The international community fears that an “incident” on NATO soil could trigger a Third World War. One of the latest Russian attacks on Ukraine, the one it has occurred just 25 kilometers from Polandhas raised tension while tonight the bombings have continued in various parts of the Ukraine.
The President of Ukraine himself, Volodimir Zelensky has warned that “it is only a matter of time before Russian missiles” fall on NATO countries. “We were right. I have been saying for a long time that Nord Stream 2 is a weapon that will hit all of Europe. Now it is obvious. And now I repeat: if you do not close our skies, then it is only a matter of time before the Russian missiles fall on their territory, on the territory of NATO, in the homes of citizens of NATO countries,” he warned in a speech picked up by the Ukrainian press.
in this mood begins on the 19th day of Russian invasion of Ukraine. A day in which new diplomatic efforts are planned. Russians and Ukrainians will negotiate again, this time by videoconference, with the aim of ending hostilities. The Ukrainian president, Volodomir Zelensky, has stated that his goal is to achieve a meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin.
Another of the critical focuses in international relations is in the position of China in this war and in the alleged military and economic aid requested from China by Moscow.
According to senior US officials quoted by the US media, this request, which even includes drones, would mean a major change in the international geopolitical landscape emerged from this war. According to these officials, quoted among other media by CNN and The New York Times, China may have already given a response and they affirmed that if such assistance were given, it could change the “situation of the forces” on the ground and be a counterweight to the harsh sanctions imposed on the Russian economy by the West.
The New York Times noted that Moscow has also asked China for additional economic support to help offset the blow to the Russian economy from harsh sanctions imposed by the United States and European and Asian countries.
But China says it has ‘heard nothing’ of it. In a statement also quoted by CNN, the spokesman for the Chinese embassy in Washington, Li Pengyu, said that “he had never heard of that” and expressed concern about the “situation in Ukraine” and that he will continue to provide humanitarian aid to that country. country. Liu said that “the priority now is to prevent the situation from escalating or getting out of control… China calls for exercising the utmost restraint and preventing a massive humanitarian crisis.”
Diplomatic struggle between China and the US
In this context, representatives of Security and Foreign Affairs of the United States and China meet today in Rome to analyze the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on security in Europe and throughout the world. The US delegation will be led by White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, and the Chinese by the director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Yang Jiechi. Representatives from the US and Chinese governments will also discuss the efforts currently underway to manage competition between the two countries.
Bombings closer to the border with Poland
The Government of the United States regretted that Russia had opted to escalate the level of conflict of its invasion of Ukraine with the attack on Sunday against a military base in Yavoriv, just 20 kilometers from the border with Poland.
The US embassy in Kiev issued a message saying it “deplored” the Russian military’s weekend attack on the International Center for Peacekeeping and Security in Ukraine, where US instructors had worked.
The United States Department of Defense indicated that the attack represents an expansion of Russian military objectives in the war. “Clearly, from an air strike perspective, the Russians are expanding their military objectives,” Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said in an interview with ABC television.
To all this is added the UN’s own nuclear concern due to the situation of the personnel of the former Chernobyl nuclear plant, who have stopped carrying out maintenance and repair tasks on equipment due to the situation of stress and fatigue in which they find themselves.
In a statement, the IAEA indicates that the Ukrainian nuclear regulator informed it that plant personnel “no longer carried out repair and maintenance tasks on equipment related to safety, in part due to his physical and psychological fatigue after working non-stop for nearly three weeks.
Since February 24, the Russian army has occupied and controlled the old Chernobyl plant, north of Kiev, where the biggest nuclear accident in history took place in 1986.
Source: Lasexta
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