2023-05-14 11:40:00
A special envoy of Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit five European countries, including Ukraine and Russia, starting tomorrow.
The battle to preoccupy an advantageous position in the peace negotiations is intensifying again.
This is Correspondent Kang Jeong-kyu in Beijing.
[기자]
A huge mushroom cloud rises as if a nuclear explosion had occurred.
This is a video shared on the morning of the 13th that Russia destroyed an ammunition depot in western Ukraine.
If true, it is an attack that can break Ukraine’s will to counterattack and give it an advantage in peace negotiations.
[블라디미르 푸틴 / 러시아 대통령 (지난 9일, 전승절 연설) : 조국에 대한 진짜 전쟁이 발발했지만 우리는 국제 테러를 거부하고 돈바스(점령지) 주민을 보호하고 안전을 보장할 것입니다.]
Due to the protracted war, both Russia and Ukraine are facing limits in arms and ammunition procurement.
In the meantime, even the Western world, which has ridiculed China’s role as a mediator, can hear that the recent change in air currents is being detected.
Russia insists on a ceasefire while maintaining its occupation of Donbass, but it is expected that it may accept a compromise as its economic dependence on China has increased.
[왕원빈 / 중국 외교부 대변인 : 리후이 중국 유라시아사무특별대표가 오는 15일부터 우크라이나와 러시아, 폴란드, 프랑스, 독일 등 5개국을 방문합니다.]
Ukraine, on the other hand, is putting forward a peace formula that requires Russia to withdraw its troops from Donbass as well as from Crimea, which it annexed in 2014.
President Zelensky refused even the pope’s peace mediation, saying that the aggressor and the victim could never be the same, and set up multiple camps.
[볼로디미르 젤렌스키 / 우크라이나 대통령 : 우리는 평화 공식, 정의에 대해 이야기했습니다. 우리의 세계가 국제법에 따라 통합돼야 한다는 사실에 대해 말입니다.]
Germany, the leader of Europe, announced a 4 trillion won arms support plan ahead of Zelensky’s visit.
The EU has pushed to include Chinese weapons parts companies in the 11th round of economic sanctions against Russia.
He also put forward a draft of a strategic document suggesting involvement in Taiwan’s emergency, saying that whether or not China’s demand for withdrawal of troops from Russia is crucial to relations with the EU.
Ahead of the dispatch of President Xi Jinping’s special envoy, it seems that the battle for loot to increase negotiation power is getting fiercer.
This is YTN Jungkyu Kang from Beijing.
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