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Putin peace terms slammed at Ukraine summit

The leaders of Italy and Germany have strongly rejected ceasefire terms laid out by Vladimir Putin to stop the war in Ukraine, as scores of countries gathered at a two-day summit in Switzerland to discuss ending the conflict. Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called the Russian president's plan "propaganda" which effectively suggested that Ukraine "must withdraw from Ukraine". German Chancellor Olaf Scholz dismissed it as a "dictatorial peace". A draft declaration issued at the summit reaffirms Ukraine's territorial integrity and unambiguously rejects any nuclear threat against the country. On Friday, Mr Putin claimed he would agree...

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Putin: No peace in Ukraine until Russia achieves goals

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday there will be peace in Ukraine when his country achieves its goals, and that those aims remain unchanged. Two months shy of the two-year anniversary of Russia launching its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Putin reiterated that Russia is seeking “de-Nazification, de-militarization and a neutral status” of Ukraine as he […]

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Zelenskyy says Putin cannot be trusted

NEW YORK, Sep 20: Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy has suggested that Russian President Vladimir Putin is behind the plane crash that killed Wagner Group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin last month. “Evil cannot be trusted. Ask Prigozhin – if one bets on Putin’s prom

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War-crimes warrant for Putin could complicate Ukraine peace

An international arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin raises the prospect of the man whose country invaded Ukraine facing justice, but it complicates efforts to end that war in peace talks.

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Putin welcomes Xi’s Ukraine peace plan during Kremlin talks

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin greeted his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the Kremlin, telling him that he welcomes Beijing’s peace plan to resolve Russia’s war against Ukraine and signaling to Western leaders the extent of what they call their “limitless” friendship. Putin said he viewed the Beijing peace plan with respect. But it has […]

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Erdogan tells Putin a cease-fire should support Ukraine peace efforts

RUSSIA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told Russian leader Vladimir Putin that negotiations to halt Russia’s invasion of Ukraine should be supported by a unilateral cease-fire. Erdogan’s office said he and Putin spoke by phone Thursday, and that peace talks should include a “vision for a fair solution.” The Turkish leader has tried to mediate […]

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Xi and Putin to attend G20 summit in Bali, Indonesia's Jokowi says

AUG 19: "Xi Jinping will come. President Putin has also told me he will come," Mr Widodo, also known as Jokowi, told Bloomberg News in an interview. This is the first confirmation that both leaders will attend the summit. It will be the first global summit since Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the heightened tensions over Taiwan. It would also be the first time Mr Xi has left China since January 2020 when the country shut its borders at the start of the Covid pandemic. Since then, he only left the mainland to mark the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to China on July 1 this year. The November summit will be much-awaited given that US President Joe Biden is also expected to attend - it's unclear if he will meet Mr Putin. But reports have hinted at the possibility of a face-to-face meeting between Mr Biden and Mr Xi soon - ahead of the summit or on its sidelines. Relations between Washington and Beijing have soured over human rights, trade and most recently US politician Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan - the historic trip prompted China to conduct nearly a week of military drills around the self-ruled island, which it claims as part of its territory. The US condemned the drills, which Taiwan described as a rehearsal for an invasion, as "irresponsible". The summit is also happening in the wake of China and Russia declaring a "no limits" strategic partnership even as much of the world condemns Mr Putin's decision to invade Ukraine. Washington earlier called for the G20 to remove Russia's membership and withdraw Mr Putin's invitation to the summit over the Ukraine war. Indonesia, meanwhile, has positioned itself as a peacemaker between the countries. "The rivalry of the big countries is indeed worrying," Jokowi told Bloomberg News in the interview. "What we want is for this region is to be stable, peaceful, so that we can build economic growth." Earlier this week, the Indonesian leader said both Russia and Ukraine had accepted his country as a "bridge of peace". In June, he was the first Asian leader to travel to Kyiv and Moscow to meet with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and Mr Putin. During the meetings, he called for an end to the war and solutions to the global food crisis.

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Is Russia invading Ukraine and what does Putin want?

FEB 22: Russia has deployed at least 150,000 Russian troops close to Ukraine's borders and recognised two breakaway regions inside it. What happens next could jeopardise Europe's entire security structure. Has Putin ordered an invasion? He has sent in so-called peacekeeping troops, but few believe they are there to keep the peace. Australia's PM says that idea is nonsense and one Ukrainian general said it was clear they would be regular forces. President Putin has torn up a peace agreement with neighbouring Ukraine, recognising the independence of two eastern areas seized and occupied by Russian-backed rebels in 2014. " That was the year Russia first invaded Ukraine, a country of 44 million people, seizing then annexing its southern region of Crimea. President Joe Biden warned that the Russian leader had decided to attack "in the coming days" and latest satellite images show Russian forces deployed within 9 to 19 miles (15-30km) of the frontier. The eight-year conflict in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region has never ended, and Russia could pour more troops into those breakaway regions, but it could go beyond. It has more than 150,000 troops deployed close to Ukraine's borders. President Putin always maintained he did not want war and was ready to negotiate, but ending the peace accords with Ukraine and recognising breakaway areas as independent makes further talks look dead in the water for now. Until now he has threatened "appropriate retaliatory military-technical measures" if his demands for "security guarantees" from the West are not met. Mr Putin has warned Ukraine that it will be responsible for further bloodshed if the country does not halt hostilities in the east. But there have already been a series of bogus incidents in the region and any one of them could be used as a pretext for attack. When rebel leaders ordered a civilian evacuation claiming a Ukrainian offensive was imminent, it emerged a video appeal had been pre-recorded two days earlier. Why is Russia targeting Ukraine? Russia has long resisted Ukraine's move towards European institutions, both Nato and the EU. Mr Putin has now claimed Ukraine is a puppet of the West, and was never a proper state anyway. His core demand is that the West to guarantee Ukraine will not join Nato, a defensive alliance of 30 countries. Ukraine shares borders with both the EU and Russia. As a former Soviet republic it has deep social and cultural ties with Russia, and Russian is widely spoken there, but ever since Russia invaded in 2014 those relations have frayed. Russia attacked Ukraine when its pro-Russian president was deposed in early 2014. The war in the east has since claimed more than 14,000 lives. Why is recognition of rebel areas dangerous? Until now these so-called people's republics of Donetsk and Luhansk have been run by Russian proxies. Under Mr Putin's decree of recognition, Russia can also build military bases, By pouring Russian troops into an area witnessing hundreds of ceasefire violations every a day, the risk of open war becomes far higher. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned Russia's recognition of independence as a violation of Ukraine's territorial integrity and sovereignty and the West says it is a violation of international law. Two Minsk peace agreements of 2014-15 aimed at ending the conflict would have given them special status inside Ukraine. The accords were never fulfilled but negotiations were still going on, with France and Germany fully committed to them. They now look doomed. Russia had already prepared the ground, with unfounded accusations that Ukraine had committed "genocide" in the east. It has handed out some 700,000 passports in rebel-run areas, so it can argue any action is aimed at protecting its own citizens. How far will Russia go? Much of the attention is on the east in Ukraine, where Russian troops could soon be on the ground. But President Biden has warned: "We believe they will target Ukraine's capital Kyiv, a city of 2.8 million innocent people." Although Moscow previously insisted "there is no Russian invasion", Russia could mobilise troops in Crimea, Belarus and around Ukraine's eastern borders. How far will the West go on Ukraine? The West has made clear there are no plans to send combat troops to Ukraine itself so the main response will be sanctions on Russia. Nato countries have offered Ukraine other support, in the form of advisers, weapons and field hospitals. Meanwhile, 5,000 troops have been deployed in the Baltic states and Poland. Another 4,000 troops could be sent to Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Slovakia. So what would sanctions look like? The US says it would target Russia's financial institutions and key industries; the EU says it will limit Russian access to financial markets and the UK has warned "those in and around the Kremlin will have nowhere to hide", with restrictions imposed on Russian business accessing the dollar and pound. Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany looks under threat too. It's complete but not yet approved by Germany's regulator. The ultimate economic hit would be to disconnect Russia's banking system from the international Swift payment system. But that could badly impact the US and European economies. What does Putin want? Russia has spoken of a "moment of truth" in recasting its relationship with Nato and has highlighted three demands. First, it wants a legally binding pledge that Nato does not expand further: "For us it's absolutely mandatory to ensure Ukraine never, ever becomes a member of Nato," said Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. Mr Putin has complained Russia has "nowhere further to retreat to - do they think we'll just sit idly by?" In 1994 Russia signed an agreement to respect independent Ukraine's independence and sovereignty. But last year President Putin wrote a long piece describing Russians and Ukrainians as "one nation", and now he has claimed modern Ukraine was entirely created by communist Russia. He sees the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991 as the "disintegration of historical Russia". President Putin has also argued that if Ukraine joined Nato, the alliance might try to recapture Crimea. His other core demands are that Nato does not deploy "strike weapons near Russia's borders", and that it removes forces and military infrastructure from member states that joined the alliance from 1997. That means Central Europe, Eastern Europe and the Baltics. In reality Russia wants Nato to return to its pre-1997 borders. What Nato says Nato is a defensive alliance with an open-door policy to new members, and its 30 member states are adamant that will not change. Ukraine's president has called for "clear, feasible timeframes" to join Nato, but there is no prospect of it happening for a long time, as Germany's chancellor has made clear. The idea that any current Nato country would give up its membership is a non-starter. In President Putin's eyes, the West promised back in 1990 that Nato would expand "not an inch to the east" but did so anyway. That was before the collapse of the Soviet Union, however, so the promise made to then Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev only referred to East Germany in the context of a reunified Germany. Mr Gorbachev said later "the topic of Nato expansion was never discussed" at the time. Is there a diplomatic solution? Germany has accused Russia of deliberately destroying a peace process covering eastern Ukraine without apparent reason. There looks to be no way of restoring that international peace deal. There was talk of a Putin-Biden summit but that now seems doomed too. Russia wanted a treaty with the US barring nuclear weapons from being deployed beyond their national territories. The US offered to start talks on limiting short- and medium-range missiles as well as on a new treaty on intercontinental missiles. Russia had been unhappy with the West's response but was positive towards a "transparency mechanism" of mutual checks on missile bases - two in Russia, and two in Romania and Poland. BBC

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UN Security Council to meet urgently on Ukraine crisis

The U.N. Security Council will hold an emergency meeting Monday night after Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized the independence of separatist regions in eastern Ukraine and ordered Russian troops to “maintain the peace” there.

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UN Security Council to meet urgently on Ukraine crisis

The U.N. Security Council will hold an emergency meeting Monday night after Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized the independence of separatist regions in eastern Ukraine and ordered Russian troops to “maintain the peace” there.

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US trying to draw Russia into war says Putin

Russia's President Vladimir Putin has accused the US of trying to draw his country into a war in Ukraine. In his first significant comments on the crisis in several weeks, he said America's goal was to use a confrontation as a pretext to impose more sanctions on Russia. He also said the US was ignoring Russia's concerns about Nato alliance forces in Europe. Tension is high over a Russian troop build-up close to Ukraine's borders. Russia has in recent weeks moved about 100,000 troops - equipped with everything from tanks and artillery to ammunition and air power - to Ukraine's border. But Russia denies Western accusations that it is planning an invasion, nearly eight years after it annexed Ukraine's southern Crimea peninsula and backed a bloody rebellion in the eastern Donbas region. Moscow in turn accuses the Ukrainian government of failing to implement an international deal to restore peace to the east, where at least 14,000 people have been killed and Russian-backed rebels control swathes of territory. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned on Tuesday that a Russian invasion would "not be a war between Ukraine and Russia - this would be a war in Europe, a full-scale one".

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