As Xi Jinping continues his state visit to Russia, as Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida visits Kyiv, German Chancellor Scholz reveals details of telephone conversations he has had with Russian President Putin since the beginning of the war in Ukraine.
Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin who should logically address the conflict in Ukraine once more, Beijing having proposed a peace plan last month, but also their cooperation in the broad sense and the deepening of their economic ties, with the expected signing of agreements .
At the same time, Russian diplomacy is trying to smooth things over on theregarding children”brought by force to Russia” and the arrest warrant issued by the ICC once morest Putin. Permanent Representative of Russia to the UN Vasily Nebenzya reiterated intends to return the children who have been evacuated from the conflict zone to Ukraine when conditions there are safe enough for this. “We wanted to spare them from the danger that military activities might represent“, he clarified.
On the various fronts, fighting continues but Russian advances are minimal. In question, the growing tensions within the Kremlin forces themselves. The state army has to deal with an increasingly arrogant Wagner private militia in the field whose methods do not quite fit the military ideal, as many soldiers show on social networks. To ensure success, the “executives” of Wagner do not hesitate to sacrifice fighters in order to locate the Ukrainian positions. Because inside Wagner itself, there would be a two-speed army. The experienced mercenaries, precious, and used as special forces, and then the others, the cannon fodder, the habitual criminals, the recruited to make numbers, to go to the front line, in the company of army conscripts Russian.
