Alexander Mercouris
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Lavrov Confirms Ukraine Negotiations at Standstill, As Russia Concentrates Troops
News Topic 330
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Rossiya 24, Moscow, November 1, 2021
https://www.mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/-/asset_publisher/cKNonkJE02Bw/content/id/4921162
No plans to ask Russia to resume thermal coal supplies, Ukrainian minister says
No plans to ask Russia to resume thermal coal supplies, Ukrainian minister says
When asked if Ukraine could send such a request amid an energy crisis, Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko said: “No, no way”
Satellite images show new Russian military buildup near Ukraine
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/01/satellite-russia-ukraine-military-518337
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Pryvit. That is “Hi there” in ukrainian. Greetings from Ukraine. First, it has to be appreciated that Mr. mercouris still takes note of the situation in ukraine. Secondly, unfortunately his analysis is completely backwards. Let me elaborate: What is happening ? Is it the disintegration of ukraine ? Russia beating the wardrum, as Mr. Mercouris seems to imply when already playing wargames as to what parts of ukraine russia will occuoy and what parts they won’t ? None of the above. To the contrary, what we are seeing is the rapid and final disintegration of “the west”, i.e. EU and… Read more »
…don’t worry Franz…it will take time, but a real democratic state will arrive one day to Ukraine and will allow it’s people to live in peace and prosper!…sordid dictatorships have short legs and sooner or later will fall!…In Russia as in China it will happen!…nobody likes to be lead by brutal and sinister creatures!…Russia now feels very confident with it’s gas, but it will implode from within, as all dictatorships do!…and there is no need for much to have that implosion!…the incompetence of the Russian government at Economic level is enough!…the pandemic management is miserable!…Russian have no civil rights, there… Read more »
I totally agree – the worse thing Ukrainian leadership could have done was get involved with the west and it’s a well know fact that the US and the EU had a lot to do with the uprising in Maidan Square – the names Victoria Nuland and John McCain spring readily to mind. My partner is Ukrainian and I’ve visited Ukraine 9 times so far and was there when the bullets literally started flying in Kyiv although I was around 400km away. I did manage to follow what was happening on Ukrainian news, Russian news and BBC 24 and the… Read more »
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