Putin denounces that “Ukrainians violate humanitarian law” and asks them to intercede. Sánchez defends the “forcefulness” against Putin but being “cautious” to avoid an “irreversible” escalation.
The French President, Emmanuel Macronand the German chancellor, Olaf Scholzhave assured that Russian President Vladimir Putin has no intention of “stopping the war”, after a telephone conversation held this Saturday between them and have warned that they plan to apply sanctions to the Russian regime at the level of those decided against Iran.
“The president and the chancellor have put him against the wall for not respecting his commitments,” Elysée sources have pointed out.
From the Kremlin it has been made known that Putin has informed Macron and Scholz that the Ukrainian “nationalist” forces are violating international humanitarian law and has demanded that they “influence” the Ukrainian forces to stop their attitude, citing “extrajudicial reprisals against dissidents, taking hostages and using civilians as human shields, placing heavy weapons in residential areas, near hospitals, schools, kindergartens and the like etc.”
Spain defends the “forcefulness” against Putin but being “prudent” to avoid an “irreversible” escalation
For his part, the President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, has insisted that the Executive is committed to “forcefulnessagainst President Putin, although he has clarified that we must be “cautious” to not contribute to a military escalation leading to an “irreversible situation”. “It is a complex, difficult debate, we want to show forcefulness with Putin, but also be aware that we cannot contribute to a military escalation that leads us to an irreversible situation,” Sánchez said this Saturday in an interview on Canarian Television.
In this context, he has emphasized that the Government “is committed to this forcefulness, to economic sanctions”, but being “prudent from an institutional point of view to open dialogue spaces“.
When asked about the debate with his government partners, who do not support the shipment of weapons to Ukraine, Sánchez has defended that “it is not an easy debate for any ruler”. “No one would have thought that at the gates of Europe we could witness a war, with the potential risk of more than 5 million displaced people,” he said. Sanchez added that Europe is suffering “a war at its gates” so they have to consider things that “never” would have considered.
Source: Eitb
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