"China and EU Discuss Promoting Sustainable peace in Ukraine Despite Russian Aggression"

The Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs and Political Director of the European External Action Service, Enrique Mora, today received the Chinese government’s special envoy for Eurasian affairs, Li Hui, in Brussels. It can be read in a note. “Mora welcomed Special Envoy Li’s visit to Europe, especially to Kiev, and China’s recent engagement with Ukraine, including at a leadership level, despite more than a year having passed since the start of the ‘illegal Russian aggression’. Both sides agreed to stay in touch and continue working for a sustainable peace in Ukraine.

The two sides discussed Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and ways to promote a just and sustainable peace. Deputy Secretary General Mora stressed Russia’s full responsibility for the unmotivated aggression And
unjustified against Ukraine, which represents a fundamental challenge to regional and global stability, security and prosperity. You stressed that Ukraine is exercising its right to self-defense and that the European Union is committed to supporting Ukraine in the long term.”

Mora then stressed that the restoration of a just and lasting peace in Ukraine, in accordance with international law, is of vital importance for the EU and highlighted that any meaningful way to end Russia’s illegal war of aggression against the ‘Ukraine must be consistent with the UN Charter in its entirety. The EU expects China as a permanent member
of the United Nations Security Council, plays “a constructive role and takes advantage of every opportunity to uphold and promote the Charter of the United Nations and international law, and which recalls the need to respect the principles of sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity and to an end to the bloodshed and wanton killing of civilians by immediately and unconditionally withdrawing all military forces and equipment from the entire territory of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders”.

After its European stage today in Brussels, Li Hui will be in Moscow tomorrow. This was announced by the Russian Foreign Ministry. Wagner’s group of fighters begins to withdraw from Bakhmut

Meanwhile, Russia has announced the expulsion of five Swedish diplomats in response to a similar decision by the Stockholm government against five Russian diplomats. The Moscow government has also decided to close its consulate in Gothenburg and the Swedish one in St. Petersburg starting from September 1st. The Foreign Ministry made it known in a statement.

Putin and Prigozhin in the sights of Ukrainian 007
The primary target of the Ukrainian intelligence services is Russian President Vladimir Putin, the deputy head of the Kiev Main Intelligence Directorate Vadym Skibitsky said in an interview. This is because because he “coordinates and decides what happens”. Also in Kiev’s sights is the founder of the Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin: “We are trying to kill him”. The Kremlin replies by emphasizing that the services in charge of the Russian president’s security “know their job and know what they are doing”. And Prigozhin comments: “It is understandable that Putin and I are targets of Kiev”.

But Andrii Yusov, a representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, later specified that Putin is a prime target of Kiev “for his detention and delivery to The Hague”. “The Hague is inevitable for Putin. And in this situation, it’s even better that he’s alive in court,” Yusov said, adding that Putin “and his whole gang” are war criminals. “And it’s really the number one goal – from the point of view of detention and surrender to the International Court and the Tribunal in The Hague. Ukraine is a civil state and acts civilly.”

Prigozhin evokes the risk of a revolution in Russia
A new “revolution could rock Russia if its stuttering war effort in Ukraine continues,” he said the head of Wagner Yevgeny Prigozhin in an interview with pro-Russian blogger Konstantin Dolgov. Prigozhin appealed to Putin to declare “martial law and a new wave of mobilisation”. And he warned that, if Russian casualties continue to mount, “all of this can end in a revolution, just like in 1917. Soldiers will rise up and then their loved ones will rise up. It is wrong to think that there are hundreds, there are they are already tens of thousands, relatives of those who were killed”.