Ukrainian forces on Russia’s border after counterattack
Russian President Vladimir Putin mobilized his allies in the former Soviet space yesterday to confront what some of them described as a “hybrid and comprehensive war” waged by the West against Russia, coinciding with Finland and Sweden’s decision to join NATO, and Washington’s expression of its “confidence” in Achieving the new Atlantic expansion unanimously.
At a summit that brought together leaders of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) countries in Moscow yesterday, calls for the formation of an “alliance against NATO” emerged, in what could constitute an updated version of the “Warsaw Pact” that was dissolved before the collapse of the Soviet Union.
While Putin stressed during the meeting that the Collective Security Treaty Organization is playing a very important role, and its role is increasing at this stage, his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko stressed the importance of “mobilizing the efforts of the countries of the organization,” saying that “Russia should not alone face the efforts to expand NATO”. Without a rapid mobilization of the CSTO on a united front, Lukashenko added, all of its countries will suffer. Lukashenko added: “If from the beginning we acted immediately as a united front, these infernal sanctions would not have been imposed against us,” pointing out that the West is waging a large-scale hybrid aggression against Belarus and Russia.
On the ground, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense announced, in a statement, yesterday, that its forces had regained control of part of the border with Russia in the Kharkiv region in the north-east of the country, as part of its counter-offensive launched a few days ago.
In turn, the Russian Defense Ministry announced yesterday that a truce was reached at the Azovstal Steel Complex, the last stronghold of the Ukrainian resistance in the coastal city of Mariupol, to evacuate the wounded Ukrainians.
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