Original title: Multi-point connection | Russia believes that talks are progressing slowly, Guterres will meet Putin in Moscow
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 23. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on the 22nd that negotiations between Russia and Ukraine are progressing slowly. Minnekayev, deputy commander of the Russian Central Military Region, said on the same day that one of the tasks of the new phase of Russia’s special military operation is to “completely control Donbass and southern Ukraine.” Guterres will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, the capital of Russia, on the 26th, a spokesman for UN Secretary-General Guterres announced on the same day.
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@Russia
——According to the website of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held talks in Moscow on the 22nd with the visiting Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Kazakhstan, Treyu Berdi. Lavrov told a news conference after the talks,The Russian side believes that the progress of the Russia-Ukraine negotiations is slow,The Ukrainian side “issues various statements every day”, giving the impression that they do not need these negotiations and that they are “resigned to fate”.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky linked the negotiation with the situation at the Azov Steel Plant.
However, the head of the Russian negotiating delegation and assistant to the Russian president, Mekinsky, confirmed on the 22nd that he had several long conversations with the head of the Ukrainian negotiating delegation and the chairman of the parliamentary group of the Ukrainian People’s Servant Party.
This is a file photo of the Russian Foreign Ministry building taken in Moscow, the capital of Russia, on April 16, 2021. Published by Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Yevgeny Sinitsyn)
——The Russian President’s website issued a notice on the 22nd that Russian President Vladimir Putin had a telephone conversation with European Council President Michel on the same day to discuss the situation in Ukraine.Regarding Michel’s call for direct contact between Russian and Ukrainian leaders, Putin reiterated that the possibility of a meeting depends on the specific outcome of the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.In the current negotiations, the Uzbek side has shown inconsistent performance and is not ready to seek a solution acceptable to both parties.
This is the thick smoke from the air photographed in Kyiv, Ukraine on February 27.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Lu Jinbo
——According to the TASS news agency, Minnekayev, deputy commander of the Russian Central Military Region, said at the annual meeting of the Sverdlovsk State Defense Industry Association on the 22nd,One of the tasks of the new phase of Russia’s special military operation is to “completely control the Donbass and southern Ukraine”.Minnekayev said the Russian armed forces’ control of the Donbass would help establish a land route to Crimea.Taking control of southern Ukraine would open up yet another exit for Russian troops to Transnistria.
Minnekayev said that now many media reports that some units of the Russian army have suffered defeats, but this is not the case. At the beginning of the special military operation, the tactical intention of the Ukrainian army was to let individual units of the forward assaulting Russian army fall into a preset ambush circle and suffer losses, but the Russian army quickly adapted and changed tactics.
@United Nations
——Djarric, spokesman for UN Secretary-General Guterres, announced on the 22nd,Guterres will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on the 26th.
On April 19, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres spoke to reporters in front of the iconic sculpture “Knotted Pistol” at the UN headquarters in New York.Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Xie E
Diaric said Guterres will also hold a working meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on the same day. Guterres recently sent letters to the permanent missions of Russia and Ukraine to the United Nations,He expressed his hope to travel to the two countries and meet with Putin and Uzbekistan President Zelensky respectively, and have face-to-face discussions on the realization of peace and equality.
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