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Date: October 23, 2024 at 18:39:11
From: mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Ukraine war: Brics summit backfired on Putin. Daddy (Xi) spank |
URL: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/24/ukraine-war-briefing-brics-summit-backfired-on-putin-with-calls-for-peace-says-kyiv |
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The foreign ministry in Kyiv said on Wednesday that
Moscow had failed to win support for its invasion of
Ukraine at the Brics summit it is hosting, where Putin
faced direct calls to end the conflict from some of his
closest and most important partners. “The Brics summit,
which Russia planned to use to split the world, has
once again demonstrated that the world majority remains
on the side of Ukraine in its quest to guarantee a
comprehensive, just and sustainable peace,” the
ministry said. The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, told
the summit that there must be “no escalation of
fighting” in Ukraine, saying: “We must adhere to the
three principles of ‘no spillover from the battlefield,
no escalation of fighting and no adding oil to the fire
by relevant parties’, so as to ease the situation as
soon as possible.”
The Brazilian president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva,
called for “avoiding escalation and initiating peace
negotiations”. Without referring to any specific
conflict, the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi,
also issued a call for peace: “We support dialogue and
diplomacy, not war.” In private talks, Vladimir Putin
welcomed offers by several of the Brics leaders to
mediate in Ukraine, even as he told them his forces
were advancing, said his spokesman, Dmitry Peskov,
according to Russian state media.
North Korean troops would be legitimate military
targets – “fair game” – if they engaged in combat in
Ukraine, White House spokesperson John Kirby said on
Wednesday. The US has said for the first time that it
has seen evidence of North Korean troops in Russia, and
South Korean lawmakers have said about 3,000 soldiers
have been sent to support the Kremlin’s war in Ukraine,
with Kim Jong-un’s regime promising to provide a total
of about 10,000 troops by December.
Alexander Lukashenko – the Belarusian president, who
has stayed in power by running a client state of Russia
– said in interviews broadcast on Wednesday that Putin
deploying any foreign forces in the Ukraine conflict
would inevitably lead to an escalation, possibly
involving Nato troops. Lukashenko claimed it was
“rubbish” that North Korean troops were going to fight
in Ukraine: “Knowing his character Putin would never
try to persuade another country to involve its army in
Russia’s special operation in Ukraine … [it] would be a
step towards the escalation of the conflict if the
armed forces of any country, even Belarus, were on the
contact line.” That would prompt Ukraine’s allies to
point to foreign involvement “so Nato troops would be
deployed to Ukraine”.
Ukrainian authorities have announced the mandatory
evacuation of children and their families from Borova
in the north-eastern region of Kharkiv, where Russian
forces have been making advances. The governor of the
Donetsk region earlier said all children had been
removed from the frontline town of Myrnograd and just
several dozen remained in the nearby transport hub of
Pokrovsk - the main target of Russian advances.
Authorities in the Zaporizhzhia region, which the
Kremlin claimed to have annexed alongside Donetsk and
two others, said two men aged 40 and 73 had been killed
in a drone attack.
The Biden administration is trying to provide Ukraine
with US$10bn in military aid as part of its $20bn
commitment under a $50bn loan coordinated with the G7
and EU, the White House National Security Council said
on Wednesday. Joe Biden, the US president, said: “We
will provide $20bn in loans to Ukraine that will be
paid back by the interest earned from immobilised
Russian sovereign assets. Make no mistake: Russia will
not prevail in this conflict … tyrants will be
responsible for the damages they cause”. The US plans
to disperse $10bn by December as economic aid, but
needs US lawmakers’ approval for a further $10bn, the
White House national security council has said on
Wednesday.
Romania scrambled two F-16 fighter jets after detecting
what were probably two drones breaching its national
airspace, the Romanian defence ministry said late on
Wednesday. It was the third such incident in less than
a week. Two signals were picked up by radar less than
one hour apart flying above the south-eastern counties
of Constanta and Tulcea, the latter bordering Ukraine
across the Danube River. The pilots did not see either
drone before losing the signals, the ministry said.
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Date: October 24, 2024 at 11:04:58
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: which 'agencies' ? |
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"Warren Murray and agencies"
just curious :)
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Date: October 24, 2024 at 11:32:58
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: which 'agencies' ? |
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"Warren Murray and agencies"
didn't see this in what was posted...but you would have to ask the author(s)
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Date: October 25, 2024 at 04:46:27
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: which 'agencies' ? |
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because mitra didn't include the authors with her post. It's on the linked article.
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Date: October 23, 2024 at 21:55:06
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Ukraine war: Brics summit backfired on Putin. Daddy (Xi) spank |
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quite the slapdown! seems folks don't want to have to deal with NATO...perhaps pootie will see reason...no high hopes of that though...
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Date: October 23, 2024 at 22:46:45
From: mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Ukraine war: Brics summit backfired on Putin. Daddy (Xi) spank |
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Pootie depends on Xi's good graces and timing. I think
Xi wants to tighten up the Pacific and South America
before making major moves, and Iran is keeping him
happy for the time being. He hasn't tied the knot in
the noose yet.
Just guesses, of course.
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