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February 23 (Reuters) – USA President Joe Biden and Russia President Vladimir Putina few days before the first anniversary of Moscow’s aggression against Ukraine NATO and strengthened their respective alliances with China.
Warsaw on Wednesday and in Moscow The global tension between the superpowers was highlighted on the diplomacy day. Biden promised that the United States Russia bordered by some East Europe countries included military having an allianceNATOwill defend every inch of
Putin Chinese leader Xi Jinping to Russia trip he said that relations have reached “new frontiers”. Washington is concerned that Beijing could financially support Moscow’s war in Ukraine, which began on February 24 last year and has become the largest land conflict in Europe since World War II.
War displaced millions of people, Ukraine has devastated its cities, towns and villages and crippled the global economy.
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Putin On Thursday, in his address on the occasion of the Defender of the Fatherland Day, he said that Russia will continue to increase its focus on increasing its nuclear forces and begin the mass supply of Zircon sea-launched hypersonic missiles. Russia against China in South Africa on Friday military should start exercises and send a frigate equipped with hypersonic missiles.
In a statement issued by the Kremlin on Thursday morning, Putin said that Russia will continue to equip its armed forces with advanced equipment and is increasing the production of conventional weapons.
On Wednesday, Putin welcomed China’s top diplomat Wang Yi to the Kremlin, and Wang also met with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov separately. TASS news agency that Wang will firmly adhere to China’s “objective and impartial position” and that the crisis political will play a constructive role in its solution,” he said.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said that Lavrov and Wang did not discuss China’s reported peace plan.
Wang said through an interpreter that the relationship between China and Russia is not against any third party, however USAstriking a clear blow, he said that the countries “will not yield to the pressure of third parties”.
NATOEAST SIDE OF
in Warsaw Biden During the Cold War, nine East that were either Moscow or part of the former Soviet Union Europe met with the leaders of his country. Some of them are currently in Ukraine military is among the strongest supporters of aid.
“As NATO’s eastern flank, you are the front line of our collective defense. You know better than anyone what is at stake in this conflict. Alone Ukraine not for all Europe and for the freedom of democracies in the world,” Biden said. .
The Kremlin considers NATO, which will soon include Sweden and Finland, as an existential threat to Russia. This week of Ukraine including a visit to the capital, Kiev, Biden rejected Russia’s claim that the West wants to control or destroy it.
Meanwhile, the United Nations General Assembly of 193 members Ukraine at the meeting held on Wednesday on the anniversary of the war UNSecretary General Antonio Guterres of Russia’s invasion UNHe denounced it as a violation of the founding Charter and international law and voiced Moscow’s threats regarding possible threats. use of nuclear weapons.
In two speeches last September, Putin said he would use nuclear weapons to defend Russia if necessary.
“We have heard veiled threats about the use of nuclear weapons. The so-called tactical use of nuclear weapons is completely unacceptable. It’s time to step back from the cliff,” Guterres said.
Putin suspended the New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) nuclear arms control treaty with the United States on Tuesday, accusing Washington of turning the war into a global conflict by arming Ukraine.
A senior Russian Defense Ministry official said Moscow would stick to agreed limits on nuclear missiles and continue to inform the United States of changes in its deployments.
Biden told ABC News in an interview that he saw no change in Moscow’s nuclear posture and that he did not think Putin’s comments meant that Russia intended to use nuclear weapons.
Asked about Russia’s withdrawal from New START, Biden called it a “big mistake,” but said, “I’m not reading that he’s thinking about using nuclear weapons or anything like that.”
THE BATTLEFIELD
of Ukraine Russia, trying to ensure complete control over the two eastern provinces that make up the Donbas industrial region, has repeatedly launched attacks. Russian troops managed to break through Ukrainian defenses near the city of Kreminna on Tuesday but retreated and lost some of their heavy equipment, a senior Ukrainian official said on Wednesday.
Kreminna is about 70 km (43.5 mi) north of Bakhmut, the center of Russia’s most violent attacks.
Every year since Russia launched a “special military operation” to protect Russia’s security of Ukraine controlling about a fifth. Ukraine and its Western allies viewed the invasion as an imperial land grab.
By Reuters report; Writing by Grant McCool; Edited by David Gregorio
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2023-02-23 02:59:02
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