Russia won’t stop even if Ukraine gives up NATO hopes –– Putin’s ally
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Russian shelling continues to displace civilians in eastern Ukraine, kyiv says while claiming to hit Russia’s supply routes near the city of Kherson as fighting rages on the 185th day.
Ukrainian soldiers fire a 2S7 Pion self-propelled gun at a position in the Donetsk region. (Reuters)
Saturday August 27, 2022
Russia won’t stop campaign even if Ukraine backs down from NATO aspirations
A top ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Moscow will not stop its military campaign in Ukraine even if Kyiv officially gives up its aspirations to join NATO.
Former President Dmitry Medvedev, now Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council, also said in a French television interview that Russia was ready to talk to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky under certain conditions.
Even before the conflict, Moscow had made it clear that Ukraine’s NATO membership was unacceptable to it.
“Renouncing its participation in the North Atlantic alliance is now vital, but it is already insufficient to achieve peace,” Medvedev said. LCI television.
Russia blocks final document at nuclear treaty conference
Russia has blocked agreement on the outcome document of a four-week review of the UN treaty seen as the cornerstone of nuclear disarmament which has criticized its military takeover of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant shortly after Russian troops attacked Ukraine, an act that raised fears of an accidental nuclear attack.
Igor Vishnevetsky, deputy director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Non-Proliferation and Arms Control Department, told the delayed final meeting of the conference reviewing the 50-year-old nuclear non-proliferation treaty that “unfortunately , there is no consensus on this document”.
He insisted that many countries – not just Russia – disagreed with “a whole host of issues” in the latest 36-page draft.
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