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In this issue:
00:00:00 — Events of the previous day.
00:06:47 — On June 15, 1896, Ivan Alekseevich Likhachev, one of the organizers of the automobile industry in the USSR, was born.
00:12:35 — Vladimir Mayakovsky. “Give me a car!”
ukrainian crisis
There are almost 700,000 Russian military personnel in the zone of special military operations, said Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Ukraine received a large shipment of weapons from Germany, including, among other things, air defense systems, tanks and armored vehicles. This is clear from data from the German Ministry of Defense.
The new batch of aid for Ukraine included 20 Marder infantry fighting vehicles, 10 Leopard 1 tanks, an IRIS-T air defense system, 3 MLRS Haymars and other military equipment.
The United States and its allies need to increase arms supplies to kyiv as the Ukrainian conflict has entered a “key stage,” Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said.
At the same time, he noted that even if the supply of weapons to kyiv is approved “right now”, it will take a considerable time before these weapons are delivered to Ukraine.
NATO defense ministers agreed on a plan to transfer control of weapons supplies to Ukraine to the alliance; The final decision will be made at a summit in Washington, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said after a meeting of defense ministers in Brussels.
According to Stoltenberg, NATO structures in Wiesbaden, Germany, will coordinate the supply of weapons to Ukraine.
The G7 member countries published a joint statement after the summit held in Italy with the participation of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.
The document says Russia “has no right to decide whether or not it will pay for damages” caused to Ukraine. The statement cites data from the World Bank, according to which the damage caused by the fighting amounted to 486 billion dollars.
The security guarantee agreement signed between Ukraine and the United States contains a clause allowing Washington to terminate it, writes the American newspaper New York Times.
“In the fine print of the signed security agreement… there is this clause: ‘Either party may terminate this agreement by written notification through diplomatic channels, which will take effect after 6 months,'” the article says.
The material clarifies that it was this legal loophole that former President Donald Trump took advantage of in the nuclear deal with Iran, which he abandoned in 2018.
Russia
To start negotiations with Moscow, kyiv must withdraw troops from the entire territory of Russia’s new regions: the people’s republics of Luhansk and Donetsk, the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with the leaders of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
“As soon as kyiv declares that it is ready for such a decision and begins a real withdrawal of troops from these regions, and also officially notifies the abandonment of plans to join NATO, our side will immediately, literally in the same minute, follow the order to cease fire and start negotiations,” Putin said.
The Russian head of state stressed that kyiv must withdraw troops from the entire territory of the new regions “within the administrative limits that existed at the time of its entry into Ukraine.”
Putin also indicated that for a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Ukraine it is necessary to establish the status of Ukraine as neutral, non-aligned and free of nuclear weapons, and its demilitarization and denazification is required. He stressed that this is Russia’s principled position, which furthermore “everyone generally agreed during the Istanbul negotiations in 2022.”
The President noted that these provisions should “be recorded in the form of fundamental international agreements.
Furthermore, according to the president, the solution to the conflict involves the abolition of all anti-Russian sanctions previously imposed by the West.
“I will emphasize the main thing. The essence of our proposal is not some kind of temporary truce or suspension of fire, as, for example, the West wants, to recover losses, rearm the Kiev regime and prepare it for a new offensive. I repeat, it is not about freezing the conflict, but about its final conclusion,” Putin said.
If the West and kyiv reject Moscow’s proposals, this will become their political and moral responsibility for the continuation of bloodshed, the head of the Russian state noted. In the future, the conditions for starting negotiations will not change in favor of the kyiv regime, the president concluded.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said he does not consider Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposal for Ukraine peaceful. Alliance countries will continue to provide military support to kyiv, Stoltenberg added.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposal to end the conflict in Ukraine cannot be trusted, says the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, Reuters reports.
“These are ultimatum messages that are no different from previous ones,” Zelensky added.
World
NATO countries are increasing their military capabilities; The alliance currently has about 500,000 military personnel at a high level of readiness, said Alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Brussels.
In his words, the countries of the bloc plan to strengthen their collective defense with air defense systems and next-generation fighters in the next five years.
In addition, Stoltenberg noted, the NATO countries at the Washington summit want to agree on the allocation of funds for a sharp increase in military production.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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