With the victory in the war for the Kharkiv region, Ukraine’s second largest city, Kiev’s forces are advancing towards the southeastern isthmus, with Ukrainian secret services accusing Russia of having fewer battalions ready for war, so it seeks an initiative. Secret mobilization. In an interview, General Kirillo Budanov said the voice of hope would be a turning point in the second half of August and that the war would be won by the end of this year. The head of Russian diplomacy, for his part, condemned the “total mixed war” between the West and his country, while a group of more industrialized nations showed support for Ukraine while discussing NATO’s entry into Finland and Sweden.
A day after Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksi Resnikov warned that the war had entered a “new and long phase”, “very difficult weeks” were coming, even if we do not know how many weeks we are talking, said General Kirillo Budanov. The calendar and the second half of August marked a “turning point.” In an interview with Sky News, the 36-year-old general was optimistic about the outcome of the conflict and called the Russian military “armed groups.” Budanov predicts that “the most active combat operations will be completed by the end of this year.”
“As a result, we will renew Ukrainian power in all of our lost territories, including Donbass and Crimea,” he said. He believes Kiev’s victory will have consequences for the occupying country. “This will eventually lead to a change of leadership in the Russian Federation. This process has already begun and they are moving in that direction,” he said, with the possibility of a relentless course, he declares.
For weeks, Russia has been using the isthmus for a widespread offensive in Donbass, advancing south of the city, while other Russian forces are advancing north from Donetsk with the aim of besieging tens of thousands of people. Ukrainian soldiers. But in recent days, the loss of Russian territory in the Kharkiv region and the fierce Ukrainian offensive around Izium are giving indications that Moscow may face another military defeat here.
Oleg Synegubov, head of the military administration in the Kharkiv region, said Russia was now “retreating” in some areas around Kharkiv after weeks of fierce fighting to expel Russian troops from neighboring cities and villages. In this way Ukrainian forces are in a position to intercept Izium supply lines. If confirmed, it could have repercussions for Russia’s plans to encircle Ukrainian troops further south.
227 The Ukrainian prosecutor’s office says at least 227 children have been killed and more than 420 injured as a result of the Russian occupation since February 24.
Synegubov explained that the attack was designed to block any Russian advance south of the two important cities of Izium, Sloviansk and Kramatorsk. Meanwhile, civil servants said that Russian troops were preparing to attack several cities in the Donetsk region, such as Sivrodonetsk, Soledar and Baghmud, while at the same time launching airstrikes and bombing the area with artillery. According to Lugansk Governor Sergei Keito, Russian troops suffered heavy casualties and material casualties on Friday in “intense fighting on the Donetsk border near Bobasna.”
The U.S. Defense Department says Russian troops have not achieved “significant achievements”, with Ukrainian artillery already fitted with supplies sent by Western nations, “against Russian attempts to gain ground”.
“Hybrid War”
The Russian Foreign Minister said that the West had declared a “total hybrid war” against his country and that it was difficult to predict how long it would last and that the effects of the war in Ukraine would be felt around the world. “We did everything we could to avoid direct confrontation – but now the challenge is left, and of course we accept it,” he said.
50 German Ambassador Annalena Berbach warns that 50 million people are at risk of starvation as Russia besieges the Black Sea, preventing grain ships from leaving Ukrainian ports.
“Western politicians need to understand that their efforts to isolate our country are in vain,” Sergei Lavrov said of sanctions, accusing Western countries of stealing other countries’ assets and losing their reputation as trusted partners.
However, the Russian leader spoke with his Finnish ally, who told him about his country’s upcoming application to join NATO. Putin called the move “wrong.”
“The conversation was straightforward and straightforward, and it went smoothly. It was considered important to avoid tension,” said Finn Sauli Ninisto. In a statement issued by the Kremlin, Putin said he had responded to the Finnish president by saying that “there is no threat to Finland’s security.
“Such a change in the political orientation of the country could have a negative impact on Russian-Finnish relations.
Niinisto and Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin announced on Thursday their support for joining NATO “without delay”. Sweden, another country outside the military alliance, is expected to submit its candidacy to join NATO shortly after Sunday’s meeting of the ruling Social Democrats. Diplomatic leaders of the three countries are meeting with NATO foreign ministers in Berlin this weekend, following the Turkish president’s negative response to the news that he was harboring terrorists in the Nordic countries and referring to Kurdish militants and exiled Glenists.
Categories for access to Putin
The French president’s recent statements and the German chancellor’s demand for a ceasefire in Moscow have opened up rifts in Ukraine’s united front. The President of Ukraine has condemned Emmanuel Macron.
“This is what any Western leader should not do – he should allow Putin to save face in Ukraine’s sovereignty,” said Swedish economist Anders Asland. Crony capitalism of Russia, At the behest of Elisa. On Monday, Emmanuel Macron called for peace without “insulting” Russia, which has been badly welcomed in Kiev. “We should not look for a way to Russia, Macron is doing it. In vain,” Volodymyr Zelensky commented in an interview with the Italian channel RAI.
“I know he wants to get results in the mediation between Russia and Ukraine, but he did not get anything. Until Russia understands that it wants and needs it. [terminar a guerra]I will not look for any way out, “said Ukraine’s president.
Elyse denied that the French head of state had tried to obtain “diplomatic concessions.” He reminded Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian that “maintaining the mechanism of dialogue is a viable option.”
At a time when there are indications that Russian troops could face the same fate as in Kiev in eastern Ukraine, Olaf Scholes’ call for a ceasefire with Putin was seen by many commentators as “inappropriate”. It also exposes the differences in attitudes between London and Washington (Putin even said that Putin “could not stay in power”), and Paris and Berlin, on the other. “The English-speaking world is defending Ukraine, while the European Union is defending itself”, Says in politics Irish researcher Eoin Drea, from the Think Tank Martens Center in Brussels.
Putin’s health is in question
First up are tabloids like this The sun To inform that the Russian leader is ill. Then American New Lines Magazine Revealed The content of the conversation between an oligarchy and a Western businessman in which the Russian says Putin has “blood cancer” and wishes to “die of his cancer or internal intervention like conspiracy”.
The Washington-based newspaper has had access to the FSB (Russian Secret Service) reference since mid-March, in which regional directors were told not to believe rumors that portrayed the president in a dangerous situation – a news that had the opposite effect.
Now it is the turn of Ukrainian General Guerrero Putin to say that Vladimir Putin is “in a very bad physical and mental condition and very ill.” Christopher Steele, a former MI6 agent in Russia, told Sky News that he believed the reports: “Of course, from what we hear from sources in Russia and elsewhere, Putin is really seriously ill.”