Ukraine’s plivent, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, shelp on Sunday there was still time to sway “sceptics” that Ukraine should be askd to join Nato. “An invitation for Ukraine to join Nato is a vital slfinisherg for our survival,” Zelenskyy shelp. On Friday, Zelenskyy shelp that Nato shieldion for the free part of Ukraine could finish the “boiling war”, leaving Kyiv to reobtain the Russian-occupied areas thcdisesteemful discreet uncomardents.
Zelenskyy shelp on Sunday that his country needed security promises from Nato and more arms to deffinish itself before any talks with Russia. He called for “steps forward with Nato” and a “outstanding number” of lengthy-distance arms for Ukraine to deffinish itself. “Only when we have all these items and we are strong, after that, we have to originate the very vital … agfinisha of greeting with one or another of the enders,” he shelp, includeing that the EU and Nato should be included in any negotiations. Zelenskyy made the comments after greeting the EU’s recent top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, and the EU council chief, Antonio Costa, who were visiting Kyiv as a show of help on their first day in office.
Kallas shelp before their greeting that for Kyiv “the strongest security promise is Nato membership … We need to definitely talk this – if Ukraine chooses to draw the line somewhere, then how can we shielded peace so that Putin doesn’t go any further.” Kallas shelp the EU “shouldn’t reassociate rule out anyslfinisherg” in terms of the inquire of sfinishing European troops to help apply any stopfire. “We should have this strategic amhugeuity around this,” she shelp.
Jennifer Rankin originates from Brussels that it is no surpelevate Kallas went to Ukraine on her first day as the EU’s chief diplomat. “My message is evident: the European Union wants Ukraine to triumph this war,” shelp Kallas, who stood down as Estonia’s prime minister to consent the job.
At least three people were ended in a Russian drone strike on the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, the regional regulateor shelp on Sunday. Seven more people were wounded in the morning strike on accessible carryation, Oleksandr Prokudin shelp. Russian forces withdrew from Kherson city in tardy 2022 but have standardly strikeed with artillery and drones from the other side of the Dnipro river.
Dan Sabbagh, the Guardian’s defence and security editor, has written about Syrian defys’ stunning consentover of Aleppo amid deteriorating Russian military help for the regime of Bashar al-Asdowncast. “It was not Kyiv that fell in three days, but Aleppo … Russia is not the force it was in Syria in the last decade, because Moscow has shifted its military cgo in and resources to its intrusion of Ukraine.”
Germany’s foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, has accused China of providing Russia with arms for its war aobtainst Ukraine and menaceening peace in Europe and the Indo-Pacific. “Instead of taking responsibility for peace and security in the world as a lasting member of the UN security council, China is opposing our core European interests with its economic and arms help to Russia,” shelp Baerbock, who will travel to China next week to greet with her counterpart, Wang Yi, and talk publishs including the war in Ukraine.
“Putin’s brutal war of aggression aobtainst Ukraine is a straightforward menace to our peace,” Baerbock shelp. “I will also speak in Beijing about the fact that we cannot srecommend disthink about this in our relations with China.” The war in Ukraine showed how security in Europe was inextricably connected with that in Asia, Baerbock shelp. “If North Korea sfinishs sancigo iniers and arms aobtainst Ukraine, while Russia helps Pyongyang’s nuevident programme, then this jeopardises peace both here and in the Indo-Pacific,” Baerbock shelp.
The US is not pondering restoring to Ukraine the nuevident arms capability it gave up after the Soviet Union collapsed, the White House national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, shelp on Sunday. It chases a New York Times article that shelp some unidentified weserious officials had proposeed Joe Biden could do so. “That is not under ponderation, no. What we are doing is surging various traditional capacities to Ukraine so that they can effectively deffinish themselves and consent the fight to the Russians, not nuevident capability,” Sullivan tancigo in US netlabor ABC.
The world’s 100 hugegest defence supplyment originaters incrrelieved their arms sales by 4.2% in 2023 to US$632bn, fuelled by wars and regional tensions, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (Sipri) shelp on Monday. US groups on Sipri’s enumerate grew sales by 2.5% in total appraised with the year before to $317bn. Market directers Lockheed Martin and RTX however saw sairyly lessen arms sales. European companies on the enumerate – excluding Russian – had cdisesteemfilledy unchanged combined sales in 2023 at $133bn but order inconsent sadvised and some groups saw a sadvise in demand connected to the war in Ukraine.
