2023-05-30 02:28:58
Zelensky “The timing was decided at the Supreme Commander’s meeting today”
Deputy Chief of the Presidential Office, “Mediation is Too Late”
On the 29th (local time), residents of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, evacuated by subway and sit on escalators following the Russian army carried out an unusual daytime airstrike. Kiiwu/AP Yonhap News
While Russian forces are concentrating on airstrikes on military installations to deter Ukrainian forces from launching a major spring counterattack, an aide to the Ukrainian president expressed his willingness to continue the war to achieve a complete withdrawal of Russian forces, saying, “International mediation is too late.” President Volomidir Zelensky also raised the level of tension, saying, “The timing has been decided” regarding the spring counterattack, which has been subject to many speculations. In an interview published on the 29th (local time), Ukraine’s deputy chief of staff at the Office of the President of Ukraine, Ihor Zoukva, said that he was not interested in ending the war as Russia occupied Ukrainian territory. A key diplomatic aide to President Zelensky, he said, “When talking regarding the war in Ukraine, a peace plan in Brazil, a peace plan in China, and a peace plan in South Africa are not possible. Intervention is too late,” he said. On February 23, China marked the first year of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China announced a peace mediation plan consisting of 12 points, and then on April 26, Chinese President Xi Jinping personally spoke with President Zelensky. On the 16th, following the telephone conversation, China dispatched Li Hui, special representative for Eurasia Affairs, to Ukraine as a special envoy to President Xi to deal with Ukraine issues. Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula Dasiouba, a representative country of the ‘Global South’ that promotes balanced diplomacy between the West and the US and China, also visited Portugal on April 22 to come up with a plan to bring both Russia and Ukraine to the negotiating table. On the 16th, six countries, including South Africa, announced that they would send peace envoys to the two countries for mediation. Deputy Chief Joukba has expressed his intention to reject such mediation efforts, saying that it is “too late.” Instead, Deputy Director Zoukba said, “We will implement the Ukrainian peace plan, which consists of 10 points, including the complete withdrawal of Russia and the cessation of hostilities.” President Zelensky unveiled this ’10-point peace formula’ at the G20 summit in November last year. At the G7 summit held in Hiroshima, Japan, from the 19th to the 21st, the peace plan received a very positive response, said Joukba, deputy chief of staff. I didn’t show it,” he said. Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Zelensky said the timeline for a counterattack once morest Russian forces had been set. In a video released on Telegram that day, he said, “At the meeting of the Supreme Command, a report was made on the timing of (counteroffensive) as well as ammunition supply, new brigade training, and tactics of the Ukrainian army,” and “a decision was made.” this was reported Previously, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Committee of Ukraine Oleksi Danlow said in an interview with the British (BBC) on the 27th that preparations for the counterattack were all completed and that “(the counterattack) might start tomorrow, the day following tomorrow or in a week.” On the same day, Mikhailo Podolyak, aide to the Ukrainian president, said in an interview with Britain that the preliminary operation for a counterattack had already begun. “It’s a complex process, it’s not a matter of a specific date or time, it’s going to take a lot of time,” he said. Meanwhile, the Russian military continued airstrikes on military facilities such as the military airfield in Khmelnytsky in western Ukraine and throughout Ukraine, including Odessa, the largest port on the Black Sea coast. The Russian army has been carrying out airstrikes mainly during the night, but on this day, it was unusual to carry out an airstrike at 11:00 am in the capital city of Kieu. It was the 15th airstrike by Russian forces this month. said that the attacks were focused on attacking military installations to deter Ukrainian forces from counterattacking. Senior Reporter Shin Ki-seop [email protected]
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