2023-08-19 12:42:00
The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell. Europa Press/Contact/Nicolas Maeterlinck
The high representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs, the Spanish Josep Borrell, assures that the Russian invasion of Ukraine leaves behind “war crimes of historical proportions comparable only to those of World War II.”
“Putin sacrifices his people and his army for his personal and political survival,” he stressed in an interview reported by the EFE news agency. He added that the Russian president expected it to be “a blitzkrieg” but following 18 months “has failed in his invasion of Ukraine”, leaving behind “the systematic destruction of that country”.
Russian President Vladimir Putin. EFE/EPA/ALEXANDER KAZAKOV / SPUTNIK / KREMLIN POOL / POOL
“The war has definitively pushed Ukraine to the side that Putin did not want it to be in,” he said, since “wars speed up history” and without it Ukraine’s candidacy for the European Union “would have taken years.”
On the other hand, he analyzed the role of China, a country that he considers “a true geopolitical actor, while Russia is like a gas station whose owner has an atomic bomb.”
President Xi Jinping bowed. (Leah Millis/Pool Photos via AP, Files)
And although “China is too important to ignore it, but also to try to isolate it”, for Borrell a dialogue is necessary that “allows cooperation in the resolution of common problems” and does not contribute “to a polarization of the international system that results in a world bipolar”.
The head of EU diplomacy also referred to the military coup in Niger: “African solutions to African problems are needed.”
In this sense, he pointed out that “asymmetric and irregular wars will not be won in the Sahel if the battle for development is not won” and leaves aside the possibility that the military coup is the result of a Russian conspiracy, although, for Borrell, Russia “He takes advantage of the situation.”
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Likewise, in recent days, Borrell denounced the “perverse” Russian attacks once morest the Odesa port infrastructure, which resulted in the destruction of thousands of tons of grain, assuring that they will cause a major food crisis worldwide.
“For the third night, Russia bombards and destroys Odessa port infrastructure and grain storage. More than 60,000 tons of grain have been burned. Not only are they withdrawing from the grain agreement to export grain from Ukraine, but they are burning it, ”denounced the head of European diplomacy in statements upon his arrival at the meeting of EU foreign ministers.
He warned regarding the “enormous food crisis in the world” that will cause Russian actions once morest Ukraine. “If this grain is not stored and destroyed, it means that there will be a shortage of food, of grain, in the world,” he warned, following noting that those responsible for the Foreign Affairs of the Twenty-seven will be able to discuss the situation with his Ukrainian counterpart, Dimitro Kuleba. , by videoconference.
On the other hand, Borrell declared that the EU will not recognize the coup leaders in Niger who seized power a few weeks ago and that it will suspend security cooperation with the country ravaged by jihadism.
(With information from EFE)
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