The Embassy of Belarus in Kiev sent a protest note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine against the background of actions held in the capital and other cities of Ukraine dedicated to the anniversary of the birth of the nationalist Stepan Bandera.
The report also claims that in Kiev, “with the tacit connivance of the Ukrainian authorities,” activists of the fugitive Belarusian extremist opposition participated in the action under the symbols of Belarusian collaborators.”
Previously, the press service The National Police of Ukraine reported that in the events dedicated to the 113th anniversary Bandera, 3.5 thousand Ukrainians took part. Marches, pickets and rallies were held in 20 regions of the country.
The result of the conversation may affect the negotiations between Russia and the United States on security guarantees scheduled for January 10
Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the initiative of the conversation with the US president belonged to Vladimir Putin. He stressed that it would be a phone call, not a video conference session, as in the previous time.
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“Therefore, there is no public part there,” Peskov said, stressing that the Kremlin’s press service would release a message following the conversation.
As for the late time of the call (23.30 Moscow time), then, according to the Kremlin speaker, this “has never been a problem for Putin.””He is still actively working at this time,” the press secretary stressed.
Peskov explained that the purpose of the telephone conversation was “to continue discussing those issues that were on the agenda of the recent conversation between Putin and Biden on the VKS.”
In addition, contact between the two presidents is necessary in connection with the negotiations that are to begin immediately after the New Year holidays, from January 10.
According to Peskov, there are very complex substances on the agenda: Russia has formulated its positions and proposals to the United States and NATO, “so now, from Putin’s point of view, there is a need for another conversation that would precede the start of negotiations.”
Peskov clarified that the president has no plans to convene the Security Council after a conversation with Biden to discuss its contents.
Earlier, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that the talks between Russia and the United States in Geneva on security guarantees will take place on January 10, and “there is no alternative to this date.” The Russian delegation will be headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, and the American delegation will be headed by First Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman.
As Maria Zakharova said, in Geneva, Russia will seek firm security guarantees from the United States, despite the fact that there is no common line in the EU and NATO about Russian proposals.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called building relations with Russia an important factor and expressed a desire to take this issue under his control. According to the Bild newspaper, citing unnamed sources, in January the head of the German government is going to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
However, at this time there was no official comment from Berlin on this matter.
It is noted that the German leader allegedly seeks a “new beginning” in relations with Moscow. This will affect gas relations and the Ukrainian issue, the tabloid reports. It became known that the Chancellor’s foreign policy adviser Jens Pletner “has been preparing for a meeting” of the head of the German government with the Russian leader in January for two weeks.
Vice-Speaker of the State Duma Boris Chernyshov (LDPR) came up with the idea to move from Red Square a memorial near the Kremlin Wall with the graves of Joseph Stalin and other prominent statesmen of the Soviet Union, as well as the bodies of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, now in the mausoleum. The legislator shared his initiative with RIA Novosti journalists.
“All this (burial) is possible, but not on Red Square, because it is blasphemous, not in the place where the skating rink and shopping malls are deployed,” he said.
Chernyshov recalled that the LDPR faction in the State Duma introduced a number of bills on this issue.
According to the parliamentarian, this is a cemetery where people are buried, “and one of these people does not even lie according to all norms – even just morality.” The vice-speaker clarified that this is a “mockery of people,” adding that Lenin himself never wanted to be “put on display like a mummy that is now lying in the center of Moscow.”
Decided to find out how big the “Russian threat” is
The US reconnaissance plane has been patrolling the Donbass for three days: on December 27, it flew over Eastern Ukraine for the first time. The airliner took off in Germany, then flew through Kiev almost to Kharkov and turned towards Severodonetsk, from where it proceeded along the line of contact with the LPR and the DPR. Near Mariupol, he turned to the west, flew along the northern border of Crimea and returned to patrol the Donbass. Experts explained to MK what goal the American intelligence officers set for themselves.
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– The flight of a reconnaissance aircraft over the Donbass proves the relevance of Russia’s demands to the United States regarding the inadmissibility of NATO expansion to the East. “They fly where they are not supposed to fly in order to determine the deployment of the DPR and LPR defensive forces. Apparently, there are not enough satellites for this. So far, the military is collecting information just to have it.Apparently, the troops understand that politicians can request data on Donbass from them. In turn, politicians will need this information in order to make a decision on whether to start a war, and if so, when and where exactly. In particular, this suggests that there are different opinions in the United States about how to deal with Ukraine,” the expert told MK.
In turn retired FSB General Alexander Mikhailov He noted that the reconnaissance aircraft collects audio-visual information, monitors negotiations, records the presence of troops, and so on. However, according to him, this does not mean that Washington is preparing for war. “Over time, there will be more and more of these flights. Americans want to understand the real situation in the Donbas, because the speculative conclusions of various expertsthey contradict what is happening in practice. As a result, the world periodically falls into hysterics because of the alleged “Russian threat”. In this sense, trusting the Ukrainian authorities means plunging into lies and extortion of money. Moreover, Ukrainians themselves do not know what they want from the DPR and the LPR. They are not going to let them go or take them back,” Mikhailov stressed.
At the same time, the FSB general said that Russia is not going to attack Ukraine. He believes that Moscow does not want to wage war on the territory of a foreign state at all. Nevertheless, Russia wants Ukrainian citizens who are not needed by their country to become its citizens.
Recall that on December 30, the heads of Russia and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden, are going to hold telephone talks on the initiative of the Russian side. It is expected that they will discuss the situation in the Donbas and Russia’s demand to NATO to guarantee the refusal to advance to the East. And on January 10, Russian-American talks on strategic stability and security issues will be held. After that, meetings of the NATO-Russia Council and the OSCE will take place.
About 60% of Russian spacecraft are under the control of the space forces of the Aerospace Forces.
In 2021, military specialists provided 24 launches of spacecraft for various purposes, conducted from the Plesetsk, Baikonur, Vostochny cosmodromes, during which 15 Russian spacecraft were put into orbit.
Of these, 12 spacecraft were taken over by the Main Test Space Center (GICC) named after G.S. Titov. This was told in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
Earlier it was reported that in Tests of the VERA (Volume-Effective Rocket-propulsion Assembly) plasma propulsion system have begun in Russia.
VERA will be the first in the Russian Federation and one of the first remote control units in the world suitable for installation on spacecraft weighing no more than 4 kg of CubeSat 3U format.
The small size and mass of the developed engines will make it possible to create and maintain groups of dozens of nanosatellites in orbit.
According to the British tabloid Mirror, the kingdom’s military personnel were ordered to simulate activity near the Russian border in December last year. According to the source of the publication, the British military had to show such activity on December 20, when the commander of the British armed forces, Admiral Tony Radakin, arrived in Estonia.
“The military leadership wanted to show the Chief of the Defense Staff that the troops participating in Operation Kabrit in Estonia are not slowing down by Christmas,” the newspaper reported.
It is also clarified that about 900 British military are stationed near the Russian border on the territory of Estonia.
The source explained that when Admiral Radakin went to the hangar with the equipment, all the soldiers were ordered to pretend that they were engaged in technical inspection of armored vehicles. In particular, the servicemen were ordered to open all hatches and start the engines of the cars, as well as bring operating manuals.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, commenting on telephone conversations with American leader Joe Biden in his Twitter microblog, expressed optimism about bilateral relations between the countries.
“The first international conversation of 2022 with Joe Biden proves the special nature of our relations”, – he wrote.
According to Zelesnky, he discussed with his counterpart from the United States joint actions of countries and partners to preserve peace in Europe and prevent further escalation. Also on the agenda was a discussion of the ongoing reforms in Ukraine and the policy of de-oligarchization.
“We appreciate the unwavering support”, – Zelensky summed up
According to the Ukraine 24 TV channel, former Prosecutor General of Ukraine Volodymyr Lutsenko stated that it was inappropriate for Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky to travel to Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Lutsenko called the reason for the compromising material that Putin allegedly has on Zelensky.
“Such a trip means only one thing – the desire to close the dirt on yourself personally. The compromising material that Putin and the Russian special services have against Zelensky,” the ex-prosecutor said.
Lutsenko did not specify what compromising information was in question, but hinted that he “knows something”.
Dmitry Polyansky, First Deputy Permanent Chairman of the Russian Federation at the UN, in his Telegram channel demanded that UNICEF officials take action in connection with the entry of children’s personal data into the database of the Peacemaker website.
According to him, we are talking not only about 13-year-old Faina Savenkova from Lugansk, but also about another child whose “crime” is that his parents moved to Donbass.
“Our Maidan neighbors continue to fight with children, threaten their lives and health. They do it openly and with impunity, without fear of either internal or international condemnation,” Polyansky wrote.
