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“Agreement only if Kiev accepts all requests” – Vladimir Putin said in a telephone conversation with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz that an agreement with Kiev is possible only “if all Russian demands” are met.
“Do not exacerbate the situation with other sanctions” – The Russian president then warned those who oppose Moscow’s actions in Ukraine not to “exacerbate the situation” by imposing further sanctions on his country. “We have no bad intentions against our neighbors,” Putin said during a meeting of his government broadcast by state-controlled Rossiya 24, explaining that the government “does not see the need” for neighboring countries to take further actions that “worsen. our relationships “.
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“Negotiations are held in silence” – The Kremlin is convinced that the talks between the delegations of the Russian Federation and Ukraine should be conducted “in silence and not be subject to public disclosure”. This was reported by the spokesman of the Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov. The signing of any kind of document in the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian negotiations “is not on the agenda”.
Von der Leyen: “EU and US ready for more severe sanctions” “We know that this conflict is far from over. And we are ready for new severe sanctions, if Putin does not stop and reverse the course of the war he has unleashed”. This was stated by the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, in a joint press statement with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, whom she met in Brussels, on the sidelines of NATO and EU Foreign Council meetings. “Blinken’s visit to Europe illustrates how close relations between the US and Europe are in the response to the Russian aggression against Ukraine: we decided and deployed sanctions in record time, sanctions that show the determination to stop Putin’s war”, he said. called von der Leyen.
“The sanctions are already having their effects. The Russian central bank can no longer take measures to defend the value of the ruble, which is plummeting, and it has had to raise interest rates to 20%. Inflation continues to rise and the Moscow stock exchange has been closed since the beginning of this week. One by one Western companies are halting production, investment and sales in Russia. And European cooperation with the US is at the heart of this response, and has put together an ever-increasing number of countries that have adopted similar sanctions “, in addition to Canada and the United Kingdom, also Norway, Switzerland, Australia.
“More than 40 countries are partially or completely aligned with our sanctions, and this is testimony to the determination of the international community to repel this invasion”. Furthermore, he added, “as many as 141 countries in the UN General Assembly, an overwhelming majority, condemned the brutal invasion of Ukraine by Russia, and only four countries of 193
they flanked Russia “.” President Putin – underlined the president of the Commission – is increasingly isolated in the international community, but in the face of protests from the world his army continues with bombings and missile attacks, and attacks on civilians they are intensifying. The European Union and the US will continue to stand by Ukraine, its courageous people and its determined leaders “.
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