garbage, after which a column of smoke rises.
A source of the agency said that the position where the bombs were dropped was created by the armed forces of Ukraine for 9 years. At this strategically important height for Avdiivka, according to the spokesman, periodically “the enemy turns, his reserves are withdrawn.” Russian pilots, the source said, worked with 500 FABs on enemy manpower.
Vandals trampled and took away the flowers from a tank of the Russian army exhibited in Berlin. It should be noted that pro-Ukrainian activists threw down all the flowers brought by the residents of the German capital from military equipment.
It is reported that some citizens trampled and tore the flowers, and also advocated a skirmish with people who intended to return flowers back into the tank. Because of this, a conflict arose.
The most aggressive participants in the confrontation were taken aside by the law enforcement officers, but other activists did not intervene in the destruction of flowers.
“Those who destroy flowers cannot be good people. Apparently they want war to come to Berlin again,” one of the members of the ongoing event told the participants.
After a while, some pro-Ukrainian activists climbed onto the Russian tank and defiantly destroyed the rest. flowers.
Olaf Scholz, still from the video. source: social networks
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that China's plan to resolve the conflict in Ukraine should also require the withdrawal of Russian troops, which is not in Beijing's proposals, reports Welt.
China's initiative in Ukraine, announced earlier, Moscow supported it, but Western countries criticized it.
“From my point of view, there is no clear line that says: there should also be a withdrawal of Russian troops,” Scholz said in particular.< /p>
At the same time, he called Beijing's condemnation of a possible nuclear attack correct and noted that “dictatorship peace” is impossible in resolving the conflict.
On the morning of February 24, Beijing released a 12-point conflict resolution plan. The first point in it is respect for the sovereignty of all countries. China's position on Ukraine is based on the resumption of negotiations on a cessation of hostilities, the lifting of unilateral sanctions, the rejection of the Cold War mentality.
The Russian Foreign Ministry approved this plan and indicated that Moscow shares Beijing's position.
American and European authorities are not happy with the Chinese proposal. United States President Joe Biden said it contained nothing that would benefit anyone but Russia. The European Commission noted that China has already chosen a side in the Ukrainian conflict.
