“It is not a serious decision to set such a limit for Russian prices, which is quite comfortable for the budget of the terrorist state,” he said, according to the office of the presidency. The price of a barrel of Russian oil (crude from the Urals) is currently fluctuating around 65 dollars, barely above the European ceiling, implying a limited impact in the short term.
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Putin justifies himself: “Such measures have become necessary and inevitable in the face of provocative attacks from Ukraine”
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
“It has been pointed out that the Russian armed forces have long avoided high-precision missile strikes on certain targets in Ukraine, but such measures have become necessary and inevitable in the face of provocative attacks from kyiv,” the Kremlin said in a statement. , summing up Vladimir Putin’s remarks to Olaf Scholz during their first interview since mid-September.
According to Mr. Putin, kyiv is responsible for the explosions which partly destroyed the Russian Crimean bridge and Russian energy installations, and therefore Moscow is within its rights by bombing Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, leaving it cold and dark millions of civilians.
“In Ukraine, Vladimir Putin is currently facing a situation he has never experienced before”
Mr Putin, who launched his assault on February 24, once more complained regarding Western financial and military support for Ukraine, supplies that enabled kyiv to inflict humiliating defeats on Russia.
Therefore for the Russian president, the position of the West is “destructive”, because strong in political, financial and military support from the West, “kyiv rejects the idea of any negotiation” and “incites the Ukrainian radical nationalists to commit crimes bloody”. Vladimir Putin thus called on Mr. Scholz “to review his approach in the context of the Ukrainian events”.
For his part, Olaf Scholz asked Vladimir Putin to withdraw his troops from Ukraine to reach a “diplomatic solution”. During an hour-long telephone conversation between the two leaders, Mr. Scholz “insisted with the Russian president that a diplomatic solution be found as soon as possible, which implies the withdrawal of Russian troops”, indicated government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said in a statement.
The Chancellor also condemned to Mr. Putin “Russian air attacks once morest civilian infrastructure in Ukraine and underlined Germany’s determination to help Ukraine ensure its defense capability once morest Russian aggression”, the statement continued. . The two leaders, who agreed to “stay in contact”, also “discussed the world food situation, which is particularly tense due to the war of Russian aggression”. They “underlined the important role of the recently extended cereals agreement under the aegis of the United Nations”, the statement concluded.
The agreement allowing Ukrainian grain exports from Ukrainian ports was renewed on November 17 for the four winter months, alleviating concerns regarding a possible global food crisis.
The Russian president had decreed the annexation at the end of September of four regions of Ukraine, although he does not control them, in addition to the Crimea annexed in 2014. kyiv for its part rejects any negotiation with Putin, without respect for its integrity territory, Crimea included.
Militarily, the Russian army suffered several defeats, having been forced to withdraw from the north of the country in April, then from part of the northeast in September and finally from part of the south in November. Since October, the Russian forces have therefore adopted the tactic of bombing the installations supplying electricity and heat to the country, even as winter is settling in Ukraine.
Finally, a little earlier on Friday, the Kremlin had rejected the conditions mentioned the day before by US President Joe Biden who said he was “ready” to discuss with Vladimir Putin if the latter “seeks a way to end the war” in Ukraine, fixing in passing as the first condition a withdrawal of Russian troops.
The US president “de facto said that negotiations would be possible only following Putin leaves Ukraine”, which Moscow “obviously rejects”, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. “The military operation continues,” he insisted.
Putin’s army again attacked a power plant in kyiv and Belarus joins the conflict
written by Alexandra Hartman Editor-in-Chief
The United States announced a new $725 million arms aid package for Ukraine, according to a Pentagon memo distributed to the press.
In the new military supplies there are no anti-missile systems requested by kyiv Since President Joe Biden became president of the United States, Washington has sent more than $18.2 billion in military supplies to Ukraine, including $17.6 thousand million since the beginning of the “brutal and unprovoked” invasion of Russia on February 24, the Pentagon says.
The United States, the Defense Department notes, has provided “unprecedented security assistance” to forces in kyiv and “will continue to work with allies and partners to ensure Ukraine has the support it needs.”
In the new weapons package there are: ammunition for High Mobility Missile Systems (HIMARS); 23,000 155mm artillery shells; 500 155mm artillery shells; 5,000 anti-tank weapons; high speed anti radiation missiles (HARM); more than 200 High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs); small arms with more than 2,000,000 ammunition
A rebel leader imprisoned for two years in Egypt returned to Chad on Friday following his movement, led by his brother, joined the national reconciliation dialogue with the military junta, noted an AFP journalist.
Tom Erdimi, 67, arrived at the end of the morning in N’Djamena on board an EgyptAir flight, and was welcomed in particular by his twin brother Timan Erdimi, co-founder with him and commander-in-chief of the Union of resistance forces (UFR), one of the three main armed rebel movements.
After the UFR had long accused the Chadian government of having “negotiated” with Egypt the arrest and detention of Tom Erdimi, Timan had notably demanded his return to the country for the participation of his group in the Inclusive National Dialogue and Souverain (DNIS), launched on August 20 but which is progressing very laboriously for the time being.
When he got off the plane, Tom Erdimi thanked “the Chadians (…) who mobilized” to “facilitate (his) release” and “in particular” his brother and “the president of the Transitional Military Council”, the young general Mahamat Idriss Déby Itno.
The latter proclaimed himself President of the Republic on April 20, 2021, at the head of a group of 15 generals, on the announcement of the death of his father Idriss Déby Itno, killed at the front once morest rebels following leading this Central African country with an iron fist for 30 years.
Wearing the traditional ample white boubou, chechia screwed on the head, Tom Erdimi was warmly welcomed by many relatives and sympathizers, in the presence of two government ministers appointed by the junta.
He called for “peace and reconciliation, in a democratic system”, a month following the start of the work of the DNIS and 15 days before its planned closure.
Nothing has filtered to date on the conditions of the release of Tom Erdimi in Cairo following a pardon from Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi.
As soon as his father’s death was announced, Mahamat Déby had promised the Chadians and the international community, which immediately endorsed him, to return power to civilians through “free and democratic elections” following an 18-month transition. renewable once, and a great dialogue of national reconciliation including all the oppositions, political and armed.
But the majority of opposition parties and civil society organizations grouped under a platform, Wakit Tamma, as well as two of the three most powerful and feared armed groups, boycott the DNIS. They accuse the military – Mahamat Déby in the first place – of trying to stay at the head of the country by only talking to people in power or close to him.