Arms deliveries to Ukraine: Moscow warns
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov at a press conference on February 18 (Illustration image).
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On the ground, in the Donbass, the battle is raging.
kyiv is on the verge of losing Severodonetsk, the town of Avdiivka, north of Donetsk, is surrounded, say the separatists.
Ukraine clamors for arms.
The United States has just endorsed a vast military assistance plan.
Russia, meanwhile, threatens.
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With our correspondent in Moscow
,
Anissa El Jabri
First warning in the morning, a warning which already left no room for doubt: "
Any delivery of weapons which continues, which increases, reinforces the risk of a military confrontation between the United States and Russia
" .
The sentence is signed by Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov.
A sign that the case is being followed at the highest level of the state, the Kremlin spokesman raised the pressure a notch this Wednesday morning.
“
The United States is deliberately and willfully adding fuel to the fire.
The United States has only one line
: to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian.
Such deliveries do not encourage Kiev to want to relaunch the peace talks
,” believes Dmitry Peskov.
Russia has made the total conquest of
Donbass
its priority.
In the pocket of Severodonetsk and Lyssychansk, she has even sent not only a maximum of equipment and soldiers for three weeks, but also her elite troops.
In Germany, Olaf Scholz defends his policy and discusses arms deliveries to Ukraine
Criticized for weeks for his Ukrainian policy deemed too indecisive, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz went on the counterattack this Wednesday morning in Parliament, reports
our correspondent in Berlin,
Pascal Thibaut
.
First by attacking with harsh words those who criticize him.
But also with announcements of deliveries of sophisticated armaments to kyiv which could constitute a turning point for Berlin.
The speech by the leader of the opposition, the Christian Democrat Friedrich Merz, accusing the Chancellor of wavering in his support for Ukraine, in particular on arms deliveries deemed insufficient or not fast enough, provoked a scathing response from Olaf Scholz who felt that some were telling "
anything
".
The head of government listed the weapons already sent or promised by Berlin to Ukraine and the list of which is known.
But Olaf Scholz surprised his world.
“
We will deliver other weapons in the coming weeks, including the IRIS-T air defense system, the most modern in Germany.
This equipment will allow Ukraine to protect an entire large city from Russian airstrikes
,” he said.
Germany will also deliver a radar system capable of detecting enemy artillery, added Olaf Scholz.
We learned after the Chancellor's speech in the Bundestag that Berlin would also deliver German-made multiple rocket launchers to Ukraine, comparable to those promised yesterday by Washington to kyiv.
Olaf Scholz also recalled that his country would deliver Cheetah tanks and howitzers to Ukraine.
Berlin is also continuing its indirect deliveries.
After the Czech Republic, Greece will deliver Soviet tanks to kyiv and will obtain more modern equipment from Germany.
Moscow takes steps to 'minimize' impact of sanctions and warns of consequences for Europeans
The leaders of the European Union reached an agreement on Monday evening May 30 which aims to drastically reduce their imports of Russian oil by the end of the year, as part of a sixth package of sanctions against Moscow.
Russia is taking steps to "
minimize
" the impact of an embargo on Russian oil, the Kremlin assured on Wednesday.
“
These sanctions, of course, will have a negative impact on the whole continent: for Europeans, for us and for the whole global energy market.
But we are reorienting ourselves in other directions.
It is a targeted action that will allow us to minimize the negative consequences.
And I repeat, Europeans will also feel negative effects
,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Dmitry Peskov: “These sanctions, of course, will have a negative impact on the whole continent - for Europeans, for us and for the entire global energy market”
Anissa El Jabri
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